Milton Keynes Blades 4-6 Mursley Hawks

Wednesday 2 October 2019

Game Result Score Match score
1 Brian Evans lost to Martin Johnson (1-3) 11-9, 9-11, 9-11, 6-11 0-1
2 Tony Coomber beat Andy Palmer (3-0) 11-8, 11-1, 11-8 1-1
3 Mark Thomas lost to Graham Butcher (1-3) 8-11, 9-11, 12-10, 8-11 1-2
4 Brian Evans and Tony Coomber lost to Martin Johnson and Graham Butcher (2-3) 6-11, 7-11, 12-10, 11-3, 2-11 1-3
5 Tony Coomber lost to Martin Johnson (1-3) 8-11, 11-9, 8-11, 9-11 1-4
6 Brian Evans lost to Graham Butcher (1-3) 11-8, 6-11, 5-11, 5-11 1-5
7 Mark Thomas beat Andy Palmer (3-0) 11-8, 11-7, 11-9 2-5
8 Tony Coomber lost to Graham Butcher (2-3) 11-7, 4-11, 11-9, 5-11, 3-11 2-6
9 Mark Thomas beat Martin Johnson (3-1) 11-9, 8-11, 11-7, 12-10 3-6
10 Brian Evans beat Andy Palmer (3-1) 7-11, 11-6, 11-1, 11-4 4-6
 
Played on loan
Team Legs won Legs average (%) Points won Points average (%)
Milton Keynes Blades 20 50.00 355 49.44
Mursley Hawks 20 50.00 363 50.56
Team Player Games played Games won Legs played Legs won Legs average (%) Points played Points won Points average (%)
Milton Keynes Blades Brian Evans 3 1 12 5 41.67 207 102 49.28
Milton Keynes Blades Tony Coomber 3 1 12 6 50.00 211 103 48.82
Milton Keynes Blades Mark Thomas 3 2 11 7 63.64 216 112 51.85
Mursley Hawks Martin Johnson 3 2 12 7 58.33 234 121 51.71
Mursley Hawks Andy Palmer 3 0 10 1 10.00 169 63 37.28
Mursley Hawks Graham Butcher 3 3 13 9 69.23 231 133 57.58
 
Played on loan
Andy Palmer played on loan from Mursley Swifts in Division Three.
Graham Butcher played on loan from Mursley Swallows in Division Three.
Match date Wednesday, 2 October 2019 at 19:30
Competition League
Division Division Two
Venue Milton Keynes Table Tennis Centre
Season 2019-2020
Legs played 40
Points played 718
Published 29/03/2024 06:50 by Martin Johnson.
Match Report  (courtesy of Martin Johnson)

MK Blades hosted Mursley Hawks, with both teams having lost in the opening week, however it was the visitors who just about took the spoils, as they won 6-4.

First up it was Brian Evans for Blades against Martin Johnson for Hawks, and after three closely fought 11-9 legs, Martin lead 2-1, which he turned into a four legs win. Tony Coomber evened up the scoreline for Blades with a relatively straighforward three legs win over Hawks' substitute, Andy Palmer, which included a purple patch of 19 points out of 20 for Tony (the one that got away was an attempted outrageous hit), although Andy narrowed the gap from 7-0 down in leg 3, to 9-8 at one stage, before Tony sealed the win. Hawks' 'supersub', Graham Butcher, was again the chief architect in his team's score, picking up the first of his three singles wins in a tight four legs contest against Mark Thomas, followed by teaming up with Martin to take the doubles against Brian and Tony, although from two legs up, Blades battled back to even up the set, only for Graham/Martin to put their foot down in leg five, to snuff out the comeback. Martin edged past Tony in another close contest over four legs, to put Hawks 4-1 up at the halfway point, and Graham extended the lead to 5-1, despite dropping the first leg to Brian, before settling into his game to take it in four legs. Mark pulled one back for Blades, beating Andy in straight legs, but Player of the Match, Graham, sealed the win for Hawks, despite going 2-1 down to Tony, but upping his game to eventually win in fairly comfortably in five. Blades made the match score more respectable, as Mark won a close four leg set versus Martin, and Brian finished the night by winning in four against Andy.