Division two leaders, Anstice C now look almost certain to win the second division title, after visiting Dawley B and returning home with four of the five points on offer.

John Jones got the team off with the start they wanted beating Gary Clements in a high scoring game, 73-58. The new signing for Dawley B this season, Paul Harper was comprehensively beaten 63 –2 by Steve Camp, and with Paul’s talent, what a victory that was for Steve!

Andy Elliot rattled up one hundred points in his frame against Kev Jones to put the Anstice three up, and Barry Roden, playing well of late, also lost his frame to Mike Musgrave by 58-44. In the last frame the Dawley side salvaged one point when Alex Jones beat Nick Oakley 72-30.

Bayley F haven’t given up the chase yet, and they too, although playing away from home to Shifnal F managed a 3-2 victory.

Two most convincing wins of the evening came from Tom Maxfield of the Bayley scoring 70 points to Fred Harpers 1, and then Ritchie Hulme also with 70 points beating J. Briscoe, 70-5.

Codden C lost some ground with this weeks result, and the following report was kindly sent in by Dave Dudley.

The night started a little late, but this did not affect Jim Lewis from taking the first frame for the Bayley D, 61-13 against Daniel Ballard, who could not quite find the form he was showing in practice before the match.

Craig Whitehead wasted no time in making it 2-0 against Matt Bothwell by a convincing 65-23.

The Third frame which saw the two captains drawn out against each other, was inevitably going to go down to the wire, and in a very close game throughout eventually saw Ray Whitehead, who had very little run all-night jaw the pink. Dave Dudley then potted pink and black to snatch the frame 69-60.

Dave Williams put in a good performance against F. McKinnon winning by 65-47. This game albeit was slightly tainted by a comment to the home referee that he was not being entirely honest when awarding a free ball! The situation that arose did not bear any significance to the game as no advantage was gained anyway.

Coddon’s Dave Holmes saved the whitewash with a good display against Mark Beddall defeating Mark by 75-23.

Minnesota Fats A will be pleased with their 3-2 win over the Little Dawley G side, but although the Dawley side were playing away, they will probably be surprised that the two points gained now take them into third spot, just one point ahead of Codden C.

Codden B with the home advantage, lost 3-2 to Minnesota Fats G and both of these teams are clear of the relegation places at the moment!

Anstice B were at home to the Second Club Trench and weren’t able to do themselves any favours in the relegation stakes as they lost 4-1 to the Second club.

Not quite as convincing a win as the result would have you believe, as Mick Cahill for Anstice lost 80-66, which suggests Mick may have been able to make the game go to a re-spotted black? George Hammond also lost 51-49 to Lloyd Giles, and Noel Stones was the only winner for Anstice with a score line of 71-4 over Keith Mears.

Division One

Broseley still remain in the driving seat this week after a 3-2 victory over the Shifnal B side.

Graham Long continued his good form giving the home side their first point of the evening beating Chris Petford 75-37. Carl Walker then came up against Matt Davies who pulled one back for the Shifnal side with a 61-37 result in Shifnals favour.

S. Thomas won a close encounter with Aaron Sparkes 49-43 to put Broseley 2-1 ahead. Mick Brezwyn having only lost three frames all season increased Broseleys lead with a 60-36 win over Rob Wright, who has also showed some good form this season.

In the last game Dave Peplow for Shifnal gained a cracking win over Simon McLeod in a high scoring game and that score line, 70-53 to Dave.

Anstice A played at home to the Audco A side, and this match must have surely sealed the fate of Audco, as all five points went to the Anstice side. Best winner of the night was Simon Yeates who gave a flawless display of snooker against the luckless Andy Phelan.

Little Dawley A continue their battle for second spot, and the next report was kindly sent in by Darren Pountney, and may I once again thank those who take the trouble to send the reports in.

Matt Bailey got things rolling for Little Dawley with an impressive display against Steve Collins to put them 1-0 up. Paul Devey then replied in quick fire fashion, with a great 47 break in his second visit to the table against Darren Pountney to level things.

