After a match that ebbed and flowed all evening, Netts D edged to a 5-4 win to take home the restricted cup in the Braintree Table Tennis League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Against Black Notley C, they were 1-0 up, 2-1 and 3-2 down, 4-3 up and then level at 4-4 before taking the cup with a win in the final doubles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The doubles win was a father-and-son triumph for Jimmy and JJ Calisin after an evening in which the singles events finished level at 3-3 and the earlier two doubles sets were also shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two Calisins and Chris Gibbons won one singles each while Jamie Brooks won two and Lawrence Grantham one for Notley C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It may have been the final doubles that settled the issue but the result could be said to have turned on the seventh set of the evening, the clash between Jimmy Calisin and Matt Brooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It reflected the match\u2019s seesawing nature in swinging back and forth before Calisin clinched it 9-11, 11-7, 16-14, 6-11, 11-9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No such drama in the league where Netts A secured the title some time ago. But there was a sting in the tail when they lost their unbeaten record in their final match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Liberal A\u2019s Scott Dowsett was mainly responsible for the 6-4 win. In a foretaste of the open singles final to come he beat James Hicks, defeated only once in 33 sets up to that point, and also took away Paul Davison\u2019s unbeaten record 6-11, 11-9, 5-11, 13-11, 11-9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ashley Skeggs found the form that deserted him on finals night to put a second dent in Hicks\u2019s record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bizarre undulations in division two ended with the teams between third and eighth being separated by just two points Even bottom team Notley D finished with 73 points from their 18 matches, an average of more than four points a match that would have been good enough for a mid-table finish in almost any other season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sudbury Strollers, as had become gradually more likely over the second half of the season, took the runners-up medals behind Rayne C after victories of 9-1 over Yeldham A and 7-3 over Rayne E.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Champions Rayne C finished with a 9-1 win over Netts C while Finchingfield A climbed to sixth with a 7-3 win over Yeldham A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The final match in division three was a 6-4 win for Notley F over Notley G.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aivars Taimins, who has had an excellent first season in the league, crowned it with a win over Ben Southgate, unbeaten in his previous four matches and with an average of 87 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In their first meeting Southgate had won 11-3, 11-5, 11-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Report by Ron Fosker<\/p>\n\n\n\n After a match that ebbed and flowed all evening, Netts D edged to a 5-4 win to take home the restricted cup in the Braintree Table Tennis League. Against Black Notley C, they were 1-0 up, 2-1 and 3-2 down, 4-3 up and then level at 4-4 before taking the cup with a win in […]<\/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\/4578"}],"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=4578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4579,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578\/revisions\/4579"}],"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=4578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"