U15's 2012

The Ipswich and District Badminton League Junior Championships, for the Under 15 age group, were held at Northgate Sports Centre. In a well-supported event, with a number of young players aged 12 and under taking part, pride of place goes to Anna Godbold (Meridians) who captured a hat trick of titles. Gavin Coyne (YMCA) and Ryan Newcombe (Stowmarket) were also successful in winning two events.

32 players contested the boys’ singles event and there were no upsets as the top ranked players progressed as expected in the early rounds. At the semi final stage, Coyne defeated Levi Hoang (YMCA), and Newcombe overcame Jonathan Kuribayashi-Coleman (Meridians). The final produced some excellent badminton in a match of few errors as both players tested their opponent with good length clears and enterprising net play. At the halfway stage, Newcombe had established an 11-5 lead, before Coyne pulled back to 13-all. Both players gave their all in the final stages, as Newcombe emerged the victor, 21-19, leaving Coyne as runner-up for the second year running.

The first match losers entered a plate competition and Sam Abbott (Meridians) won his 4 matches to emerge as the winner, defeating Ewan Payne (Framlingham), 21-16, in the final.

Godbold reached the final of the girls’ singles with a semi-final victory over Betsy Chenery (Thorpeness). In the second semi-final, Katie Clark (Thorpeness) defeated Saskia Wright (Woodbridge). The early exchanges of the final were even, but Godbold edged ahead from 7-all and then retained her lead from thereon, to win the title, 21-12, leaving Clark as defeated finalist for the second year running.

16 pairs contested the boys’ doubles and were split into three groups, with the 3 group winners and best runners-up going forward to the knockout stage. Coyne and Newcombe, emerged undefeated from Group A, and overcame Sam Abbott and Kuribayashi-Coleman, the winners of Group C, in the semi-final. Matthew Cross (Corinthians) and Hoang qualified, as the best runners-up and beat the Abbeygate pairing of Michael Edwards and Thomas Fisher, the Group B winners, in their semi-final. Coyne and Newcombe were comfortable winners in the final, defeating their younger opponents, 21-8.   

The 6 pairs in the girls’ doubles played each other in a round-robin format. In the last match of the event, 2 pairs, undefeated so far, met to decide the contest. Megan Clark (Thorpeness) and Godbold overcame Katie Clark and Chenery in a closely fought contest, 21-18, to lift the trophy.

In the last event of the day, the mixed doubles, there were semi-final victories for Godbold and Coyne against Megan Clark and Edwards and for Katie Clark and Newcombe over the Abbeygate pair, Hannah Robertshaw and Matt Osborne. Godbold and Coyne took the title with a 21-13 victory in the final.

Boys’ Singles: Semi-finals – G Coyne beat L Hoang 21-6, R Newcombe beat J Kuribayashi-Coleman 21-10. Final: R Newcombe beat G Coyne 21-19.

Girls’ Singles: Semi-finals – A Godbold beat B Chenery 21-4, K Clark beat S Wright 21-7. Final: A Godbold beat K Clark 21-12.

Boys’ Doubles: Semi-finals – G Coyne & R Newcombe beat S Abbott & J Kuribayashi-Coleman 21-15, M Cross & L Hoang beat M Edwards & T Fisher 21-19. Final: G Coyne & R Newcombe beat M Cross & L Hoang 21-8.

Girls Doubles: Winners – M Clark & A Godbold, Runners-up – B Chenery & K Clark.

Mixed Doubles: Semi-finals – A Godbold & G Coyne beat M Clark & M Edwards 21-6, K Clark & R Newcombe beat H Robertshaw & M Osborne 21-6. Final: A Godbold & G Coyne beat K Clark & R Newcombe 21-13.

Boys’ Singles Plate: Winner – S Abbott

Girls’ Singles Plate: Winner – H Robertshaw 

Mixed Doubles Plate: Winners – B Chenery & T Fisher 

U18's 2012

Northgate Sports Centre hosted the Ipswich and District Badminton League Championships for the Under 18 age group. Tim Scott (YMCA) repeated his hat-trick success of last year by capturing the boys’ singles, doubles and mixed titles and Claudette Reis (Woodbridge) won two events.

In the top half of the draw, Scott made steady progress to the final of the boys’ singles, including a semi-final victory over Jack Gray (Stowmarket). In the bottom half, Gavin Coyne needed a third game to see off the spirited challenge of Jonathan Kuribayashi-Coleman (Meridians). He then gained revenge for his Under 15 final defeat by Ryan Newcombe (Stowmarket) by coming out on top in their semi-final encounter. The first game of the final was evenly matched, Scott had game point on three occasions, but Coyne rallied to win 24-22. Scott came out on top in the next two games to take the title.

