Hawks take nine, but Donoghue makes six the interesting number
Headlands were emphatic; Bridge A needed every point of a 6–4. Aaron Donoghue provided three of them.
Coverage: 26 October 2026 – 1 November 2026Published
Six completed matches made Northampton Division One comfortably the busiest division in the league this week. Headlands Hawks produced a 9–1, two sides collected eight, and Highfield took seven. But the closest stories lived in the 6–4s, particularly Bridge A's victory over ACC A, where Aaron Donoghue did half the scoring himself.
Player of the Week
Aaron Donoghue
Bridge A
Won all three singles in Bridge A's 6–4 victory over ACC A. His three points accounted for half of the team total in a match with little margin for error.
Supporting TT Leagues scorecardNTFC - CT (Rothersthorpe) BKingsley C
Kingsley C won 6–4 away to Rothersthorpe B, with Andrew Harrison completing a singles treble. Andrew Law contributed two more and John Stamp added the sixth, but not before Paul Nichols took him two games up; Stamp fought back to win 11–9 in the fifth. Paul CK Chan won twice for the hosts, Vincent Galvin once, and their doubles made the contest properly close.
Official TT Leagues scorecardBadgers BDCA Crusaders
Badgers B were 8–2 winners against DCA Crusaders. Robert George didn't drop a singles game, and John Nuttall also won all three. Greg Norden's contribution was rather more exhausting: three singles, all taken to five, with a win against Orrin Edwards followed by 11–9 fifth-game defeats to Marlon Fearon and Sergiu Dubenco. He did at least share the doubles success. One player, three deciders and an eight-point team return: a busy night all round.
Official TT Leagues scorecardKingsley DHeadlands Hawks
Headlands Hawks' 9–1 at Kingsley D was the widest result. Eugeniu Scorolitnii and Steve Fuller won three singles each, Mayur Shah two, and Hawks collected the doubles. Paul Datson made sure Kingsley avoided the blank, holding off Shah 11–9 in the fifth after his two-game lead had slipped away. In a nine-one, that point deserves a little spotlight.
Official TT Leagues scorecardACC FoxesHighfield
Highfield beat ACC Foxes 7–3. Shiv Jadeja won all three singles, Kush Jadeja two and Bani Pal one, with the doubles supplying the seventh. For Foxes, Lena Sachita won twice and Kamil Cherek beat Pal in five. Bartek Cierpisz nearly added another: two games down against Kush Jadeja, he levelled before losing the decider. The final score was clear; not every rubber was.
Official TT Leagues scorecardACC DragonsGayton
Gayton's 8–2 at ACC Dragons contained an unbeaten three from both Cadoc Whiteley and Richard Pringuer. Dragons earned one point through Ethan York's five-game win over David Howard and another through York and Michael Nong in the doubles. That doubles was memorable in its own right: a 19–17 second game and a 14–12 fifth. Few eight-twos come with quite such an elaborate second home point.
Official TT Leagues scorecardBridge AACC A
Finally, Bridge A's 6–4 against ACC A. Donoghue won all three singles, each in four games, and Steve Carroll and Michael Daly supplied the other three home points. The visitors took the doubles and shared their singles points between Colin Yue, Chris Gibbs and Jan Krautter. Donoghue's treble wasn't merely a pleasant extra; it was half of Bridge's winning total.
Official TT Leagues scorecardA nine, two eights, a seven and two sixes made a packed week. For this edition, the player who helped a close match over the line edges the candidates from bigger wins.
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