Another highly competitive round of table tennis has been played in Benalla.
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The results for each grade are:
A-grade:
John Bajada and Patrick Cornell of the Owls defeated William Tong and Xavier Rhodes of the Plovers, 4-1.
Bajada defeated Tong in a tight five-set match while Cornell outlasted Rhodes in five sets.
It was a straight-sets win for the Owls in the doubles while in the reverse singles, Bajada had a convincing win over Rhodes, and Tong had a hard-fought straight-sets win over Cornell.
Stephen Lane and Sienna Bajada of the Taipans defeated Paul Hossack and Matt Parkinson of the Redbacks, 4-1.
Lane beat Hossack in straight sets while Bajada won in four against Parkinson.
In the doubles, it was a four-set win to the Taipans while in the reverse singles, Lane beat Parkinson in three sets and Hossack won a five-set match against Bajada.
The Possums, Flynn Mosley and Max O'Loughlan, defeated the Kookaburras, Brian Harrington and James Depio, 4-1.
Harrington defeated Mosley in four sets while O'Loughlan won a four-setter against Depio.
The Possums won the doubles in four sets while O'Loughlan and Mosley defeated Harrington and Depio in three sets in the singles.
The Kangas, Jamhal McDonald and Phil Keast, played the Yellowbellies, Michelle Feldtmann and Christian Squires.
McDonald won in four sets over Feldtmann, while Squires continued the trend of youngsters beating veterans with a five-set win over Keast.
The Yellowbellies won the doubles in four sets, then Squires came from two sets down to beat McDonald in five.
With the match decided, the last singles was not played, and the Yellowbellies took home a 3-1 victory.
The All Stars, Julien Timmins and Logan Hyland, played the Galahs, Gareth Burnell and Wesley Shea.
Burnell had a strong straight-sets win over Timmins and Shea beat Hyland, also in straight sets.
The Galahs won the doubles in straight sets.
Timmins beat Shea in three sets, as did Burnell against Hyland, giving the Galahs a 4-1 victory.
B-grade:
The Bullants, John Chiswell and Daniel Wright, had a 4-1 win over Carol Perry and John Spencer of the Wombats.
Chiswell beat Perry in four sets and Wright beat Spencer in five.
The Wombats then won the doubles by coming from two sets down to win in five.
Perry forfeited to Wright and Chiswell beat Spencer in four sets.
The Rosellas, Mehdi Zamani and Ray Grant, had a 4-1 win over the Joeys, Brian Perry and Braedon Blackford.
Zamani beat Perry in four sets and Grant had a straight-sets win over Blackford.
The Rosellas then won the doubles in straight sets.
In the reverse singles, Zamani won a tough five-set match against Blackford and Perry also won a five-setter, 14-12 in the fifth, against Grant.
The Gliders, Chris Goode and Jorge Abunza, played against Pauline Hooper and Laurence Donaldson of the Mozzies.
Goode beat Hooper in straight sets and Donaldson beat Abunza in four sets.
The Gliders then won the doubles in four sets.
Goode beat Donaldson in a tight four-set match and Hooper had a three-set win over Abunza.
The final score was Gliders 3, Mozzies 2.
The Numbats, Alejandro Diaz and Lois Hermiston, had a 4-1 win over the Frogs, Chris Seely and Saasha Siva.
Diaz beat Seely in a very close five-set match, and Hermiston won in three sets over Siva.
The Numbats then had a straight-sets doubles win.
After this, Diaz beat Siva in four sets and Seely had a five-set win over Hermiston.
C-grade:
The Crickets, Andrea Cathcart and Val Kipping, had a 3-2 win over the Hawks, Jack Erickson and Greg Cornell.
Cathcart beat Erickson in five sets, with Cornell defeating Kipping in straight sets.
The doubles went to five sets, with the Hawks prevailing.
In the final two matches, Cathcart beat Cornell in three sets and Kipping had a five-set win over Erickson.
The Doves, Andy Donaldson and Brendan Kipping, had a 4-1 win over the Falcons, Colin McFarlane and Andrew Morris.
Donaldson beat McFarlane in four sets and Morris won a topsy-turvy five-set match with Kipping.
The Doves had a straight-sets win in the doubles.
Kipping won a five-setter against McFarlane and Donaldson beat Morris in four.
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