FOR the first time in six years the Island’s senior men’s table tennis team have beaten Guernsey to lift the Green Trophy, although the Sarnians did win the combined competition 69-41.
Jersey’s Paul Marshall, Marcin Jurkiewicz and Craig Gascoyne triumphed 8-2 in their inter-insular, at the Geoff Reed Centre on Saturday night, although more than one match went to the wire, including one of the top contests of the tournament when Jersey’s Marshall, level at 2-2 but 10-7 down in the fifth and deciding game against Scott Romeril, somehow won five points in a row to put Jersey three games to nil ahead.
Later Marshall was also put under pressure by Guernsey’s Gary Dodd, who had taken the game to 8-all in the final set and was, at one time, serving for the match before Marshall’s nerve held and he turned the game around to win 13-11.
At the end of the men’s inter-insular, non-playing captain Clive Hansford commented on Marshall’s performances as he presented him with the player of the match award, while he also spoke of the high quality of table tennis this year, throughout the Channel Islands.
He was right to do so, for while the standard of table tennis is slowly but surely improving, especially in Jersey, where the Island’s players won an extra 11 matches this year compared to their 30 wins in Guernsey last year, as they eventually lost the overall competition 69-41.
Article posted on 14th May, 2007 - 12.00am
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