THE QUEENS A side of Tony Palaczky, Alan Palaczky and Louis Webb beat visiting KG B 7-3 in Division One of the Basingstoke Table Tennis League.

Webb was unlucky not to record his first win of the season, having won the second and third games in his match against the experienced Phil Ware.

He lost the fourth, only to rebound in the fifth, but he was unable to make it stick and Ware won the decider 14-12.

The match between Tony Palaczky and KG’s Roger Bielby turned out to be an exciting battle of wills, with neither wanting to give an inch. Palaczky eventually won the match by taking the decider 11-9.

Both Palaczky brothers notched up three points each, as well as sharing in a doubles victory for a 7-3 overall result.

Win big or lose big – there are no half measures for KG A team at the moment. This week, Dave Kimberley, Tony Amies and Sue Tompsett crashed to a 9-1 defeat at the hands of the Minitec B team of Louis Conlon, Gary Livingstone and Norman Swift. Amies scored KG’s only point of the evening by defeating Livingstone and it looked like he might salvage another point for his side in the last match of the evening against Conlon, but having gone two games up, he lost the next three to give Conlon the win.

A two-man Minitec A team of Steve Murgatroyd and Andrew Parker was lucky to salvage a draw from their disadvantaged start against Hannington.

Murgatroyd in particular pulled out all the stops to score a vital treble including an outstanding win over Hannington’s Tony Brown.

In Division Two, KG E recorded their second win of the season, this time over Basingstoke Hindu Society B.

This after they started off badly, with captain David MacDonald losing out to Jitu Patel, but from there it was plain sailing for the home team.

KG’s Zoe Blagborough showed that she is improving all the time, holding her nerve even when pushed hard by both Patel and Dipan Lakhani to win her first maximum in the league.

Peter Millie also scored a maximum, while Blagborough and MacDonald teamed up to win the doubles for a 9-1 victory.

The KG F team of Martyn Richards, Charlie Morrison and Tristan Noon achieved their second consecutive win as they defeated the KG D 6-4.

Richards scored a healthy treble, supported by one point each from juniors Morrison and Noon.

Another fine performance from KG C’s Matthew Wilson helped his side to achieve a draw against the Queens C’s Peter Coppins, Keith Cutmore and Frank Lii. Wilson took all three points available to him while teammate Martyn Richards added another two, beating both Coppins and Cutmore, but narrowly lost to Lii in the decider.

The mighty Basingstoke Hindu Society A team of Mohak Dalesh, Paritosh Singh and Sav Thevendria continued their unbeaten run, comfortably beating Portals 9-1. Portals’ sole point was scored by Steve Redstall who lightened an otherwise gloomy evening for his side.