PREMIER ROUND-UP WEEK 6

Published 28/10/2024 at 12:42:57 by David Wackrill.

HAT-TRICKS GALORE

A bumper week for individual hat-tricks with 8 players hitting the max in the scheduled matches and a 9th coming from the only remaining outstanding fixture (postponed from week 2), between old adversaries MK Spinners and Greenleys Monarchs, bringing the table up to date with all teams now having played 6 times.

The outstanding match ended all square on Monday with skipper Alan Cherry leading the Spinners from the front with a splendid treble. opening his account on the night in a 5-game thriller against Tomek Nowakowski, where all the games ended with a 12-10 scoreline. Victories over Martin Hall and Dave Tiplady followed. Jecu Aurelian picked up one single and shared, what is fast becoming, their customary doubles success. Ade Odetayo was the other Spinner while the Monarchs scorers were Tomek (2), Dave (2) and Martin (1).

Both these sides went on to record whitewash wins later in the week, Spinners against club-mates Topspin and Monarchs over Open University Primes. Monarchs conceded just the one game against Primes, winning all the other 30.  Tomek, Martin and Colin Luscombe played for Monarchs and James Zeng, Andy Tan and Patrick Wong represented Primes.  The Spinners trio of Jecu, Ade and Gary Jones found their Topspin pals - Russell Penn, Jit Pitamber and Mal Hussain - tougher opposition with Gary taken to a deciding game twice over.  Remarkably, this was Spinners first win of the season and never, in their long Premier history, have they had to wait so long to open their account.

At the top of the table the mighty MK Titans hit the half-century mark (not bad in 6 matches!) with an 8-2 win at Greenleys Glory, whose Ian Mead had an early doors straight games win over Nick Howard and later beat Ricky Taiwo in 5.  But Ian couldn't get past chief Titan Craig Brown, in superb form at the moment, and lost in another 5 gamer here. Scott Dixon and Jacob Midson were the other Glory boys on team duty.

Contenders Greenleys Warriors went down 7-3 at home to Leighton Buzzard Generations (whoever said they travel badly?) with hat-trick man Tim Cheek taking the plaudits. Biao Wang and Alex Du Noyer followed up with a brace a-piece with Generations also taking the doubles.  Adrian Piotrowski got the Warriors wins.  Darren Ward left the venue after his opening encounter with Biao, conceding his remaining sets, and Div 2 sub Saravana Kumar, filling in once again for a Greenleys Premier side, completed the team.

Player of the week : Alan Cherry