League News
Although the matches in Division 1 & 2 were completed virtually on time, due to postponements in the Premier Division for various reasons, the final match was played at the end of April.
Water Lane A beat HRC A 6-4 and 9-1 during the season and finished ten points ahead of their rivals to win the Premier Division title and deny HRC A a third successive title. Debutants Ellenborough finished a creditable if distant third. Grundy Park B needed eight points in their last match to overhaul HRC B and move off the bottom but fell one short after defeating Cheshunt A 7-3. As both teams finished on 47 points, rule 20 states that the team with the best head-to-head record will finish ahead. As HRC B won 7-3 and drew 5-5, Grundy Park B were placed last.
Piers Ripley won 20/21 (Zak Layton-Elliot is only conqueror) as Water Lane B finished 11 points clear of Cheshunt C in Division One. HRC D finished at the foot of the table, 16 points behind Pramastars A.
Steve Prince 30/30 and John Hughes 36/39 were the power behind St Andrews A winning the Division Two title, Water Lane C and D second and third respectively. Furneux Pelham and Pramastars B drew both their matches 5-5 as the latter finished three points behind their rivals and were confirmed as the strongest team in the league!
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Handicap Cup News
In the Hertford Builders Cup, The Division 2 team Cheshunt D put up a spirited fight, Michael Hunter bringing the scores level at 3-3 but the Water Lane A team of Clint Armstrong, John Manley and Arrow Lam proved too much, eventually winning 6-3 to win the trophy for a third consecutive year. Obviously the Match Secretary will be reviewing the handicaps closely for the 26/27 season!
The trophy also concluded a treble for Water Lane A as they had already won the League and Cup double.
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Annual General Meeting
The AGM will be held at Cheshunt TTC, Thundridge Village Hall on Monday 8 June. 7.45 start. Agenda will follow nearer the time.
If anybody has anything they wish to raise, please contact on of the committee.
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Inter-League Tournament
A tournament between the four local leagues- Hertford, SHAW, North Herts and Hemel will be held on SUNDAY 31 MAY at STAGS (St Albans Girls School), Sandridgebury Lane (off Harpenden Road, St Albans AL3 6DB).
It will be a round robin tournament with two teams from each league - one from Premier and the second from Divisions below. The teams in each mini-league will play each other in six singles and one doubles and the overall results across both leagues will determine the outright winner.
The matches will start at 10am.
I have put a few notices out already but if anybody else is interested in playing, please contact either myself or Gordon Imroth.
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And finally...
Everybody who takes part in the league should be registered with Table Tennis England. Please pass this message on to anybody in your team who does not receive the newsletter.
All newsletters are blind copied to everybody on the distribution list. If you know of anybody who currently does not receive a newsletter and would like to receive one, please let me know.
Also, if you have any suggestions, comments, please let me know.
League tables, averages, past newsletters, handicaps, Cup News etc are on the website.
Best Wishes,
Colin Bullworthy
Match Secretary
H&DTTL
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