Milton Keynes Kingpins 3-7 Greenleys Kings

League

Premier Division

Monday 28 October 2019

Set	Result	Games	Score	Match score
1	Mark Purcell lost to Nick Howard	4-11, 6-11, 8-11	0-3	0-1
2	Dave Allison beat Gary Deakin	8-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-6, 11-5	3-2	1-1
3	Peter Bannister lost to Matt Haynes	8-11, 5-11, 1-11	0-3	1-2
4	Peter Bannister & Mark Purcell lost to Gary Deakin & Nick Howard	11-9, 6-11, 9-11, 9-11	1-3	1-3
5	Dave Allison lost to Nick Howard	11-5, 4-11, 12-14, 11-7, 9-11	2-3	1-4
6	Mark Purcell lost to Matt Haynes	2-11, 4-11, 6-11	0-3	1-5
7	Peter Bannister lost to Gary Deakin	8-11, 4-11, 11-1, 5-11	1-3	1-6
8	Dave Allison lost to Matt Haynes	4-11, 4-11, 6-11	0-3	1-7
9	Peter Bannister beat Nick Howard	14-12, 11-8, 11-8	3-0	2-7
10	Mark Purcell beat Gary Deakin	11-7, 11-9, 4-11, 11-9	3-1	3-7

Team summaries

Team	Games won	Games average (%)	Points won	Points average (%)
Milton Keynes Kingpins	13	35.14	290	44.55
Greenleys Kings	24	64.86	361	55.45

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	1	10	3	30.00	169	67	39.65
Dave Allison	3	1	13	5	38.46	232	110	47.41
Peter Bannister	3	1	10	4	40.00	173	78	45.09
Greenleys Kings
Nick Howard	3	2	11	6	54.55	210	109	51.90
Gary Deakin	3	1	13	6	46.15	225	111	49.33
Matt Haynes	3	3	9	9	100.00	139	99	71.22

Match details

Date	Monday 28 October 2019
Start time	19:30
Competition	League
Division	Premier Division
Venue	Milton Keynes Table Tennis Centre
Season	2019-2020
Games played	37
Points played	651

Report

Published 03/04/2025 08:32 by David Wackrill.

courtesy of Nick Howard

7-10 Split as Kings stutter to victory

Before the Kings have met Spinners or Phoenix, it was back to MK Centre for their second encounter with the KingPins.

Dave and Mark were accompanied by returning hero and all around good guy, Peter Bannister.

The Kings rolled out Gary Deakin for his first action of the season, alongside Nick and Matt.

Nick and Mark started things off, in what has become a routine win for Nick in recent years - No danger here as he won in 3 straight.

Dave and Gary played out a very up and down second match, but it was Dave who dug deepest to see off the Northants veteran in 5 tough sets.

Matt wasted little time racking up yet another 3-0 victory, this time over Pete.

Despite letting a 7-1 lead slide in the first set of the doubles, Nick and Gary regrouped to take the match 3-1.

Captain vs Captain was next, in Dave’s second 5 setter of the night.

After finding himself 2-1 down, he won the 4th and took a commanding lead in the 5th. At 9-5 up, it looked all but won..... Sadly for Dave, a couple of loose serves, and some aggression from Nick saw the Kings captain come storming back to win 11-9 in the 5th.

Matt had less trouble with Mark, winning in 3 sets, for the loss of 2, 4 and 6 respectively. Given another 3 sets, and Mark had that in the bag!

Gary stormed onto the board against Pete, dominating 3 of the 4 sets they played. Strangely, the set Gary lost was 11-1....... And if certain people watching the game had paid more attention...... they wouldn't have been so complacent in their last match (yes... I’m talking about myself!).

At 7-1, it looked like a carbon copy of the first match between these 2 teams, when the Kings ran out 9-1 victors.

But Pete, whose had many a success over Nick in the past, was in no mood to roll over and die. Hitting some form from a few years ago, he gave Nick no chance as the Kings captain could only admire some fine shot making from the KingPins player. 3 sets later and it’s all over, for a fine win on his MK return for Mr Bannister.

Mark also saved his best for last against Gary. Some fine attacking play left an out of sorts Deakin with just the 1 win from the night.

As always, and enjoyable night where no one was winless......

Final Score

KingPins 3 - 7 Kings