Shifnal A 5 Broseley A 0
Congratulations go to Broseley A this season for taking the league honours, but they finished on a low as Shifnal A buried all 5 frames past them. The match was played in great spirit, but Broseley had no answer to Shifnal’s supremacy on the night. First frame saw two of the players of the season meet with John Fallows taking on Simon Thomas and John got the better of the early exchanges, and an excellent 50 break allowed him to run out an easy 86-12 winner. Next up for Shifnal was Neil Price, and the free scoring continued as Neil, returning to his best form, easily beat Carl Walker with a lovely 47 break on route to a 60-21 victory. The third frame saw Linsay Knox for Shifnal taking on Broseley’s own potting machine Graham Long. Graham has had a wonderful season, but once again he had no answers as Linsay, aided by a 30 break, went on to win 62-26 and put Shifnal 3-0 up. Frame four saw the evenings captains come together, with Simon Mcleod taking on Shifnal’s Angus Way. Angus was in no mood to miss out on the potting fest, and again a decent break of 36 saw Angus run away to a 74-32 victory, and put Shifnal 4-0 up in little more than an hour. It was left to Simon Biddulph to round of the evening with a frame against Mick Brezwyn, and an easy 72-20 victory for Simon completed a great win for the Shifnal lads. Broseley were very gracious in defeat, but are there some cracks appearing after a fantastic run of form this year.

Anstice A 4 Little Dawley A 1
Anstice A had to make sure of a win to stop a late charge for second from Little Dawley A and every frame proved to make it a nervous occasion. First up Keith Price for Anstice edged out Lee Elcock on the black, even though Lee had first shot at a cut. Pretty much the pattern of the night as Simon Yeates also beat Matt Bailey on the black, making it 2-0 to Anstice on the night. Darren Pountney pulled one back for Little Dawley as he was in no mood to let the match slip away, still on cloud 9 from the Doubles final win on Tuesday night, along with team mate Matt Bailey. Shaun wrapped second up for Anstice with an impressive performance against Mike King and seemed to put all his cue problems behind him from the other night. Ian Duffy fluked the blue in his frame, on route to beating Jesse Lowe, and making it 4-1 overall. Congratulations lads on finishing runners-up, and congratulations to Little Dawley for finishing outright 3rd, still an impressive season overall.

Bayley E 3 Maddocks C 2
Maddocks C went out fighting against a well organized unit in the name of Bayley E and came back facing the 2nd Division, losing 3-2 on the night. In a change to the usual order, Steve Hassack started the match off against Andy O’Brian. Both men have had a good solid season but it turned out to be Steve’s night as he hit a mid thirty break and put the Maddocks C team ahead.

The Ironmen, needing all 5 frames to be guaranteed safety, seemed to be heading for the plan with Joe Oliver starting well against Steve Hoof. Joe, who has had an “up‘n down, unlucky” season with the cue, just failed to get over the line with Steve potting very well to take the frame 47-31. Ken Davies Snr then came up against “arch enemy” Jimmy Hill and he must of regretted beating him the night before. Jim matched Ken’s safety play and kept a slight lead throughout the frame but in a frantic finish on the colours Jim managed to pot a long blue and, unusually, let his emotions show by shouting “Get in”. It’s a different game in a Match situation.

So, with a tiny bit of hope left, Skipper Graham Hoof took on in-form Ali Jones. The game was not the stuff dreams are made of, in fact it sent most people to sleep! But Graham stuck to his plan of waiting for his chances to come along. Unfortunately, for the Oakengates side, the chance came to Ali, which he took and with the 67-32 win, he also took any last bit of hope away from the visitors. So Maddocks final frame in the league came down to Billy Rushton against John Squire. Billy once again tried his big heart out to get the win that he has deserved this year but it was not to be with John controlling the frame and taking the match 3-2 for the Wellington side.

Maddocks C have enjoyed competing in the first division after this difficult year in which we lost our dear friend Nev Whitehead. Good luck to all the teams next season and we will hope to see you in 2007-08 season.

