W/c 25th February
2013 Bury and District Table Tennis
League
Sponsored by Glaisyers
Solicitors Ltd
CUP SEMI-FINALS
DWYER CUP
Top of division one Ramsbottom Town A played Prestwich C from the same division and had to concede a seventy nine point start. Top of division one averages Andy Jackson from Ramsbottom had a comfortable win over Dave Bolton by twenty four points but Ramsbottom then lost the next two sets by a total of twelve points. Graham Hoy for Ramsbottom had an up and down set with Dave but eventually won by nine. Andy played again this time against Eddie Simon and took the set by fourteen points after an epic last game which he won sixteen points to fourteen. With three to play Prestwich still held a fifty seven point advantage. Graham Hoy was able to take sixteen points off Eddie then Graham Young for Ramsbottom took nine off Dave. With one to play Ramsbottom’s fate was sealed because they were still thirty two behind. Andy Evans made sure of the win when he took two points off Andy Jackson to put them into the final. An ‘ecard’ result so full match details not available. Shawfield E from division four proved too strong with their handicaps and had an easy victory over division three’s Elton Vale SC A. Shawfield finished on 574 to Elton Vale’s 507. James Collier, Peter Helmn and Scott Fleming made up the winning team and Frank Green, Keith Mills and Rodney Hall played for Elton Vale.
SPONSORS CUP
Seedfield B from division two faced Holmar C from division four so had a deficit of one hundred and seventy points to recover which they did by nine points and were only ahead after the last set of the night. The match finished with Seedfield on 491 points and Holmar C 482. Frank Carse for Seedfield B faced David Bell in the last set of the night and was twelve points behind. Frank proved too strong for David and won the set by twenty one points to put his team into the final. Seedfield were always in control and were winning all sets very comfortably. Mike Charlton for Seedfield had the closest match when he beat Trevor Candler by fourteen points. Trevor had a closer match with Ian Boyle and lost by just twelve points. Despite a large start for Holmar the handicapping proved ‘just right’ with such a close finishing result. In the other semi-final Holmar A from division three faced division two’s ELPM A and had the advantage of a sixty six point start at the beginning of the match. Holmar started well when David Fletcher beat Ian Cockcroft by nine points but Paul Carter for ELPM got eight of those back in the very next set when he beat Ian McPherson. Holmar won two of the next three sets then Paul Carter for ELPM had a very strong win against Phil Wardle beating him by twenty five points to reduce Holmars lead with three to go to just twenty nine points. ELPM reduced it further when Gill Marsden took sixteen points off Ian McPherson to reduce the deficit to thirteen with two to play. Phil Wardle bounced back from his earlier defeat to beat Ian Cockcroft by thirteen to leave Paul Carter twenty six behind when he faced David Fletcher in the last set of the night. Despite Paul winning the set by eleven it wasn’t enough and Holmar progressed to the final with a final score of 510 to ELPM’s 495.
MACDONALD CUP
Seedfield A faced Ramsbottom B at home and had a comfortable one hundred and fifty two points lead, as it turned out, because they won by one hundred and twenty three. Ramsbottom were always going to struggle because they had to play two players who had only played a couple of matches in the league so it was difficult to give accurate handicaps. Despite Ramsbottom winning five of the nine sets the other four wins for Seedfield were enough to keep them ahead. David Poytress lost the first set of the night for Seedfield by just one point against Liam Bedford. Julian Nuttall for Seedfield quickly made amends when he beat David Kaye by nine. Peter Mears for Seedfield then lost by seven points against Mike Nettleton. With three to play Seedfield still had a comfortable one hundred and twenty four point lead and managed to win two of the last three sets to put them into the final. At the time of uploading the match report the other semi-final result between Prestwich A and Little Lever had not been received.
