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AGM 2011 News

This year the NJL team of Reuben Grimshaw, Morgan Smith and Adam Lee finished second in league division 2 winning a medal each.  In the NCL, the team of Ben Payne, Ollie Brown and George Buley won promotion from the second division in their first attempt and maintained a first division status with the help of Prabin, James and Isaac.

Our Juniors once again featured greatly in the Winchester Junior Closed tournament that South Wonston hosted this year.  The Junior Final will feature Reuben Grimshaw and the Cadet (Under 15) Final will be between Ben Payne and Isaac Tallack.  Martin Reeves, from the ETTA, conducted the Junior Umpires awards and everyone passed with flying colours. 

In other news, during the year the Club has invested in new tables, nets and balls and has benefited from coaching on Sundays from external coaches. 

Full minutes from the AGM are available HERE

 

Tressa Armitage Competes at UK School Games 2011

 

Tressa Armitage competed in the Sainsbury's UK School Games held in Sheffield recently. Her team; the South and South-West of England, consisted of Tressa (Hampshire), Vicky Smith (Devon), Rachel Trevorrow (Cornwall) and Megan Knowles (Berkshire). The team defeated teams from Ireland, England Midlands and Scotland only falling at the last hurdle to the Welsh girls.  Congratulations to them all for their Silver Medal achievement.    

 

South Wonston Trained Winchester Team Compete at Hampshire Youth Games 2011

Jenna Armitage reports:

"Talented youngsters from across the County came together at the Aldershot Garrison Athletics Stadium for the Hampshire Youth Games of 2011 recently. Teams from the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and the New Forest met teams from Winchester, Test Valley and Havant to name but a few, all proudly wearing their team colours for the event.

The young athletes joined together for a day of friendly multi-sport competition which began with a Welcoming Ceremony and Grand Parade. After the parade the young people began the serious business of the day, competing in their chosen sport. These included table tennis, athletics, canoeing, judo, swimming, cycling, new age kurling and many more sports.

Boys and girls selected to represent Winchester in the table tennis competition were trained by South Wonston Table Tennis Club. The boys’ competition began with group play and moved on to a knock out competition and a knock out consolation event. The girls played a round robin competition where all played all.

Winchester’s young table tennis team competed strongly and returned home with a gold medal (Ben Cawston) a silver medal (Adele Payne) and two bronze medals (Calvin Barlow and Nicholas Aldous).

We are very proud of Team Winchester, Well done!"

 

National Junior League 2011

 

On Saturday 26th March the South Wonston TTC trained team of Reuben Grimshaw, Morgan Smith and Adam Lee represented Winchester Table Tennis League at the South East regional final of the National Junior League. After the first day's play on 29th January the team where placed in second position just behind Portsmouth A. Here are the match scores:
Winchester 6 Andover 0
Winchester 4 Portsmouth B 2
Winchester 4 Brighton 2
Winchester 4 Southampton West B 2
Winchester 4 Portsmouth A 2
After winning all their games the team finished runners up to Portsmouth A in Division 2.  

 

Junior Championship Heats at South Wonston 

The Heats of the League's Junior Championships took place on Sunday 20th February at South Wonston, featuring 11 Under-15s and 4 Under-18s. The overall standard was really impressive. Most of the Under-15s hadn't played table tennis at all until 6 months ago, but they were keen, competitive, and had obviously been well coached. This says a lot for the South Wonston and Kings clubs, as well as for Westgate School, all of which now offer coaching and excellent facilities for table tennis. The Under-15 and Under-18 Finals will both be held at the League's Finals Night on Saturday 30th April at Itchen Abbas & Avington Village Hall. Ben Payne and Isaac Tallack made it through (after some close struggles) to the Under-15 Final, while Reuben Grimshaw and Ross Lingard will contest the Under-18 Final. Everyone was a winner in the Under-15s - they all passed the ETTA Junior Umpire test, supervised by ETTA official Martyn Reeves , in between matches!  

 

Hampshire Youth Games 2010

2010 Hampshire Youth Games Congratulations to our team. Third time in the competition and again a medal place. Well done.

October 2009 - Congratulations to Tressa who won the Cadet girls singles at the recent East Yorkshire 4 star Open Event

 

Andover Closed Event 2009

Congratulations to Reuben who got to 3 finals winning Divison 2 and the Handicap singles. James won the Division 3 singles. A great result for South Wonston. Well done to all who entered.

South Wonston members did well in the recent Andover championship event. Edwin won the Junior championship and his sister Chrissie beat Reuben to give South Wonston winner and runner up at Cadet level.