 SDTTL Season 2022-23: FINAL REPORT
Hi all, Herewith the Final Reports for the Southend 2022/3 Winter Season, League Positions and Leading Averages. Our massive thanks to our DRSs, Duncan Taylor, David Barnes, Paul Strutt and Dave Woolmer, for all their work in producing the Reports each week. Wishing you all a good Summer break and for those of you playing in our Summer League, an enjoyable competition. Best wishes. Ken Field, Chairman & Jayne Johnson, General Secretary of the Southend & District Table Tennis League ******
Final Reports for the SDTTL 2023-3 Winter Season, League Positions and Leading Averages:-
Premier Division. Elsewhere Rayleigh Mill picked up a win against bottom sided Hadleigh Forum with all players contributing, Peter Radford with three wins, Rob Harris with two and Steve Maltby with a win over Anthon Ranjit-Singh. There was a close fought battle as Hockley A overcame Rawreth B 5-4, two wins a piece for Ian Wall and Sanjay Saptarshi and an almost as tight affair as Brand Identity beat Irons A 6-3. Once again ‘Congratulations to our Premier League Champions Thorpe Bay A.’ Premier Division Table
Leading Averages: - Andy Cunningham Hockley A & John Poysden Thorpe Bay A 93% Paul Sayer Thorpe Bay A 90% Keith Adams Rawreth B 89% Duncan Taylor Rayleigh Mill 83% Mark Stones Thorpe Bay A 78% Kieran Skeggs, Thorpe Bay B & Kevin Read, Rawreth A 77% Paul Whatton, Thorpe Bay A 75% Zayd Mauthoor, Rawreth A 73% Premier Division Divisional Results Secretary ****** Division 1 Congratulations to Division 1 Champions Hockley B who didn't have a a match this week. The key matches involved their Championship rivals Lentern and Brand Identity Lentern beat Hadleigh Forum B 7-2 with Martin Archie gaining a Hattrick and Gus Heath & Paul Sims a brace each: Paul Fawell taking the 2 for Hadleigh Forum. This win gained Lentern 2nd place in the Division, 1 point ahead of Brand Identity B. Brand Identity B just missed out on 2ndplace after losing a tight match against Invicta A 5-4. Brand Identity finishing 3rd in the Division and Invicta A 4th. Invicta beat Brand Identity 5-4. For Invicta Steve Marr & Lee Marston won 2 each, with Steve Lennox 1. For the losers, Adam Jackman & Mike Grout won a brace each. 5th place went to Mapledene who beat Canvey A 7-2, Lin Roff gaining a hattrick, supported by Mike Johnson & Steve Woodley with a brace each. Ray Wilson taking the 2 for Canvey. Other matches saw: - Stanford A 8 beat Hockley C 1 with Peter Weatherall 3, Ian Sangster 3, Chris Crooks 2, Harry Sawford winning the single match for Hockley; A 2-man team Rawreth E beat Club Mates Rawreth D 6-3, Garry Hartgrove and Gary McCarthy doing the damage & Hadleigh Forum B had a tight match against Canvey A, winning 5-4. Mike Tappenden & Tony Jacks got a brace each for Hadleigh and Lee McGonagle winning 2 for Canvey. Division 1 Table
Leading Averages Dan Patynski Hockley B 96% Barrie Delf Brand Identity B 85% Dave Colwill Hockley B 82% Joh Tendler Lentern 81% Garry Hartgrove Rawreth E 80% Joerg Poeschus Hockley B 79% Paul Sims Lentern 70% Division 1 Divisional Results Secretary David Barnes ****** Division 2. RESSC, completed their programme with two wins against Rawreth F 6-3 and Stanford B 5-4, maintaining their 100% winning record in the league. These matches were significant, somewhat ironically, for the performances of their opponents in particular Mike Hayes of Rawreth and Robert Salvage of Stanford. Mike takes the distinction of being the first player in the league to record a hat trick against them defeating Bob Skews, John Holland and Ron Coutts without dropping a set. In doing so he inflicted a first defeat of the season on Bob thus ruining his 100% record. In their final match against Stanford Rob Salvage repeated this feat defeating Richard Gill, Mike Worship and Ron Coutts and in doing so they became the team to come closest to beating RESSC losing 5-4 in both their matches. They might even have