In a week in which the New Milton Table Tennis Club could only muster three wins once again in the Bournemouth and District League, the B team proved that they are back to winning ways with their second win in two weeks. Captained by wheelchair-player Shaun Newcomb (pictured below), the B team improved on a 6-4 first-round defeat against Merton B with a 7-3 win down at Mudeford Wood. Newcomb came up with his first hat-trick of the campaign, Zoltan Karip-Barath bagged a brace and Brian Bickell chipped in with the one win. Newcomb capped a fine evening by joining Bickell to win the doubles fairly comfortably in the end.

There were some other excellent captains’ performances last week, including Terry Jenvey’s treble which helped his D team hold Merton C to a 5-5 draw in Div 2. Also in Div 2, Frank Handy’s hat-trick helped his table-topping E team do the double over Lynwood C with a 6-4 win at the Arnewood School.

Other treble-makers to be mentioned in despatches were Dan Williams whose first hat-trick of the campaign helped his H team to scrape a point against Winton YMCA D in Div 4, and Fern Daish and Lynn Willrich whose trebles resulted in the K team doing the double over Winton YMCA G in Div 5. Full results details are below:-

PREMIER

Bmth Sports A 6 New Milton A 4

(Umit Kaya 1, Phil Handy 2, Peter Daish 0)

DIVISION 1

New Milton B 7 Merton B 3

(Shaun Newcomb 3, Brian Bickell 1, Zoltan Karip-Barath 2)

DIVISION 2

New Milton D 5 Merton D 5

(Chris Pusey 0, Terry Jenvey 3, Bob Fagan 1)

New Milton E 6 Lynwood C 4

(Gerard Redman 2, Frank Handy 3, Andrew Daish 0)

DIVISION 3

Merton H 8 New Milton G 2

(Clive Pitts 1, Bev Scott-Johns 0, Alex Whitehead 0)

DIVISION 4

New Milton H 4 Winton YMCA D 6

(John Parkhouse 1, Billy Collinge 0, Dan Williams 3)

Merton K 9 New Milton J 1

(Geoff Biggs 1, Keith Kensley 0, Malcolm Douglas 0)

DIVISION 5

New Milton K 7 Winton YMCA G 3

(Lynn Willrich 3, Lisa McGivney 0, Fern Daish 3)

Shamrock C 8 New Milton L 2

(Sibyl Bartlett 0, Richard Brockbank 2, Richard Clampin 0)