The end of season Carthusian renaissance continued last week as they claimed an impressive Division 2 away win at Westminster against the Old Westminsters 2. With captain Ronald Pattison unavailable - any suggestion of a link between this and the win for the OCs is pure speculation, of course - a young Carthusian squad got off to a flying start at the top of the order with first pair Alex Burrows and Adrian Love upsetting the odds to record a 2-1 victory over Giles Coren and Nick Fry before the 10pm deadline intervened. The OWs struck back at second pair with Edward Levy and Freddie Krespi 3-0 winners over Alex Manby and Nick Higgins, but the Surrey side had the final word with third pair Ian Clarke and James Balkwill getting the better of OW supremo Andrew Aitken and Napper Tandy in four games.

Buoyed by that result, the OCs then set about trying to record another upset against the high-flying Millhillians at Highgate. The Carthusians put up another strong performance but the unbeaten OMs proved once again that they are the top dogs in Division 2 this year as they recorded yet another 3-0 win to leapfrog North Oxford at the top of the table and move just two matches away from the title and promotion to Division 1. Vishal Bhimjiyani and Joe Coakley have been in fine form of late and seeing off all comers at first pair, but this time they split across the first two pairs with Jitesh Patel partnering Bhimjiyani to a 3-1 win over Burrows and Love and Coakley teaming up with James Mason to beat Clarke and Balkwill in four. The OM management duo of Chris Vincent and James Hutcheson finished things off at third pair against Higgins and the returning Pattison.