Kingfisher A proved their champions credentials as their trio of Martin Adams, Hari Gehlot and Darren Jones pushed aside a strong Kingfisher D 10-0 with little difficulty.
Helped by a maximum by Steve Murgatroyd, second place Our Lady of Peace A narrowly edged Sonning Common and Peppard A 6-4, with all encounters on the night requiring either a fourth or decisive fifth set including Steve’s win over Jamie Barlow 8-11 17-15 11-4 10-12 11-8.
Elsewhere, Kingfisher B’s quest for fifth place took a positive turn as they overcame rivals Tilehurst RBL A 8-2.
The highlights being excellent maximums from Phil Mead and young Theo Kniep, whose temperament was exemplified as he won all his games against Jon Willis, Marc Brent and Keith Winter in the deciding fifth set.
Despite another maximum from Mike Childs, bottom side Reading FC could not avoid a 4-6 defeat away to Tidmarsh A.
Sonning Common and Peppard B reserve Danny Dockree played up from Division Two and remained undefeated as he superbly upset Sonning Sports A, who are already safe from relegation. He was helped by a double from Matt Isherwood to inflict a 3-7 defeat.
Promotion rivals Tidmarsh B and Sonning Common & Peppard C fought out a 5-5 draw with the SC&P side recovering from 1-4 down.
Dale Ballard got an excellent maximum for Tidmarsh and Francois Durand won twice, beating both Malcolm Gregory and Nigel Maltby. Brian Meheux had a great win over Francois for the Commoners as well as teaming up with Nigel to win the doubles.
Our Lady of Peace B moved level on points with Tidmarsh after an 8-2 win over Our Lady of Peace C with Darek Kaminski and Chris West both getting maximums.
The highlight sets was the C team’s Binit Bhaskar recovering from two games down to beat Dave Godfrey 11-7 in the fifth.
In their second match of the week Our Lady of Peace C lost 7-3 to Kingfisher G, a result which just about condemns them to relegation and which also keeps Kingfisher G’s promotion hopes alive, Satej Jaywant got an a very good maximum for Kingfisher G.
The best set of the night was between OLOP’s Pradeep Desh and the Kingfisher Captain Andrew Adair which Pradeep won 12-10 in the fifth after Andrew recovered from 8-3 down to go 10-9 up but he then missed an easy smash on match point.
At the bottom of the table the relegation fight was thrown wide open after Kingfisher F beat Kingfisher E 8-2, a result which drags the E team back into the relegation battle and gives the F team a chance of staying up.
Roger Pritchard recorded a three straight maximum for the F team and the in-form Ajai Kamath also won three.
