Jersey fours roar through

Friday 15th May 2009, 2:59PM BST.

Competing in Johannesburg: Derek Boswell, Terry Allen, Gus McKinnon, Cyril Renouf, Alan Shaw and John Lowery

Cyril Renouf’s Jersey quartet completed their group programme in style in Johannesburg yesterday, beating Portugal, 23-10, and booking a place in today’s quarter finals of the Atlantic fours championship.

On Tuesday night, Derek Boswell, John Lowery, Terry Allen and Renouf had looked in trouble, their place in the knockout stage hanging on a thread.

Quite simply, their hopes depended on winning their last three group matches – against Brazil, Guernsey and Portugal. And, to their credit, that’s exactly what they did.

After getting past Brazil and Guernsey on Wednesday, they made an inauspicious start against bottom-of-the-table Portugal, dropping a four on the first end, but a scoring run of six ends saw them take a 13-4 lead after seven ends.

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