Oxfordshire 3rd captured the Inter-County Championship Division 5B title with a 10-5 win in their final match of the season.

They beat Lincolnshire at Spalding with singles wins from Natalie Wilsker (Witney), Vicky Tait (Banbury) and Dave Stepney (Abingdon). There were doubles victories from Wilsker and Tait, Gemma Noble and Nicola Barrett, and John Pollard and Neil Rowland, plus one by Chris Buckle and Giles Saville.

Leading 10-2, and with bonus points already assured as well as promotion, the team celebrated by happily dropping all three mixed matches.

Oxon 2nd travelled to Poole and came home with a vital 10-5 victory.

Elaine Madle (Banbury) won the only singles, while Caz Boorman and Liz Burns, and Madle and Claire Tait captured the four women's doubles.

Paul Casey and Dave Soanes won twice and with a solo victory by Simon Cooper and Chris Gibbins, Oxon took a winning lead, but needed bonus points (awarded for wins by ten or more).

Casey and Burns took the top mixed and then Soanes and Boorman won 15-12 in the third end to complete the scoreline.

This now leaves them requiring a 10-5 win in the last match of the season for the Division 3C title and promotion.

*The Oxford and District League's only unbeaten men's teams kept their records intact this week.

Thame A, in Division 2, held off Evenlode A 5-4 and Abingdon B 7-2 with Jeremy Carder and David Hart picking up three wins in both matches.

Ryan Owen and Nick Carter matched this in Division 4 as Vale beat Thame B 6-3 and North Abingdon 5-4.

OTHER RESULTS

Mixed Division 1: Park A 5, Evenlode A 4. Division 2A: Leys A 4, Harwell 5. Division 3A: Windrush 5, Evenlode B 4; Windrush 4, Gosford Hill C 5; Woodstock 6, Stonesfield 3. Division 3b: Redefield B 4, Leys B 5.

Men's Division 1: Gosford Hill 0, Redefield 9; Abingdon A 5, Eynsham 4.

Division 2: Evenlode A 4, Thame A 5; Abingdon B 4, Oxford Brookes 5; Abingdon B 2, Thame A 7; Harwell 3, Abingdon B 6.

Division 3: Windrush A 6, Oxford 3.

Division 4: Redefield B 9, Abingdon C 0; Vale 6, Thame B 3; North Abingdon 4, Vale 5.

Division 5: Blewbury 1, Woodstock 8.

Division 6: Windrush B 6, Oxford B 3; Berinsfield B 6, Oxford B 3.

Women's Division 3: Park 9, Breakaway 0. Division 4: Evenlode B 0, University 9.

*Adrian Brown and Pat Smith led Wantage to a table-topping 6-3 win over main rivals North Abingdon in Division 1 of the Wallingford and District League.

North have been watchful of a late assault by Wantage and have now dropped to second, one point adrift of Wantage.

*Four players took a hat-trick of titles at the Oxfordshire Junior Championships at Abingdon. They were Amy Gilder (Chinnor), Ransi Galagedera (Chilton), Raodi Liu (Oxford) and Hannah Wilkinson (Boars Hill).

RESULTS

Under 19 - girls singles: C Brown bt P Millward 21-8. Girls doubles: A Gilder & K Schutterlin bt C Brown & P Millward 10-15, 15-8, 17-16.

Under 17 - girls singles: C Brown bt A Gilder 21-8. Girls doubles: A Gilder & K Schutterlin bt C Brown & A King 15-10, 13-15, 15-10. Boys singles: C North bt W Hartwell 21-15. Boys doubles: C North & W Hartwell bt J Harji & J Ponsford 21-15. Mixed: J Ponsford & A Gilder bt J Harji & C Brown 21-14.

Under 15 - girls singles: R Galagedera bt H Wilkinson 21-2. Girls doubles: R Galagedera & H Wilkinson bt C Fleming & P Rock 21-7. Boys singles: J Barclay bt R Liu 21-19. Boys doubles: J Barclay & M Cramp bt R Nutt & T Harding 21-15. Mixed: J Ashdown & R Galagedera bt R Liu & H Wilkinson 12-11.

Under 13 - girls singles: H Wilkinson bt S Lloyd 21-4. Girls doubles: E Jackson & S Lloyd bt J Burch & A Lewington 21-5. Boys singles: R Liu bt T Charleston 21-8. Boys doubles: R Liu & A Bates bt Charleston & C Tustian 23-20. Mixed: R Liu & H Wilkinson bt J Taylor & J Burch 23-20.

Under 11 - boys singles: C Tustian bt J Magnanelli 21-2. Boys doubles: C Tustian & J Campbell bt J Magnanelli & J Charleston 21-7.