Reading FC A remain top of Division 2 following their 7-3 win over Kingfisher G.
Tony Alleyne, Wayne Alleyne and Mike Childs all defeating Hamid Mohseni and substitute Satej Jaywant but, in turn, each losing to Kingfisher’s Neil Dellar. Although they have played one match fewer, Sonning Sports A climbed to second place after their 7-3 defeat of Kingfisher F, Nick Sears recording a treble, Paul Savage a double and Keith Machin a single while, for Kingfisher, Roger Pritchard won twice and Ajai Kamath won once.
Our Lady of Peace B dropped to third after losing 3-7 away to Sonning Common & Peppard D, with Alistair Richardson, Chris West and Darek Kaminski each winning once while, for the Commoners, Mark Jones, Jon Abbott and Danny Dockree each won twice.
Despite a hard won treble from Clive Gold, Kingfisher E lost 4-6 to Tidmarsh B with Abhay Gore earning his team’s other point after defeating Mike Aistrop 11-9 in his opening set, subsequently losing to Barry Carter in four games, and then to Dale Ballard.
Tilehurst Methodists A recorded their second victory, winning 6-4 against Tidmarsh C, Jes Eassom with one win while team mates Phil Jones and Bill Stamatiou each won twice, which meant that Ian Wu’s fine maximum for Tidmarsh was in vain since Richard Hudson could only chip in with the one win, defeating Jes in the final set.
In Division 1 Kingfisher A beat a two-man Tilehurst Royal British Legion A team 10-0, Hari Gehlot, Ross Saxby and Darren Jones again in invincible form.
Our Lady of Peace A needed Ian Cole’s hat trick as they scrambled a 6-4 win at Tidmarsh A, Ian just getting the better of Anthony Baker.
Neil Hurford’s treble helped Sonning Common & Peppard A to a 5-5 draw at Kingfisher C, Neil beating Shreeshe Gupte with Jason Roberts picking up their other singles win.
For Kingfisher, Shreeshe and Adrian Cretu both managed two wins apiece.
Springfield recorded their first Division 3 win of the season with a 7-3 victory at Sonning Common & Peppard E.
Skipper Jason King led the way for Springfield with a maximum but the star of the match was his playing partner Rob Wilkie with a three straight maximum. Tilehurst RBL B just edged out Kingfisher H 6-4 to maintain their winning start to the season.
This match featured a good maximum by Nick Lean including beating Ruben Hernandez in a fluctuating set which went to five plus a great comeback from 10-5 down to win 12-10 in the second game of his set against Eyup Odemis.
Two of the promotion favourites met at Milestone with Pangbourne WMC coming out on top with a 7-3 win in a match where almost all of the sets went to four or five. Zoltan Kelemen had a very good maximum for Milestone but the Pangbourne team all picked up two wins.
In Division 4 Sonning Common & Peppard F had a fine 7-3 win at Our Lady of Peace F, mainly thanks to a treble from Mike Casserley. Gerry Bacon did well to win two. Kingfisher J beat Tilehurst Methodists B 6-4 with Peter Bennett winning all three For the Methodists Patrick O’Sullivan gained a double.
The Sonning Sports B team consisting of Harry Brough, Cris Reynolds and Dave Chard beat Reading FC B 6-4 with all of them winning two each.
