As the second half of the season kicks off in Division 1, third place Our Lady of Peace A restarted positively with a 9-1 victory over Tidmarsh A.
Their sole winner was Duncan Groves, repeating his first half defeat of Steve Murgatroyd, who narrowly edged Simon Barter 13-11 in the decider, while Justin Mead and Ian Cole completed trebles.
Sonning Common & Peppard A sitting one place higher at the turn replicated this score line, pushing aside Kingfisher C, young Prayrit Ahluwalia being their sole victor against Jason Roberts while Jamie Barlow and Neil Hurford sealed the comprehensive victory.
Kingfisher D continued their impressive run with an 8-2 score-line against Sonning Sports A, whose star player Dave Croucher had already beaten young talent Ryan Chung, took the two, but was no match for Graham Mendick on this occasion who stormed to a 11-3 11-6 11-6 victory.
Despite Ed Lush scoring another treble, Sonning Common & Peppard B could not avoid a 6-4 defeat away to Tilehurst RBL A, who now lead the chasing pack striving for fifth.
Just two points back, Kingfisher B pushed aside Reading FC 8-2, with Alan Cummings being awarded player-of-the-match with a fine treble including the scalp of Mike Childs.
In division 2 Our Lady of Peace C and Kingfisher F battled out a 5-5 draw, Hamid Mohseni with a great treble for Kingfisher that included an opening win against Pradeep Desh 9-11 13-15 13-11 11-211-9.
Steven Woolnough managed two wins including an 11-8 11-9 6-11 9-1111-8 win over Binit Bhaskar in the final set of the night to clinch their draw.
In the clash of the bottom two teams Tilehurst Methodists A and Kingfisher E also had a 5-5 draw. Tilehurst’s Eric Van Looy, the division’s top player, recorded yet another maximum and his team mate Bill Stamatiou was unfortunate to lose two very close sets in five, including a marathon against Luca Bianchi which he lost 11-9 in the fifth.
Despite a Graeme Streets hat trick Sonning Common & Peppard F lost 6-4 at Kingfisher I.
The main reason they could only field two players with Mike Mitcham and Walter Aldridge both managing wins over Peppard’s Mike Casserely.
A strong team performance saw Sonning Sports C win 6-4 at Springfield B for whom Rob Attack won all three, For the sports Stephen Reader and Mo Cole both won two each and Mo had a very close win over Richard Sabberton-Coe beating him 14-12 15-11 13-11.
By Nigel Maltby
