The slightly depleted division three had some fine breaks in their matches this week, with Kevin West beating his previous highest of 55 and replacing it with a 60 break.

Kevin’s team were playing host to Hadley A, and took four points from the encounter with Kevin’s break coming in the first game against Richard Benting, producing a 91-30 score line. The only winner for Hadley was another Kevin, Kevin Whitehead who beat S. Morgan-Adams 59-22.

Comrades signed a new player this week in their match against Bayley Q. The new player, Andy Brezwyn, got Comrades off to a good start by winning his debut game 54-35 playing Chris Durham. Chris Cook took the next frame for Comrades in what could have been a black ball game, although not marked on the card. That frame score was 45 to Chris and 35 to Rob Cook.

In the next frame another good break from Mark Wordsell with a 46 against Chris Bates. With Marks win of 64-28, that put comrades 3-0 up. Chris Fletcher then pulled one back for the Bayley side by defeating Steve Preece 54-44.

In the last game, it was a close victory for Steve Weatherall 49-45 against M. Jones, and those two points keep the Bayley Q side in second spot.

With only three cards out of the four results in, the last match in this division this week saw Shifnal D at home to Second Club Trench B.

Tom Firmstone put Second Club one up with a fine 57-10 win over Terry Askew before Sanjay Chauhan levelled the score line with an equally impressive win over Mike Thompson 52-14. Sanjay compiled a 26 break during that game.

Another break of 22 in the next frame for Peter Wharton, secured the second point for Shifnal with Toby Welsh being on the receiving end and losing out 59-24. Barrie Easthope won the match for Shifnal by defeating Paul Crooks 52-35. Neil Robinson had a fine game against Ivor Peplow to give the Second Club their second point of the evening, returning a score of 64-26.

Second Division

LDS G who were doing well so far this season, came up against a determined Bayley F side, and even with home advantage watched the Bayley side take all five points.

Graham Wiley, who had won his previous six games in a row, was Bayleys first victim when Eddie Whitehead produced an emphatic win of 88-20. Next frame saw young Tom Maxfield beat N. Morris by 58 points to 27, before Chris Shaw added another point to the Bayley score line getting the better of R. Levenue 44-24.

The closest game of the evening saw Rob Whithington lose out to Paul Maxfield 49-37. Graham Copson then came up against Ritchie Hulme. Ritchie may not be as formidable as he used to be but still showed good form to run out a winner with a score line of 73-22. This win moves Bayley F into third spot and will definitely give them a boost of confidence.

The heavy defeat of LDS G saw Anstice C take full advantage of that situation when they visited Minnesota Fats G.

Martin Watkins, back in the snooker fold, lost the first game of the evening when John Jones rattled up an 84-29 victory. James price for Min G fared much better with Steve Camp, but just lost in the end by 8 points, 58-46. Wayne Weeks lost to Andy Elliot 63-31, as did Tony Marsh to Mike Musgrave 52-34.

Craig Davies stopped the white wash in the last frame when he defeated Nick Oakley 53-37. That result puts Anstice C eight points clear at the top of the division.

Anstice B did themselves, and their C side a favour, when they entertained Codden B at the Anstice club. Anstice B’s haphazard form went out of the window this week as they notched up a 4-1 win over the Codden side.

Noels Stones got the early point for Anstice B over Steve Downes 64-36. Codden B recovered quickly virtue of A. Jones beating John Darrock 58-15. However that was to be the only point of the evening for Codden B when Darren Shaw overcame Mark wall 60-46.

Andy Garmson came very close to taking a second point for Codden B but the experienced George Hammond won that frame 49-44. The last game and fourth point was won by Mick Cahill who triumphed over Nick Pearce 58-38.

Second Club A maintain their position, and will be pleased with their 3-2 home win when they played Shifnal F.

Ian Ferriday took the first frame against D. Pye, 45-31, followed by teammate Roger Smiths win, 55-16 playing J. Briscoe. D. Miller gave Shifnal their first point of the match when he returned a score line of 66-39 beating Keith Mears.

Lloyd Giles continued his good form of the season when he welcomed Fred Harper back into the snooker limelight for the first time this season, although it wasn’t the start Fred would have liked as Lloyd beat Fred by 61-35. Chris Painter gained the second point for Shifnal with a 56-22 victory over Karl Owen.

