The Sudbury club have got two teams through to the semi-final of the Braintree Table Tennis League handicap cup.
They have been kept apart in the draw so an all-Sudbury final is possible. If so, it would be the first one-club final for 16 years.
Unlike previous rounds the quarter-finals were all close affairs, two 5-4s, a 5-3 and a 6-3.
Sudbury Drifters were one of the 5-4 winners, coming from 4-3 down to beat Finchingfield B. Ray Bradford did his best to thwart them by winning his three sets but two each for Geoff Barrett and Simon Grinham and one from Terry Hunneybel saw them through.
Netts F accounted for the other 5-4 scoreline. Three wins from Tom Verrier and two from James Howard accounted for Yeldham Whitlocks B.
Sudbury Strollers beat Black Notley G 5-3, with David Fiddeman unbeaten, while Rayne E had the most convincing win, 6-3 against Netts C, with Richard Whiteside’s three sets leading the way.
In the league division one, the leaders both had comfortable victories, Netts A 8-2 against Rayne B and Sudbury Nomads 7-3 over Liberal A. James Hicks was unbeaten for Netts while Karl Baldwin, Ken Lewis and Richard Fifield all won two for Nomads.
There were also two wins each for Adam Clift, Sean Clift and Chris Parr in Netts B’s 7-3 win over Sudbury Wanderers
In rearranged matches, Liberal B sprang something of a surprise by beating their own A team 6-4 (Ashley Skeggs unbeaten) while Rayne won the battle of the B teams with a win by the same score against Netts’ second string. Peter Hance and Adi Kamma were unbeaten.
In division two, Netts C improved their chances of the runners-up medals with a 7-3 win over Notley D but the smart money remains on Sudbury Strollers climbing from their lowly perch once they catch up on their matches. They beat the higher-placed Rayne E 7-3 to make it five wins in a row.
In a rearranged match Rayne E made up for that defeat with an 8-2 win over Finchingfield A, Whiteside and James Grimston unbeaten.
Yeldham A owed their 6-4 win over Rayne D to Doug Sanders who for the first time this season bettered his teammate Roy Hooper, who lost to Dean Andrews. Sanders dismissed Andrews 11-4, 11-4, 11-8.
Notley C featured in two close matches, a draw with Netts D and a 6-4 win over Notley D. The fast-improving JJ Calisin took his three singles and the doubles with dad Jimmy for Netts D. Jamie Brooks was one of his victims but he recovered to win all three in their later match.