East Flintshire League News up to 26th April 2013.

The group stages of both cup competitions have now been completed with all rearranged fixtures being fulfilled.

In the CHALLENGE CUP group, Corus 'A' although beating Hawarden by 6 games to 4, were unable to claim the fourth place necessary for semi final participation, having been 3 - 1 down initially but then taking the next 5 sets to put themselves in pole position at 6 - 3, before the final set between Stuart Hambley and Dave Ash which resulted in a comfortable win for Stuart, leaving him undefeated on the night and giving Hawarden the point they required for semi-final status.

In the Semi-finals of the D.R.Ledgard Challenge Cup on Monday 29th April, Caergrwle will play Hawarden and then on Friday 3rd May, Corus will play Caergrwle BB 'A'

Buckley had two re-arranged fixtures to fulfill in the Handicap Cup group stage, away to Hawarden 'A'  and Hawarden 'C' , both of which ended in 5 -5 draws, meaning they could not overhaul Hawarden 'B'  for 3rd place, who had also drawn 5 -5 away to Corus 'D' in their re-arranged fixture.

In the semi-finals of the D.R.Ledgard Handicap Cup on Tuesday 30th April, Corus 'D' will play Hawarden 'B' and on Friday 3rd May,  Hawarden 'C' will play Buckley.

The semi-final of the Ray Baker Memorial Trophy resulted in Buckley overcoming Corus 'C', who could only field 2 players and Hawarden having to concede the fixture to Corus 'D' because they also could only field 2 players and had no chance in winning, due to the difference in their handicaps.

The Ray Baker Memorial Trophy Final  will now be between Corus 'D' ( +325 ) and Buckley ( +290 ) on Tuesday, 7th May at Corus Sports Club.

The Annual Presentation Evening will take place on Thursday 6th June at Corus Sports Club commencing at 19:30 hours.

The date of the AGM has been fixed for Thursday 20th June at 19:30 in the Corus Sports Club, to be followed by the League Formation Meeting for the season 2013 / 2014.