HONOURS were shared as Winklebury and Queens B met in Division One of the Basingstoke Table Tennis league.

Queens started off on the right foot as Andy Walker powered his way to a tremendous win over Winklebury’s Colin Wilkes in five very tight games.

However, in the next match, Queens’ Peter Martin was forced to retire with a knee injury after losing his first two games against John Golding.

Walker continued as he had started by overwhelming first Golding and then Dave Wise with an awesome display of attacking flair.

Queens Keith Dickenson also managed to pick up two points, beating both Golding and Wise to make the final score 5-5.

The KG B team of Roger Bielby, Phil Ware and Duncan Sibbeck came unstuck when they hosted a Hannington side of Steve Rollason, Peter Henderson and Andrew Stephens.

Despite some heroic attempts, the home side could not manage to close out any matches until the final one of the evening when the two team captains clashed, Bielby just managing to salvage a point for his team.

A familiar result this week for Oakley A – this time losing 10-0 to Minitec B.

Minitec’s Norman Swift and Louis Conlon had relatively straightforward wins.

However, Gary Livingstone had to work overtime to equal the successes of his teammates, going the distance against Oakley’s Jason White and Dave Smith, but still picked up all three points available to him thanks to his resilient defensive play.

In Division Two, AWE paid the price for turning out against Basingstoke Hindu Society A without their star player John McLarty, losing 10-0.

There was a brief resistance by AWE’s Steve Jones early in the match, but this was soon put down and the away side finished proceedings with almost indecent haste.

A local derby between KG D and KG E saw the E side adding another success to their winning streak by a 7-3 margin.

KG E’s Steve Ng recorded a fine treble thanks largely to some unfathomable serving that had the home side perplexed. Peter Millie also notched up a treble and teamed up with Ng to win the doubles too.

After a disappointing start to their first season in the league, the Basingstoke Hindu Society B team seems to be starting to find their way.

Although they lost to Queens E 8-2, the result could have been different but for a few key points and the Hindus were unlucky not to end up with a different result.

Dipan Lakhani and Jitu Patel recorded another win each, both defeating Queens’ new signing Mike Jones who did well to recover from the losses to then beat Sirish Modi and notch up his first point in the league.

Another match where a few key points made all the difference was played out between the Oakley B side of Chris Smith, Jamie Cole and Ian Warner and KG F’s Martyn Richards, Charlie Morrison and Tristan Noon.

Richards scored his third consecutive treble and was particularly pleased to recover a two-game deficit against Warner to steal their match 11-9 in the decider.

The home side all scored two points apiece and Cole teamed up with Warner in the doubles to add another point for a 7-3 win.