The West Somerset Table Tennis Association league season got underway last week. Sixteen teams are competing in 2 Divisions. The Association’s Junior scene goes from strength to strength. Swallows and House Martyns have started well in Divisions One and Two respectively. For the first time a separate Junior League comprising 13 players in 5 teams will run on Thursday evenings at The Lawns.
RESULTS
Division One
Gnomads A 30 Minehead A 18
Basement Dwellers 34 Mad Batters 7
Mad Batters 3 Wiveliscombe 36
Swallows 18 Basement Dwellers 31
Minehead A 5 Stogumber A 36
Shooting Stars 16 Gnomads A 31
Division Two
St. Audries 20 White Horse 25
House Martyns 17 Barn Boys 25
White Horse 31 Barn Boys 17
Hobby Horse 16 Tony Troopers 29
House Martyns 12 Drifters 33
Nigel Fosters’ 2 maximums helped Gnomads A to a 61 point haul from their first 2 matches. Vince Court also recorded 2 maximums for Basement Dwellers as they won their opening fixtures. Swallows proved to be tough opponents for Dwellers as a great team performance saw Joe Camp, Benjamin Forster & Jasper Pye take 5, 5 and 4 points respectively.
Wiveliscombe scored maximum points at Mad Batters to get their title defence off to a perfect start. Hamish Cuthbertson managed Mad Batters’ only point from the singles.
Stogumber A also recorded a maximum 36 points from their away match at Minehead A.
In Division 2 White Horse got off to a flying start thanks largely to 2 Ian Rew maximums. Jamie Robertson supported well with 8 singles points in the win at St. Audries and Colin White notched 7 points in a 31-17 home victory over Barn Boys.
An Andrew Burt maximum wasn’t quite enough to save House Martyns from defeat at the hands of Barn Boys for whom Darby Ash top scored with 7 singles points.
Both Tony Burrows and Sifa Vea took maximum points from their singles as Tony’s Troopers ran out 29-16 winners at Hobby Horse.
Mike Pretty put in a man of the match performance to help Drifters to a 33-12 victory against House Martyns. Joseph Burt was the juniors stand out player and was only denied his maximum by a 10-12 fifth set defeat to Pretty.
Division 1 P W PTS
Basement Dwellers 2 2 65
Gnomads A 2 2 61
Wiveliscombe 1 1 36
Stogumber A 1 1 36
Minehead A 2 0 23
Swallows 1 0 18
Shooting Stars 1 0 16
Mad Batters 2 0 10
Roys Boys 0 0 0
Division 2 P W PTS
White Horse 2 2 56
Barn Boys 2 1 42
Drifters 1 1 33
Tony’s Troopers 1 1 29
House Martyns 2 0 29
St. Audries 1 0 20
Hobby Horse 1 0 16
Martyn Summerell - Chairman WSTTA