POYTRESS CUP
Despite being bottom of division two, Carlton Vale proved too good for mid table Elton Vale SC A by winning 585 points to Elton Vale’s 512. Carlton Vale started with a forty two point advantage and increased that to seventy three by the end of the match. They won five of the sets outright plus drew the last set of the night. Chris Sutcliffe opened the match for Carlton and took twenty points off division three reserve, Jim Bollard. Graham Daniels for Elton hit straight back in the next set by taking eight points off Dave Jackson. Elton also won the next set when Martin Nicholls beat Steve Morris by eleven points. So after three sets Carlton had increased their start by one point to forty three. Carlton steamed ahead taking the next two sets before Graham beat Steve by nineteen. With three to play Carlton had a comfortable forty four points lead. Dave Jackson took twenty five points off Martin to seal Elton’s fate and added a further fourteen when Steve Morris beat Jim Bollard. A draw between Chris and Graham saw Carlton through to the final and will play either Polish Catholic Club or Coburg. This second semi-final has been rearranged.
PRESSMAN CUP
Carlton Club D started thirty eight points behind Maccabi C. Despite being one of the strongest teams in the division and two of Carlton’s team are at the top of the averages they only managed to win four of the nine sets. Steve Evens for Carlton played Daniel Sheldon and won by eight points. Keith Cheyne for Carlton then won by ten against Sheldon Lee. Then another healthy win of eleven by John Bostock against Marc Sheldon and narrowed the gap to just nine points so it was looking like Carlton were going to move ahead in the match very early on. This however was as close as they got. The next two sets were won by Maccabi to open the gap to thirty eight; the advantage they started with. Carlton won the next so with three to play their lead was twenty one. Really good wins for Maccabi in the last three sets to put them on a winning total of 491 against Carlton’s 424. Elton Vale B faced Shawfield A at home in the second semi. Shawfield started with a sixty four point advantage and managed to hold on to thirty of them to win by 536 points to Elton’s 506.
HILTON CUP
Seedfield C played Shawfield E at home and was starting the match one hundred and six points behind. Despite winning all nine sets they came up just five points short of winning so Shawfield E are in the final. With three to play Seedfield were forty four points behind so a win was still on the cards. Jonathan Fitton played a good set against Scott Fleming and won by seven. Ali McKernan had an even better set beating Lauren Brassington by twenty nine so left Seedfield just nine points behind. It was left to Stephen Siddall for Seedfield to play James Collier and he could only win by five so put Shawfield E into their second final having already won through to the Dwyer Cup final. In the second semi Holmar C played ELPM C at home and had a slender ten point advantage at the start of the match which they were able to extend to thirty by the end and won by 536 points to 506 for ELPM. ELPM came tantalisingly close to levelling the match at the half way stage when they trailed by just one point. David Bell for Holmar managed to take sixteen points off John Edge. John then played his third set of the night out of card order and took eight points off Gary Bolton. So ELPM were just nine behind when David Bell played Debbie Wilson and won comfortably by twenty five points. Harry Uren for ELPM was left to play Jack Berry but trailed by thirty four. Harry won by four points which wasn’t enough to see his team through to the final.
LOMAX CUP
Juniors Maccabi F took on Wardle B at home and started the match thirty seven points behind. All three Maccabi players were equally placed on standard. Daniel Olsberg had a handicap of thirty eight whilst Nathan Jacobs and Adam Gillman both had forty six. Wardle on the other hand had Ian Barton on thirteen having only lost two sets all season. Neil Bamford was on sixty four and junior Katie Dell on ninety. Maccabi had few problems slowly reducing the lead of Wardle and ended the match with a comfortable forty four point lead with 476 to Wardle’s 432. In the other semi-final junior team Ramsbottom TT Academy travelled to Bury Grammar to play their B team. The Academy had a sixty two point start. After four sets Bury Grammar’s experience showed and they went into the lead by five points. John Rowlands for Bury Grammar took eleven points of the Academy’s best player on handicap Dominic Siddall. Harry Bell did very well for the Academy to lose by just nine points when he played Tim Hope. The match was well beyond the Academy at this point and Bury Grammar managed to increase their lead when John Rowlands took fourteen points off Adam Kenzitt and in the last set John Greenhalgh proved too steady for Dominic when he won by twenty nine to leave the Academy on 428 points to 496 for Bury Grammar.
The
finals will be played between Tuesday 2nd April and Friday 12th
April. They will be at neutral venues to be arranged at the next League
Committee Meeting on Tuesday 12th March.
