Match Report Written By league president and Edinburgh International 3 player Ken Benjamin:

In the first half of the season, Murrayfield 5 had won the match 9-1. For that match Billy and Jim were absent, and Brian Bridson (who had our only victory) and Alan Ward played up. On Wednesday, Billy was again unavailable and so big praise to Allan Black of Edinburgh International 4 for playing up at only 10 hours' notice! Before play started I feared another bad defeat, if not so heavy a defeat as in December.
 
Jim beat Roger in match one, then in match 2 I came back from 10-6 down in the second end against Derek to win it 14-12. In the third end I was 10-6 up, so four match points. Which I blew, and several more in the deuce section to lose 17-19. Luckily I managed to pull myself together in the fifth end to win my first match, at the tenth attempt, against a Murrayfield player this season. Allan then reversed a previous league defeat to Colin to this time beat him in four ends, slightly unexpectedly and much to our delight. So we were 3-0 up!
 
Jim beat Derek in match 4, and Allan beat Roger in a tight encounter in match 5. We had at least halved the match overall! Allan had thought that individual match was his best chance of a win, so he had wanted to play it as his second individual match and the plan worked! In match 6 Colin hit many winners with his spectacular inside-out flat forehand hits. When on song that is the best forehand smash in Division 1. However, I managed to also coax him into making just enough errors, and a few less spectacular winners of my own, for me to win in four ends, and at that stage the win overall, after six matches!! It was so unexpected a win that I had not even thought of it earlier in the evening!!
 
We lost the doubles, but improved on last week in at least winning an end. Then Murrayfield 5 hit their stride, Derek's forehand working very well against Allan in ends 2, 3 and 4. Despite stout retrieving by Jim in match 9, Colin crashed enough big forehand smashes past Jim to win in four ends, so Murrayfield had won three in a row. In match 10 Roger never really got going against me.
 
So a completely unexpected and very welcome 7-3 win for us. For me it was the first time that I have won all three of my matches for a month, it reversed my losing all my matches to the same three players in December, and also it was the first time this season that I have won more matches than Jim Grahame! But the team is everything, and we could not have won without Allan Black, to whom every grateful praise once again.
 
Ken Ben

Summary by Colin:

 We were gubbed!! A slow start from Colin and Derek with Derek losing as many games in one evening as he had in the whole season.  We finished better with a good doubles win for Roger and Colin before  Derek found his form against Alan and Colin had a good win against Jim.

Credit to EI3 though. They played better then we did!