Legg proud as L’Ancresse are edged out in thriller

Wednesday 7th July 2010, 2:29PM BST.

L’Ancresse team member Colin Bourgaize plays an approach shot during the Hampshire Sevens CI section final at Les Ormes. (Picture by Jon Guegan, 0994081)

L’ANCRESSE put up a tremendous fight but found that they could not overcome home advantage in the CI section final of the Hampshire Sevens.

The Guernsey winners were beaten by the slenderest of margins, four rubbers to three, away at Les Ormes in Jersey on Sunday, but L’Ancresse captain Eric Legg was proud of his team’s efforts.

‘It was a total nail-biter down to the last hole,’ he said.

‘Someone I was talking to a while ago used the phrase “a good loss”, which I thought was a strange thing to say but I think that is what this was.

‘Although we lost a very close match, we were very pleased with how we did overall.’