Dance leads side to victory

06:28PM, Tuesday 10 March 2026

Dance leads side to victory

HENLEY 3rds secured their second Oxfordshire Winter League Division 4 win of the season on Monday of last week in their rearranged clash with Carterton.
The highlight of the evening came from club chairman Steve Dance, who, after falling 2-0 battled back to take the next two games 16–14 and 15–13 before sealing the match 15–8 in the fifth set. Henley won the match 16-7.
Three days later Henley 3rds went down to a 19-2 defeat against clubmates and unbeaten league leaders Henley 2nds. Although the second team were expected to dominate, Henley 3rds’ Peter Hopkins took two games from his higher-rated opponent Richard Little in an entertaining five-game contest (15–11, 5–15, 15–13, 11–15, 5–15). Fast-improving Miles Edwards, the club’s player of the month for February, also pushed Jim Reay hard, narrowly losing the second game 19-17.

In Division 1, Henley 1sts went down to an 18-6 defeat at home to second placed Brackley 1sts.
Henley skipper Harry Carr returned to winning ways, although he had to dig deep after trailing two games to one before taking the match 3-2. Henley remain sixth in the table.

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