Badminton News

Ryan McMenamin with Katie Witting

Badminton team fought valiantly at Inter-Stations

The main RAF Badminton InterStations tournament was held at RAF Halton over September 26th and 27th and, despite an admirable performance by two Odiham teams, neither managed to make it out of their group to the semi-finals.

Odiham took two teams of six, four men and two women each. Brize Norton were the only other station to enter two full teams, with 16 competing in total.

Each match against a station consisted of 14 games: 4 men’s doubles, 3 men’s singles, 1 ladies doubles, 2 ladies singles and 4 mixed doubles.

ODIHAM A: Flt Lt Paul Huyton Sgt Steve O’leary AS1(T) Jonathon Fox AS1(T) Lucan Horsnell AS1(T) Katie Witting AS1(T) Sarah Hughes The A team had an extremely tough draw, coming up against High Wycombe, Leeming and Team X (a mixture of stations that didn’t have enough players to make a full team from one station). Odiham A finished third in their group, narrowly losing out to Leeming 8-6 who finished 2nd behind High Wycombe.

ODIHAM B: Sgt David Witting Sgt James Bellinger-Brown AS1(T) Sanoj Thapa AS1(T) Zak Francis Cpl Chelsea Arnold Sgt Sharon Timmath

Odiham B comfortably beat Northolt and Boulmer on Day 1 but missed out on a semi-final place, losing to Lossiemouth 8-6 on Day 2 to finish 2nd in the group.

A great day had by all and for some it was their first time representing Odiham.