Milton Keynes Kingpins 3-7 Greenleys Kings

Monday 28 October 2019

Game Result Score Match score
1 Mark Purcell lost to Nick Howard (0-3) 4-11, 6-11, 8-11 0-1
2 Dave Allison beat Gary Deakin (3-2) 8-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-6, 11-5 1-1
3 Peter Bannister lost to Matt Haynes (0-3) 8-11, 5-11, 1-11 1-2
4 Peter Bannister and Mark Purcell lost to Gary Deakin and Nick Howard (1-3) 11-9, 6-11, 9-11, 9-11 1-3
5 Dave Allison lost to Nick Howard (2-3) 11-5, 4-11, 12-14, 11-7, 9-11 1-4
6 Mark Purcell lost to Matt Haynes (0-3) 2-11, 4-11, 6-11 1-5
7 Peter Bannister lost to Gary Deakin (1-3) 8-11, 4-11, 11-1, 5-11 1-6
8 Dave Allison lost to Matt Haynes (0-3) 4-11, 4-11, 6-11 1-7
9 Peter Bannister beat Nick Howard (3-0) 14-12, 11-8, 11-8 2-7
10 Mark Purcell beat Gary Deakin (3-1) 11-7, 11-9, 4-11, 11-9 3-7
Team Legs won Legs average (%) Points won Points average (%)
Milton Keynes Kingpins 13 35.14 290 44.55
Greenleys Titans 24 64.86 361 55.45
Team Player Games played Games won Legs played Legs won Legs average (%) Points played Points won Points average (%)
Milton Keynes Kingpins Mark Purcell 3 1 10 3 30.00 169 67 39.65
Milton Keynes Kingpins Dave Allison 3 1 13 5 38.46 232 110 47.41
Milton Keynes Kingpins Peter Bannister 3 1 10 4 40.00 173 78 45.09
Greenleys Kings Nick Howard 3 2 11 6 54.55 210 109 51.90
Greenleys Kings Gary Deakin 3 1 13 6 46.15 225 111 49.33
Greenleys Kings Matt Haynes 3 3 9 9 100.00 139 99 71.22
Match date Monday, 28 October 2019 at 19:30
Competition League
Division Premier Division
Venue Milton Keynes Table Tennis Centre
Season 2019-2020
Legs played 37
Points played 651
Published 27/04/2024 14:30 by David Wackrill.
courtesy of Nick Howard
 
7-10 Split as Kings stutter to victory
 
Before the Kings have met Spinners or Phoenix, it was back to MK Centre for their second encounter with the KingPins.
Dave and Mark were accompanied by returning hero and all around good guy, Peter Bannister.
The Kings rolled out Gary Deakin for his first action of the season, alongside Nick and Matt.
Nick and Mark started things off, in what has become a routine win for Nick in recent years - No danger here as he won in 3 straight.
Dave and Gary played out a very up and down second match, but it was Dave who dug deepest to see off the Northants veteran in 5 tough sets.
Matt wasted little time racking up yet another 3-0 victory, this time over Pete.
Despite letting a 7-1 lead slide in the first set of the doubles, Nick and Gary regrouped to take the match 3-1.
Captain vs Captain was next, in Dave’s second 5 setter of the night.
After finding himself 2-1 down, he won the 4th and took a commanding lead in the 5th. At 9-5 up, it looked all but won..... Sadly for Dave, a couple of loose serves, and some aggression from Nick saw the Kings captain come storming back to win 11-9 in the 5th.
Matt had less trouble with Mark, winning in 3 sets, for the loss of 2, 4 and 6 respectively. Given another 3 sets, and Mark had that in the bag!
Gary stormed onto the board against Pete, dominating 3 of the 4 sets they played. Strangely, the set Gary lost was 11-1....... And if certain people watching the game had paid more attention...... they wouldn't have been so complacent in their last match (yes... I’m talking about myself!).
At 7-1, it looked like a carbon copy of the first match between these 2 teams, when the Kings ran out 9-1 victors.
But Pete, whose had many a success over Nick in the past, was in no mood to roll over and die. Hitting some form from a few years ago, he gave Nick no chance as the Kings captain could only admire some fine shot making from the KingPins player. 3 sets later and it’s all over, for a fine win on his MK return for Mr Bannister.
Mark also saved his best for last against Gary. Some fine attacking play left an out of sorts Deakin with just the 1 win from the night.
As always, and enjoyable night where no one was winless......
 
Final Score
KingPins 3 - 7 Kings