Glenmuir High, rural high school table tennis champions from 2003-2005 before losing it to St Mary High last year, regained the title on Thursday at the rural finals of the Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association ( ISSA) competition at Manchester High. They edged defending champions St Mary High 3-2 in the last match of the round-robin finals.

On the boys side, defending champions St Mary High made it three straight as they trounced first-time finalists Belair High 4-1 in the final.

St. Mary High girls edged Manchester 3-2 and defeated Titchfield 3-1 to advance to the final against Glenmuir who blanked both Manchester and Titchfield by similar 3-0 scores to reach the final.

The seven boys teams were divided into two groups and St Mary handed 5-0 whippings to both Titchfield and Guy's Hill to top group one and qualify for the final. Belair blanked St. Thomas 5-0, crushed Dinthill 4-1 and clipped Manchester 3-2 to reach the final from group two.

In the boys play-off for the third place between second-place group finishers, Manchester blanked Guy's Hill 5-0 while on the girls side, Manchester nipped Titchfield 3-2 for the girls third place trophies.

Resounding defeats

Guy's Hill had drubbed Titchfield 4-1 to place second in group 1, while Manchester placed second in group two by blanking St. Thomas 5-0 and whipping Dinthill 4-1. Dinthill drubbed newcomers St. Thomas Technical 5-0 to finish third in group two.

In individual results in the girls final, Shenique Clare overpowered Daven Buchanan 3-0 (11-6, 11-8, 11-6), Christal Campbell pipped Latoya Lynch 3-2 (11-7, 9-11, 11-5, 11-13, 11-7) and Carla Clarke whipped Buchanan 3-0 (11-5, 11-4, 12-10), for Glenmuir's three wins. National junior player Tracy-Ann Dattadeen won both consolation matches for St Mary, outplaying Clarke 3-1 (11-5, 8-11, 12-10, 11-9) and thrashing Clare 3 - 0 (11-8, 11-6, 11-7).

In the boy's final, Carlton Marson tagged David Nation 3-1 (11-7, 9-11, 11-9, 11-9), Javed Cameron trounced Rory Cha 3-0 (11-7, 11-8, 11-4), Odane Kentish squeezed past Ryan Thames 3 -2 (11-8, 9-11, 3-11, 11-4, 11-2) and national junior representative Shayne Frost crushed Brannon Chin 3-0 (11-4, 11-1, 11-8) for St Mary's four triumphs. Ryan Thames (Mark's brother) crushed Glovan Palmer 3-0 (11-3, 13-11,13-11) to pull one back for Belair.