2018 County Team
Championships national stages

Published 9 July 2018

National under-100 final: Leicestershire - Lancashire

Played on July 2018 at Poseidon Centre, Warwick. Lancashire players on odd-numbered boards had white pieces. Match reported by ECF website.

 

Board	Grade	Leicestershire	Score	Lancashire	Grade
1	118E	Corlett, Les	1 - 0	Lysons, Chris	102B
2	117E	Wilson, Andrew B	0 - 1	Thorp, David	094D
3	111E	Woods, Trevor	0 - 1	Pelling, Kyle	120A
4	109C	Khare, Anika M	1 - 0	Bennett, Gary	084C
5	105B	Oliver, John A	1 - 0	Verden, Jonathan	089D
6	097C	Adams, Michael David (Mick) M	1 - 0	Crompton, T John	087D
7	092D	Kershaw, Harry	0 - 1	Ndou, Goodchild	079E
8	091A	Carter, Andy S	1 - 0	Melvin, Louis	081E
9	090L	McDonald, Sean	1 - 0	Tumelty, Shaun	084C
10	095L	Rowbotham, Mark	1 - 0	Chapman, Jason	080D
11	078E	Meynell, Austin	0 - 1	Benhamida, Aisha	077F
12	066C	Haywood, Rory	0 - 1	Benhamida, Mohamid	088D
		Totals	7 - 5

 

Neil Graham reports. The Under 100 saw Lancashire take an early lead of 4-0 courtesy of impressive wins from some undergraded juniors. After that it was all downhill though as the northern team could add just one further point to their total as Leicestershire retained their national title winning seven of the last eight games to finish giving the Midlands county a 7-5 victory. All twelve games in this section were decisive with no draws on the scorecard.