BENSON Missing Nines and Stanford Village shared the spoils in an exciting South & Vale Division 2 match in the Oxfordshire Short Mat Lea-gue.

After the opening match went the way of Benson 13-11, Stanford hit back to win the second 14-12 and claim a draw.

OXON SHORT MAT RESULTS
South & Vale Division 1
Chieveley 24 (7pts), Wootton Chiefs 16 (1) (Chieveley shots first): D Ives, D Bolus, D Sims & D Wilson 10, G Cross, B Cummings, R Claridge & AJ Brown 10; G Hornsey, S Ives, N Cottrell & T Clough 14; R Cross, S Faulkner, T Cross & G Davies 6.
Didcot Bowls Club Rams 23 (6), Drayton Dynamos 19 (2) (Didcot shots first): S Gilbert, H Moore, B Pepper & R Gilbert 14; D Pimm, F Bray, V Locke & J Bray 8; D Hall, J Murphy, L Orlando & S Orlando 9, I Norris, J Pimm, L Locke & J Goodacre 11.
South & Vale Division 2
Benson Missing Nines 25 (4), Stanford Village 25 (4) (Benson shots first): S Smart, B Borsberry, M Belson & R Belson 13, V Smith, M Evans, P Mildenhall & C Williams 11; G Bailey, L McPherson, D Atkins & M Atkins 12, S Channer, B Channer, B Evans & M Davies 14.
Wallingford Royals 17 (6), Harwell Harlequins 12 (2) (Wallingford shots first): B Luscombe, P Keevil, B Ritchie & C Robbins 10, M Wiggins, G Hewitt-Taylor, J Durbin & T Durbin 4; M Kerdachi, H Keevil, R Knight & M Keevil 7, C Miller, D Butterfield, B Butterfield & J Rostagni 8.

CORRRECTION

IN last week’s Oxford Mail we reported that Graham Morbey will represent Oxfordshire at the National Champions of Champions Singles at Worthing next year.
However, the competition Morbey won was an internal Oxfordshire competition and  he does not qualify for any other event.