Table tennis: Sarnians take honours

Monday 12th May 2008, 8:42AM BST.

A WEAKENED Jersey table tennis team suffered a record inter-insular defeat at table tennis in Guernsey over the weekend.

For a seventh straight year Guernsey won the Horace Mallett Memorial trophy for the inter-insular team aggregate, but this time there was barely a slice of red on the colourful electronic scoreboard, as the home team rampaged to an 88 games to 22 victory.

The last six came courtesy of the Guernsey Green team who regained the trophy with a thrilling 6-4 win to the sound of banging air drums and beery cheers.

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