Weather wipes out almost all of the week’s games

With just a handful of Scorecards received this week in the Chelmsford & District Table Tennis League due to the bad weather perhaps the most significant result concerns a game that wasn’t played because the away side were unable to field a team on the Sunday aftternoon. Third placed ECC A are the latest victims for failing to field a team on the controversial Sunday afternoon fixture against Elmtree Excalibur A in division one, and their challenge for honours is effectively finished.

ECC D, the favourites in division three, made no mistake against OCs B, and they ran out comfortable 9-1 winners. James Hicks and Bryn Thomas were both undefeated. Fourth-placed Elmtree Excalibur B also won 9-1 with Bill Smith and Nigel Lamb both picking up three wins against ECC C. Neil Thompson was ECC’s winner and he secured a fine five set win over Richard Hiskey in the last game of the night. Bill Smith had to pull out all the stops to get the better of Peter Layzell 11-5, 10-12, 11-3, 4-11, 16-14 whilst Nigel Lamb was equally stretched by Richard Storey before he eased home 11-8, 11-13, 9-11, 11-7, 12- 10.

Rawreth D had Paul Churn to thank as they beat ECC E 6-4. Paul Churn won his three singles and Mike Worship picked up two wins. Worship just overcame Colin Barham 16-18, 11-4, 4-11, 11-6, 13-11 after a fluctuating battle in what was also the closest deciding game of the night. OCs C ran out convincing 9-1 winners against Chelmsford D. David Porter (three wins), Sue Hickman (three wins) and Roy Moore (two wins) all played their part in an excellent team performance. John Barrett was on target for Chelmsford, getting the better of Roy Moore over five ends.

For those players intending to enter the M&G Investments Chelmsford & District Table Tennis League Closed Tournamenet over the weekend of 04-06 February 2011 please note that the Closing date has been extended to Tuesday 14 December 2010.

Steve Kerns
Press & Publicity Officer
Chelmsford & District Table Tennis League