The New Milton Table Tennis Club repeated their last week’s haul of four wins in the Bournemouth and District league which was a significant improvement over their solitary victory in the first round of matches. This was due to the conversion of three results from draws to wins.

In Div 2, the high-flying E team (Frank Handy, Gerard Redman & Bobo Jiang) improved on their first-round draw against Ringwood A with an 8-2 victory away at Greyfriars. Captain Frank Handy led from the front with his customary hat-trick whilst Redman got off the mark with a hat-trick from his very first match for the E’s this season. It was a busy week for Redman (pictured below) as the previous evening he played up in Div 1 for the struggling C team in their 1-9 thrashing at the hands of table-toppers Bmth Sports D. You’ve guessed it, it was the man himself who spared Milton’s blushes by avoiding a repeat of their first round whitewash by beating Bourne’s irrepressible Charlie Chang.

Also in Div 2, the D team (Chris Pusey, Kai Major & Norma Millward) upgraded their first-round draw against the struggling Bmth Sports F with a 7-3 victory at Mudeford Wood. Teenage sensation Kai Major came up with his fifth hat-trick of the campaign which included a terrific straight-sets victory over the much more experienced David Pang who had already seen off Pusey and Millward.

It was trebles all round for the G team (Simon Golding, Simon Daish & Clive Pitts) as they tightened their grip at the top of Div 3 with 10-0 whitewash over Bmth Sports G having drawn against them in the first round.

The club’s other treble-maker was Hungarian Zoltan Karip-Barath whose first hat-trick of the campaign helped his B team do the double over Bmth Sports C in Div 1, this time with maximum points from their 8-2 victory.

DIVISION 1

Bmth Sports C 2 New Milton B 8

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

New Milton C 1 Bmth Sports D 9

(Malcolm Floyd 0, Julie Smillie 0, Gerard Redman 1)

DIVISION 2

New Milton D 7 Bmth Sports F 3

(Chris Pusey 2, Kai Major 3, Norma Millward 1)

Ringwood A 2 New Milton E 8

(Frank Handy 3, Gerard Redman 3, Bobo Jiang 1)

DIVISION 3

New Milton F 5 Bmth Sports H 5

(Malcolm Nash 1, Eddie Tompkins 1, Mike Roberts 2)

Bmth Sports G 0 New Milton G 10

(Simon Golding 3, Simon Daish 3, Clive Pitts 3)

DIVISION 5

Merton L 10 New Milton J 0

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

New Milton K 3 Winton YMCA E 7

(Richard Clampin 1, Andrew Stainton 1, Stuart Burton 1)