With about two thirds of the league season gone, Academy’s teams are looking pretty strong across the board. Last night’s (25 Jan) win for Mixed 1 maintains their 100% winning record. They have now won six matches on the spin this season and even more impressively are yet to drop more than a point in any match. The ladies are on a similarly strong run and are also unbeaten this season with their draw away at Kingsdown the only minor blemish from the seven matches they have played so far. Unsurprisingly, both teams are currently sitting at the top of their divisions and look to be pushing for promotion. And, if the ladies can maintain their form for their remaining three matches they are on course to become Academy’s first Division 1 team. The battle for Men’s Division 4b looks to be a tighter affair with Academy and St Ursula’s fighting for the top spot. At this stage, both teams are on the same number of points although St Ursula’s have played less matches so currently sit top of the division. It looks like it could go down to the wire with the men’s final match, at home to St Ursula’s on 8 March, being the decider.

At this point it’s difficult to draw very much from the results for Mixed 2 and Mens 2. The men appear to be finding North Somerset Division 1 significantly harder than Division 2 was last year but with postponements, results not having been entered yet and the fact that the bulk of their fixtures are arranged towards the end of the season, their actual standings in their divisions are a bit unknown at present.

Academy’s ladies, who stepped up to Division 2 this season seem to be acclimatising well. They won their second match of the season on Monday and have now taken 10 points from a possible 12 in their first two matches. On paper, Monday’s match away against St Ursula’s 1 looked to be one of their trickier assignments. They were aided buy the opposition only being able to field three players, thereby forfeiting half the possible points on offer. However, this shouldn’t detract from the convincing performance in the other three pairings which gained the Ladies all six points.

Academy’s Men also continued their resurgent form following their opening day defeat with a battling 5-1 win away at Severnvale. Captain Mark commented that despite the comfortable scoreline this had been much closer than it appears with at least half of the pairings going to deciders and the scoreline in a number of games passing 21.