Let’s start in the third division this week, and my first report concerns division leaders, Bayley D. Bayley D had to visit the Little Dawley B side, and continuing their good form, came away with a 3-2 victory over the Dawley side. This was not easy going as the Bayley side went two frames ahead, courtesy of wins from C Whitehead 57 – Gary Clements 19, and D. Williams with a 53-35 win over Simon Evans. Little Dawley then came back strongly to level the with two black ball wins, one from Colin Gittus beating D. Rhoades 53-46, and Phil Cottey’s victory over D. Dudley 39-35. The decider was won by Brian Aberdeen against Snowy Darrock with a comfortable score line of 64-26.

Anstice B at home to Minnesota Fats C are nibbling away at the leaders of this division with a 4-1 win over the Minnesota side. Mick Reynolds made a 44 break in the first frame when he beat Bob Lane 82-20. That was followed by Noel Stones win 53-29, playing Paul Crooks. John Darrock then lost his game when Mike Thompson won the frame 62-25.

Next player up for Anstice was George Hammond, winning on the black against Toby Welsh, and then in the final frame Stew Wimbush had to pot a re-spotted black to beat Tom Firmstone 52-45.

Shifnal D who were at home to the Little Dawley X, side took the first three frames but then the Dawley side won the last two for a 3-2 score line to The Shifnal players.

Newport Legion still remain in contention after playing away to the Bayley B. Newport managed to take three of the five points on offer. Kevin West recorded a fine break of 35 in his match against Allan Davies.

Hadley A, although at home to the Little Dawley J side, could only squeeze one point from their opponents when Dave Barnett beat J. Duckett 41-35. Hadley nearly gained another point when Richard Goldie lost on the black to J. Calvert, so the Hadley side find themselves adrift from the rest in this division by six points!

Now to the first division where normal service returned for the Anstice A side this week, and saw Keith and Neil Price return to the A side.

The Anstice were at home, and taking no chances as they drafted Richy Wade in for the second week running. Although Richy won his frame on the black in a high scoring game beating Steve Downes 68-59 the rest of the games were comfortably won. Shaun Harris had two breaks of 29 and 31 to polish off his opponent by 81-1.

Broseley A entertained the Wellington Billiard Hall in the true meaning of the word, as we watched some good snooker, as they beat us 5-0. The highlight of this match was when P. Humphries snookered Alex Turnbull so much that he went 40 points in front, and then watching Alex come all the way back to lose on the black ball. What a frame, and the final score was 83-81. There won’t be many more games with that sort of score line, unless there are extra reds put on the table!

Maddocks A keep on turning out good results and they had a superb win over the Shifnal B side 5-0. The Shifnal side, at home, started so well when Phil Davies with a 49 break beat Matt Davies 69-45. This set the scene for victory, and only Chris Petford came close to winning a frame but lost on the black to Ian Skelton 46-38. Daz Wincott also had a 36 break in his frame beating Rob Wright 61-48.

The Dawley A side at home to the Bayley E saw Sean Nolan taking on Andy O’Brien. Sean took an early 20-point lead only for Andy to bounce back with breaks of 32 and 26. Andy went on to give the Bayley E side a 1-0 lead with a score line of 74-36. The second frame had Dawley’s youngster, Alex Nolan playing against Steve Hoof. A close frame saw Alex prevail to win by 55-40.

Next up was Pete Nolan against D. Rowley. A good performance from the flying Scotsman saw him give the lead to the Dawley side as he won his frame 63-4. Mark Jones then came up against Ali Jones where a see saw frame saw both players exchanging the lead through out the match. Mark edged out in front by fifteens pionts towards the end of the game, only to see an excellent clearance from Ali, to win the frame on the black.

The next frame was contested by the two slowest players in the league, according to this report from Mark Jones, although I would personally question that view. Chris “grind em down” Woods took on Bayley captain Dave France. The Dawley player forged a good early lead and with the aid of a 33 break consolidated that lead and went on to a comfortable victory, 83-47, and clinch the match for the Dawley A side.

Anstice D visited Minnesota Fats A, who were good enough to fill the vacant slot left by the Codden A side, who withdrew at such a late date in the proceedings. Unfortunately for the Minnesota side, Anstice took all five points from this match with the first frame between Paul Devey of Anstice, beating Neil Pearson on the black by 40 points to 37.

Shifnal A, at home to The Little Dawley A side, won their first two frames and then lost their way, and the match 3-2. Did I say spasmodic form in one of my earlier reports?

Maddock C made a little progress in their efforts to reach first division status this week, when they visited the Bayley F team, and came away with a 3-2 win. This was three hard earned points from Maddocks, as once again Joe Oliver set the trend when he took the first frame from Chris Shaw 60-35.

Young Tom Maxfield quickly squared the match with a score line of 56-11 victory over Dave Thomas, followed by an impressive win by team mate Eddie Whitehead, when he defeated Bill Rushton to put the Bayley boys in the driving seat. However, that’s when things took a turn when Nev Whitehead made it two frames, each beating Paul Maxfield 55-37.

The next frame saw an excellent show of potting and safety play from iron man Colin Smith to take the match, and a score line of 90-41 over Andy Summers. Although the Bayley A side suffered defeat again this week, the Bayley F side must be wondering about their chances of promotion, as the gap continues to grow between themselves and the three teams above them.

Bayley A met the Second Club Trench at the Bayley club and suffered there second, forgive the pun, defeat in a row. The Bayley side still have a cushion of seven points after losing this match 3-2.

Dawley B who played at the Maddocks B side, keep in touch, courtesy of a 3-2 win over the Maddocks team, and that in spite of having to give a frame away due to being short of one player. This illustrates how important it is to have reserves signed!

Little Dawley G and Anstice C remain in the same position in the table after the Anstice side went to Little Dawley and came away with a 3-2 win.

Alan Turner    

Alan.Turner@telfordsnooker.com

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