Newcastle beat Holmes Chapel by 2.5 - 1.5 in their opening South Cheshire Shield match on Wednesday evening. Holmes Chapel's cause wasn't helped by fielding an overgraded player on board 1 who had to be counted as a default. Holmes Chapel names first :
Ben Scattergood 1 John Day 0 (HC player overgraded so game awarded to Newcastle)
Martin Gill 0 Pete Shaw 1
David Price 0.5 Richard Cantliff 0.5
George Scattergood 1 Derrick Jones 0
