The New Milton Table Tennis Club won five out of their ten matches in the Bournemouth & District league last week, one of the wins coming at the expense of one of their own teams in a Division 1 derby. The A team were hammered 9-1 by soar-away Premier leaders Bmth Sports A and the J team were whitewashed 10-0 by Bmth Sports K in Div 3. The E team were walloped 8-2 by Div 2 leaders Winton YMCA B and the K team likewise by Div 4 high-fliers Merton H.

In contrast, the H team came up with their first maximum-pointer of the campaign as they beat Div 3 basement boys Ringwood C 8-2 courtesy of hat-tricks from Lewis Reading and the still unbeaten Dave Sutton. The G team (Chris Pusey, Terry Jenvey & Dave Cuddon) cemented their place at the top of Div 3 by beating second-placed Winton YMCA D 7-3 at the Grange. The B team are second in the Premier and beat bottom-dwellers Ringwood A 7-3 thanks to trebles from captain Simon Heaps (pictured below) and John Hook. The F team (Andrew Stainton, Elliott Storr-Smith & Ben Greene) had to manage without Captain Steve Cheesman but still managed to beat Merton E 6-4, aided and abetted by 18 year old Stainton’s first hat-trick of the campaign.

The C team (John Millward, Shaun Newcomb & Brian Bickell) won their Div 1 derby against their D team (Frank Handy, Gerard Redman & Rob Blackmore) by 6-4 to take second place from Bmth Sports D who were hammered 9-1 by Merton C. The impressive Blackmore kept the Dees in it with his second hat-trick of the campaign and Redman got the better of wheelchair player Newcomb. Full results details are below:-

PREMIER

New Milton A 1 Bmth Sports A 9

(Steve Hemmings 1, Umit Kaya 0, John Milward 0)

Ringwood A 3 New Milton B 7

(John Hook 3, Simon Heaps 3)

DIVISION 1

New Milton D 4 New Milton C 6

(D Team: Frank Handy 0, Gerard Redman 1, Rob Blackmore 3)

(C Team: John Milward 2, Shaun Newcomb 1, Brian Bickell 2)

DIVISION 2

New Milton E 2 Winton YMCA B 8

(Simon Daish 1, Simon Golding 1, Andrew Daish 0)

New Milton F 6 Merton E 4

(Andrew Stainton 3, Elliott Storr-Smith 1, Ben Greene 2)

DIVISION 3

New Milton G 7 Winton YMCA D 3

(Chris Pusey 1, Terry Jenvey 2, Dave Cuddon 3)

Ringwood C 2 New Milton H 8

(Ian Linney 1, Lewis Reading 3, Dave Sutton 3)

Bmth Sports K 10 New Milton J 0

(John Parkhouse 0, Mike Roberts 0, Stuart Burton 0)

DIVISION 4

Merton H 8 New Milton K 2

(Sid Daynes 1, James Harper 1, Malcolm Douglas 0)

DIVISION 5

Bmth Sports P 5 New Milton M 5

(Maggie Brown 0, Taki Hall 2, Stuart Burton 3)