| Southend and District Premier League Thorpe Bay A continued their relentless push to the Premier Title with a 7-2 win over their B side. Paul Sayer again winning all his and Paul Whatton & Mark Stones claiming a brace each. Kieran Skeggs & Keith Willett getting 1 each for the B’s. Rawreth Club sides B & C played each other in a close encounter with the C Team edging it 5-4. Eric Green & Babul McLeod getting 2 each and Bruce Kettle 1. For the B’s Keith Adams had another fine unbeaten night plus one for Norbert Fullerton. Hockley A had a sound 6-3 win over Rayleigh Mill, Ian Wall, Andy Cunningham and Sanjay Saptarshi getting a brace each, with your DRS having a good night! The final match this week saw Irons just lose out 5-4 to Hadleigh Forum A. Dave Bowles & Richard Brown taking 2 each for the losers, with David Bassett and Neil Barker a pair each and 1 for Babul McLeod. It was good to see our President, Stuart Gibbs, playing in this match after a long spell of ill health. Whist Stuart didn’t win any, we all hope he is on the way to full fitness: his International career being admired by all. Div 1. Brand Identity B got back into league action at home to Rawreth D. The stand-out match was the usually dependable Barrie Delf against young George Davis. Barrie clearly had problems with the youngster’s game and eventually succumbed 11 – 6 in the fifth set. However, the home side had another ace up their sleeve with Michael Grout. His hat trick won him the POM award. Barrie took two other wins and Jenny Harrison chipped in with another one in a 6 – 3 home victory. Jake Nelson did particularly well to overcome Jenny in five sets.In a match between two contenders for the top two places, Invicta A just edged it against visitors Hockley B. Daniel Patynski was yet again Hockley’s star with another unbeaten performance, but two wins each for the home side’s Steven Marr and Tony Ayliffe, and one win for Lee Marson, gave Invicta a 5 – 4 victory. Keith Abbott got Hockley’s other victory.Joerg Poeschus was Hockley C’s star at home to Hadleigh Forum B. His POM hat trick, with two wins each from David Chenery and Oliver George gave Hockley a 7 – 2 win. Paul Fawell and Anthon Ranjit-Singh each got one for Forum.A hat trick from Stanford Le Hope A’s Ian Sangster, was the foundation for his side’s 5 – 4 win away at Canvey A. Team mates Dave Hancox and Pat White got one win each. Ray Wilson and Peter Cray got Canvey’s points with two successes each.Mapledene beat Rawreth E 5 – 4, despite another maximum from the visitor’s Garry Hartgrove. Two wins each from Lin Roff and Dawn Baldry, and one from skipper Andy Seaman sealed it for Mapledene. Gary McCarthy got the visitor’s other win. Div 2 Only two games to report on this week, a convincing 6-3 win for promotion hopefuls Stanford B against Canvey B, and an even bigger 7-2 win for a regenerated Rawreth F side against Wakering. Stanford’s win against a two-man Canvey side keeps them in fifth place in the table albeit they are now just three points behind Canvey in fourth. Robert Salvage won both his games against Kevin Walsingham and Tony Westwell with John Handscombe adding a further point but there was no joy for Steve King this time. Tony and Kevin finished with a point each. Wakering slumped to their fourth defeat on the trot against Rawreth F and, whilst still third in the table, they are 10 points behind Hadleigh Forum C and a massive 25 points behind leaders RESSC. There’s no doubt that when Rawreth put a team out it’s always a strong one and so it proved this time as Simon Neale chalked up a hat trick with strong support from Jan Thorpe and Caroline Cole who both got two wins. Paul England did well to record his two victories against Jan and Caroline and was almost joined on the scoresheet by Andrew Deadman who went down in five sets to Caroline. With four games in hand on most of the teams above them, Rawreth could be looking at a comfortable mid table finish by the end of the season. Div 3 To begin with, three results from matches played in earlier weeks. Rawreth G were in action in a match rearranged from last December, but their young side were no match for the experienced campaigners from Stanford C. Stanford’s trio of Peter Moxham, Mark Farley and Vaughan Chambers took care of business with minimum fuss to record a 9-0 victory. In a match played earlier this month, Invicta C came up against the Rawreth G juniors and were 7-2 winners. Trisha Winter and Keith Baxter were unbeaten on the night, with Trisha taking POM for her straight set’s maximum. Jon Gould added another point with a win over Francesca Wilson but lost out to Aaron Price and Ellis Hartopp. Finally, another match involving Rawreth G and, unfortunately, another heavy defeat for them, this time at the hands of Canvey C. Ellis Hartopp, with a win over Ruben Teixeira, was the only point scorer for Rawreth. Both Che Martin and, POM, Trevor Hayes were unbeaten for Canvey who ran out 8-1 winners. As far as last week’s matches are concerned, Stanford C took on Canvey C, who were only able to field two players, and were convincing 8-1 winners. Jack Diver’s maximum earned him a first POM award of the season. He was well supported by skipper Mark Farley, who was also unbeaten, and Randy Santiago who notched up two wins. Canvey’s sole point came from Ray Baker who beat Randy in a close 5-setter.The match between Hockley E and Invicta C was a much closer affair. A first maximum of the season for Ben Cook plus two wins from Graham Gregory saw Hockley record a 5-4 victory, but it was a blank night for Alwine Jarvis. Keith Baxter was the best player on the night for Invicta. His two wins were backed up by a win each for Jonathan Gould and David Youngman.The League leaders, Hockley D go marching on. Their latest win, 7-2 over MegaZone, puts them 20 points clear of their rivals and they will surely be crowned as Champions come the end of the season. Once again, there were unbeaten performances from Jeremy Giffin and Tony Molisso, with Neil Klyman adding the extra point with a good win over Richard Kidd. Jonathan Allen and Steve McQuillan were the points winners for MegaZone. |
