Another season another SW Champs. We returned again as reigning champions with teams aiming to prevent us from winning the tournament for a fourth consecutive year. The tournament held over two days includes the top teams in the area compete for SW Championship Trophy. The first phase see’s each team play eachother before the top four progress into the sem-finals. The winners of this match then play eachother in the final.
The round robin games were a sucess as we secured joint first place after the nine matches. We won eight, loosing to the University of Bath, who also lost once. Top spot went to Bath who secured a between overal points which mean they faced 4th place PMVC Men with Exeter Storm meeting Wiltshire Mavericks in the semi-final. The semi-final match up meant the was guareented to be a change up in the finals as Wiltshire and Exeter Storm had both reached that stage for the past three years. When the hooter game Exeter Storm game out on top aganist Wiltshire (32:20), attention quickly turned the other match which was level at 22:22! PMVC took the golden point and with that an all Devon final. The best of two begin and went point for point before Storm gained some vital breathing space and took the set 25:21, the second set went a similar way but PMVC couldn’t match the consistency of the NVL side as the set finished 25:19 and with that we retained our title for another year.
Next year the side may look very different as we say goodbye to Ridvan Karacay, Edu Tilhe, Mathias Ferrari and Leon Gouzinis who all are due to leave the area onto pastures new.
