The New Milton Table Tennis Club’s teams returned to action in the Bournemouth & District league after the Christmas break and could only muster one win out of their eleven matches. Even that win came at the expense of one of their own teams as the E team beat the C team in the second of their local derbies.

The Nimrod club lived up to its biblical name as its three teams did the collective double over Milton’s H, J & K teams, only dropping one point in the process.

However, some good individual performances shone through the gloom as hat-tricks from Simon Golding and Mike Roberts helped rescue a point for the G and J teams respectively, and Ian Linney’s treble helped secure a draw for his F team. The unbeaten Gerard Redman’s treble helped his E team assume bragging rights over the C team as they improved on their first round draw with a 7-3 win over their club mates.  A photo of Gerard, a veritable study in concentration, appears below:

Full results details are below:-

PREMIER

New Milton A 4 Bmth Sports B 6

(Matthew Daish 2, Phil Handy 2, Umit Kaya 0)

DIVISION 1

Broadstone A 6 New Milton B 4

(Brian Bickell 1, Shaun Newcomb 1, John Millward 1)

DIVISION 2

New Milton C 3 New Milton E 7

(C Team: Dave Cuddon 1, Matt Winter 1, Svet Ignatov 1)

(E Team: Peter Daish 1, Gerard Redman 3, Frank Handy 2)

Bmth Sports F 9 New Milton D 1

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

DIVISION 3

Bmth Sports H 5 New Milton F 5

(Sylvia Smith 1, Ian Linney 3, Eddie Tomkins 1)

New Milton G 4 Broadstone B 6

(Simon Golding 3, Bill Page 0, Bev Scott-Johns 0)

DIVISION 4

Nimrod A 8 New Milton H 2

(John Parkhouse 0, Les Smith 1, Kai Major 1)

New Milton J 4 Nimrod B 6

(Keith Kensley 0, Malcolm Douglas 0, Mike Roberts 3)

DIVISION 5

Nimrod C 9 New Milton K 1

(Fern Daish 0, Lynn Willrich 1, Lucy Craddock 0)

New Milton L 1 Bmth Sports R 9

(Andrew Stainton 1, Sue Wootton-Freeman 0, Dominic Stainton 0)