I have to favour the first division in this weeks report, as there have been some exciting results to review. First, but not foremost was the excellent win by the Little Dawley A side against Broseley A.

The Little Dawley side, who have remained unbeaten during the second half of the season, retained that honour as they inflicted the second defeat of the season playing the Broseley A side. Graham Long for Broseley scraped past Ade Henry, after Ade missed an easy green. That put Broseley one frame ahead. Carl Walker then won the second frame to put Broseley into a comfortable lead. Lee Elcock then beat the in-form Paul Humphries to pull one back for the Little Dawley side. Darren Pountney then beat Mick Brezwyn in a tight encounter to square the match two all.

In the last frame Matt Bailey beat Simon McLoud to win the match, and leave Simon losing only his second frame through out the season. Broseley may well ponder this result after watching their adversaries results, and bearing in mind that the Little Dawley side play Maddocks A in the last match of the season, which may decide a lot of end results!

The local derby match between the champions, Anstice A, and the Anstice D side was also an exciting affair, where the D side returned a winning result of 3-2. This result was in keeping to how the Anstice D side started the campaign. S. Collins in the first frame set the standard of this match when he defeated one of Anstice A’s steadiest players, Shawn Harris by 68-38. D. Wilkie was next to play and he increased the lead to 2-0 nil for his side beating the newly drafted in player, Richy Wade 47-39.

That was a close game, but lo and behold what a come back in the next frame, when Keith Price recorded a 76 break in his frame against Nigel Wallcroft, winning 97-9 to pull one back for the champions. Nick Oakley then got back on the winning trail, for the A side securing a 57-30 win over Phil Reynolds.

Then came the last game where Keith Blackham took on the ever-dependable Ian Duffy, but tonight wasn’t to be Ian’s night. Keith had a 61 break in his frame, which left Ian suffering his worst defeat of the season. That score line 79-1.

Once again, Maddocks pass Broseley in the table, and can well be thinking of the two frames conceded on a black ball finish. The Maddocks side were at home to Dawley A and recorded a 3-2 win, which takes them back into second spot.

Dawley A now go above the Wellington Billiard Hall A side, who may have thought a better result for them may have been on hand, when they visited Shifnal B. Things didn’t work out that way as the Shifnal side turned out a good result beating the Wellington lads 4-1. Matt Davies had breaks of 45 and 48 against our stand in player, Luigi D’Ambrosio to record a 103-12 victory.

Apart from an easy win from Andy Kendrick, the only other close call was when (Mr. McGoo), Nigel Stallard, took the three remaining colours to beat Graham Darrel. Almost a better finish than Kelly Holmes! The Wellington side now look like they maybe yet again fighting a relegation battle, and watch this space for a change of venue for the Wellington side in the near future.

Codden B a home to Shifnal A, lost their first three frames to the Shifnal side but came back strongly to take the two remaining games. Angus Way had a good game recording a 59 break in his 77-1 victory over A. Jones.

Bayley E at home to Minnesota Fats A, lost the match 3-2, but even after that result find themselves pushing the Wellington A side to remain in the first division. Ali Jones made a 39 break in his frame against Mick Egan winning 56-18.

The second division saw Bayley A return to winning ways this week, when they visited Shifnal F. Steve Nichols started well for Bayley with breaks of 29 and 22 as he defeated K. Dickenson 62-19. Shifnal then took the next two frames courtesy of J. Briscoe beating Arthur Burrows 72-28, followed by Chris Painter beating Spencer Rowley 66-40. A close game next when Fred Harper lost on the black to Bob Mason, and finally, D. Pye from Shifnal losing the deciding frame to Chris Morgan Adams 68-44.

Local derby time with Maddocks D throwing down the gauntlet to their club mates Maddocks C, but could unfortunately only muster the one point. Unusual opener, Nev Whitehead set the standard with a 69-11 defeat of Mick Wincott before Jim Hill made it 2-0 with his frame win over Ken Davies. Ken required three snookers on the colours and managed to secure two of them, but then a foul on the black put paid to his efforts and Ken went down 76-36.

Colin Smith continuing his good form, clinched the match defeating Darren Wincott 59-16, followed by Joe Oliver’s victory over Graham Arnold 65-24, leaving the hosts and Fred Spragg, to claim their solitary point when he pipped Bill Rushton on the final pink 49-39.

Anstice lost their match when they played at home to visitors Codden C, 3-2 but in doing so lost no ground in the table.

Minnesota Fats G moved a couple of places up in the table courtesy of a good 4-1 win against the Little Dawley G side. The Dawley side however, lost two of these frames on the black, so the match wasn’t as one sided as sometimes the final score suggests!

After Maddocks C’s fine win, the two sides also contesting for the honours in this division, made little ground on the leaders. Dawley B at home to Bayley F found the Dawley side losing out by the odd frame 3-2. These two teams illustrated why they are vying for contention, as three of the games were decided on the black ball.

The Second Club Trench seemed to have reached the safety zone after a slow start to the season, although this week they lost at home to Maddocks B, 3-2. Not always easy finding your feet as a new club, but nice to see The Second Club settling in, so to speak.

Bayley D maintain their three point lead in the third division after entertaining Shifnal D at the Bayley club. Craig Whitehead was chasing a tense game against Terry Askew, until a 22 break brought him back into the game to end up by winning the frame 63-36. Dave Williams for the home side, came back from being 26 points adrift, only to miss a reasonable blue into the middle sack on the colours, leaving Saunjay to pot blue and pink for the frame.

The third game between Peter Wharton and Brian Aberdeen was just as close an affair, until Peter potted the last few colours to take the frame from Shifnal to give them a 2-1 lead. The next two frames were taken by the Bayley side, but proved to be no easy task as both frames were decided on the black, D. Rhoades beating Geoff French 44-37, and Dave Dudley defeating Barrie Easthope 46-38.

Anstice B went to play at their rival promotion chasing contenders, Newport Legion, and in a closely fought match managed a 3-2 win over Newport with Noel Stones winning the match in the last frame. This edges the Anstice side one point nearer to top of the table, Bayley D.

Little Dawley X, although with the home advantage, lost their match with Bayley B by four frames to one. With Little Dawley J result not in, at the moment this means that Bayley B have leapfrogged both of the Little Dawley sides at this point in time.

Hadley A were given the home advantage by the Wellington Billiard Hall B side but still lost the match 3-2.

Bayley Q at home to Minnesota Fats C lost their match 3-2, albeit on another last frame decider when Paul Crooks beat Chris Fletcher 63-38.

Although Little Dawley J result has not arrived, it will not alter the last four positions in this week’s table.

Alan Turner    

Alan.Turner@telfordsnooker.com

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