SCISSETT teams have made an early impact as the Huddersfield Table Tennis League season got under way.
There was early confirmation of the strength of Scissett WMC B, and a resounding win for newcomers Scissett Middle School on their league debut.
For the debutants 14-year-olds Harry Ness and Matthew Ellis both had a clean sweep of three victories each in their 9-1 victory over fellow newcomers Kingsmith F.
The one defeat came when their senior colleague, Adrian Wilson, lost in three sets to David Arnold.
Scissett WMC have an exceptionally strong squad of players from which to select their two second division teams and it was the trio of Peter Hayward, Paul Rourke and Brian Armitage who visited Newsome C team and came away with a resounding 10-0 victory.
Newsome’s teenage pairing of Jason Dyson and Anthony Cobbin both acquitted themselves well, with Dyson particularly unlucky not to register a win in a close match with Paul Rourke, in a match which produced five excellent games 8-11,11-9,11-9,9-11 and finally 10-12.
Last season’s Division III winners, Kingsmith Peel Walker continued where they left off with an 8-2 victory over a Newsome A team fielding some enforced changes to last years strong challengers.
Jim Hodson won three, while Paul Nutton and newcomer Chris Haw both won two. David Evans and Graham Hudson were the victors for Newsome.
Kingsmith D, runners-up last season to Peel Walker, got their new campaign off to a winning start with a 7-3 victory over Newsome D, for whom David Taylor completed a hat trick of victories in his one and only appearance for the club.
He transferred to Golcar Liberal Club on the following day to allow Golcar to enter an additional team in the League – they now have a squad of six players who will be a match for most sides in the two sections of Division II.
The intended experiment by the League of playing a “select” team comprising of players from any club who were not selected for their own team but free to play, has been shelved for this season.
It was originally conceived to provide additional competition, but at a time when six new teams have come into the League it is felt to be an unnecessary administrative burden.
