With the two top male players failing to front up the rearrangement proved with disrupted to the Peppin team.
Michael Pisasale usually our number six man stepped up to the number one spot and rose to the occasion winning 2 of his 3 sets.
Similarly Nick Bliss as No 3 won his 3 sets playing against Ric Bond.
None the less Mitre 10 led by Nick Gatacre, Henry Pisasale and Steph Calder each winning their 3 sets Deni Newsagency won 13 sets and 119 games to Peppin 12 sets and 115 games.
So there was 1 set and only 4 games between these 2 teams.
Peppin got the lead early winning round one 7 sets to 1 and Peppin caught up by winning rounds 2 and 3 it was not able to make up the deficit and lost by just that 1 set.
It was good to see that Peppin won 4 of the 5 mixed sets in the last round.
In the matchup between Mitre 10 and Legal Eagles it was also a case of disruption.
With the Legal Eagles team having to make a couple of late changes to their mens team before play could commence.
Mitre 10 with no such disruption got away to a strong start in round 1 winning 6 of the 8 sets, winning 6 of the 8 sets in round 2 and finishing off winning 8 of 9 sets in the 3rd round.
Mitre 10 won 20 sets to 5 for the evening with 4 of their 5 ladies winning their 3 sets.
Mel Edwards, Shari Grigg, captain Hilary Porter and Elyse Hood winning among the ladies together with Jack McGrillen, Josh Leech and John Sibree from the men.
The final result was Mitre 10 20 sets and 133 games to 5 sets and 94 games.
Legal Eagles lost 3 tie-breakers 6-5 in their loss.
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