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Essex started the season with the annual Hall Memorial Trophy against Cambridgeshire at Chelmsford Golf Course, this is the first time since 2019 this fixture has taken place due to obvious circumstances.
This trophy originated as a warm up match between both counties, introduced by David Hall and Neil Hughes, following the sad passing of David the match took place in honour of David with a trophy to commemorate him. We were very pleased to welcome David’s wife Marion and three of her sons to the day. Thank you to Marion for presenting the trophy and continued support.
We were fortunate enough to have a sunny day, the course was very well presented for the time of year and can’t thank Chelmsford Golf Club enough for their hospitality.
The match kicked off with usual proceedings of the foursomes, the Orsett pairing of Bailee Curran and Cassidy Steffens, narrowly loosing 1 down to a very strong pairing in Ed Dimambro and George Howard. The second match, Ben Humphrey and Ryan Cox was a close contest with Essex sealing a 1 up win on the last hole, the following match of Carter Rowe and William Horne ended in a friendly ½. The remaining three pairings, Joe Tatam and Shay McQueen, Andy May and Sam Green, Ben Tobin and Ross Dee wining their matches comfortably. This gave Essex a 4 ½ - 1 ½ lead going into the afternoon singles.
In the afternoon singles Essex got off to a quick start with wins from the first 3 matches, Bailee Curran bt Ed Dimambro 2 up, Ryan Cox bt George Howard 5/4 and Cassidy Steffens bt Luke Ryan 2/1. The fourth and fifth matches were a well earnt ½ point from the vice-captain Ben Humphrey Vs Jake Plumb and Joe Tatam Vs James Mcloughin. The next four matches were split 2-2, Shay McQueen with a win against Josh Austin-Tierney, William Horne also getting a win against Oliver Toyer, Carter Rowe Vs Andy Grimwood and Sam Green Vs Theo Morris, the youngest team member, unfortunately losing their matches, sadly Andy May also lost his match against Danny Loveday. The last two matches saw the old guards of the team in Ross Dee and Ben Tobin both with convincing wins against Lewis Martin and Jack Roe.
All the matches were played in great spirits and an all-round great day which saw Essex taking a victory with a final score of 12 ½ - 5 ½.
Ricky Lee
County Team Manager
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