The New Milton Table Tennis Club’s teams came up with four wins out of ten matches in the Bournemouth and District league last week. The J team were celebrating their first win of the campaign while their captain Lynn Willrich was away on business in Florida. Fourteen year old Campbell Golding bagged a brace in his very first match of the season, and was joined in his double by 13 year old Elliott Storr-Smith and the not-quite-so-young Geoff Biggs to make it 6-4 against Bmth Sports N in Div 5.

Another thirteen year old, Kai Major is now scoring hat-tricks for fun as his treble helped his D team to their second 7-3 win in a row in Div 2, this week against North Bmth away at Winton. Also in Div 2, the E team got back to winning ways as they beat Merton F 8-2 courtesy of hat-tricks from captain Frank Handy and James Lewis home at the Grange. The club’s best win however came in Div 3 as the G team hammered the high-flying Merton G 9-1 at the Mudeford Wood Community Centre. Danny Williams (pictured below) came up with his second hat-trick of the season whilst Simon Daish topped that with his third treble.

The Premier saw the top of the table clash where mathematically at least the New Milton A team could exchange places at the top of the league with leaders Bmth Sports B if they beat them. As it happened the Bourne team turned up a player short which gifted Milton a point from their 3-7 defeat.

PREMIER

New Milton A 3 Bmth Sports B 7

(Brian Vibert 0, Steve Hemmings 0, John Millward)

DIVISION 1

New Milton B 4 Merton C 6

(John Millward 0, Brian Bickell 2, Zoltan Karip-Barath 1)

Bmth Sports C 9 New Milton C 1

(Julie Smillie 0, Malcolm Floyd 1, Matt Winter 0)

DIVISION 2

North Bmth 3 New Milton D 7

(Terry Jenvey 1, Chris Pusey 2, Kai Major 3)

New Milton E 8 Merton F 2

(James Lewis 3, Peter Daish 2, Frank Handy 3)

DIVISION 3

Bmth Sports G 7 New Milton F 3

(Sylvia Smith 2, Eddie Tomkins 1, Malcolm Nash 0)

New Milton G 9 Merton G 1

(Simon Golding 2, Simon Daish 3, Danny Williams 3)

DIVISION 4

New Milton H 2 Shamrock A 8

(George Roberts 1, Les Smith 1, Malcolm Douglas 0)

DIVISION 5

New Milton J 6 Bmth Sports N 4

(Campbell Golding 2, Elliott Storr-Smith 2, Geoff Biggs 2)

Merton L 10 New Milton K 0

(Miriam Mather 0, Richard Clampin 0, Andrew Stainton 0)