Welcome back it was this week for a player who hasn’t been on the scene for some time, but I’m sure the Maddocks A team were all patting him on the back.

Maddocks, with home advantage were playing champions Anstice, and the first frame went to the Anstice team with Ian Duffy defeating Darren Wincott 64-35. Not the start that Maddocks wanted but in the next game Leigh France pulled a point back with a fine win over S. Harris scoring 63 points to Shawn’s 49. A very close frame next with Ian Skelton just losing out to J. Fallows 62-54. Dave France then completed a family double of the evening by getting the better of Keith Price 73-40.

So with a decider on the cards and Maddocks A being short of playing staff, welcome back to Tom McIver, their new signing on the evening. Not many would have guessed the outcome of this frame, but after playing himself back into the game steadily against Richard Wade, Tom produced two fine doubles on the blue and pink to win the frame and the match for Maddocks A, 3-2.

LDS A had the Audco side visit them, and in the opening frame Darren Pountney won a scrappy game against Alan Turner on the pink, with neither player showing much form. That score line 51-37.

In the next frame Matt Bailey beat Graham Darrell 66-7 with some fine potting and safety, and barely gave Graham a chance to do much about it. Lee Elcock then beat Andy Phelan 52-11 before Tim Hicks played Mick Benting. Tim was also cueing very well and made it 4-0 with a winning score of 53-3.

Last up for Little Dawley was Ade Henry meeting our star player Andy Kendrick. A well contested game this with a fabulous brown and blue from Andy to take the frame and one point for Audco. Audco are now the only team not to have won a match in the league so far, but watch out!

Broseley versus Dawley A.

Frame 1
This saw Carl Walker for Broseley up against the in form Sean Nolan for Dawley. Sean played an excellent potting & safety frame, racing into a 57-point lead including a 33 break. Carl started to claw his way back but was no match for the Dawley potter who went on to take the frame comfortably with a score line of 70 points to 27. Broseley 0, Dawley 1.

Frame 2
This saw Graham Long for Broseley up against Chris Woods for Dawley. Graham took an early 20+ lead and never looked in trouble after that as an out of sorts Chris missed a series of easy pots. This gave Graham chances to close the frame out which he did with no problem, taking the frame with a score line of 68 points to 33. Broseley 1, Dawley 1.

Frame 3
This saw the two captains come together as Simon McLeod played Mark Jones. Simon potted well early doors and forged himself a good lead, which never looked in danger as a poor performance from the Dawley captain gave Simon no problems. Simon went on to take the frame with a score line of 48 points to 3. Broseley 2, Dawley 1.

Frame 4
This saw Mick Brezwyn for Broseley up against Grant Heighway for Dawley. An excellent frame this from the Dawley mon who played a superb tactical frame against a very dangerous player. Grants potting & safety game gave Mick little chance and he went on to make the match all square with a frame score of 63 points to 33. Grants decision to play Division 1 snooker this year seems to be paying dividends. Broseley 2, Dawley 2.

Frame 5
With the match standing all square the final frame saw Simon Thomas for Broseley up against Rick Bailey for Dawley. It was good to have Rick back in the side after his recent injury (Dancing with the pavement after too many Brandies!!) and he turned in a virtuoso performance against a very talented player. Another frame, which saw superb tactical play from the Dawley mon, saw Rick win the match for Dawley by beating Simon 58 points to 48. Broseley 2, Dawley 3.

Report courtesy of Mark Jones.

Shifnal A got back to winning ways with a good victory at the Bayley club. Lindsay Knox got the ball rolling with a comfortable victory over Chris Morgan-Adams of the Bayley A side.

Simon Biddulph quickly made it 2-0 to Shifnal as breaks of 31 and 45 effectively won the frame in two visits, and another easy victory for Angus Way over Spencer Rowley had Shifnal thinking about taking all five points. Bob mason stopped the rot however with a hard fought pink ball win over Andy Easthope.

Steve Fletcher and John Fallows then fought out a superb frame, with both players in excellent form, but it was Steve who won on the pink to give Bayley the last frame of the evening. The game finished Bayley A 2 Shifnal A 3

Report courtesy of Angus Way.

Maddocks C failed to register their second win of the season against a tough Shifnal B 2-3. A fantastic opening red from Graham Hoof shook Matt Davies which kicked him into life, and knocking in a 43 break sealed the frame.

Steve Hassock levelled matters with a cautious win over Rob Wright, with Steve knocking in a 31 break to finish the frame off. Top pool player Kev Uzzell then produced a great show of potting and positional play, including a 59 break to beat Jimmy Hill and put Shifnal back in front.

Chris Painter then won the match beating the young Tommy Hampson in an entertaining frame. The final point went to Maddocks when Joe Oliver beat Dave Peplow on a black ball in a tight game.

Report courtesy of Jim Hill.

Anstice D lost a little more footing this week when they played Bayley E, who until recently were in dour form. Bayley E went to the Anstice club and with a few points trickling back for them in the last couple of matches, built on that by taking four points from the match.

A O’Brien took the first game comfortably 60-7 against D. Wilkie before Steve Hoof added a second point with an equally impressive score line of 62-5 playing Steve Collins. Paul Devey then lost his game with D. France to make it 3-0 for the Bayley team, before Nigel Wallcroft pulled a game back for Anstice by beating A. Jones 67-40.

The final frame between K Blackham and John Squires appeared to be a black ball finish with John Squires completing a good night for the Bayley side taking home four of the five points to be had.

