New Milton Table Tennis players shrugged off the turkey and mince pies to win six of their nine matches as the Bournemouth & District league programme resumed after the Christmas break.

The J team capitalised on Winton YMCA E’s bye by beating Merton J 9-1 to leapfrog over Winton to the top of Div 5. The G team stay at the top of Div 3 courtesy of a 6-4 win over basement boys Winton YMCA C.

Full results are below:-

DIVISION 1

New Milton B 7 Broadstone A 3

(Zoltan Karip-Barath 2, Matthew Daish 3, Julie Smillie 1)

Bransgore 1 New Milton C 9

(Martin Jerome 3, James Lewis 2, Max De Kment 3)

DIVISION 2

New Milton D 3 Broadstone B 7

(Terry Jenvey 2, Chris Pusey 0, Bob Fagan 1)

DIVISION 3

New Milton E 6 Bmth Sports N 4

(Max Doohan 2, Bev Scott-Johns 0, Dave Sutton 3)

New Milton F 3 Merton E 7

(Eddie Tompkins 0, Sylvia Smith 0, Malcolm Nash 0)

NB: Merton turned up a player short

Winton YMCA C 4 New Milton G 6

(Andrew Daish 0, Bobo Jiang 3, Peter Daish 2)

DIVISION 4

New Milton H 8 Bmth Sports P 2

(Matthew Winter 3, Svet Ignatov 3, John Parkhouse 2)

DIVISION 5

Merton J 1 New Milton J 9

(Geoff Biggs 3, Malcolm Douglas 3, Keith Kensley 2)

Bmth Sports V 10 New Milton K 0

(Sibyl Bartlett 0, Max Clark 0, Sue Wootton-Freeman 0)