ANDREW Taylor and Martin Brown suffered mixed fortunes at the table tennis finals night at Littleton.
The two Loopers' teammates met in the final of the Ken Baker Open Singles and produced some entertaining rallies in a close five-set match.
Taylor raced into an 11-3, 12-10 two-set lead only for Brown to come back 11-7, 11-6 to level before Taylor made a great start in the decider and went on to win 11-4.
Brown gained some compensation when, in another epic five-setter, he overcame Luke Moffat in the Karakal Cadet Boys Singles.
This time Brown took a two-set lead before his opponent took the third. Brown led 10-8 in the next only to lose 12-10 before Brown just scraping home 12-10 in the decider.
Taylor found the task of giving five points a game to newcomer Marc Virgo too much in the Rob Sexton Handicap Singles when the winner proved to be ahead of the handicapper with a 11-6, 9-11, 11-9, 11-4 win
Leanne Sully fought back from a set down to beat Bla-des' teammate Stephanie Bes-wick 9-11, 11-9, 11-9, 11-5 to win the Terry Lown Cadet Girls Singles.
The Chris McLean Beginners Singles for novice players was won by Simon Whitehouse who produced some nice backhand winners to defeat Grace Ford 12-10, 11-4, 11-4.
Rob Sinderberry and Ross Pankhurst (+3) got the better of Martin Brown and Roz Jones (+2) 7-11, 11-8, 11-6, 13-11 in an entertaining Richard Lasota Handicap Drawn Doubles final.
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