Experience counts as youngsters bow out

FOUR of last year's inter-insular team will fight it out for the title of 2013 Guernsey champion.

For a while during last night's Intertrust Island Men's Championship quarter-finals at a windswept L'Ancresse, it looked as if 26-year-old Jack Mitchell would be the oldest player through to the semi-finals as the three teenagers remaining in the draw led their respective matches.

However, only the highest remaining seed, James Hamon, progressed out of that trio as Wednesday's giant-killer Tom Pattimore and Luke Blondel eventually had to bow to the experience and consistency of Dave Jeffery and Nigel Vaudin respectively.

On paper, Hamon's last-eight encounter with another of his Guernsey teammates, Jamie Blondel, was the pick of the quarter-finals, but the margin of victory turned out to be the most comfortable.