The Burnham & District Table Tennis League recently held its Annual Presentation evening at Forresters Park Golf & Country Club, presided over by League Chairman Alan Dadswell.
An enjoyable evening ensued and the prizes for the year’s league, cup and tournament events were presented to the winners by league President Peter Ballard.
The highlights saw Peter Harverson up and down like a yoyo as his haul was immense this year, winning the Junior Singles, the Bob Partridge trophy, the Handicap Singles event as well as the Team Knockout Cup – plus a runner-up award in the Singles Plate event. Arron Chandler won two of the prestigious events in the Mixed Open Singles and the Hardbat Singles.
The league presented the most improved junior award to Luca Riedling of Maldon TTC with a vastly increased set of averages over the season. A special Recognition Award was presented to Maldon’s Shirley Carroll for an incredible 50 years of competing in and winning the Ladies’ Doubles event – this year saw her 17th victory in that one event, exactly 50 years after she first triumphed back in 1976.
There were some emotional moments too – especially when Wendy Richardson was able to present the Restricted Singles Cup named after her son Daniel to this year’s winner Hamish Innes.
The final award of the evening was the President’s Cup which is awarded to someone who has provided great service to the league over many years, and this year we had a most worthy recipient in Dawn Baldry, the current Social Secretary and Welfare Officer.
