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Despite a valiant effort, the Southwick underdogs could not overcome the mighty Surbiton team of Samir Patel, Stephen Mulliner, Phil Eardley and Adam Swinton in the semi-final of the AC Interclub Championship. With a team including the current numbers 4 and 8 in the world, whose combined grade was nearly a thousand points more than the Southwick team of Dom Nunns, Gabrielle Higgins, Mark Fawcett and Paul Castell, Surbiton’s 6-1 victory was perhaps not entirely unpredictable.

It was nonetheless an enjoyable day, with the weather at least comfortably bettering the forecast. Samir and Stephen making swift work of all their matches, completing triple peels in all three with Dom and Gabrielle making a mere 2 hoops between them, allowed Stephen an opportunity to introduce Samir, Dom and Gabrielle to Peel Croquet, a variant of AC with much greater interactivity requiring much more accurate and adventurous play and offering much more tactical complexity. And a team of novice caterers have learned that if everyone brings a little extra ‘just in case’ you will end up with far too much food, so we were well fed.

We wish Surbiton the very best of luck in the final against Bowdon.

Gabrielle Higgins