CHAMPIONS-elect Generation II only dropped one game in the Southampton League as they beat Snows B 9-1, with Charlie Childs and county champion Graham Toole again leading the way.

Third place Waterside A dropped a point to bottom team Insurance A winning 7-3.

Pete Richardson was the star for Insurance as he beat Southampton Champion Christos Hannides and Ken MacLeod.

Rod McMullan Alex Rorke and Stuart Williams of Alpha A had no trouble in whitewashing Snows D 10-0, with Williams triumphing in a five game thriller against Glenn Wilshere.

In Division Two, Colin Jones lost his 100 per cent record to Mark Waughman in Snows 6-4 victory over Hedge End.

Four points from their 8-2 win over Waterside H keeps Four Ts C with a comfortable lead at the top of Division Three.

Martin Ceresa and Steve Lumb being undefeated for the winners and Pasky Paskaran and Mike Paterson each beating reserve Brian Gange to get Waterside's two games.

Simmarians returned a 7-3 result against Alpha E taking them into second place and although they are some eleven points behind the leaders, they have two matches in hand.

l Welsh-based Chinese players make up both the open singles top seeds in the Bournemouth Open Butterfly Grand Prix, being held at the St. David English Sports Centre this weekend.

Tang Jiang Feng, the right-handed, shake-hands, top-spinner from China who is currently training with the Welsh national squad, is seeded no.1 in the men's singles.

Seeded second is the Welsh no.1 and title holder, Ryan Jenkins, who plays an athletic two-wing looping game.

Following him is another Chinese training in Cardiff, the classic back-hand chopping and forehand attacking combination bat player, Wang Ran.

Scottish no.1 Gavin Rumgay is seeded 4th, while hard-hitting London Progress Club star Jason Sugrue (Middlesex), currently unbeaten in the British National League and who now plays for Ireland, is fifth.

The women's singles' no.1 seed is Xu Jie, a fierce left-handed flat-hitting, penholder from China who is also training with the Welsh.

The banded men's and women's singles were taking place today while the open singles (semi-finals from around 5-30pm), Under-21 and veteran singles are scheduled for tomorrow.