Milton Keynes Kingpins 7-3 Greenleys Kings

League

Premier Division

Monday 23 October 2017

Set	Result	Games	Score	Match score
1	Mark Purcell beat Matthew Haverly	12-10, 11-9, 4-11, 11-7	3-1	1-0
2	Julian Adams lost to Guy Sparrow	11-9, 11-6, 1-11, 8-11, 10-12	2-3	1-1
3	Dave Allison lost to Henry Arthur	9-11, 6-11, 11-8, 5-11	1-3	1-2
4	Julian Adams & Mark Purcell beat Matthew Haverly & Henry Arthur	10-12, 9-11, 12-10, 13-11, 11-3	3-2	2-2
5	Julian Adams beat Matthew Haverly	11-5, 11-8, 14-12	3-0	3-2
6	Mark Purcell beat Henry Arthur	8-11, 11-9, 13-11, 4-11, 11-8	3-2	4-2
7	Dave Allison beat Guy Sparrow	12-10, 11-6, 11-4	3-0	5-2
8	Julian Adams lost to Henry Arthur	12-14, 11-13, 11-8, 10-12	1-3	5-3
9	Dave Allison beat Matthew Haverly	10-12, 11-5, 11-8, 12-10	3-1	6-3
10	Mark Purcell beat Guy Sparrow	11-6, 11-7, 8-11, 11-13, 11-4	3-2	7-3

Team summaries

Team	Games won	Games average (%)	Points won	Points average (%)
Milton Keynes Kingpins	25	59.52	422	51.84
Greenleys Kings	17	40.48	392	48.16

Player summaries

Player	Sets played	Sets won	Games played	Games won	Games average (%)	Points played	Points won	Points average (%)
Milton Keynes Kingpins
Mark Purcell	3	3	14	9	64.29	265	137	51.70
Julian Adams	3	1	12	6	50.00	242	121	50.00
Dave Allison	3	2	11	7	63.64	205	109	53.17
Greenleys Kings
Matthew Haverly	3	0	11	2	18.18	215	97	45.12
Guy Sparrow	3	1	13	5	38.46	237	110	46.41
Henry Arthur	3	2	13	8	61.54	260	138	53.08

Match details

Date	Monday 23 October 2017
Start time	19:30
Competition	League
Division	Premier Division
Venue	Milton Keynes Table Tennis Centre
Season	2017-2018
Games played	42
Points played	814

Report

Published 21/03/2025 12:59 by David Wackrill.

Henry Arthur writes ....

A closely fought match that could have gone either way ended with Kingpins adding to King's relegation concerns with a 7-3 win. Mark Purcell was the star man with a hat-trick plus a doubles win with Julian, with Mark keeping his nerve to win 3 of these in the deciding end.

I arrived late but just in time to see Guy Chieff Sparrow defeat Julian to tie the match at 1-1. An excellent win for Guy there. Plenty of close matches followed as we moved on to 2 tables but when you are down at the bottom, these often have a tendency to go against you and tonight was no exception.

After this latest defeat, is there anyway back for Kings? The talent is there but can they discover that winning touch and put together 3-4 results to claw themselves back into the rest of the pack?

I note that Dave Wackrill doesn't often give his 'shot of the night' comments anymore but I'm going to give it to me tonight following my successful diving shot to get an edge shot from Mark back into play. Sadly I didn't win the point though as Mark kept his focus to put my shot back on the table and, despite my best efforts, i couldn't quite crawl my way across the floor to get this one back (although I did get my bat to it)!

Man of the match: Mark Purcell.