News & Views from the Colchester Table Tennis League
with Press Officer Martyn Green

23rd January 2008
PEGASUS D WIN TOP OF DIVISION FOUR CLASH

Pegasus D gained revenge for their earlier season defeat by CRGS A beating them 8-2 and in the process jumped four places to the top of the Colchester & District Table Tennis Division Four. Keith Clubb led the way for the Marks Tey team with his fifth straight maximum maintaining his one hundred percent record. Clubb was well supported by James Swabey and Stan Flint who won two apiece as their team won all five games that went to five sets including the doubles. Alex Hadcock won the two for CRGS who are third making amends with a 10-0 whitewash against Lawford D as Phil Lawson made a successful debut for the school team. League leaders Pegasus D had another 8-2 win against promotion rivals St Mary’s E, Sandy Issac also winning three at her first attempt in fine attacking style. Lawford C lost their lead following two poor performances, the first a 7-3 defeat by H20 Rowhedge H’s rising stars with Mark Smith and Andrew Harvey both taking excellent maximums in the process beating Andrea Alleyne in five sets. They were then held to a 5-5 by the Grammar School’s B team which could have been worse had not CRGS’s Daniel Malcolm not been ineligible having won his quota of seven wins for the ‘A’ team meaning he can no longer play for the lower side. Harvey was joined by Jess Page in winning his three this time for the ‘G’ team a result that mean he can no longer represent the ‘H’ team. Sandy Haffenden was Lawford D’s only winner beating Daryl Lott 13-11 in the fifth end after Lott had beaten Maggie Earle 14-12 in the final set earlier. To round off his night of five set encounters Lott won his last match against Linda Ablett 11-7 to complete a 9-1 win as Lawford remain bottom. Gt Horkesley E beat their ‘B’ team 8-2 with Chris Jones and Denise Thompson undefeated but the two points kept Horkesley F off the bottom.

Clairmont A had mixed fortunes in Division Three with two 6-4 results one in their favour the other against. The win was against Gt Horkesley D with Dan Farrow winning his three for the losers and the defeat against Dedham B when Clairmont fielded only two players and no one was unbeaten. Pegasus C move up to joint fourth after two big wins 9-1 against Tollesbury B and 8-2 at H20 Rowhedge F with Toby Turner starring in both with six good wins. Pegasus B and Dedham B played out a 5-5 draw with George Berry again winning three.

In Division Two Walton C overcame second placed H20 Rowhedge D 6-4 despite Fred Button’s best efforts for the village team as he won his three, the closest a five set deuce match against Colin Dearman playing his last match for the ‘C’ team as he has won seven playing up and now must represent the ‘A’ team. Walton followed this up with a 10-0 trouncing of Lawford A who drop to fourth as the seaside team put distance between them and the chasing pack with Neil Crook unbeaten in his first appearance in this division. Third placed St Mary’s C came through a tough match at Anchor Press in a 6-4 win, Martin Edwards winning his customary three as he did against fifth placed Gt Horkesley B in a 7-3 win although Janet Faiers pushed him all the way to five sets. Wudong Liu played for Horkesley against H20 Rowhedge D and even his best efforts could not prevent another defeat this time 6-4. H20 Rowhedge E have games in hand and they brushed aside Tollesbury A, veteran Peter Giles with a virtuoso performance. Lawford A’s 7-3 win over St Peters was closer than it looked with half the games going the full distance, four of them in favour of the home team with Matt Webb winning his three for Lawford.