{"id":1909,"date":"2022-10-26T19:36:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T18:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2022-10-26T19:38:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T18:38:32","slug":"top-teams-in-form-in-southend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/2022\/10\/26\/top-teams-in-form-in-southend\/","title":{"rendered":"Top teams in form in Southend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The top two in the Premier division of the Southend & District Table Tennis League both had convincing wins this week, but both did drop the odd point or two along the way. First up was\u00a0Thorpe Bay A<\/strong>\u00a0who beat\u00a0Rawreth C<\/strong>\u00a07-2. Skipper John Poysden was undefeated against Eric Green, Bruce Kettle and Babul Mcleod, but Mark Stones and Paul Whatton dropped a game each against Kettle and McLeod respectively.Zayd and Yas Mauthoor were in solid form for\u00a0Rawreth A<\/strong>\u00a0as they were victorious over\u00a0Thorpe Bay<\/strong>\u00a0B 8-1. The only blot on the Rawreth A copybook was a good win for Kieran Skeggs over Kevin Read.Their clubmates\u00a0Rawreth B<\/strong>\u00a0had a good 7-2 win this week against\u00a0Hadleigh Forum A<\/strong>\u00a0with Arron Chandler and Andrew Halling winning all their games against Jim Stait, Dave Bassett and Berti Makolli. The Hadleigh wins came from Makolli and Bassett who both got the better of Paul Brown, in the former\u2019s case 11-9 in the 5th<\/sup>\u00a0game.There was one whitewash this week and that came for\u00a0Brand Identity A,<\/strong>\u00a0much to the chagrin of the two-man\u00a0Rayleigh Mill<\/strong>\u00a0side of Rob Harris and Steve Maltby. Simon and David Jacob and Steve Muth proving too strong on this occasion.

Division 1.\u00a0<\/u><\/strong>
A strong\u00a0Hockley B<\/strong>\u00a0side ramped up their push for the top of the league with an impressive 7\u20132 away win at\u00a0Hadleigh Forum B<\/strong>. Unbeaten David Colwill was the Player of the Match. However, he was well supported by both Joerg Poeschus and Dennis Squirrell each taking two victories. Tony Jacks was the star for the home side, gaining both their victories.Invicta A<\/strong>\u00a0maintained the top spot, though, with an 8\u20131 home win over\u00a0Rawreth E<\/strong>. Both Lee Marson and Tony Ayliffe had hat tricks whilst the visitor\u2019s Chris Aukett came from behind to beat Steve Marr in five sets and claim Rawreth\u2019s only success and deny Steve his triple.It\u2019s proving a bit of a struggle so far this season for\u00a0Stanford Le Hope A<\/strong>. This week saw them visit\u00a0Mapledene.<\/strong>\u00a0A treble from POM Mike Johnston, aided by two from Steve Woodley and one from Lin Roff gave the home side a 6\u20133 win. Ian Sangster got two for Stanford and Peter Weatherall chipped in with a single.Despite only having two players (not for the first time this season) for their trek to\u00a0Canvey A<\/strong>,\u00a0Rawreth D\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0Justin Jeffery and Charlie Kauders Boothby were more than a match for their hosts\u2019 three players. Justin\u2019s performance was outstanding – winning all three, whilst Charlie managed two wins to take the match 5\u20134.Lentern\u00a0<\/strong>again put out a strong side for their visit to\u00a0Hockley C<\/strong>. However, they hadn\u2019t planned for the fine form of the home side\u2019s Tarun Goel. His POM hat trick, with two wins from Aaryan Vatsa, gave his side a 5\u20134 win. Gus Heath took two for Lentern, and both Ian Cranstone and Paul Sims got one each.

Division 2.\u00a0<\/u><\/strong>
It may be early days in the League, but already there seems to be a gap appearing at the top of the table, where RESSC have opened up a six point gap from Hadleigh Forum C in second place and they, in turn, are six points clear of Stanford B. At the bottom, and excepting Rawreth F who have only played one game, bottom of the table Hullbridge A are nine points adrift of Canvey B two places above them. John Holland, Bob Skews and Ron Coutts made up the winning\u00a0RESSC<\/strong>\u00a0team as they beat\u00a0Canvey B<\/strong>\u00a07-2, with John and Bob both recording hat tricks. Terry Giddens and Kevin Walsingham both got the better of Ron who just edged out Des Duffield in five sets for his point. Terry had a 2-1 lead against Bob but lost the last two sets 11\/1\/ 12\/10.Despite a man of the match performance from\u00a0Stanford B\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0Robert Salvage,\u00a0Hadleigh Forum C<\/strong>\u00a0ran out 6-3 winners with Mark Everard, Satwant Gill and David Thomas sharing the points. Mark Downey of Stanford can count himself somewhat unlucky to come away without a win, losing two of his games in five sets. Rawreth F<\/strong>\u00a0finally got their season underway against\u00a0Hullbridge A<\/strong>\u00a0but unfortunately fielded only two players Mike Hayes and Simon Neale. These two were, however, more than a match for Hullbridge winning 6-3 and only dropping one set all night.
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Division 3.\u00a0<\/u><\/strong>
The closest match of the week was the encounter between\u00a0Stanford C\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Invicta C\u00a0<\/strong>which resulted in a 5-4 win for the home side.\u00a0 Stanford skipper Mark Farley was the player of the match with a perfect, straight sets, maximum.\u00a0 He was well supported by Randy Santiago who picked up a brace of wins.\u00a0 Although all the Invicta players made contributions, it was not quite enough.The\u00a0Invicta B<\/strong>\u00a0side enjoyed better fortunes, with a 6-3 victory over\u00a0Canvey C<\/strong>.\u00a0 David Barnes led the way with a hat-trick, but he was pushed all the way by Trevor Hayes, eventually getting over the line 11-9 in the final set.\u00a0 This was a good team performance by Invicta as Steve Lennox, with two wins, and Sarah Ball, with one win, also chipped in.\u00a0 Che Martin was Canvey\u2019s best player, recording two wins.Hockley D<\/strong>\u00a0made it five wins from five games, and head the table, after overcoming\u00a0Hockley E<\/strong>\u00a06-3.\u00a0 Anthony Molisso and Ron Rogerson were both unbeaten, although Ron was taken to the deciding set by both Ellis Marley and Graham Gregory before eventually coming out on top.\u00a0 Ellis and Graham, along with teammate Keith Denyer ending up with a win apiece after beating Ben Brown.Jean Catley took the individual honours with a maximum for her side as\u00a0Hadleigh Forum D<\/strong>\u00a0visited\u00a0Hullbridge B<\/strong>\u00a0and left with a 6-3 win.\u00a0 She had good support from newcomer Tom Adcock who picked up two wins and Sineh Ball with a single.\u00a0 Dan Stewart was the best player on the night for the young Hullbridge side.\u00a0 He recorded two wins and pushed Jean all the way before falling short at 7\/11 in the final set.\u00a0 Ollie Milchard secured the other point for the home team.<\/td><\/tr>
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    The top two in the Premier division of the Southend & District Table Tennis League both had convincing wins this week, but both did drop the odd point or two along the way. First up was\u00a0Thorpe Bay A\u00a0who beat\u00a0Rawreth C\u00a07-2. Skipper John Poysden was undefeated against Eric Green, Bruce Kettle and Babul Mcleod, but Mark […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1913,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions\/1913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}