The three remaining games in Division 5 have been played:

June 21st: Fred Laband 11 Maria Ferguson 8
June 24th: Maria Ferguson 10 Peter Booth 11
June 24th: Maria Ferguson 11 Kevin Stephenson 1

Congratulations to Fred who is promoted to Division 4, and commiserations to Maria who goes down.

Meanwhile the relegation decider was played in Division 3:

June 24th: Duncan Conway 11 Richard Coles 3
June 24th: Duncan Conway 11 Richard Coles 3

Well done to Duncan for surviving, and hard lines to Richard who goes down.

That only leaves Division 4 with remaining matches. Two were played the other day:

June 24th: Adam Reynolds 11 Caroline Knapp 6
June 24th: Adam Reynolds 11 Caroline Knapp 10

Adam writes: “Just finished a very interesting match against Caroline.

I won a gammon 2 cube in the very first game, which then went back and forth until it was 6-6, at which point I won gammon 4 cube for the match!

In the second I ended up 4-0 down before winning a gammon 2 cube. Things then went back and forth again, but with Caroline always in the lead. I survived a Crawford game at 10-8 down by winning a Gammon, and then took the last game with Caroline only having 3 pieces left on the board.

There were some cruel dice on both sides!”