In a week in which the New Milton Table Tennis Club could only muster three wins out of ten matches in the Bournemouth & District league, the club’s two teams in Div 2 were both involved in 10-0 whitewashes; one for, one against.

The C team dished it out to basement boys North Bmth B in their own back yard at the Winton YMCA thanks to hat-tricks from brothers Simon & Peter Daish and Graham Underwood who was playing up a division. The brothers Daish combined well in the doubles to pile on the agony and beat the North pairing 3-1 to complete the rout. This did their clubmates in the second from bottom D team a great favour as they prevented North from gaining ground on them.  A picture of a triumphant Simon Daish appears below:-

The D team (Chris Pusey, Bob Fagan & Roy Hobbs) were unlucky in their 0-10 defeat against Merton F as all three of Pusey’s games went all the way to five ends without reward. He had only just lost to Merton’s Russell Yearworth 9-11 in the final singles of the evening when he joined with Fagan to try to get something out of the doubles. They just lost the first set 10-12 then won the second 11-9. Things looked promising when they pipped the third 12-10, but then narrowly lost the fourth 9-11 to take it right down to the wire to spare the blushes. Unfortunately Milton ran out of steam in the fifth and final set to lose 5-11 to tormentor Yearworth & Ryan Pickup. Full results details are below:-

PREMIER

New Milton A 3 Bmth Sports A 7

(Steve Hemmings 1, Umit Kaya 1, Russell Wilson 1)

DIVISION 1

New Milton C 6 Bmth Sports E 4

(Frank Handy 2, Paul Iliffe 0, Andy Tipsana 3)

DIVISION 2

New Milton D 0 Merton F 10

(Chris Pusey 0, Bob Fagan 0, Roy Hobbs 0)

North Bmth B 0 New Milton E 10

(Simon Daish 3, Graham Underwood 3, Peter Daish 3)

DIVISION 3

New Milton F 6 Merton G 4

(Malcolm Nash 0, Steve Cheesman 3, Sylvia Smith 2)

Ringwood C 8 New Milton G 2

(Graham Underwood 2, Bev Scott-Johns 0)

DIVISION 4

Winton YMCA B 5 New Milton H 5

(Eddie Tompkins 1, Lewis Reading 2, Les Smith 1)

Merton K 5 New Milton J 5

(Ben Greene 3, John Parkhouse 1, Peter Hyde 1)

DIVISION 5

New Milton K 2 Winton Elec-Trick 8

(Mike Gent 2, Dave Burns 0, Malcolm Douglas 0)

Merton L 7 New Milton L 3

(James Harper 2, Maggie Brown 0, Stuart Burton 1)