Craven and District Badminton League Mixed Doubles Tournament
The Craven Badminton League Mixed Doubles Tournament took place on Sunday 21st March.
Pairs from a number of clubs across the Craven area took part in this annual tournament, which took place at Holy Family School, Keighley. It was pleasing to see both fresh and familiar faces taking part in what was a thoroughly enjoyable day's badminton.
After some hard fought games in the group stages, four couples went on to play in the semi-finals. In the first of these, Hilary Smith and Russell Gill of St Andrews beat Margaret Robinson and Derek Seed of Settle in three sets (18-21, 21-17, 21-16), while the second semi-final was an all-Skipton affair with Fiona Stapley and Stephen Dale narrowly defeating Vicky Ryan and Tom Knapp, again in three sets (15-21, 21-18, 21-20).
The final was an equally tense encounter which went right to the wire with Fiona Stapley and Stephen Dale the eventual winners (21-16, 20-21, 21-15).
A big thank you to all who took part.