Second Division.

Anstice C edged a point further ahead of their main rivals this week as they recorded a fine 5-0 win over the Codden c-side. John Jones gave Anstice their first home point of the evening 51-14 playing Matt Bothwell. The next game saw Steve Camp trounce Sef Tusel in that frame, with Steve having breaks of 29,27,and 24. Final score in that frame 112-23 to Steve.

Steve’s breaks must have inspired his team mates to get in on the act as Andy Elliot also made a 27 with his win over Danny Weaver, 74-46, followed by a 30 break from Mike Musgrave who beat Frazier McKinnon 73-45. Nothing was stopping Anstice on the night as Nick Oakley secured the final point defeating Dave Holmes 80-53.

A couple of miles away meanwhile, second place LDS G were at Shifnal to do battle with the Shifnal F team. Captain for Little Dawley, G. Copson opened in good style with breaks of 25 and 27 in his encounter with D. Pye to record a score line of 74-18.

D. Miller then took a point back for Shifnal 52-24 against Rob Withington and game on! R. James was next up for the Shifnal lads but couldn’t get the better of Graham Wiley who took another point for Little Dawley. J. Briscoe didn’t fare much better either as the next frame went to R. Levenue and Little Dawley went 3-1 up.

Chris Painter did all he could to get the last point for Shifnal and although not denoted on the card, that looked like a close finish on the black, 57-50 in favour of N. Morris from LDS G.

Due to late cards the report for this division will be a little sparse this week.

Dawley B took on the Second Club A side at Dawley, and in the opening game of the evening saw Gary Clements make the start they needed by collecting the first point of the evening with a 76-32 win over the very solid Lloyd Giles.

Ian Ferriday levelled the scores with a close win over Ian Ward 43-32 before Ians team-mate Roger Smith put Second Club 2-1 up in a high scoring game with Kev Jones, that score line 67-55.

Barry Roden then produced a black ball finish defeating K. Mears 49-45 to set up a decider for the match. It was the Dawley side who finally triumphed, although not easily, as the final score in the last frame was 53 to Alex Jones of Dawley and 40 to K. Owen from the Second Club, giving Dawley the 3-2 victory.

Bayley D made the short trip to Codden club where they played against Codden B. The first frame went Coddens way, but only just, when Steve Downs came in with a 51-41 defeat of Darren Rhodes.

Bayley D replied with a comfortable win in the next frame as D. Williams returned an impressive score of 57-10 over A. Garmson. A. Jones regained the advantage for Codden by disposing of M. Bedall 67-23. Mark Wall maintained that advantage, and took the next frame to secure the team win and give Codden a 3-1 lead, after a comfortable victory over J. Lewis 65-26.

Down, but not out, Dave Dudley stepped up for his Bayley side and overcame Nick Pearce to enable the Bayley lads to return home with two points from the match, that score line 56-14 in favour of Dave Dudley.

Division Three.

Second Club Trench v LDS B.

The previous week saw two excellent results for these sides, a 5-0 win against Comrades for the Second Club and a 3-2 win against their own D side for LDS B, their first win of the season.

The first game pitched Tom Firmstone for the home side against Pete Clarke, and in a tight game went right to the wire with Pete sinking an excellent black to take the frame 52-48.

Paul Crooks had the job of bringing Second Club back into the match, and he took it 69-40 against Snowy Darrock. On three occasions during the game, Snowy needed snookers to enable him to win the game. On each occasion after Snowy got the desired snooker, Paul would then step up and pot the next colour until in the end it proved too much to claw back and the score was levelled at 1-1.

Second Club captain, Neil Robinson, beat an out of sorts Colin Gittus 55-10 to put his sides nose in front, and then an excellent 73-31 win for Toby Welsh against Tom Wotherspoon made sure that the spoils went to the Second Club.

The last game was still vital for the Trench side as it was the difference between sitting second in the table behind Bayley Q or taking the lead outright. Mr dependable, Dave Welsh, won a scrappy frame against Simon Evans 42-9 and the home side were over the moon.

Second Club, well behind a couple of weeks ago, have taken nine out of ten points recently, and with tricky matches against Shifnal and Maddocks appearing on the horizon will no doubt give their confidence a real boost.

Report courtesy of Neil Robinson.

Newport B suffered a 3-2 defeat at the hands of Bayley B although having the home advantage. K. West from the Bayley won the first point for his club over N. Simpson 50-29, before an old friend of mine Richard Goldie took a point back for Newport with a 43-30 win over Dan Oliver.

D. Davies lost to S. Morgan-Adams, as did John Yapp to R. Bedall, those results giving the Bayley side a 3-1 lead. The last frame looked like a corker with a score line of 69-62 on the card, and the final frame going to Newport via Les Stirling in his game with D. Oliver.

LDS D and Shifnal D, at different ends of the table, had Shifnal visiting little Dawley where the opening frame was won for the Dawley side with S. Jackson triumphing over T. Askew. R. Jackson, second up for LDS then lost to S. Chauhan 58-33.

The next two games gave the Shifnal side a 3-1 lead with J. Evans of LDS losing out to P. Wharton, and Wayne Timmings also losing to Arthur Aston. Some solace was gained however in the last game of the evening when Chris Niblett notched up a 60-29 win over George Nelson.

My thanks to all the players who contributed to the reports, please keep them coming.

Alan Turner    

Alan.Turner@telfordsnooker.com

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