| Southend and District Premier League Brand Identity A started the week off, with a top class win against Hockley A, winning 9-0: Steve Muth, Simon Jacob and Richard Jackson doing the damage against Hockley’s Matt Stringer, Sanjay Saptarshi, and Tim Pang. Rawreth C came up against an inform Kevin Caldon for Irons, who ran out 6-3 victors. Kevin won his 3, with Richard Brown 2 and Dave Bowles 1, Bruce Kettle took 2 for Rawreth and Babul McLeod 1.Thorpe Bay B received a 9-0 walkover when Rawreth B were unable able to field a team. The final match saw Rawreth A win 6-3 against Rayleigh Mill with Kevin Read unbeaten, George Reeves and Zayd Mauthoor 1; the Millers had your DRS ! 2 and Peter Radford 1, gaining their points. Div 1 Brand Identity B overcame Stanford Le Hope A 8 -1 when they visited them this week. POM Barrie Delf was again unbeaten, as was his teammate, Adam Jackman. Closest contest of the night was the very first one, with Peter Weatherall unlucky to lose out to Adam 9 – 11 in the fifth set. Peter got the home side’s consolation by overcoming Mike Grout in the best of four sets.Hockley B kept up their challenge for the top with a 6 – 3 win over visitors Mapledene. Not for the first time this season, Dan Patynski was again POM with a hat trick. Dave Colwill won two and Stuart Adshead one. Mapledene’s side of Andy Seaman, Mike Johnson and Dawn Baldry each won one.Garry Hartgrove is having a good season and was again unbeaten in his Rawreth E’s 7 – 2 home win over Canvey A. Team mates Chris Aukett and Trevor Ward chipped in with two wins each. Peter Cray performed well for Canvey, taking both his side’s victories.The youngsters of Rawreth D were bolstered this week by the addition of the experienced Colin Barham to their side. However, the visiting Lentern team were too strong for them, taking the tie 6 – 3, with John Tendler winning all his games. Teammate Susan Body won two and Wayne Farmer one. George Davis was again the home team’s star, winning two. Colin got the better of Wayne for his side’s other success. Due to a fixture clash, the match between Hadleigh Forum B and Invicta A has had to be postponed for a later date. Div 2 The three teams at the bottom of the Division were all in action this week Selbourne, Rawreth F and Hullbridge A, but only Rawreth finished with a win to further ease their relegation fears. They now sit 13 points clear of bottom of the table Selbourne but just 3 points behind Hullbridge and with a massive 5 games in hand!Now seeming to have resolved their early season selection problems Rawreth F chalked up their fourth win on the trot by beating Runnymede 7-2. Hat tricks by Adi Kamma, Colin Barham and a single win from Jan Thorpe swept their opponents aside although Barrie Edgar and Tina Hutchinson shared a point each for Runnymede. Tina had to fight particularly hard against Jan even bizarrely suffering an 11/0 defeat in the fourth leg of their match before winning the decider 11/9! The only problem for Rawreth may be how they play their backlog of games before the season ends.Selbourne seem cut off at the bottom of the table and went down to another defeat 7-2 at Wakering. It wasn’t a straightforward win as four games went to five sets with honours split between the two sides. Zac England led the way for Wakering with a hat trick and he got good support from Paul England and Andy Deadman who both won two games. Jenne Seibolt won both points for Selbourne, both in five sets and coming back from 2-1 down also in both. Wakering move up to third in the table.Another 7-2 result as highfliers Hadleigh Forum C beat the young Hullbridge A side. Dave Thomas returned from injury to turn in a POTM performance, Graham Farmer also picked up a hat trick and there was a single win for Satwant Gill. Alexander Deacon, on his debut, and Jack Riley won a point each for Hullbridge. Hadleigh stay in second place behind RESSC whilst Hullbridge stay above Rawreth and Selbourne and are 6 points behind Stanford B. Div 3 A good team performance saw Invicta C record a 6-3 victory over MegaZone. The trio of Keith Baxter, Brendan Raja and Trisha Winter won 2 games each with Keith taking the POM award. For MegaZone, there were 2 wins for Amar Al-Soufi and a single win for Ro Brett who was making her first appearance of the season.A hat-trick from Canvey Cs Che Martin was the mainstay of his sides 6-3 win over Hockley E. He was well supported by Ray Baker who added 2 wins and Reuben Teixeira who chipped in with another. Barry Crawley was the best player on the night for Hockley with a brace to add to the single win from Keith Denyer.Invicta B recorded an emphatic 9-0 win over a struggling Hadleigh Forum D side. David Barnes, Mike Keeble, and Steve Lennox were just too good on the night. There was no lack of effort from the Forum players and Dean Johnson was unfortunate, losing in close 5-setters to both Steve and Mike.The match between Hullbridge B and Rawreth G did not go ahead due to a misunderstanding over the venue for the match. |