In the opening round of the girls’ singles, Hannah Ferguson (Belstead) came from behind to defeat Reis in a closely defeated match but was beaten by Anna Godbold (Meridians) in the semi-final. Isabel Lucas (Stowmarket) defeated Megan Clark (Thorpeness) in their semi-final match and Lucas won the event with a comfortable victory over Godbold in the final.

In a round-robin boys’ doubles competition, two pairs, Coyne and Scott, and Gray and Newcombe had won their first four games and met to decide the contest. Coyne and Scott were the winners with a 21-12 victory.

The five pairs in the girls’ doubles event played each other in a single game to 21 points. Two pairs, Kym Gormer (Belstead) and Reis, and the Meridians pairing of Godbold and Charlotte Horn both won three of their four games, but Ferguson and Gormer took the title as a result of their 21-20 win in the game between them.

In the last event of the day, the mixed doubles, Reis and Scott were the victors for the second year running, with Lucas and Newcombe finishing as runners-up.

Boys’ Singles: Semi-finals –T Scott beat J Gray 21-15, 21-13, G Coyne beat R Newcombe 21-11, 21-19. Final: T Scott beat G Coyne 22-24, 21-10, 21-17.

Girls’ Singles: Semi-finals - I Lucas beat M Clark 21-9, 21-9 A Godbold beat H Ferguson 21-8, 21-12. Final: I Lucas beat A Godbold 21-10, 21-9.

Boys’ Doubles: Winners – G Coyne & T Scott, Runners-up – J Gray & R Newcombe.

Girls Doubles: Winners – K Gormer & C Reis, Runners-up – A Godbold & C Horn.

Mixed Doubles: Winners – C Reis & T Scott, Runners-up I Lucas & R Newcombe.

Boys’ Plate Winner: J Kuribayashi-Coleman

Girls’ Plate Winner: C Reis

Northgate Sports Centre hosted the annual Ipswich and District Badminton League Junior Championships, for the Under 15 age group. In a well-supported event, Tim Scott (YMCA) enjoyed triple success by winning the finals of the singles, boys’ doubles and mixed competitions, with Isobel Lucas (Stowmarket) and Ashleigh Gormer (Belstead) lifting two trophies apiece.

Boys’ singles matches were restricted to a single game to 21 points to accommodate a large entry of 30 players. The top two seeds made comfortable progress to the final with Scott defeating Ryan Newcombe (Stowmarket) and Gavin Coyne (YMCA) overcoming Jack Gray (Stowmarket) in the semi-final encounters. Scott had established a useful lead at the halfway stage of the final, but Coyne reduced the deficit to two points at 14-12 before Scott completed a 21-12 victory by winning the last seven points.

The 14 boys who lost their first round matches, entered a plate competition. Some spirited badminton ensued with Tom Fisher (Abbeygate) defeating Tom Borrett (Stowmarket) 21-16 in the final.

Lucas reached the girls’ singles final, with an easy win over Betsy Chenery (Thorpeness) in the semi-final. The second semi-final was much closer with Katie Clark (Thorpeness) being stretched all the way before completing a narrow victory over Gormer. In the final Lucas raced through the first game, 21-4, but had to come from behind in the second before winning 21-17, to take the title.

16 pairs contested the boys’ doubles and were split into two groups. The group winners and runners-up went forward to the semi-finals, having played all pairs in their group in a single game to 15 points. In Group A, Scott partnered by Thomas Sheat (Gainsborough) won all seven games, including a narrow 15-13 win over Andrew Farn (YMCA) and Gray, who were runners-up, having won all their other games. Group B followed a similar pattern with the Meridians pairing of Jack Abbott and George Sutton winning seven games, with Coyne and Newcombe as runners-up, having lost only to Abbott and Sutton. In the knockout stages, played to 21 points, Scott and Sheat defeated Coyne and Newcombe and Abbott and Sutton overcame Farn and Gray. In a closely contested final, Scott and Sheat edged to victory by a 21-19 margin.

In the girls’ doubles competition, pairs played each other in two games to 15 points. The Thorpeness pairing of Katie and Megan Clark and Gormer with partner Lucas had both won all their games, before they met to decide the contest. Gormer and Lucas won the first 15-11 and the Clark sisters won the second 15-14, leaving Gormer and Lucas as the overall winners on points scored.

In the last event of the day, the mixed doubles, there were semi-final victories for Gormer and Scott against Megan Clark and Farn and for Lucas and Newcombe over the Thorpeness pair, Beth Duggan and George Edwards. Gormer and Scott took the title with a 21-15 victory in the final.

