TABLE TENNIS: Town teams up for cup glory
9:50am Saturday 20th March 2010 in Sport
THE cup semi finals start next week and, after the prolonged completion of the previous rounds, with one exception, the scheduled matches are as follows.
Warburton Cup: Little Lever C (+35.5) v Burning Desire; Heaton A (+35.5) v Little Lever A.
Brian Gittins Cup: Nomads A (+70.5) v Hilton A; St Catherine’s A v Burning Desire (+14.5).
George Yates Shield: Coburg v Heaton D (+0.5) or Little Lever D (+42.5); Ladybridge B v St Catherine’s D (+0.5).
Ron Hindle Memorial Trophy: Lads & Girls Club A v Brass (+35.5); Farnworth TTC B v Boyzone (+21.5).
After two drawn matches in the previous round which had to be replayed, 0.5 has been added to each handicap to eliminate a match being drawn.
In the Premier Division, Ramsbottom C enjoyed mixed fortunes when they were beaten 8-1 at Tameside, and then travelled to Little Lever where they beat the B team 6-3 Jake Shaw and John Hope trebled for Tameside, as did Graham Hoy for the C team at Little Lever. Tameside followed with a 6-3 win at Radcliffe, where their three players, Jake Shaw, Phil Biggs and Jeff Craighill all won two, as did Nigel Hallows for the losers.
Top Division One team Heaton A scored an 8-1 win at Ladybridge A which featured trebles by Paul and Matt Ward, and a double by Steve Barber.
Division Two leaders Nomads A, scored a 7-2 win at Farnworth TTC A which included trebles by Dave Holden and Martin Howarth. Coburg who are third in the table, also won 7-2 against BEN A with Bob Bent and Jim Hewitt unbeaten.
Hilton G maintained second place in Division Three with a 6-3 win at Meadow Hill B. They are being challenged by BEN B who marginally closed the gap after their 8-1 win over St Paul’s Pee. John Lawrence was unbeaten for Hilton as was Alan Hibbert and Alan Calvert for BEN.
Top Division Four team Farnworth TTC B scored maximum points at Hilton I, as did the team in second place, Lads Club A, at St Catherine’s F.
Top Ten Premier Division: 44 M Moir; 39 A Jackson; 38 J Shaw; 35 R Pennington; 34 G Jeffries; 32 M Ramsbottom; 30 B Elliott, B Clements, N Hallows; 29 R Durose.
Division One: 43 P Ward; 40 S Barber; 39 M Ward; 38 K Pinter, J Hutchinson; 37 D Collier, 33 D Watmough; 31 M Holt; S Wallis; 28 D Scowcroft, D Bolton.
Division Two: 57 B Bent; 54 M Maraszkiewicz; 46 J Hewitt; 42 M Martin, L Serdiuk; 40 J Scowcroft; 39 D Holden; 38 K Chauhan, B Haslam; 37 D Bednarski.
Division Three: 53 B Dudley; 43 A Hibbert, S McCaig; 40 R Alty; 39 G Hibbert, D Yates; 36 D Wilson; 34 T Mason; 31 J Rothwell; 30 M Wilcock, B Young, M Murray.
Division Four: 43 C Duncan; 38 J Grimwood, M Le; 36 G Stone; 34 A Morey; 33 R Isherwood; 28 S Evans; 27 M Rose, C Roberts, D Harris.
Results Premier Division: Ramsbottom B 5 L Lever A 4; Radcliffe CC 3 Tameside 6; Hilton A 9 Burning Desire 0; Tameside 8 Ramsbottom C 1; L lever B 3 Ramsbottom C 6.
Division One: Ladybridge A 1 Heaton A 8; Wingates 0 Ramsbottom D 9; St Cath’s B 6 Nomads A 3; Heaton C 6 Heaton B 3.
Division Two: L Lever D 3 Heaton F 6; Farnworth TTC A 2 Nomads B 7; Coburg 7 BEN A 2; Heaton D 9 Ladybridge B 0; Hilton E 3 Hilton C 6; Hilton D 4 M Hill A 5; Heaton E 5 L Lever D 4.
Division Three: Farnworth SC 5 Walkden Meths 4; Hilton F 6 Irlam 3; M Hill B 3 Hilton G 6; BEN B 8 St Paul’s Peel 1; Ladybridge C 1 Hilton H 8.
Division Four: Heaton H 6 Hilton K 3; Hilton I 0 Farnworth TTC B 9; St Cath’s F 0 Lads Club A 9; Lads Club B 2 Hilton J 7.
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