Flagstaff Hill Pennant Player – Scott Ready Metropolitan Pennant – Simpson Cup Round 5 summary In bitterly cold conditions and misty rain, Tea Tree Gully has retained top position of the Simpson Cup ladder after accounting for Glenelg 5.5 – 1.5 in round five of Men’stop grade Pennant at The Grange Golf Club. Matt McMahon gave Tea Tree Gully the perfect start defeating Ben Magi 3&1 before Glenelg s Sam Hynes in his first A Grade Pennant Match hit back squaring his contest with Paul Wyllie. From there it was smooth sailing for The Gullies with Ryan White, Brett Crosby and Zak Fuller all scoring comfortable wins along with Greg Blewett who defeated Andrew Grzybowski 6&5. Some consolation for Glenelg was Matt McGowan s victory over Chris Austin 3&2 in the top-order match. In the first match of the morning The Grange proved too powerful for Royal Adelaide securing valuable games in its 6.5 – 0.5 victory. All players had convincing wins, the only player forced to go the distance was Jack Williams who fought to square his match with Alex Curtin. Retaining fourth place on the ladder, Flagstaff Hill has kept its season alive after a hard fought win over Blackwood 4 – 3. Stenner and Coulson got the job done early with wins over Tobin and Locke respectively before Dylan Thomas hit back for Blackwood defeating Clive Renner 5&4 and Nick Wake accounted for David Hiern 2&1. Match three was a tight affair with Shane Cotton squaring his game with Michael Munn, before Scott Ready at number two proved too strong for Ben Leske 1up, giving Flagstaff Hill the slight edge. At number one Andy Humphries from Blackwood needed a win to square the overall contest however Jacob Sewell fought hard squaring the game denying Humphries outright victory. Kooyonga proved too strong for a valiant Highercombe winning 4.5 – 2.5. With three squared matches for the day and Mark Deacon winning again at number two, 2up over Tim Baker, Highercombe gave themselves every chance of victory. Kooyonga who now sit in second place, potentially need only one win from the remaining two matches to qualify for the 8th July final. Metropolitan Pennant – Women’s A1 Round 3 summary Glenelg and The Grange are still undefeated after three rounds of the 2012 Women&aposs A1 Pennant Competition and may remain so until they square off in the last minor round match, while Royal Adelaide notched up another win accounting for The Golf SA Fringe side 3 – 2. Glenelg remain top of the table after another convincing win this time against Blackwood 4.5 – 0.5. The Glenelg team is in superb form with no player defeated yet this season. Christine Beasley and Sophie James both had comfortable wins for Glenelg whilst Elysia Yap and Amy Zhou both won 1up against Donna Olson and Lorry Brown respectively. In a great effort at number one, Jo-anne Buchanan secured the half point for Blackwood squaring her match with Jenny Lee. The Grange narrowly defeated Kooyonga 3 – 2 to secure a vital win with two tough matches ahead. In her first Pennant match for The Grange, Ella Adams secured a great win over Ann Vanstone 1up while Sarah Sanders and Cassidy Evreniadis got the job done securing the other two games 5&3 and 4&3 over Ann Ewer and Deb Percy respectively. In the final match of round three, Royal Adelaide had a strong win over the Fringe side 4 – 1. Despite the comfortable margin most games went down to the wire with Acacia Curtis (SA Fringe) winning by the greatest margin 4&2. For all results and draws, click here for the Pennant events page. Men’s- Pennant Event Page Women’s – Pennant Event Page Men’sSimpson Cup – Round 6 (24th June at Kooyonga) 1st Tee 7.30 am Tea Tree Gully v Highercombe 1st Tee 8.25 am Grange v Blackwood 1st Tee 9.20 am Royal Adelaide v Glenelg 1st Tee 10.15 am Kooyonga v Flagstaff Hill Women’s A1 – Round 4 (24th June at Kooyonga) 1st Tee 11.10 am Kooyonga v Blackwood 1st Tee 11.50 am Grange v Royal Adelaide 1st Tee 12.30 pm Golf SA v Glenelg
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