Mercantile badminton

GOING LOW: Taye McGuinness, of Campion College, stretches to make his return in Year 7 and 8 competition at the Badminton Centre last Thursday. Picture by Liam Clayton

The second round of BIZminton 5 was held last Wednesday night with a new team, GDC, hitting the courts with the eight others.

Either teams have been practising or players haven’t taken long to get back into form.

GDC look as if they will be a team to be reckoned with. They had a win and a loss on their first night, even though they hadn’t been in this competition for a few years.

Again the closest tie of the night involved the Stanley Family. This time they took the tie — against the Sidney Whanau — by four points on countback, 145-141, after the match ended in a 3-3 draw.

ThemissBhaviours, WPS Opus (2) and Slammers were the other teams who dominated during the evening.

Results for the second night: Enterprise defeated GDC 5 matches to 1; ThemissBhaviours def Monday Madness 6-0; Stanley Family def Sidney Whanau on points countback, 145-141, after 3-3 draw; WSP Opus (2) def Monday Madness 5-1; Slammers def WSP Opus (1) 6-0; GDC def WSP Opus (2) 6-0.

Draw for tomorrow night — 6pm: Court 1, Enterprise v WSP Opus (2); Ct 2, ThemissBhaviours v GDC; Ct 3, WSP Opus (1) v Stanley Family; Ct 4, Slammers v Sidney Whanau.

7pm: Courts 1 and 2, Enterprise v Monday Madness.

Enterprise have two ties on Wednesday, and Monday Madness start at 7pm.

Duty team (to sweep courts at the end of the night): Enterprise.