A fine hat trick from Jason Roberts helped Sonning Common & Peppard A to a 7-3 derby win against Sonning Common & Peppard B.
Jason beat highly rated Jamie Barlow 11-7 11-5 11-3 in some style.
Jamie hit back for the B team by earning a good win over Neil Hurford 7-11 11-2 8-11 11-9 13-11, while Brian Meheux managed a win over Malcolm Gregory.
A two player Kingfisher C team still managed a 5-5 draw at Tidmarsh A thanks to a maximum from Daniel McTiernan and two wins from Emma Blachford including an excellent 12-10 11-9 11-9 win against Tony Baker.
Kingfisher B battled hard in their match at Our Lady of Peace A, despite only having two players available. Alan Cummings won twice and Nigel Keedy once, but a hat trick from Sam Ricks ensured the OLOP team ran out 7-3 winners.
In Division 2 Kingfisher G drew 5-5 with Our Lady of Peace C, thanks to Satej Jaywant’s treble and Hamid Mohseni’s double, Hamid’s dreams of a treble destroyed after he lost his opener to Binit Bhaskar.
OLOP’s Binit, Arun Rajagopal and Pradeep Desh each defeated Mick Mitcham, with Binit & Pradeep also winning the doubles.
Sonning Sports A ensured they remained top by beating Tidmarsh C 8-2, Nick Sears and Paul Savage both recording maximums, although they lost their 100% doubles record to David Sheppard & Ian Wu, Ian also beating Bob Woodmansee to deny Bob his first treble.
Reading FC A beat Tilehurst Methodists A 9-1 to close the gap at the top of the table, Mike Childs and Jazz Dhillon both recording maximums, Wayne Alleyne having to settle for a double after losing his opening set to Phil Jones, with Phil’s teammates Bill Stamatiou and Jes Eassom both leaving empty-handed.
Danny Dockree recorded a maximum to ensure the win as Sonning Common & Peppard D beat Tidmarsh B 6-4, Angus Jones’ double and Jon Abbott’s single, earned by defeating Chris Webb, also crucial for the win while, for Tidmarsh, Francois Durand won twice, narrowly beating Jon 11-9 11-8 4-11 9-11 14-12, and Barry Carter won once.
Our Lady of Peace B earned a 6-4 win over Kingfisher F, despite no-one being able to defeat Roger Pritchard, Chris West and Dave Godfrey both recording two wins apiece, as well as partnering each other to a Doubles win.
The sixth point courtesy of Louise Forster, who lost the opening set, to Ajai Kamath 7-11 12-10 5-11 11-7 6-11, but guaranteed victory when she beat John Liddle in the final set.
Two wins in a week has seen the youngsters from Kingfisher I go to the top of the division 3 table. Firstly they beat Our Lady of Peace E 8-2 with their youngest player Rishaan Sawant getting an excellent double, there were also two good wins for OLOP’s Parvin Baishkiyar.
Then two days later Kingfisher beat Tidmarsh D 7-3 with maximums from Theo Kniep and the unbeaten Ryan Chung. Dave Edwards played well for Tidmarsh and he almost took Ryan’s 100% record before just losing 11-8 in the fifth.
Milestone A kept in the promotion hunt with a 9-1 win over Sonning Common & Peppard E. The set of the night was between Anthony Reeve and Sachin Mundra with Anthony almost recovering from two games down before just losing out 11-7 in the fifth.
Zoltan Keleman and Sachin Mundra both got trebles as Milestone. Springfield beat Our Lady of Peace D 7-3 to open up a gap between themselves and the two teams in the relegation places.
Rob Wilkie got a good maximum for Springfield and was well supported by Peter Gurney and Jason King who both picked up doubles.
Tilehurst Methodists B surprisingly lost 6-4 at home to Sonning Common & Peppard F in their division 4 encounter, despite a Martin Wetherell hat trick for Tilehurst.
Martin’s victory over Gerry Bacon was a bit tight winning 19-17 12-10 12-10. Our Lady of Peace F beat a two man Reading FC B 7-3. For the Biscuit men Joe Bull gained a fine maximum.
Peter Bennett starred for Kingfisher J by winning all three to help them beat Sonning Sports C 6-4, while Sonning Sports B beat a two man Milestone B team 10–0. Cris Reynolds, Harry Brough and Brett Hastings all won two each.
