AFTER walking away with division B of the Plymouth and District Badminton League last season BATs Badminton Club men found division A was going to be far harder when they played Devonshire Men recently.
BATs used the match to introduce two junior Devon players to adult men?s badminton and both equipped themselves well. In the first round of games Alan Berry and Mike Ward lost two close games to an experienced Devonshire pair. Jonathon Freeman and David Williams took time to settle, but came back well in the second game to lose it narrowly.
In the second round of matches Alan and Jonathon found points hard to come by in their two games, but Mike and David shared their two games and took the first point for BATs in the men?s division.
After this the BATs men started to show what they could do and in the final round Alan and David took both games comfortably with the Devonshire pair always on the back foot. Mike and Jonathon found their final two games far harder and after a long battle just lost the second game.
At the end of the evening Devonshire had won the match 9-3 but the BATs men, with two juniors playing, had shown that they could take points from the opposition if they became too complacent.