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League Report 2003

Eastpoint's Premier team got off to a promising start to the defense of their title with a 6-4 victory over ALSAA, the shield winners. Brian Fitzgerald won two singles, Marcus McDonnell won two and Sean Givernaud deputising for John Bowe won one. A great win in the doubles by Brian and Marcus over Na Ning and Conor Nolan sealed the win. It is a very tough and competitive league this season and the next match with UCD will also be a cracker, but it is all to play for at the moment.

The younger players started their campaign with a resounding 9-0 defeat at home but they had not practiced over christmas and it was their first taste of league,so they can only improve.

In their second match improve they did against Sportsco again losing but 7-2 this time. Niall had 3 5-setters winning one and Mark won one and lost 11-9 in the fifth to Jimmy Fleming

Second League Report 2003

Eastpoint Premier Division team had a resounding 8-1 victory over ALSAA in their secondencounter in the league. The ALSAA team of Conor Nolan, John murphy and Na Ning were stunned by a superb display of table tennis from our team.
The night got off to a surprise start when John Bowe defeated Na Ning in a cracking five setter. Brian Fitzgerald then had to fight hard to overcome aspirited performance from sixteen year old John Murphy before winning in five sets also. Marcus McDonnell then stretched our lead to 3-0 with a great win over Conor Nolan who was recently a finalist in the Leinster Senior Open. Match of the night was probably Brian Fitzgerald's win over Na Ning in a thrilling five setter. Then John Beat Conor and Marcus beat John murphy to give us an unassailable six -nil lead.
It was a much needed result as a weaken Eastpoint team had lost 7-2 to Pioneers last week. ALSAA had a nine-nil win over Pioneers and this meant that a win in this fixture was vital.Our other result so far was a comfortable 7-2 win against UCD.

Play-off Stalemate

Eastpoint and ALSAA played out a 5-5 draw in the League play off. Na Ning won his 3 matches and John murphy had a good win over John Bowe to leave the Eastpoint team struggling at 5-2 down but they staged a great fight back to secure a draw.

The League hangs in the balance as a 7-2 loss to Pioneers undid the good work of two wins over ALSAA. Unfortunately John Bowe was not available that night and although Sean Givernaud beat Dave Pemberton in the match it was not enough top save the team from defeat. The match with ALSAA is to be played at a neutral ground

Eastpoint have retained their Premier Division title by the narrowest of margins. Having drawn the play-off 5 - 5 we were awarded the title by a countback of sets 13 - 12. Still having beaten ALSAA twice during the season and only lost when we were forced to field a weaken team it seems fitting the holders should retain the title. Well Done to Marcus, Brian and John and thanks again to our Sponsors CMG Interactive.

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