TT Legends pull out of league – All Stars step in

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TT Legends have had problems with players being unavailable for each fixture nad have sadly have had to pull out of the league.

Luckily there is another team who were unable to enter the league early on as the league had no spare slots to fit another team. So All Stars have agreed to take over the vacant spot.

Horsham Spinners recorded a shock 9-0 win over second placed Hang Em High.

Hang Em High were missing their top two players (Andrew Sharland and Michael Bridger) and paid the price against the top team.

For Spinners, the leading team, it was three apiece for Rory Scott, Graham Beaney and Gary Wilson. For Hang Em High, Ben Worley, Graham

Carter and Christian Vincent’s matches went to four sets.

In the match between Divergents and Dynamos, Divergents came out on top, winning 6-3. Sally Hughes won three with Jim Skinner winning two and Minesh Agnihotri one. For Dynamos Tony Rowell had two wins and Richard Cosens one.

Crawley Knights defeated Crawley Community 6-3. Fawzi

Yousif was in good form in winning three with Josef Krakovsky two and Peter Cracknell one. For Community it was two for Steven Ive and one for Jeff Triggs.

In Conference Division One, King Pongs, top of this division, took no chances by fielding a strong team against Blade Runners, who they defeated six games to three.

Paul Brinkhurst was player of the match with three wins, Nikita Kalyazin had two and Holly Cole with one.

For Blade Runners there were two wins for Oscar Wiseman plus one rare loss and one win for Jennifer Watkins.

Pingwins in second place are keeping the pressure on the leaders after defeating Magiks team 7-2.

Dan Polhill had a treble in straight sets, David Polhill also recorded a treble and there was a good win for Rupert Browning over Phil Harvey.

Magiks’ Alistair Blue and Kevin Deacon won one apiece.

A very close tussle saw Spinderella’s defeat X Men five games to four.

Viv Cole and John Bridger both won two, each with one rare loss.

Needing the win for the match Annabel Bridger stepped in to defeat Jonathan Buckley and give Spinderella’s the win.

For X Men, Tom Christophersen played well to win two, defeating both Anabel Bridger and Viv Cole, Peter Caddy also won two losing only to John Bridger.

Thunderbolts came through 7-2 winners over New Avengers. Andy Steel was player of the match with three wins, Jim Griffin and Matthew Power had two while for New Avengers, Robert Goff and Prevesh Ramnath both with a win.

BRIAN TAITE