achieved the win if Richard hadn’t come from 2-1 down to beat John Handscombe in five sets. Wakering finished third in the league and completed their games with an 8-1 win against Hullbridge A. Apart from an initial win for Dan Stewart against Stewart Mills it was pretty straight forward for Wakering with Paul and Zac England recording hat tricks to go alongside Stewart’s brace. Rawreth F picked up a good win against Canvey B beating them 6-3 thanks to a hat trick from young Cleon Fernandes. He was backed up by a brace from Adi Kamma and one win from Jan Thorpe. Terry Giddens picked up two wins for the Islanders and Des Duffield one, but there was no joy for Kevin Walsingham. Player of the Week – Mike Hayes Team of the Week – RESSC Division 2 Table
Leading Averages Bob Skew RESSC 97 % John Holland RESSC 95% Evie Knaapen Hullbridge A 93% Robert Salvage Stanford B 86 % Graham Farmer, Hadleigh Forum C 85% Richard Gill RESSC 83% Mike Worship RESSC 78% Dave Thomas Hadleigh Forum C 78% Dmitry Kisil Runnymede 73% Mark Everard Hadleigh Forum C 78% Zac England Wakering 71% Division 2 Divisional Results Secretary Paul Strutt ****** Division 3 Congratulations are due to Hockley ‘D’ who, with a 9-0 win over Hadleigh Forum ‘D’ and the failure of their closest rivals, Invicta ‘B’, to secure maximum points in their match against Stanford ‘C’, have become Division 3 champions. They have led the table all season and suffered only one defeat along the way. This is a just reward for the consistency shown throughout the season by their 3 main protagonists, Jeremy Giffin, Tony Molisso and skipper Ron Rogerson, each of whom has achieved winning averages of over 80%. Good support has also been provided when needed by John George, Ben Brown and Neil Klyman. As far as the action this week is concerned, Invicta ‘B’ knew that they could not afford drop many, if any, points when they faced Stanford ‘C.’ Despite a fine maximum from Steve Lennox, a brace from Sarah Ball and a single win from Mike Keeble, their 6/3 win left the door open for their title rivals. Vaughan Chambers was the best player for Stanford with 2 wins and David Arnett added the third point. This meant that Hockley needed 7 points or more when they faced struggling Hadleigh Forum ‘D’ at the end of the week. Their cause was helped by Forum only being able to field 2 players on the night. The first game of the night proved to be the closest with Dean Johnson taking Ron Rogerson all the way before going down 6-11 in the fifth set. Thereafter it was all one way with every game decided in straight sets in Hockley’s favour. Tony Molisso was POM with Jeremy Giffin and Ron also unbeaten in the 9-0 win that clinched the title. Also, this week, there was a 7-2 win for MegaZone over Hullbridge B. Richard Kidd led the way for MegaZone with an unbeaten performance, but he was made to fight all the way by Alex Deacon who won the first 2 sets before eventually going down 11-3, 15-13, 8-11, 8-11, 8-11. Richard was well supported by Graham Back and Ro Brett who won 2 games each, but both fell in straight sets to Alex. With their hopes of winning the league title having gone, Invicta B finished their season with an 8-1 win in a rearranged match against Hockley E. David Barnes and Steve Lennox were both unbeaten and Mike Keeble added two wins but lost out to Ben Cook in the first game of the night. Finally, due to a mix-up over venue availability, Rawreth G had to concede their match against Hockley E. |
Division 3 Table
Leading Averages Steve Lennox Invicta B 93% Ron Rogerson Hockley D 88% Trevor Hayes Canvey C 88% Jeremy Giffin Hockley D 87% Tony Molisso Hockley D 85% Dan Stewart Hullbridge B 83% David Barnes Invicta B 82% Mark Farley Stanford C 82% Richard Kidd Megazone 81% Jaspreet Singh, Megazone 81% John George Hockley D 76% Trisha Winter Invicta C 74% Keith Baxter Invicta C 73% Vaughan Chambers Stanford C 70% Division 3 Divisional Results Secretary Dave Woolmer |
