The New Milton Table Tennis Club had a poor week in the Bournemouth and District league as they could only muster one win out of ten matches. In their last match of the season, the E team were held to a 5-5 draw against Bmth Sports G whom they walloped by 8-2 at home in the first round of matches. Milton had been top of Div 2 for most of the season but a poor run of results in the run-up deprived them of a promotion slot as they dropped out of the top two.

The C team, also in Div 2, were the only Milton side to register a win as their 8-2 hammering of North Bmth in their penultimate match vastly improved on their first round draw. The C team needed at least a 8-2 win from their last match (against the D team) to take over third place from their club mates in the E team. This looked a tall order as the C’s lost 4-6 first time around but they did it in style as they walloped the D team 9-1 to end up in third place.

A special mention for promising new signing Bill Collinge who marked his Div 5 debut with an impressive hat-trick which gave his L team a point in their 3-7 defeat by Shamrock B in Div 5. Also worthy of a mention in despatches is England veteran Brian Bickell (pictured below) who scored a hat-trick for his B side in Div 1, and new signing Alex Whitehead who played up a division but still came up with a treble for the H team in Div 4.

Full results details are below:-

PREMIER
New Milton A 5 Merton A 5
(Umit Kaya 1, Matthew Daish 2, Phil Handy 2)

DIVISION 1
Winton YMCA C 6 New Milton B 4
(Brian Bickell 3, Zoltan Karip-Barath 1, John Millward 0)

DIVISION 2
New Milton C 8 North Bmth 2
(Matt Winter 2, Svet Ignatov 2, Dave Cuddon 3)

Bmth Sports G 5 New Milton E 5
(Bobo Jiang 0, Simon Daish 2, Frank Handy 3)

DIVISION 3
Merton H 5 New Milton F 5
(Ian Linney 2, Sylvia Smith 1, Eddie Tompkins 1)

New Milton G 4 Breamore 6
(Simon Golding 1, Clive Pitts 2, Bev Scott-Johns 1)

DIVISION 4
Merton K 5 New Milton H 5
(Alex Whitehead 3, John Parkhouse 0, Kai Major 2)

New Milton J 2 Shamrock A 8
(Lynn Willrich 0, Mike Roberts 2, Geoff Biggs 0)

DIVISION 5
Shamrock C 5 New Milton K 5
(Lynn Willrich 2, Lisa McGivney 0, Campbell Golding 2)

New Milton L 3 Shamrock B 7
(Sibyl Bartlett 0, Sue Wootton-Freeman 0, Bill Collinge 3)