championships after varying victories on Saturday.

With five places still to be filled in the quarter finals, some would say the initial three could all have genuine claims of going all the way.

Peck, who is an avid fan of the matchplay format, was opposed to

fellow teacher Geoff P Black on the weekend, the result in the balance until the final hole which Peck won for a two-and-one victory.

Playing in the same foursome and also contesting a Founder Cup match were Garry Mason and Steve Delahunty, however these two had extra work to do after the 18th as the match finished all square.

Making their way back up the first for a second time, Delahunty held his nerve to claim the win and set up a quarter final clash with Joseph Trinder.

Trinder took care of Peter Heywood, who was having his first crack at matchplay this year.

While neither player figured in the daily run down, their focus was on their match, with Trinder emerging as a three-and-two winner.

The remaining five games need to be played by August 22 and with the Holden Scramble set down for August 21 it does eliminate one day for play.

Phil Moon will meet James Dunk after the latter accounted for Mark Ballard three and two, while Steve Johnson will need to call on all his

pennant playing experience to hold out the challenge of James Gordon who is one of the form players in the club at

present.

In his second round clash, Gordon held out club chairman Mark O’Connor one up.

Having downed Graeme Cheshire one up in his last outing, another

promising junior Alex Crowe will now have to deal with wily left-handed

veteran Ross Adams.

Having received second round byes, Doug Caldwell and Geoff Byrne will now meet Ian Saunders and Phil Gay respectively, their opponents coming off big second round wins.

Saunders put the cleaners through Matt Moon four-and-three, while Gay completed an eight hole stretch in one over par to have his match against Paul Miller wrapped up on the 12th, the final result a demoralizing seven-and-six.