Gisborne Business house badminton league under way

The Badminton Eastland business house league is under way with six teams in the social and competitive grades.

Late entries have boosted the ranks of the social and competitive grades in Badminton Eastland’s business house league.

On the first night, last Thursday, four teams took part in the social grade and four in the competitive.

Four more teams have entered, so each grade will have six teams who will play each other in a round-robin format over five weeks.

The four ties played last week all ended in match scores of 6-0, but some games were close.

GDC Good Guys and Slammers had two matches where the difference was within two points, while Smash Bros held off the challenge of We R Family with scores as close as 29-28 and 30-26.

Matches are on a timer, so the end of the game can take players by surprise.

Results from last Thursday: Team Wairua Ora defeated Smashers, 6 matches to 0; GDC Good Guys def Slammers 6-0; Kents def RSL51s 6-0; Smash Bros def We R Family 6-0.

Draw for Thursday

6pm: Court 1, Team Wairua Ora v Cool Runnings; C2, Slammers v Social 1; C3, Smashers v GDC Good Guys; C4, Lets v FootFaults.

7.15pm: C1, Cool Runnings v Social 1; C2, Kents v Smash Bros; C3, We R Family v Lets; C4, Footfaults v RSL51s.

Duty team (to sweep courts and tidy upstairs at end of night): We R Family.

Inquiries to Linda White.