In the LDS A home game against Maddocks A, Lee Elcock turned in an expressive performance to easily beat Darren Wincott, 1-0. Lee Buttery then won his first match of the season with an even better win against Ian Eldridge, making it 2-0. Ironically Lee had some weight added to his cue 2 hours before the match, and what a difference it has made.

Jesse won the match of the grinders against Dave France to make it 3-0 for the Little Dawley side. Maddocks did show some resilience when Leigh France was in impressive form against Matt Bailey to make it 3-1.

Darren Pountney, currently with his cue away for repair in London, then happened to borrow Matt Bailey's cue and coolly dispose of Ian Skelton to make it 4-1 to the Little Dawley Men in one of his best performances of the season. All players were in scintillating form.

Report courtesy of Darren Pountney.

With Anstice A and Broseleys result not in this week, the Little Dawley side result may indeed put them in a good position, as the two afore mentioned have played against each other this week.

Shifnal B, at home in their local derby match saw the B-side off to a flyer with Matt Davies having breaks of 43 and 38 and John Fallows recording a 39. Next up, Arran Sparkes beat Lindsay Knox comfortably 63-13 before K. Uzzel made it three for the B team beating N. Price 53-16.

Rob Wright then added the fourth point of the evening by narrowly defeating Andy Easthope 55-45, and Dave Peplow, also for the B team, nearly made it a clean sweep for the Shifnal side but Simon Biddulph rescued a point for his side on a respotted black.

A New Year brought a hard fought win for Maddocks C against Dawley A. Skipper Graham Hoof opened for the Ironmen only to be well beaten by some great potting by Sean Nolan, including a nice break of 25 to finish off the frame.

Chris Woods then tried to extend the lead, but lost out when, after a long, long frame, he missed the blue to let the “boy” Tommy Hampson steal the frame 45-33.

Next up was Steve Hassock who commented on his best ever “19” break to beat Pete Nolan and put the home side ahead. Grant Heighway then put down his cider, and polished off a seesaw game against Jim Hill 37-57 to set up the decider.

Once again, as it’s been over the last few years, Joe Oliver came up against Rick Bailey to settle the match. The home man produced probably the best game he has played this season to take the points for Maddocks C, winning well to give them hope of staying with the “elite” next season.

Report from Jimmy Hill.

Last match to report in the first division this week is Audco’s visit to Anstice where they played the “D” side.

No surprises in this match as Audco went down to the Anstice 4-1, which leaves them well stranded, and still without a match win yet! Highlight of the evening was Mickey Bentines narrow win over D. Wilkie to record his first win.

Division Two

This week saw the division leaders increase their lead over the rest when the Second Club Trench visited Anstice C. Although Ian Ferriday took the first point for the Second Club by beating John Jones, that was to be their only point of the evening as the Anstice went on to take the next four frames to increase their lead to eight points.

Bayley F played in a local derby match against their “D” side and gained a 3-2 victory, which gives them a five point lead over third placed LDS G, although that score card has not arrived at the time of this report.

Highlight of this match was Ritchie Hulmes two nice breaks during his frame with Mark Bedall of 46 and 33 to win the frame 91-8.

Shifnal F having the home advantage got the better of Anstice B 3-2 who, in spite of an experienced side look to be struggling a little after their promotion this season.

Dawley B at home to Minnesota Fats A only managed to take one point from the visiting side, and that was by courtesy of new signing Paul Harper who recorded a 69 break in his match with Mick Egan, that score line, 76-5.

Division Three

Tom Firmstone got the division three leaders, Second Club Trench B, off to a good start with a comfortable 52-31 win over C. Haycox.

Kev McLeod by his own admission played his best game of the season to beat Paul Crooks 63-19, which included a fluent 32 break. A topsy-turvy game between Toby Welsh and Dan Oliver saw Toby pull away on the colours, to win 60-39.

Neil Robinson and Dickie Beddall then played a quick but low scoring game which Neil won 38-30.

Bayley's Dick Oliver then beat Dave Welsh 58-38 with his best frame of the year to leave the home side with a deserved but hard fought 3-2 win.

Report courtesy of Neil Robinson.

Comrades A took a little battering from LDS B who made the trip to Bridgenorth this week. LDS looked on for a clean sweep until Richard Davies managed to take the last frame for comrades by beating Snowy Darrock 67-33. Final score, 4-1 to LDS B.

The last game to report this week saw LDS D beating the Newport Legion 3-2 which leaves them both in the middle of the table on equal points. A good win for S. Jackson in this match when he came up against the very useful Les Stirling and returned a winning score line of 81 –36.

Thanks to everyone who sent e-mail reports this week, as not many cards arrived in time for this report. They are always welcome and give a better insight into the matches played.

Happy New Year to you all.

Alan Turner    

Alan.Turner@telfordsnooker.com

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