The New Milton Table Tennis Club had a slightly better week in the Bournemouth and District League as their teams won four out their ten matches, and the Golding family had a hand in two of those victories.

Simon Golding came up with his third hat-trick of the campaign to help his G team to a 6-4 victory over Breamore Batniks in Div 3. On the same night his 13 year old son Campbell (pictured below) bagged a brace to help his K team to the same scoreline over Shamrock C in Div 5 at the Arnewood School. Campbell displayed a maturity and tenacity beyond his years as both his wins came from two gruelling five-enders against wily Shamrock veterans Frank Godfrey and Lawrie Phillips. Fern Daish and Lynn Willrich were both ascloseasthis to coming up with their first hat-tricks of the campaign in this match, but both tantalisingly lost 11-13 over five ends to Shamrock’s Trevor Thompson.

The other Milton treble-makers were Phil Handy, who helped his A team to a 7-3 victory in the Premier, and Gerard Redman’s & Frank Handy’s full houses helped their table-topping E team to take maximum points in Div 2. This enabled them to put some more blue sky between them and the C team who could only manage a draw against North Bmth. Finally, Mike Roberts’s hat-trick secured a precious point for his J team who are currently lying bottom of Div 4. Full results details are below:-

PREMIER

Merton A 3 New Milton A 7

(Matthew Daish 2, Steve Hemmings 1, Phil Handy 3)

DIVISION 1

New Milton B 2 Winton YMCA C 8

(Shaun Newcomb 1, Julie Smillie, 1, John Millward 0)

DIVISION 2

North Bmth 5 New Milton C 5

(Dave Cuddon 2, Malcolm Floyd 1, Svet Ignatov 1)

New Milton E 8 Bmth Sports G 2

(Bobo Jiang 1, Gerard Redman 3, Frank Handy 3)

DIVISION 3

New Milton F 5 Merton H 5

(Sylvia Smith 2, Malcolm Nash 1, Eddie Tomkins 1)

Breamore 4 New Milton G 6

(Simon Golding 3, Bev Scott-Johns 0, Clive Pitts 2)

DIVISION 4

New Milton H 4 Merton K 6

(John Parkhouse 1, Danny Williams 1, Les Smith 1)

Shamrock A 7 New Milton J 3

(Geoff Biggs 0, Keith Kensley 0, Mike Roberts 3)

DIVISION 5

New Milton K 6 Shamrock C 4

(Fern Daish 2, Campbell Golding 2, Lynn Willrich 2)

Shamrock B 10 New Milton L 0

(Sibyl Bartlett 0, Sue Wotton-Freeman 0, Dane Major 0)