Lee Buttery then returned back to the team with an excellent display against Darren Wilkie to put Little Dawley back in the driving seat, and this was quickly followed by Lee Elcock winning a scrappy encounter against the in-form Nigel Wallcroft to put the match out of reach for the Anstice.

Ade Henry finished things off for Little Dawley with a fine win against an out of sorts Keith Blackham to make the overall score Little Dawley 4 Anstice D 1, keeping an outside chance of second still a possibility.

Maddocks A remain in fourth position with a 3-2 win at home to Dawley A. There were two high scoring victories in this match with a 38 break from Ian Eldridge in his 92-24 win over Pete Nolan, but that was topped by a superb 69 break for Ian Skelton against Mark Jones, that score 83-7.

Shifnal A threw the Bayley E side straight back into the relegation battle after inflicting a 5-0 win over the Bayley side playing at Shifnal. Closest chance of winning a frame for the Bayley side came courtesy of Steve Hoof who just lost out to Lindsay Knox 62-56.

Angus Way recorded a 44 break in his 70-12 win with A. Jones, and then in the last frame Simon Biddulph who has played quite well this season, (for a part timer) knocked in a 39 break against John Squires.

The next report sent in by Jim hill will give both his and the Bayley A team an extra glimmer of hope in the relegation stakes.

Here's the result from the big relegation battle between Bayley A and Maddocks C.

Bayley A managed to secure a vital win against Maddocks C in the battle to (probably) join Audco, in the 2nd division.

Chris Morgan-Adams started out in great form beating the visiting skipper Graham Hoof with a well-conducted 60 break to put Bayley ahead. Arthur Burrows then played some great snooker to be pipped on the blue by Jimmy Hill to level the scores.

Another great performance of the night came from Steve “Baby face” Hassack who, after a bout of the “Bug going around”, managed to beat Bob Mason with some splendid potting to put the Ironmen ahead.

Next up was “Marks n” Spencer Rowley against “Bouncer” Billy Rushton. It turned out to be a great game that flowed one way then the other. Firstly the home player got a good lead, but the big man came back strong and a tense finish was what the crowd got. Billy eventually falling to a good pink from Spencer.

In the decider there was a crowd pleaser when Steve “should’ve gone to specsavers” Fletcher played Joe Oliver. Steve started with a couple of great breaks of 35 and 20 to (seemingly) put the game to bed. Joe then managed to pull the scores back only to, unluckily, go in off on the green. Steve then managed to win the game for the home side by potting the pink.

This result leaves a tense finish to see who can manage to play with the elite next year.

Division Three

Just two cards in this week for this division so the report will be sparse!

Bayley B, although losing 3-2 at home to Shifnal D, go top of the division due to byes and missing results.

The first three games went to Shifnal when Terrie Askew got the better of Kevin West in the opening frame 63-38, followed by Sanjay Chauhan comprehensive win 74-15 over C. Haycox.

Peter Wharton took the third frame narrowly beating Dan Oliver 60-53 before R. Bedall stopped the rot in the fourth frame by defeating Geoff French 67-17. In the last game of the evening Dick Oliver comfortably beat Barrie Easthope 87-23 to take the second point for the Bayley side.

Little Dawley B gave themselves a good boost this week when they visited Newport British Legion, and Simon Evans got the Little Dawley side off to the first win with a sound victory over Allan Davies 57-8.

Next up Richard Goldie for Newport gave a good account of himself but lost out to Pete Clarke 64-44 and give the Dawley side their second point of the evening. In a low scoring game Colin Gittus kept up the good work by beating John Yapp 38-29.

Another close game followed when Nigel Simpson for the legion fell to Tom Wotherspoon 51-41. In the last frame one of the hardest players to beat in this division, Les Stirling knocked in a good 41 break and went on to a comfortable win against Snowy Darrock, 74-3.

Alan Turner    

Alan.Turner@telfordsnooker.com

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