Kingfisher A moved 16 points clear at the top of the division 1 table after a comfortable 10-0 win over Kingfisher C.
Martin Adams, Hari Gehlot and Darren Jones all with maximums. Phil Mead managed a closely fought treble for Kingfisher B as they won a tight match at Sonning Common & Peppard C 8-2, Phil winning his opener against Matt Stone 17-19 8-11 13-12 11-4 11-2. Nigel Keedy also picked up a maximum for the Kingfisher team.
A determined Kingfisher D team out played Sonning Common & Peppard B to win 8-2, Graham Mendick with a hat trick that included a thrilling 12-10 9-11 11-7 14-16 11-8 win against Jamie Barlow. Jamie hit back to win his other two for Sonning Common, beating both Jordan Huang and Julian Telford 11-8 in the fifth.
Although only three matches were played in Division 2 this week, Our Lady of Peace B regained top spot after drawing 5-5 with their club mates from the C team, while erstwhile leaders Sonning Sports A suffered their first defeat, losing 3-7 at Kingfisher E.
Jan Polnik played up from Division 4, for OLOP B, his best chance for a win undoubtedly his contest with Kaan Kitay, which he lost 9-11 3-11 12-10 11-1 8-11, but no-one remained undefeated with his teammates Alistair Richardson and Darek Kaminski both winning twice, Alistair also losing to Kaan while Darek lost to Pradeep Desh.
The C team’s points were earned by Kaan and Pradeep, who each won twice, assisted by Binit Bhaskar, who won once.
Stephen Leggett was the star for Kingfisher E, winning all three, with teammates Andrew Adair and Clive Gold both winning twice, Andrew defeating Bob Woodmansee and Keith Machin while Clive Gold missed out on a maximum, narrowly losing to Paul Savage 12-10 11-9 5-11 10-12 10-12.
Tidmarsh B recorded their best win of the season, beating Tilehurst Methodists A 10-0, Barry Carter not dropping a game all evening, Dale Ballard almost at the same level just losing one game to Bill Stamatiou, while Francois Durand lost a game to Jes Eassom and was made to work for his treble, defeating Bill 12-10 5-11 11-6 5-11 11-8.
Only three matches played this week in division 3 and the youngsters from Kingfisher I had another good win over Sonning Common & Peppard E to push themselves right into the promotion race. New signing Ryan Chung got his third maximum in a row and Ethan Zeng also got a maximum.
Skipper Anthony Reeve played well for SC&P winning a marathon set against Sahil Tekurkar 14-12 in the fifth and just losing out to Ethan Zeng 11-7 in the fifth.
The promotion battle between Tilehurst RBL B and Milestone A saw the Tilehurst team come out on top 7-3. The best two sets of the night involved Tilehurst’s Nick Lean who beat the highly rated Zoltan Kelemen 11-8 in the fifth before just losing to Sachin Mundra 13-11 in the fifth.
Kingfisher H and Tidmarsh D had a hard fought match which ended in a 5-5 draw. The best set of the night involved Kingfisher’s Ruben Hernandez and Tidmarsh’s Dave Edwards which Dave won 11-9 in the fifth.
Joe Bull and Derek Anderson both hit hat tricks to help Reading FC B defeat Sonning Common & Peppard F 7–3 in their division 4 match. In a top of the table clash Tilehurst Methodists B and Sonning Sports B shared the spoils after drawing 5-5.
Harry Brough, Himanshu Pasbola for Sonning and Patrick O’Sullivan and Martin Wetherell for the Methodists all obtained doubles.
John Evans of Milestone B hit a great treble against Kingfisher J but could not prevent them losing 7–3, while Tilehurst Royal British Legion C had a Geoff Johnson treble to help them beat Sonning Sports C 7-3, Derek Harrison and Jim Brent helping by winning two each.
