Champions Lions end season in style!

Monday 30 April, 2018
Ealing 1 Ealing 1 Hendon 1 Hendon 1
1
Quinn, John M
208 ½ - ½
Levy, David
-
2
Perkins, Alan H
205 0 - 1
Brozel, Sacha
204
3
Stanisz, Patryk
204 ½ - ½
Friedgood, David
181
4
Joslin, Tim M
171 0 - 1
Senior, Gary
-
5
Procopie, Andrei
168 1 - 0
Jain, Gautam R
174
6
Lamb, H Michael
165 0 - 1
Hudson, Julian
167
7
Healeas, Simon
154 0 - 1
Islam, Mohammed
146
8
Winterbotham, Mark
152 0 - 1
Sartenaer, Jean-Claude
144
2 - 6

A band of intrepid Lions made their way to Ealing’s sports club venue for their final match of the season.

With a large number of our players again away or unavailable, my evening was punctuated with Ealing club members scurrying up to me and saying “Wow, your team is really weak!” Of course that wasn’t the case at all, as we are a club with great strength in depth, and it was very pleasing to come home with a big victory after a number of high quality wins from our team!

This result means the Lions end their season as Middlesex League champions on 11/12 (W11 D0 L1), extending their record string of victories to win their SEVENTH successive title!

Many thanks to all the fantastic players – regular or occasional – who turned out for the Lions this season. You are all much appreciated.

Top of Division 1:

  1. Hendon 1 – 11/12 (75)
  2. Muswell Hill 1 – 7.5/12 (54)
  3. Hackney 1 – 7.5/11 (49.5)
  4. Kings Head 1 – 6.5/11 (45.5)

The Lions of 2017-2018:
GM Jahongir Vakhidov, GM Jonathan Hawkins, GM Tamas Fodor, IM Ravi Haria, FM Isaac Sanders, IM Lorin D’Costa, IM Julian Meszaros, FM Dan Bisby, Rob Willmoth, FM John Richardson, Cristian Mures, Sacha Brozel, Jonathan Pein, IM David Levy, Tomer Eden, Philipp Orgler, Federico Rocco, Ed Stembridge, Gautam Jain, Julian Hudson, Gayan Peiris, Roman Mitra, FM David Friedgood, Daniel Ellis, Adam Raoof, Gary Senior, Florian Lutard, Jonathan Rubeck, Mo Islam, Oscar Pollack, Jean-Claude Sartenaer, Alex Leslie, Michael Bennett (non-playing captain)