In a bottom of the division clash, Bayley D who were at home to Dawley B, took four points from the match, which may give the Dawley B side a future struggle. Paul Harper returned the only win of the night for the Dawley side with a comfortable win 71-3 against Jim Lewis.

First Division

Top and bottom of this division came together this week when Broseley visited the Audco club. No surprises here, as the Broseley side who are playing very well, recorded a 5-0 win over Audco giving themselves an eight point margin in the division.

With the champions also playing one of the bottom sides this week they may have hoped to do better, but the Bayley A side have got their act together a lot better than Audco at the moment.

Ian Duffy, always a tough player to beat, couldn’t have started better notching up a score line of 64-4 playing Steve Nichols. S. Harris was just as impressive playing Chris Morgan-Adams and inflicting a 45-12 defeat on Chris. Simon Yeats swept Arthur Burrows aside 68-3, and everything looked to be going the Anstice way.

That wasn’t to be as Campaigner Spencer Rowley had a fine win over Keith Price, albeit a narrow victory, 55-47. The very capable Steve Fletcher then got a second point for Bayley with another good win over Richard Wade 55-37.

Shifnal A 3 Little Dawley A 2

Little Dawley got off to a great start when Lee Elcock was in good form, and after having an early 20 break, never looked back and ran out an easy winner over Lindsay Knox. Next frame up saw Simon Biddulph take on Matt Bailey. Matt was in sparkling form, and several high scoring visits saw him run out an easy and deserved winner.

With LDS now two up, Darren Pountney must have fancied closing the match out for the Little Dawley men, but Andy Easthope was in fine potting form and pulled a frame back for Shifnal. John Fallows then ran out an easy winner with the help of a solid 28 break against Jessie Lowe, to square the match up at 2 each. It was then left to Angus Way and Tim Hicks to scrap it out for winner’s honours. The frame was a close, tense encounter early on but late in the frame, with Tim not at his best, Angus pulled away to wrap up a hard earned win for the Shifnal men.

Report courtesy of Angus way.

Bayley E, on the same points as their Bayley A side, had a tough match to play this week when they had the Maddocks A side visit them.

Andy O’Brien for the Bayley side, got them the start they wanted coming out the victor, in a high scoring game, 60-50 with Ian Eldridge. Steve Hoof carried on the good work with a similar score beating Daz Wincott 57-50. Phil Davies hit back for the Maddocks side having a 38 break on his way to a win over A. Jones 72-58.

Leigh France recently returning to winning ways secured the second point for Maddocks with a narrow win whilst playing John Squire 43-30. No messing about in the last frame as Ian Skelton made short work of his opponent, Dave France, to win 70-9 and win the match for Maddocks A.

Dawley A and Shifnal B remain in the same position this week after the teams met at Dawley. Shifnal started very well with A. Sparkes putting Shifnal in front when he beat Chris Woods 85-38.

Pete Nolan came up against Matt Davies who has only lost once so far this season, and that didn’t change with Matt Davies scoring 84 and Pete Nolan 41.

Sean Nolan then pulled one back for Dawley with breaks of 23 and 37 during his frame with Chris Petford. Mark Jones proceeded to win the next frame for Dawley playing Nigel Stallard, which set up a deciding frame between Rick Bailey and Rob Wright.

Both of these players have been enjoying good form this season, and that was reflected in the narrowest of victories when Rick just got the better of Rob by 47-45, on the black ball, and giving the match win to Dawley, 3-2

Here is the report for the Maddocks C v Anstice D match.

Maddocks C recorded their second win of the season with a 3-2 win over Anstice D. Jimmy Hill started the balls rolling with a controlled game of potting and safety…and a little bit of luck, to beat Paul Devey 67-20. Steve Hassock is starting to get used to life in the Telford league with a solid 57-22 win over Steve Collins before leaving for his Christmas Caribbean cruise. The match was sealed when Tommy “the boy” Hampson fought out a scrappy frame with Darren Wilkie to win on the blue ball. Any thoughts of a whitewash were swept away when Graham Hoof was outplayed by Nigel Warcroft 33-62. The final frame saw an out-of-sorts Joe Oliver lose to Keith Blackham 20-66.

The win may help the Iron men avoid a “Harry Redknapp”….relegation.

Report courtesy of Jimmy “the saint” Hill

My thanks for the reports sent in, and may I wish you all a very good Christmas.

Alan Turner    

Alan.Turner@telfordsnooker.com

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