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Round 2 - St Arnaud vs Donald Saturday 19th October 2024
After a bye in the first week of the 2024-2025 NCLTA season Donald’s premiership defence began slowly on Saturday with the club travelling to St Arnaud to take on a strong St Arnaud side. With over half a dozen of last season’s premiership players missing from Saturday’s side, Donald struggled throughout the entire day, but did manage to win the women’s section, picking uyp two valuable points to open their season’s account
In the top men’s section Donald was well beaten with St Arnaud winning 64 games to Donald’s 10. Jake and Sam Male defeated Dawson Hollis and Mark Mortlock 8-4. Thomas Watts and Jason Rowe had no trouble defeating Jacob Bath and Stuart Potter 8-0, while Jake Male and Jason Rowe followed that up with an 8-0 win over Dawson and Jacob. Sam Male and Jason Rowe defeated Mark and Stuart 8-1. In the bottom’s men’s section Jack Reilly and Samuel Mortlock lost to Matt Goode and Bruce Hando 8-03 while Myles Hollis (playing his first senior game) and Tyson Coates lost to Greg Simpson and Ben Batters 8-0. Jack and Myles lost 8-2 in their second set while Samuel and Tyson also lost 8-0. The final scores in the men’s section were St Arnaud 64 games to Donald 10 games.
Donald’s women’s section had a very close tussle with the St Arnaud women. Jasmine Hollis and Josh Talty defeated father and daughter combination Don and Katie Erwin 8-6. Keegan Amos and Mitch Bourke won a tie breaker over Jenny and Lainey Mortlock, while Don and Keegan defeated Jasmine and Jenny 8-5 Josh and Lainey defeated Katie and Mitch Bourke 8-4. In the bottom women’s section Meaghan King and Emma Green (also playing her first game for the club) lost 8-2 to Sheridan Goode and Wendy Shaw. Max Reilly and Katie Gillahan (another senior debutant for the club) won 8-2 over Janine Batters and Sophie Male. In their second set, Meaghan and Max defeated Sheridan and Janine 8-2 while Emma and Katie lost 8023 to Wendy Shaw and Sophie Male. Final scores in the women’s section were Donald 48 games to St Arnaud’s 46 games.
With such a one sided score in favour of St Aranud in the mixed it was always going to be difficult for Donald to take out the day. In the top mixed section, Dawson and Jasmine Hollis lost a hard fought tiebreaker 8-7, while Mark and jenny Mortlock lost 802. Jacob and Josh lost 8-5 to Thomas Watts and Keegan Amos while Stuart and Lainey lost 8-4 to Jason Rowe and Wendy Shaw. In the bottom mixed section Meaghan King and Samuel Mortlock were the only winners defeating Greg Simpson and Mitch Bourke 8-5. Myles and Katie were defeated by Bruce Hando and Sophie Male while Ben Batters and Janine Batters defeated Tyson Coates and Max Reilly 8-4
Overall scores were St Arnaud 8 points (171 games) to Donald 2 points (94 games) by 77 games.
Three set winners for St Arnaud were Jake Male, Sam Mae Thomas Watts, Keegan Amos, Jason Rowe, Matt Goode, Bruce Hando, Ben Batters, Keegan Amos and Wendy Shaw. For Donald, Josh Talty, Meaghan King and Max Reilly won two out of their three sets.
