The home team are several points adrift at the bottom, the away team well clear at the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An away banker if ever there was one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not so. Rayne E brought off what must be the result of the season so far in division two of the Braintree Table Tennis League by beating their own C team 7-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And they did it with a reserve in their team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New signing James Grimston, who won his three singles, was largely the one to blame. Richard Whiteside added two wins and Conrad Gomes, from the club\u2019s third division F team, scored an excellent win over Steve Buer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was a long evening. No fewer than seven of the ten sets went the full five games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rayne C are still comfortably in the driving seat, but Black Notley D reduced their lead from 21 points to 16 with an 8-2 win over Netts D. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elliot Game, making a rare appearance, showed he has lost little of his touch by taking his three singles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They replace Rayne D, who lost to Netts C, the team immediately below them, by 7-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Charles Calisin, Peter Lewis and David Montgomery all won twice but none of them could get past Richard Whiteside, promoted on this occasion from the E team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In division one, Netts A stretched their lead at the top to 24 points with wins of 8-2 over Notley B and 9-1 against Sudbury Wanderers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
James Hicks was unbeaten against Notley B, for whom Neil Freeman won twice, while Andy Dosher and Szczepan Ziobro both won their three singles against Wanderers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sudbury Nomads held on to second place with an 8-2 win over Liberal B. Richard Fifield was unbeaten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Third-placed Liberal A had a win by the same score against Wanderers, with Alistair Hill unbeaten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rayne A\u2019s Ian Whiteside turned the clock back a few decades with an excellent performance against Notley A, where his three victims included Luke Burridge, last season\u2019s men\u2019s singles runner-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was a convincing win too: 11-5, 11-7, 11-8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His wins helped his team to a 6-4 victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Report by Ron Fosker<\/p>\n\n\n\n The home team are several points adrift at the bottom, the away team well clear at the top. An away banker if ever there was one. Not so. Rayne E brought off what must be the result of the season so far in division two of the Braintree Table Tennis League by beating their own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265"}],"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=4265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4266,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions\/4266"}],"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=4265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"