Boys’ Singles: Semi-finals – T Scott beat R Newcombe 21-11, G Coyne beat J Gray 21-8. Final: T Scott beat G Coyne 21-12.

Girls’ Singles: Semi-finals – I Lucas beat B Chenery 21-7, 21-4, K Clark beat A Gormer 21-19, 21-19. Final: I Lucas beat K Clark 21-4, 21-17.

Boys’ Doubles: Semi-finals – T Scott & T Sheat beat G Coyne & R Newcombe 21-8, J Abbott & G Sutton beat A Farn & J Gray 21-17. Final: T Scott & T Sheat beat J Abbott $ G Sutton 21-19.

Girls Doubles: Winners – A Gormer & I Lucas, Runners-up – K Clark & M Clark.

Mixed Doubles: Semi-finals – A Gormer & T Scott beat M Clark & A Farn 21-12, I Lucas & R Newcombe beat B Duggan & G Edwards 21-1. Final: A Gormer & T Scott beat I Lucas & R Newcombe 21-15.

Boys’ Singles Plate: Winner – T Fisher

Girls’ Singles Plate: Winner – M Clark

Mixed Doubles Plate: Winners – K Clark & G Coyne

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U18's 2011

The Ipswich and District Badminton League Championships for the Under 18 age group were played at Northgate Sports Centre in Ipswich. Tim Scott (YMCA) completed a remarkable double hat trick by winning three events to add to the three Under 15 titles he had won the previous week, a feat last achieved by Linzi Chatfield in 2002.

Scott made comfortable progress to the boys’ singles final, including a semi-final win over James Early (Walton & Kirton). In the bottom half of the draw, Luke Burgess (Meridians) won two close matches before narrowly losing his semi-final match to Philip Nash (Bosmere). In the final Scott won the first game 21-12, and as Nash tired in the later stages of the match, Scott cruised to victory, winning the second game 21-6.

The girls’ singles produced saw some closely contested badminton, with four matches going to a third game. Megan Clark (Thorpeness) went out at the semi-final stage to Claudette Reis (Adastral Park), having narrowly defeated Hannah Ferguson (Belstead) in the previous round. Louise Christopher (Stowmarket) needed a third game to see off the challenge of Ashleigh Gormer (Belstead), before defeating Isabel Lucas (Stowmarket) in her semi-final. Without doubt, the final was the match of the day, as both Reis and Christopher strived to gain ascendancy in an evenly matched contest. Christopher came from 17-19 down, to win the first game 22-20, before Reis levelled the match with a 21-18 win in the second. As the players changed ends at the halfway point of the deciding game, Reis appeared to be in charge with an 11-6 lead, but after a seven point run by Christopher, the outcome remained in doubt. Both players held match point on two occasions, before Christopher won 24-22, to take the title.

Scott and Burgess were the victors in a round robin boys’ doubles competition, winning all their games. Gavin Coyne (YMCA) and Ryan Newcombe (Stowmarket) won their first game with the Bosmere pairing of Nash and Nick White, by 21-16, before losing 20-21 in the second, their points advantage in this contest giving them the runners-up spot.

The six pairs in the girls’ doubles event played each other in a single game to 21 points. Two pairs, Ferguson and Gormer, and Lucas and Reis, both won four of their five games, but Ferguson and Gormer took the title as a result of their 21-19 win in the game between them.

Eight pairs contested the mixed doubles and were split into two groups, with the group winners going forward to the final, having played all pairs in their group in a single game to 21 points. Scott, partnered by Reis, beat Gormer and Burgess in the final, to gain the third of his titles.

Boys’ Singles: Semi-finals –T Scott beat J Early 21-7, 21-6, P Nash beat L Burgess 21-17, 23-21. Final: T Scott beat P Nash 21-12, 21-6.

Girls’ Singles: Semi-finals - C Reis beat M Clark 21-9, 21-6, L Christopher beat I Lucas 22-20, 21-16. Final: L Christopher beat C Reis 22-20, 18-21, 24-22.

Boys’ Doubles: Winners – L Burgess & T Scott, Runners-up – G Coyne & R Newcombe.

Girls Doubles: Winners – H Ferguson & A Gormer, Runners-up – I Lucas & C Reis.

Mixed Doubles: Final: – C Reis & T Scott beat A Gormer & L Burgess 21-17.

Boys’ Plate Winner: Jack Gray (Stowmarket)

Girls’ Plate Winner: Katie Clark (Thorpeness)

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