| Southend Premier Division League leadersThorpe Bay A led the way this week with a 9-0 win over Brand Identity A. Mark Stones, Paul Whatton and Paul Sayer all undefeated. Rivals Rawreth A had a 7-2 win over Hockley A with Matt Spero having a great night, winning all 3 matches. Andy Cunningham had a good evening for the visitors, beating Yas Mauthoor and Kevin Read. Thorpe Bay B had a good 8-1 win over Hadleigh Forum A with Kieran Skeggs and Keith Willett gaining hat tricks. The final match saw a close encounter between Rayleigh Mill and Rawreth B, with the Millers just edging it 5-4. Duncan Taylor gaining a hat trick with Arron Chandler gaining a brace for the home side. Division 1 The only game this week not to end up as a 5 – 4 win was the visit of Hadleigh Forum B to Canvey A. This resulted in a 7-2 Forum win, thanks to a Mick Tappenden hat trick and two each for David Woolmer and Anthon Ranjit-Singh. Canvey’s Peter Cray and Joanne Hills won one victory each. The unluckiest team of the week must be Rawreth D on their visit to Hockley C. Despite only having two players (yet again!) they almost pulled off a shock win thanks to a POM performance by Justin Jeffery which included a five-set win over Tarun Goel, coming back from 2-1 down. Hockley edged home 5-4 though, thanks to wins by Tarun and Harry Sawford over Jake Nelson. However, Jake got his first win of the season by beating the veteran Paul Strutt in four sets. Brand Identity B edged a close home fixture against Hockley B 5-4, although Hockley’s Dan Patynski will be disappointed to be on the losing side after his maximum gave him the POM award. Two wins apiece from Jenny Harrison and Mick Grout, together with a single victory for Adam Jackman, gave the match to the home side. Dennis Squirrell got Hockley’s other win. A hat trick from Rawreth E’s Garry Hartgrove saw his side to a 5 – 4 win away at Lentern. Mike Hayes and Gary McCarthy got the other points. Two wins from John Tendler and one each from Ian Cranstone and Gus Heath were just not quite enough for the home side. Invicta A’s Lee Marson had an unbeaten evening at Mapledene. With the sides level at 4 all, Lee’s win over the home captain Andy Seaman in the last action of the night, sealed the win for the league leaders Invicta. Tony Ayliffe and Steve Marr added one apiece for them, whilst Lin Roff got two and Andy and Dawn Baldry gained one victory each for Mapledene. Division 2 The top three teams in the division were all in action this week and whilst RESSC and Hadleigh Forum C both ran out 9-0 winners. Wakering dropped a couple of points whilst beating Stanford B 7-2. This means that Hadleigh and Wakering are joint second with exactly the same points but now 11 points behind RESSC all having played 6 games. Bob Skews just took the POTM for RESSC as he, Mike Worship and Richard Gill eased past the Selbourne side of Richard Reibold, Jenne Siebolt and Andy Roff. Jenne almost grabbed a consolation win against Richard leading 2-1 before succumbing in five close sets. Other than that, it was fairly plain sailing for the league leaders. There were a couple of surprise defeats for Wakering’s father and son Paul and Zac England in their match against Stanford. Zac lost the first match of the evening to John Handscombe, only his second win of the season, and then dad Paul went down in five sets to Mark Downey after leading 2-1. There were no slip up’s however from Stewart Mills whose hat trick won him the POTM award and ensured a comfortable win overall for Wakering. Hadleigh Forum’s 9-0 trouncing of Rawreth F saw eight matches finished in three sets with only Bradley Nunn’s game against Mark Everard going beyond that. Although Bradley won the first set and then levelled the match at 2-2, he lost the fifth and with it Rawreth’s last chance of a consolation point. The occasion was marked by the return to action of our esteemed chairman Ken Field after an absence of four years, so welcome back Ken but probably not a night to remember. Tony Mace and Graham Farmer made up the winning Hadleigh team. Canvey B remained fourth in the table after a 6-3 win away at Runnymede, but it was the home team’s Phil Digby who took the POTM honours winning all his games in straight sets. Two wins each therefore for the Canvey team of Des Duffield, Terry Giddens and Kevin Walsingham. Andrew Humphris came close to adding an additional point for Runnymede losing out in five sets to Kevin in the final game of the evening. Division 3 Alex Deacon led the way for Hullbridge ‘B’ with a fine maximum in his team’s 5-4 win at Stanford ‘C’. He was well supported by Max Mayo who recorded two wins and who was only denied a hat-trick of his own by Stanford’s Peter Moxham who got the better of him at 12-10 in the final set of their match. Peter also recorded a win over Jeff Gritzman, as did his team-mates Randy Santiago and David Arnett. There was another close match when Hockley ‘E’ took on Hadleigh Forum ‘D’. The scores were tied at 4-4 when Hermann Maier took on Forum skipper Jean Catley. Jean started strongly, taking the first two sets, but Hermann recovered well to win the next three and win the game and the match for his team by 5-4. Dean Johnson put in an unbeaten performance for Forum but had to work hard to overcome Alwine Jarvis and Graham Gregory, both in five sets Hockley ‘D’ strengthened their position at the top of the league with a 7-2 victory over Canvey ‘C’. Player of the match, Tony Molisso, led the way with a maximum, ably supported by Neal Klyman and Jeremy Giffin, who both scored a double. Trevor Hayes scored both points for Canvey, but it was a blank night for Che Martin and Stephen Parker.The match between Invicta ‘B’ and Rawreth ‘G’, due to be played at the MegaCentre, had to be postponed because the venue was unavailable. |
