The New Milton Table Tennis Club won three out of its seven matches in the Bournemouth and District league last week, the best result coming from their H team (Div 4) who demolished Shamrock B 9-1 in their own back yard. Captain Les Smith (pictured below) led from the front with his first hat-trick of his campaign and he was joined in his treble by George Roberts.

At the wrong end of a 9-1 scoreline, the B team suffered their worst defeat of the campaign in Div 1 as they were hammered by Bmth Sports D down at Chapel Gate. England Veteran Brian Bickell drew his first blank of the season, but Milton’s blushes were spared by Zoltan Karip-Barath who picked up his team’s solitary win.

Div 2 saw the E team beat Ringwood B by 7-3 home at the Grange courtesy of hat-tricks from captain Frank Handy and James Lewis. The club’s other win came in Div 3 as the F team beat Bmth Sports K 6-4 at Mudeford Wood aided and abetted by Mike Roberts’ second hat-trick of the season. The F’s captain Malcolm Nash came very close to recording his first treble of the campaign as he was level-pegging after the fourth end, having lost the first two against Bourne’s Ali Malloch. However, after giving his all, the fifth proved a bridge too far as he went down 5-11 to wave goodbye to his first treble, at least for the time being.  Full results are below:-

DIVISION 1

Bmth Sports D 9 New Milton B 1

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

DIVISION 2

New Milton D 4 Bmth Sports E 6

(Chris Pusey 2, Norma Millward 1, Bob Fagan 1)

New Milton E 7 Ringwood B 3

(Frank Handy 3, James Lewis 3, Andrew Daish 1)

DIVISION 3

New Milton F 6 Bmth Sports K 4

(Sylvia Smith 1, Malcolm Nash 2, Mike Roberts 3)

DIVISION 4

Shamrock B 1 New Milton H 9

(George Roberts 3, Keith Kensley 2, Les Smith 3)

DIVISION 5

Winton YMCA E 5 New Milton J 5

(Geoff Biggs 2, Lynn Willrich 2, James Harper 0)

New Milton K 3 Shamrock C 7

(Francis Benjamin 1, Stuart Burton 0, Andrew Stainton 2)