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Press Report #22 In Division 1 of the Basingstoke Table Tennis League, the St Peters A side of Peter Matthews, James Wright and Sean Pickin continued to move further away from the also-rans as they stormed to a 2-8 defeat over hosts Minitec B. Only Norman Swift gave Minitec any hope; it looked like he might win the first match of evening against Matthews after going 2-1 up, but Matthews came back strongly to take the point. Later Swift teamed up with Gary Livingstone for a comfortable doubles win and finally he rounded off the evening with a good win over Wright. The Alpha Cars’ team of Terry White, Paul Rattue and Ron Powell moved a little closer to securing second slot in the table below perennial runaway winners St Peters A, as they notched up a strong 7-3 win over a Winklebury side of John Golding, Peter Bradley and Colin Wilkes. Queens A junior Louis Webb fought hard against Oakley A’s Jason White, Chas Smith and Steve Morris, but sadly failed to score a point. Webb’s team mates Alan and Tony Palaczky were also made to work quite hard but won all of their matches including the doubles for a 7-3 win. Plucky Matt Wilson played up from KG C to help out KG A regulars Dave Kimberley and Sue Tompsett when they took on a Hannington side of Steve Rollason, Tony Brown and Paul Robinson but it was a poor night for KG A with only Tompsett able to win a match, beating Robinson 9-11 in the decider of what was a very close match, as they slumped to a 9-1 defeat. When St Peters B hosted Queens B, St Peters’ Steve Armstrong started the evening with a massive 3-0 win over Queens’ captain Peter Martin. Queens’ junior Matthew Palaczky put up a good show in all his matches but failed to score a point while team mate Keith Dickenson had a great evening, comfortably winning all his matches to help Queens B to a 4-6 win. In Division 2, an RAF Odiham team of Darren Flack, Roger Barnacle and Steve Preston had a tough time against the Queens E trio of Robin Burns, George Freeman and Roy Pike, but still managed to walk off with 9 points to their credit. Queens’ only point was courtesy of Burns who had a tremendous victory over Barnacle. AWE captain John McLarty again scored a great treble when his team took on Queen’s C this week. McLarty also paired up with Steve Jones for a good doubles win, but Queens players Frank Lii, Mike Chamberlain and Peter Coppins all scored two apiece for a 4-6 win to Queens. The Basingstoke Hindu Society A team of Sav Thevendria, Kanti Mistry and Paritosh Singh had a fairly routine win over KG D, with only KG’s Josh Manson able to avoid the whitewash, winning the final match of the evening over Mistry. Catch up on all the latest table tennis news in Basingstoke by visiting the league website: www.basingstokett.co.uk |