The above report is courtesy of Jim Hill

Maddocks B v 2nd Club B
Last game of the season and both teams along with Bayley B and Bayley Q could still win the title and/or get promotion. 2nd Club were definitely in the driving seat with a 2 point lead at the top going into this last game but having lost 4-1 the week before to Shifnal D it was far from a foregone conclusion. The first match saw Mike Thompson start confidently for 2nd Club and pick up a useful lead before Wally Harper stroked in a 40 break. Wally eventually closing it out on the blue to win 77-49. Tom Firmstone then played a very controlled game against stalwart Les Hicks and after an excellent early period of safety play from both players Tom won by 59 to 22. Another game dominated early on by safety play saw Doug Morrey eventually get the better of Toby Welsh 41-23. That was 2-1 to Maddocks and they knew that only a 4-1 could guarantee them promotion so it was still all to play for. A close game from the off between Steve Pritchard and Dave Welsh saw Steve take it on the black to win 46-38. Dave had clawed his way back into the game with a stunning escape from a tight snooker on the brown and after potting the blue and pink an unlikely victory was on the cards. A wobbled black gave Steve the chance to close the game off and he did so with more than a little sigh of relief. 3-1 now and just the 2 captains left - John Archer for Maddocks and Neil Robinson for 2nd Club. Everything to play for and the whole season down to the very last game. News from the other matches was starting to filter through but both players did their best to ignore it and concentrate on the game. Neil gradually pulled away by literally picking off a red and a colour and playing safe and eventually won by 60 points to 20. The smiles on the faces of the rest of the 2nd club team made it quite obvious that although Maddocks had won 3-2 on the night the 2 points were enough for 2nd Club to clinch promotion and take the title. The nucleus of the team have been together for the best part of 10 years and after a few enforced club moves have really found a home they are comfortable with and where they will hopefully be for a number of years to come. Commiserations to Maddocks who fell just short of a promotion spot but with the team they have they are always going to be in with a shout come season end.

Round-up 2005-2006:

Div One Winners: Broseley A
Div One Runners Up: Anstice A
Div One Highest Break: Matt Davies (108)
Div One Most Wins: Matt Davies (20)
Relegated: Audco A and Maddocks C

ALL RESULTS COMPLETE IN DIV ONE

Div Two Winners: Anstice C
Div Two Runners Up: Bayley F
Div Two Highest Break: Richie Hulme (70)
Div Two Most Wins: Andy Elliott (19)
Relegated: Anstice B and ????

MISSING RESULTS:
CODDON C v MINN FATS G on week 22
MINN FATS G v BAYLEY F on week 20

The above two missing results mean that at present Minn Fats G are sitting in a relegation spot. Please can captains from Coddon C, Minn Fats G and Bayley F contact me to resolve these results.

Div Three Winners: 2nd Club B
Div Three Runners Up: Either Bayley B or Maddocks B
Div Three Highest Break: Kevin West (60)
Div Three Most Wins: S Chauhan and maybe L Striling

MISSING RESULTS:
NEWPORT B v HADLEY A on week 22
LDS D v MADDOCKS B on week 21
COMRADES A v LDS D on week 18

The above three missing results mean that at present, Bayley B occupy 2nd spot, but if Maddocks B won 5-0 against LDS D, then they would gain promotion instead, by virtue of more wins. Also, if Les Stirling won against Hadley A, he would tie the most wins with S Chauhan from Shifnal D, with 15 wins.

Defending Oakengates Doubles Champions reign is ended

Ian Duffy and Shaun Harris from Anstice, the most successful doubles partnership in recent years in the Telford & District Snooker League were defeated 3 frames to 1 by previous team mates Darren Pountney and Matt Bailey, from Little Dawley Snooker Club.

Frame One proved to be vital as Matt Bailey soon clicked into his usual potting pattern with a quickfire 34 break which proved to be enough to open the account for the Little Dawley lads. Frame Two proved a scrappy affair with Ian Duffy and Shaun Harris potting the final few colours to level the scores at 1-1. Frame Three saw Darren Pountney hit form with some excellent safety and long potting to ensure a 2-1 lead and edge towards victory. Frame Four was also controlled by the Little Dawley men and finally finihsed off with an excellent brown, blue and pink from Matt Bailey to secure Darren and Matt's first doubles success. This was especially pleasing as last year Ian and Shaun had inflicted defeat on them in the semi-finals by 3 frames to 2, so revenge proved sweet.

Darren Pountney

Darren.Pountney@telfordsnooker.com

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