Successive victories in their opening four matches this week has left the CI squad playing for the Group 7 title today against Staffordshire at East Mosley.
CI playing captain Rebecca Edwards said: ‘We’ve had an excellent week and full credit to the players as they’ve shown a lot of spirit and resolve.
‘We don’t get to practise together at all but we’ve come together this week and played very well.
‘There is a lot of ability in the squad and being able to pair up with different players has been the story of our success.
‘It’s the first time in a good number of years the CI team has been promoted and hopefully we can be successful again today and win the division.
‘We can do it – all the teams are beatable in this division.
If we can knuckle down and do our best we’ll have a good chance.
Every shot will be vital, we must remain fully focused and continue to believe in our ability.’ Staffordshire and Bedfordshire both came down a division last year and the CI showed their strength to defeat Bedfordshire 6-3 yesterday.
Edwards and Francesca are Jersey’s players in the eight-player CI team who won their opening matches – all 7-2 – against Wiltshire, group favourites Cornwall and the South of Scotland.
are competing in Division VII.
The CI men’s team, including Jersey’s Ian Morgan, Richard Brocken, Gareth Roberts and Richard Brugrabber lost their opening matches to Somerset (9-0) and North Wales (6-3) before registering 6-3 wins in Southsea against the Isle of Man on Wednesday and the South of Scotland yesterday.
Today they were facing Cumbria in their final match.
