The South Devon & Torbay Table Tennis League’s opening week saw convincing wins by two of the favourites for the first division title; Denbury Imports with Jon Cheung unbeaten brushed aside Brixham Gulls 8-2, while the Gibbs father & son combination, Dennis & Shaun, saw off Halwell 9-1. Halwell’s Dave Waddling defeating Kevin Nicholls to prevent the whitewash.  The all Torbay Academy clash between their first & second team saw a narrow 6-4 win for the first team with Patrik Cincala unbeaten.

Torbay Academy 1’s Patrik Cincala with a maximum in his teams victory over Torbay Academy 2

Taverners were well beaten at Brixham by the Pirates 8-2, Holly Johns and Brian Pengelly with maximums for the Pirates. N A Eagles started their season well with a 8-2 win over Dawlish Aces, Jim McIvor unbeaten for the Eagles, Steve Cooper claiming the Aces two points.

Marldon Tykes whitewash over Dawlish Drifters confirms the Tykes tag as one of the favourites for the 3^rd Division title, Dave Friend, Chris Garner & Steve Metcalfe dropped just 2 games in their convincing win. Dawlish’s other 3^rd Division side, Diamonds, didn’t fare much better, going down 8-2 to N A Hawkes. Torbay Academy (4) were too strong for last season’s Division 4 champions N A Falcons, winning 7-3, and Matt Cooper was in scintillating form for the Academy side. Hasbeens came up against a Brixham Dolphins side, newly promoted and quickly improving and went down 7-3.

N A Owls toiled through the whole of last season without a win, but with Mark Halse added to the personnel, have started this campaign with a 7-3 win over Brixham Swifts. A Joe Strickland maximum helped a young N A Kestrels side to a draw at Brixham against the Panthers. The youngsters at Torbay Academy 6 showed their seniors a thing or two with a whitewash over their 5^th side, as Herbie & Curtis Sage together with Brandon Lewis won all sets 3-0 except one.   N A Kites started their campaign with a fine 8-2 win at Pure Torre, Richard Salt with a maximum for the Kites.

N A Kestrels’ Joe Strickland gained his first league maximum against Brixham Panthers

Results

Div 1

Denbury Imports 8 (Cheung 3, Kiss 2, G Tushingham 2, Dbls)  Brixham Gulls 2 (Dunn 1, Mercer 1, Smith 0)

N A Batmen 9 (D Gibbs 3, S Gibbs 3, Nicholls 2, Dbls)  Halwell 1 (Wadling 1, Atkinson 0, Sugden 0)

Torbay Academy (1) 6 (Cincala 3, Ricketts 1, Furgol 1, Dbls)  Torbay Academy (2) 4 (Wills 2, Perkins 1, Barnett 1)

Div 2

Brixham Pirates 8 (Pengelly 3, H Johns 3, Deakin 2)  Taverners 2 (Morley 1, Read 0, Tyrrell 0, Dbls)

N A Eagles 8 (McIvor 3, Long 2, Tyrrell 2, Dbls)  Dawlish Aces 2 (Cooper 2, Davies 0, Sharratt 0)

Div 3

Dawlish Diamonds 2 (Beck 1, Rabbage 1, Beesley 0)  N A Hawks 8 (Coxhead 3, Halse 3, Usher 1, Dbls)

Dawlish Drifters 0 (Copley 0, McConnell 0, Tudball 0)  Marldon Tykes 10 (Friend 3, Garner 3, Metcalfe 3, Dbls)

N A Falcons 3 (Passmore 2, Stratton 1, Bretagne 0)  Torbay Academy (4) 7 (Cooper 3, Hoare 2, Hollings 1, Dbls)

Hasbeens 3 (Fitzgerald 2, Wickens 1, Smallshaw 0)  Brixham Dolphins 7 (N Shipley 2, S Shipley 2, Holmes 2, Dbls)

Div 4

Brixham Panthers 5 (Duckett 2, Johns 1, A Brown 1, Dbls)  N A Kestrels 5 (Strickland 3, Usher 1, Robins 1)

Pure Torre 2 (Keywood 2, Connor 0, Morris 0)  N A Kites 8 (R Salt 3, K Salt 2, Snow 2, Dbls)

N A Owls 7 (Halse 3, Bayliss 2, Embury 1, Dbls)  Brixham Swifts 3 (T Andrews 1, K Andrews 1, Hilton 1)

Torbay Academy (5) 0 (Bonfante 0, Collins 0, Brookes 0  Torbay Academy (6) 10 (H Sage 3, C Sage 3, Lewis 3, Dbls)