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Thursday 20 October 2011

Cardiff Junior League New Website

Take a look at the New Cardiff Junior League Website

http://www.tabletennis365.com/cardiff?name=Home&id=1

This site has all results, tables, fixtures and news on there.

Take a look to see where your team is

Tuesday 11 October 2011

Cardiff Junior League

The Cardiff Junior Leauge took place this monday at Sport Wales National Centre with 12 teams from across Cardiff looking to battle it out.

The results are as follows:

Division One
Cathays Academy A 6 The Bishops 13
Whitchurch Academy A 12 Radyr High School 6
Division Two
Whitchurch Academy B 15 Vale Academy A 5
Cathays Academy B 8 The Batmans 14
Division Three
Whitchurch Academy C 11 PP Predators 7
St Mellons TTC 13 Vale Academy B 5

Monday 10 October 2011

Winners at first Dragon of the Season

The 1st Dragon of the season took place on Sunday 9th of October in the main hall at the National Centre Sophia Gardens. As usual many were playing in their first tournament and it was a real thrill for these new players to be playing in the same hall as the best juniors in Wales who were contesting Junior Team Championships.

The under 11s group with 10 entries got underway at 9am together with the older under 15s. It was great to see the new players and parents and some impressive playing followed. Whitchurch Academy players coached by Simon Oyler dominated the under 15s event with Hugh Standen securing the win in a close battle against newcomer and surprise of the under 15s Jack Fletcher. The under 11s saw players from all over the south region taking part, just missing out on a trophy finishing 3rd was Cade Short, runner up was Luca Caplin and the winner was Joseph Roberts. A special mention goes to highest finishing female player Lydia John who finished in 4th place overall.

The under 13s started as usual at 1pm and a few keen under 11 entrants had a go at the older age group, thereby making the most of their trip to Cardiff. Incredibly 3 players claimed top honours all on 4 wins each in the final group. The organisers had to revert to counting sets and the final top 3 were; 3rd John Clarke, 2nd Joseph Roberts and the winner was Elliot Weinberg. This result shows how close the competition is the Dragons and the importance of trying to win every point. The next Dragon will take place on Sunday 20th of November 2011, again in the main hall at the National Centre so be sure to get your entry forms sent off early.

Final Positions Dragon Tournament Sunday 9th October 2011.

Under 11
1. Joseph Roberts (St.Mellons TTC)
2. Luca Caplin
3. Cade Short
4. Lydia John
5. Geraint Pickard-Skeats
6. Louie Evans
7. Daniel Clarke
8. Darian Eynon
9. Daniel Cunningham
10. Lara Whitton

Under 13
1. Elliot Weinberg
2. Joseph Roberts (St.Mellons TTC)
3. John Clarke
4. Lydia John
5. Geraint Pickard-Skeats
6. Darian Eynon

Under 15
1. Hugh Standen (Whitchurch Academy)
2. Jack Fletcher
3. Alistair Weir (Whitchurch Academy)
4. MacCauley Morgan (Whitchurch Academy)
5. Gruffudd Huws

Team Championships of Wales

After the first weekend of Team Championships of Wales Cathays and Whitchurch Academy both got of to good starts.

On Saturday Whitchurch came away with one win and one lose in Division 3, They lost a close match to Carmarthen 'B' 4-3 and beat Ael y Bryn 7-0. Mean while Cathays got of to a flying start beating North Gwent 'B' 4-3 followed by a 5-2 win against Y Morfa.

Sunday brought more mixed results for Whitchurch Academy after a 6-1 lose to Wrexham they picked themselves up to beat Bridgend 'B' 4-3. In the final match of the weekend Whitchurch went up against Carmarthen 'A', with the game tied at 3-3 it came down to the final game of the evening to decide the match. In a very close game which could have went either way it was Carmathen who eventually won the final match 11-9 in the fifth set.
Cathays Academy also had very mixed results, After losing 5-2 to Rhondda 'C' and 6-1 to Swansea they also came away with a 4-3 victory over Ferndale 'B'.

Cathays sit joint 2nd in Division 2 with 3 teams on 6 points. Whitchurch are tied at 3rd position.
Whitchurch Players
 - Huw Standen (Player of the Weekend)
 - Lewis Steere
 - George Nikolaou
 - Alaisdair Weir
 - Macauley Morgan
 - Roberts Alder

Cathays Academy Players
 - Thomas Goodall
 - Paymen Molloei (Player of the Weekend)
 - Gethin Jones
 - Kian Emadi
 - Joseph Roberts