IT was back to winning ways for Thornbury A as they played hosts to newly promoted David Lloyd A.

The night started well with routine 3-0 victories for Captain Brad Jenkins, Callum Davidson and Craig Webb, all players breezing through their matches.

Ryan Wilson suffered a tough 3-1 defeat but the stand out performance was Sam Davidson who battled through five grueling games to snatch victory 3-2 for Thornbury A who continue to climb the table with two wins from three.

The highly anticipated match between the Thornbury B and C teams was somewhat one way traffic on the night.

Dale Curtis was on first for the B team against Mick Dixon and won the match 3-0 with some great accurate shots cutting short many rallies.

Chris Hutchence also won 3-0 against Ian Talbot who put up a brave fight in the second game. Next up was Mark Toseland against Nigel Tovey, Mark again showed his class and won 3-0.

Alex McMillan won comfortably 3-0 against Steve Morley and captain Justin Edwards finished the evening off with a 3-0 win against Cliff Hall who was committed as always the nearly took the third game. This outstanding performance now puts the B team at the top of division 1.

Thornbury D faced top of league Westbury David Lloyd B. The D's faced a very strong team and started brilliantly with a 3-0 win for Mark Dalziel and a 3-1 win for Colin Preece.

Pete Bowen then faced a streetwise opponent and lost 3-0. Ian Johnson applied the pressure in his match and ended up with a super result winning 3-1 resulting in an overall team victory.

Viv Bailey-Gard failed to sweeten the team total victory with a 3-0 loss to a very tricky player. The win moves the D team up to third in the table.

Thornbury E took on Kingsdown A in the first home game of the season which saw Bill Ellis and Graham Dono start off with straightforward 3-0 wins.

This was followed by a match that ebbed and flowed with James Jenkins getting the better of his opponent in a protracted five game match. It was then Nick Clifton’s turn and after playing well for two games he eased up losing the next two, but finished strongly in the fifth to win 3-2, in this win he probably ran further than the rest of the team all night!

Unfortunately Nigel Ball had a tough match and lost 3-0. The final score was a home victory 16-7, putting the team in second place in division six.