DOMINANT performances throughout the team lifted Salisbury's A team men to a big win over East Dorset in the top division of the Hants and IOW League on Saturday.
Lee Mahony and Tim Gadenne did not lose a set, Tom Williams and Roger Witt only let one slip, but made up for it by taking a tie breaker decider, while third pair Darrell Amison and Will Baillie won twice.
Victory was valuable after defeat last month in the team's only previous match.
Craig Wensley's rare availability was a bonus for the Riverside B team in Sunday's match at New Milton.
Opponents Hale Gar-dens B, who included two impressive teenagers, were tough to quell and it was Craig in partnership with Orestes Fuentes who claimed his side's only two wins.
Salisbury ladies' hard campaign in the National Club League ended on yet another luckless note with a fifth successive defeat this time caught out by the rules of a tie-break shoot- out that applies when the final result is a draw.
With different players set to figure in doubles, two Salisbury players left after singles duty with the side trailing 3-1, not to know more than an hour later one of them would be needed to play a tie-break singles.
Salisbury had levelled the match by winning both doubles.
Visitors Sundridge Park lost the first singles tie-break to Karina Weedon, were handed the second with no eligible Salisbury player on hand, then took the doubles tie-break 7-2.
Salisbury Over 40 ladies won convincingly against Riverside in the Hants and IOW Veterans League.
However, honours were reversed on Sunday when Riverside B beat a Salisbury A line-up to register their first win of the season in Division One of the Sarum League.
Andover A, with four wins out of four, head the table.
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