The ‘A’ CHAMPIONSHIP match took the courts first on finals night. SNAP’D took the Ladies #1 doubles as Krista Plociennik and Naomi Lange defeated Johanna Billings and Cox Wensink 6-1 6-2. AUTO WORKS evened things up by taking the Ladies #2 doubles with Nancy Chung and Cathy Mowbray dominating Marilyn Leasa and Debbie Mitchell 6-0 6-2. The Men’s #1 doubles went to Auto Works as Murray Schiedel and Luke Fischer took out Chris Parson and Steven Schwartzentruber 6-4 6-2. The Men’s #2 doubles saw a split of sets with Todd Chisholm and Mike Schiedel of Auto Works taking the first set 7-6 (7 points to 4 in the tie-breaker) and Larry Shurrie and Steve Fischer of Snap’d winning the second set 7-5.
The Mixed doubles opened with Billings and Murray Schiedel edging Plociennik and Parson 7-5 to give the set to Auto Works. Snap’d won the #2 Mixed doubles as Lange and Schwartzentruber topped Wensink and Luke Fischer 7-5. The #3 Mixed went to Auto Works as Chung and Chisholm doubled up Leasa and Shurrie 6-3. Auto Works continued its success in the Mixed doubles winning the #4 match up with Mowbray and Mike Schiedel scoring a 6-2 victory over Mitchell and Steven Fischer. After spending most of the season in fourth place. Auto Works caught fire late in the season and ended up in second place and proved to be the best team in the playoffs winning the ‘A’ championship with their 8 sets to 4 sets win over Snap’d.
The ‘B’ final began with SUNRISE HEALTH SERVICES taking the Ladies #1 doubles as Krista Plociennik and Ginny Smith took out Sandie Ennett and Maria Donkers 6-2 6-2. The Ladies #2 doubles also went to Sunrise as Erma Weernink and Marilyn Holmes downed Monica Eickmeyer and Liz Yundt 6-1 7-5. DONKERS AGRI got back into the match splitting the Men’s #1 doubles with Richard Bast and Pat McCarroll taking the first set 6-4 before Paul Coates and John Fischer of Sunrise won the second set 6-1. Donkers took the Men’s #2 doubles as Wayne Carney and Mike Furlong beat Tyler Kocher and Cameron Kramer 6-4 6-3.
The #1 Mixed match went to Sunrise as Plociennik and Coates doubled up Ennett and Bast 6-3. Donkers won the #2 Mixed by the same 6-3 score as Donkers and McCarroll defeated Smith and Fischer. The #3 Mixed was all Sunrise as Weernink and Kocher blanked Eickmeyer and Carney 6-0. The match finished with Sunrise winning the #4 Mixed match as Holmes and Kramer took out Yundt and Furlong 6-1. Sunrise Health Services are the ‘B’ champions with their 8 sets to 4 sets victory over Donkers Agri.
Bill White
(l to r) 2014 TENNIS LEAGUE ‘A’ CHAMPIONS AUTO WORKS (Cathy Mowbray, Nancy Chung, Cox Wensink, Johanna Billings, Murray Schiedel, Mike Schiedel, Luke Fischer, Gary Henry, Todd Chisholm)