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EVENTS - Team Handicap 2011
This is a competition available to all teams registered in the league. The games are set out with 3 players per team playing 2 singles games and two games of doubles each. There are 2 games per match with the score per game stopping at 11. Should players get to 10-10, only one more point is played. After all matches have been played, a sealed handicap is opened and then the total points per team are added up to determine the winners.
WINNERS - Mad Batters
Annabel Bridger, Kate Bridger & Kate Cheer
RUNNERS UP - Hang Em High
Martyn Sims, Steve Chambers & Michael Bridger
This seasons first and second rounds were played on the 5th October 2011 at Warden Park School.
This season we had 14 teams entering into the competition which was a great effort from everyone.
The top four teams from the first and second rounds would then progress to the Semi-final event to be played on 17th November 2011, again to be held at Warden Park School. The results were as follows:
Mad Batters beat Misfits by 22 points
Warden Park 'C' beat Wanderers by 21 points
Gangsters beat Warden Park Bats by 61 points
The X Men beat Burgess Tigers by 32 points
Old & New beat Cuckfield by 19 points
Magiks beat Warriors by 6 points
The Caddys beat Hang em High by 13 points
Burgess Tigers beat Warriors by 4 points
Hang em High beat Old & New by 28 points
Cuckfield beat Warden Park Bats by 21 points
Gangsters beat Magiks by 42 points
Misfits beat Wanderers by 18 points
The X Men beat The Caddys by 21 points
Mad Batters beat Warden Park 'C' by 19 points
Three teams each won their first and second round matches putting them through to the Semi-Final.
The X Men - John Bridger (Capt.), Tim Grant & Phil Sayers
Gangsters - Andy Steel (Capt.), Nooch Staplehurst & Jim Edwell
Mad Batters - Brian Taite (Capt.), Kate Cheer, Kate & Annabelle Bridger
Of the 8 teams which won and lost a round, Hang Em High had the best result. They will be the fourth team to play on Thursday 17th November 2011. Their team was Michael Bridger (Capt.), Martyn Sims & Steve Chambers.
The team handicap semi-finals and finals were held at
Warden Park School on Thursday 17th November 2011.
Gangsters with Nooch Staplehurst, Andy Steel and Jim Edwell played top of the
premier league Hang Em High with Michael Bridger, Martyn Sims and Steve
Chambers.
The handicappers got it right, with Hang Em High holding on to defeat Gangsters to win by 11 points over 18 sets. Martyn Sims was the match winner for Hang Em High dropping only 8 points out of a possible 44.
The other semi-final saw The X
Men with John Bridger, Phil Sayers and Tim Grant playing against Mad
Batters with Annabel Bridger (14), Kate Bridger (12) and Kate Cheer
(10). Kate Cheer is currently the U12 England no.1.
The very first match first saw father and daughter John and Annabel Bridger against each other with each needing to win.
Annabel played great attacking table tennis defeating her father in straight
sets bearing in mind John is currently 5th in the division one averages
with Annabel 21st.
This match set the tone of the semi final and with Kate Cheer also with wins and Kate Bridger doing her share of winning points ‘The X Men’ never recovered.
Mad Batters went on to win by a massive 41 points.
In the final Mad Batters
with Annabel Bridger, Kate Bridger and Kate Cheer were up against the team
at the top of the premier Hang Em High made
up of the formidable Martyn Sims, Steve Chambers and Michael Bridger.
Again the star of the match was Annabel Bridger who with attacking play
and against all odds defeated her brother Michael in one of the two sets.
With Kate Cheer and Kate Bridger doing their share of collecting points,
the result was always going to be close.
The end result saw Mad Batters defeating Hang
Em High by 18 points. This proved the point that ‘Girl Power’ and
attacking styles will win the day. Or, if you are the underdog then to win
you must attack.
Thanks go out to Handicap Secretary Kevin Deacon along with assistance by
Lyle Cyster and Mel Sims.