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Written by Colin Clark
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 |
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The
Murrayfield IV team of Derek Croll, Roger Thomas and Colin Clark came close to
defeating a Strong University I side but in the end had to settle for a share
of the points.
The match started
well with MMV leading 2-1 and then 4-2 with Derek playing well to defeat both
Simon and then Tim, coming back from 6-10 down in the 3rd to win
3-0.
Tim and
Simon sneaked the 1st two ends in the doubles but Colin and Derek
played really well to level at 2-2. In
the 5th end an amazing block drive by Tim from a Derek loop proved
to be the turning point and Uni I pulled
the match back to 3-4.
Derek then
completed his hat trick against Joe but Simon proved too strong for Roger to
leave the match at 4-5 with Tim playing Colin in the decider. The 2nd end went to deuce but Tim
won 3-0 to square the match at 5-5. A fair result to an excellent table tennis
match.
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