The second week of theTelford Snooker League, and the report starts in the second division.

Minnesota G continued their good start to the season when they played the Second Club Trench A side at Minnesota, and gained a 4-1 triumph over the Trench side. Minnesota G took the first four frames until Lloyd Giles won the last frame beating Aaron O’Donnell, that game finishing on a black ball decider.

Nick Oakley got Anstice C off to a good start by beating Mark Bedall of Bayley D, 64-28, recording a 28 break on the way to victory.

Steve Camp and Andy Elliot added two more points to the tally before Dave Dudley drew one point back with a black ball win over J. Mills. The last game, also on the black, was secured for the Bayley side when Daz Rhodes beat Mick Musgrave 54-43.

Bayley F, off to a flyer last week found themselves on the end of a 4-1 defeat when they were at home to Anstice B.

Young Tom Maxfield lost to John Darrock in the first game by 50-31 before Azer Khan stepped up to play Noel Stones.

Noel compiled a 42 break and left Azer in his wake with a 98-21 score line.

Paul Maxfield then pulled a point back for the Bayley side before George Hammond and Stew Wimbush took the last two frames in the match.

Shifnal F were hosts to Minnesota Fats A, and found themselves two down in the opening frames, but after J. Elcock beat Mick Egan on the black, that win seemed to revive the Shifnal side as they went on to win 3-2.

Chris Painter finished the match in style putting together a 31 break as he beat Neil Pearson 54-12.

Dawley B who haven’t quite got into their stride yet were at home to Coddon B.

The Dawley side started with a win in the first game when Paul Harper won a high scoring game against Mark Wall 63-55, then as the match see sawed to two points all, it fell to Nick Pearce for the Coddon side to secure the match winning 67-22 over Barry Roden.

Coddon C were 3-2 winners over L.D.S G, although it looked by the score card that one game was claimed by the Coddon side.

In the third division this week Bayley Q who have started the season well, welcomed Maddocks B to the Bayley club, and took three of the five points on offer.

The experienced Wally Harper was too good for Rob Cook in the first frame with a comprehensive score line of 60-4 to the Maddocks side, but Bayley Q replied by taking the next three frames, albeit the fourth frame just pinched on the black when Steve Weatherall beat Nigel White 53-44.

John Archer took the second point for the Maddocks men beating Richard Tranter 52-18.

The Second Club B side maintained their good start by inflicting a 4-1 defeat to the Newport B team. Although away from home, Newport are a little slow off the mark this season so far, but there’s a long way to go yet!

Comrades A, with a favourable result last week suffered a 5-0 trouncing at the hands of Shifnal D, with Chris Crook from the Comrades being the closest to taking a point, but losing on the black ball.

The new Hadley A side played their first match of the season at Dawley playing the Dawley D side.

Ryan Jackson for the Dawley side, defeated Kevin Whitehead on a black ball finis, and the only other Hadley player to show any form was Iain Atkinson who gained the only point of the evening for Hadley, beating Chris Nibblett 64-33.

Early days yet, but Anstice D once again have started like a train, and as Audco found out last week, the Anstice D side will be hard work for the other teams this season.

Anstice were at home to the Shifnal A side, and sent them home with a 5-0 drubbing.

Although the scorecard indicated some close finishes, the most impressive win of the evening came when Keith Blackham returned a score of 77-38 against Angus Way.

Dawley A visited the usually solid team of Bayley E, and took four points from the encounter, the only winner for the Bayley side being A. Jones win over Pete Nolan.

Shifnal B at home to the first division champions, Anstice A, played like champions them selves as they took the match 3-2.

Matt Davies opened with an impressive win over Ian Duffy 112-15 compiling breaks of 46 and 39 along the way. There won’t be many score against Ian like that this season!

Aaron Sparkes, back in the Shifnal fold now also turned in a good performance beating Simon Yeats 54-40.

The experienced campaigner Dave Peplow took Richard Wade to the wire losing out on the black.

Next up, Keith Price beat Chris Petford by 58-24 setting up a deciding match between Rob Wright and Shaun Harris.

This must have been a nail biter of a frame, and Rob will be well pleased with his victory over Shaun by the narrowest of margins 53-51.

Maddocks C enjoyed their first 4-1 home win at the expense of Audco A.

Skipper Graham Hoof set the trend with a hard fought battle against Micky Benting, gaining the frame 61-25 before the experienced Alan Turner got the better of young Tommy Hanson on the pink, 51-38. Tommy took a superb blue only to miscue on the pink and let Alan in to do the business.

Jim Hill made it two nil for the iron men after he got the better of his frustration and potted the last two colours to beat Andy Phelan 57-46.

Old campaigners Nev Whitehead and Graham Darrall then took stage, and it was Nev who held the upper hand. With the aid of a twenty break Nev kept his lead to the colours and increased it to 31, which proved to be just out of reach for Graham.

Anchorman Joe Oliver, played his usual solid game and a 31 break helped him fence off a challenge from Andy Kendrick to give the newly promoted side four valuable points and plenty of encouragement. Report courtesy of Nev Whitehead.

Broseley A had a couple of close frames when the Maddocks A side visited them at Broseley.

Broseley showed the better form and ran out 4-1 winners of this match.

Bayley A visited the stronghold of Little Dawley and played the Little Dawley A side, and after losing to the Dawley side 4-1 find themselves sharing bottom place with Audco.

Nice to see Mike King playing with this side, and his form was still intact has he set the Dawley side on the road to victory by beating A. Burrows 54-16.

That concludes the report for this week. Please bear in mind to order your tickets via the scorecards, or get in touch with a committee member so that we can cater for attendees to the presentation.

I mentioned this in last weeks report but it seems the local newspapers have overlooked us!

Alan Turner    

Alan.Turner@telfordsnooker.com

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