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Antony plays his part for fighting Eagles THANKS to a treble from play- er-of-the-match Antony Baker, two-man Woolton Hill Eagles (Baker & Ian Langley) managed a creditable 5-5 draw against Woolton Hill Wildcats (Simon Sonsino, Ajai Kamath & Roger Cherowbrier) in the Newbury Table Tennis League. Baker beat Sonsino & Kamath 3-1 and Cherowbrier 3-0, while Langley beat Cherowbrier 3-2 and lost to Kamath 1-3. The standout match of the fix- ture was Langley & Sonsino which Langley lost after four close games – 9-11, 11-9, 9-11, 9-11 – while Bak- er & Langley won the doubles 3-1 against Kamath & Sonsino. Thatcham Scorpions (Eric van Looy, Bill Stamatiou & Niall McGrane) lost 6-4 to Kintbury JOG (Peter Sinyard, Denise Weller & Mark Wheeler). Van Looy beat Wheeler 3-0, Weller 3-1 and lost to Watmore 0-3, while Stamatiou beat Wheeler 3-0, Weller 3-2 and lost to Watmore 1-3. McGrane lost 0-3 to Weller, 1-3 to Watmore and 2-3 to Wheeler and Van Looy & Stamatiou lost to Wat- more &Wheeler 1-3 in the doubles. Thatcham Spartans (Eric Pant- ing, Dave Wise & John Panting) beat Thatcham Lions (Jeffrey Rog- ers, Dave Martin & Eddie Haines) 7-3 in Division 2. Wise earned a treble, winning all three matches 3-0, and Eric Panting also won all three match- es, beating Rogers 3-1 and both Ed- die Haines & Dave Martin 3-0. John Panting, playing up from Division 3, battled courageously against higher-ranked opponents, losing to Haines and Martin 1-3 and Rogers 0-3. In the doubles, Wise & Eric Panting beat Rogers and Martin 3-0. West Ilsley (Robert F Jones, Steve Cobrin & Robert J Jones) completed a 10-0 whitewash over Thatcham Hawks (Robert Lynch, Christine Milne & Ian Dickason). Player-of-the-match Robert F Jones beat Ian Dickason & Chris- tine Milne 3-0, before beating Lynch 3-2. Cobrin beat Lynch 3-0 and Dickason 3-2. The closest match was Cobrin against Milne where Cobrin lost the opening two games and fought back to win in five games 9-11, 8-11, 11-9, 11-9, 11-9. Robert J Jones won all three matches 3-0 and in the doubles Cobrin and Robert F Jones beat Lynch & Milne 12-10, 11-9, 11-9. Woolton Hill Oracles (Ron Hill, Robin Burns & Robert Cox) were outclassed 9-1 by AWE Fission (John McLarty, Bob Harris & George Wilson). Hill and Burns lost all three matches 0-3, while Cox lost to John McLarty 0-3 and to Harris 2-3. Cox beat Wilson 3-2 and in the doubles, Burns & Cox lost 0-3 to McLarty & Harris. In Division 3, Thatcham Drag- ons (Ian Whiting, Cliff Robertson & Anne Robertson) lost 7-3 to an in-form Thatcham A & E Specials (Lorraine Mortimer, Bill Bavister & Pete Blunden). Player-of-the-match Whiting beat Mortimer and Blunden 3-1 and Bavister 3-0. However, Cliff & Anne Rob- ertson both lost all three of their matches 0-3. Ian Whiting & Anne Robert- son lost the doubles 3-0 against Bavister & Blunden. T able T ennis

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Newbury hit by Marlow attack Ladies 1st XI find it tough against league opponents

By LIAM HEADD liam.headd@newburynews.co.uk @liamh_nwn

NEWBURY & Thatcham Ladies 1st XI suffered a disappointing 4-1 home defeat to Marlow 2nd in North Division 1 of the South Central League. The Marlow wingers re- peatedly drove hard and wide and were eventually rewarded with a well-worked goal. Newbury regrouped and responded to Marlow’s ad- vances with a goal after a smart routine resulted in a rebound to Hannah Jones, who found the back of the net. Marlow, however, did not let up the pressure and in the closing minutes of the first half they scored again. Newbury battled to find that equaliser in the second half, but the visitors turned the screw before the end and added two further goals to se- cure the win. Jess Brewin and Mary Ca- vanagh were on the score- sheet for Newbury 2nd as

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An early goal for Marlow

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they drew 2-2 with Oxford University 3rd, but Staines 2nd beat Newbury 3rd 1-0. Newbury Ladies 4th suf- fered the same scoreline de- feat away to Wycombe 5th, while the Ladies 5th suffered an 8-0 defeat to Wychwood 2nd. Meanwhile, Rhodri Lew- is was on the scoresheet for Newbury & Thatcham men’s 1st XI as they drew 1-1 away to Eastcote 1st in the Premier Division 2. Cameron Dunlop scored the only goal of the game as Newbury 2nd beat Phoenix

& Ranelagh 1st 1-0, while Ed Langdon, Gregg Bazley, Joe Ruggiero and TomHope were all on target to help them men’s 3rd team beat Banbury 3rd 4-2. Richard Pool was the star of the show for Newbury 4th as they beat Wycombe 4th 1-0, but the men’s 5th team fell to a heavy 3-0 defeat at home to Wallingford 4th and the 6th XI lost 7-1 at Stoke Green. The men’s vets drew 4-4 with Andover Diamonds with Andy Hastings, Blue Nolan, Hugh Thompson and John Duncan all scoring.

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Brown pleased with Newbury response NEWBURY Women head coach Darran Brown found plenty of positives in his side’s perfor- mance as they registered their first win of the Championship South West 2 season by beating Wasps 24-5 on Sunday. made a few tweaks so everyone could work on their specific areas. “We haven’t really been playing a lot in the last 18 months, so the knocks we’ve had feel really heav- ier than they were a few years ago when everyone was playing regu- larly.” before hosting Trojans to Monks Lane and Brown is anticipating a difficult game. He said: “We’re expecting a tough one because they have come down a division and they have had some good results.

Newbury’s win lifted them up to seventh in the table and they still have a game in hand on some of the teams above. Brown was impressed with the application from his team after they worked well to improve cer- tain aspects of their game. He said: “It was great, we put a lot of things together that we have been working on and stuff that perhaps hasn’t worked so well in other games really. “We looked at different ways at why results weren’t going our way and we sat down as a group and

“They lost a tough game against London Irish, so they’ll be look- ing to come down and get back on track, but we want to build mo- mentum so we can creep up that table.” Newbury team: Laura Hew- itt, Chloe Hunt, Sarah Coleman, Gaby Slevin, Lucy Mercer, Kirsty Batten, Charlie Dodd, Emma Rob- inson, Sophie Rothwell, Meg Ma- son, Anna Krzyzanowska, Emma Swinton, Emily Kitchin, Lozzie Price-Richards, Lizzie Harris, Kat Smith, El Neal, Roxy Tola, Abi Raymond.

Brown was thrilled to get up and running with a victory and he put it down to an improvement on how they handled the in-game management. “We shut out a lot of opportuni- ties that they created and we had more of a game management pro- cess rather than 100 mile an hour and missing vital decisions. “Our decision-making was far better and we were able to control the game – we did it well and we made some key calls.” Newbury have another week off

Newbury on the attack

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