After a couple of slight blips, Netts\u2019 B and D teams rediscovered their shooting boots to grab the title in divisions two and three of the Braintree Table Tennis League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Netts B had an uncertain February when they lost to Black Notley D and just scraped home against Notley\u2019s C and E teams 6-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But they came good over the final stretch when they gained 26 points out of a possible 30 in their last three matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rayne F and Notley F were dispatched 8-2 and 10-0 respectively before Netts stamped their authority on the division by beating Sudbury Wanderers, the team that had once threatened to depose them, by 8-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe Meleschko and Szczepan Ziobro, their mainstays throughout the season, both won all nine games over the three matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wanderers had played themselves into contention with four matches to go but stumbled on the run-in where they recorded 15 points fewer than their rivals, precisely the gap between them at the end of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They ran into an in-form Rev Matthews at Notley C, where they lost 7-3, and a similarly unbeaten Sean Clift at Notley D, where they were held to a draw, before Netts B applied the coup de grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was a run that cost them second place as Rayne D finished strongly with a 9-1 win and two 8-2s in their last four matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They too ran into Matthews but three wins from Richard Whiteside in each of their other three matches opened up a five-point gap on Wanderers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In division three, Netts D\u2019s slip-ups came in 6-4 defeats to Notley G and Great Yeldham shortly before the final run-in, but they swept to the title with a sequence of 9-1, 10-0 and 9-1 in their final three matches against Rayne H, Netts E and Notley H respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jimmy Calisin and son Charles were unbeaten in all three matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Great Yeldham, who had at one point threatened to overtake them, were slowed down by draws against Notley G and Finchingfield, where they fell foul of two of the division\u2019s most consistent players, Graham Chinnery and John Barrett respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But a 6-4 win over Rayne G and a 9-1 victory over Notley I \u2013 Doug Sanders unbeaten in both \u2013 earned them the runners-up trophies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After a couple of slight blips, Netts\u2019 B and D teams rediscovered their shooting boots to grab the title in divisions two and three of the Braintree Table Tennis League. Netts B had an uncertain February when they lost to Black Notley D and just scraped home against Notley\u2019s C and E teams 6-4. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2768,"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\/2837"}],"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=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2838,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions\/2838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"