The New Milton Table Tennis Club’s teams could only muster three wins out of nine matches in the Bournemouth and District league last week, but one of them was a real humdinger from the K team in Div 5 as they trounced Winton YMCA G by 9-1 in their own back yard.

16 year old Lucy Craddock came up with her first ever hat-trick in the league as did promising new signing Alex Whitehead. Captain Fern Daish bagged a brace and then Lucy capped her evening by helping Fern to win the doubles.

The next best result came from the New Milton E team as they beat Lynwood C by 8-2 chez Lynwood. Captain Frank Handy led from the front with yet another hat-trick and was joined in his treble by 15 year old Peter Daish. Bobo Jiang had to be content with a brace for the second week running.

Other players worthy of a mention are Terry Jenvey (D team captain) who came up with his first hat-trick of the season and the H team’s Dave Strike who clocked up his second treble in a row. A very busy Richard Brockbank played up for the H team in Div 4 helping them to a 5-5 draw, and the following night helped his own L team to snatch a point in Div 5. New signing Richard Clampin also played his part in that by registering his first win in the league. Full results are below:-

PREMIER

New Milton A 0 Bmth Sports A 10

(Steve Hemmings 0, Phil Handy 0, Ben Cawston 0)

DIVISION 1

Merton B 6 New Milton B 4

(Brian Bickell 1, Zoltan Karip-Barath 1, Shaun Newcomb 1)

DIVISION 2

Merton D 4 New Milton D 6

(Terry Jenvey 3, Chris Pusey 2, Bob Fagan 1)

Lynwood C 2 New Milton E 8

(Peter Daish 3, Bobo Jiang 2, Frank Handy 3)

DIVISION 3

New Milton G 3 Merton H 7

(Simon Golding 2, Bill Page 1, Bev Scott-Johns 0)

DIVISION 4

New Milton J 3 Merton K 7

(Malcolm Douglas 1, Dee Flanagan 1, Mike Roberts 1)

Winton YMCA D 5 New Milton H 5

(Richard Brockbank 1, Kai Major 1, Dave Strike 3)

DIVISION 5

Winton YMCA G 1 New Milton K 9

(Lucy Craddock 3, Alex Whitehead 3, Fern Daish 2)

New Milton L 3 Shamrock C 7

(Richard Brockbank 1, Andrew Stainton 0, Richard Clampin 1)