Play Begins In Table Tennis Championships

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32390, 1 September 1970, Page 16

Play Begins In Table Tennis Championships

(New Zealand Press Association)

TAURANGA.

Play began in Tauranga yesterday in the table tennis interassociation team championships. A total of 52 teams are competing—26 men’s and 26 women’s.

The team’s championship; will be decided by the end of ; play tonight. Each team is , playing about five matches. ■ Results of play in morning and afternoon sessions yes-: terday:— ; Men A Grade.— Morning: Auckland ' 9, Wellington 2: Otago 8, Hutt , Valley 3; Hamilton 6, Canterbury 5. Afternoon: Auckland 8, ! Canterbury 3; Otago 6, Hamil- • ton 5; Hutt Valley 10, Welling- , ton 1.

B Grade.— Morning: Franklin 7, Wanganui 4; Northland 11, Northshore 0; Waitemata 6. South Canterbury 5. Afternoon: Franklin 7, Northshore 4; Northland 11, Waitemata 0; Wanganui 8, South Canterbury 3 ’C Grade, First Division. — Morning: Marlborough 9, Mana-

watu 2; Nelson 10, Southland 1; South Taranaki 7, East W’aikato 4. Afternoon: East Waikato 6, Manawatu 5; Marlborough 5, Southland 2; South Taranaki 6, Nelson 5. C Grade, Second Division.— First section: Morning, Hawke’s Bay 8, Central Waikato 3; Bay of Plenty 10, Poverty Bay 1; afternoon, Poverty Bay 6, Central Waikato 5; Bay of Plenty 6, Hawke’s Bay 5. Second section: Morning, North Taranaki 6, Wairarapa 5; Rotorua 7, Kapiti 4; afternoon, Kapiti 7, Wairarapa 4; Rotorua 9, North Taranaki 2. Women A Grade, First Section.— Morning: Northland 9, North Taranaki 2; Auckland 6, Canterbury 5. Afternoon: Northland 7, Auckland 4; Canterbury 7, North Taranaki 4. A Grade, Second Section.— Morning: Otago 9, Hutt Valley 2; Franklin 6, Hamilton 5.

Afternoon: Otago 9, Franklin 2; Hutt Valley 7, Hamilton 4. B Grade.—Morning: Nelson 7. Wellington 4; South Canterbury 6, South Taranaki 5. Afternoon: Wellington 6. South Taranaki 5; Nelson 9, South Canterbury 2.

C Grade, First Division.— Morning: Wanganui 7, Marlborough 4; Central Waikato 6. Northshore 5; Manawatu 6, Bay of Plenty No. 1 5. Afternoon: Wanganui 6, Bay of Plenty No. 1 5: Central Waikato 8, Marlborough 3; Northshore 9, Manawatu 2.

C Grade, Second Division.— First Section: Morning, Hawke's Bay 7, Waitemata 4; Kapiti It), Bay of Plenty No. 21: afternoon. Hawke’s Bay 7, Kapiti 4; Waitemata 7, Bay of Plenty No. 2 4. Second section: Morning, Wairarapa 8, Poverty Bay 3; East Waikato 9, Rotorua 2; afternoon, Wairarapa 9, Rotorua 2: Poverty Bay 7, East Waikato 4.