This weeks round up starts with Dawley A v Maddocks D, the home side having to concede 155 pts on the handicap. Things couldn’t have started better for the home team with S Nolan beating M Wainwright 60 pts. In frame 2 P Nolan took on R Lowe, in another high scoring frame it was Pete who took the honours, reducing the deficit another 22 pts. In frame 3 G Heighway took on F Spragg, Grant pulling back 28 pts, in frame 4 M jones played I Courtney, with both players potting well in the early exchanges, Mark needed to take the last few colours to win by 8 pts, leaving R Bailey to win by 38 points, he took on T O’Neil, Rick started the game well, but T O’Neil responded superbly, even though Rick eventually took the frame 64–40, the Maddocks team went through by just 13 points.

The match between LDS C v Shifnal D was won by another narrow margin, in frame one T Askew put the Shifnal side in front with a 68–41 win over J Richards, in the next S Chauhan put the away side further ahead with a 52-40 win over K Kesterton, in the 3rd A Garbett pulled 27 points back with victory over P Wharton, in frame 4 C Walls put in a brilliant display of potting and safety to put his side 44 up going into the last, which turned out to be a nail biter, as C Niblett took on B Easthope, both players started tentatively, until Barrie started his potting game, going into the last few colours things were level, and Chris needed to pot the remaining ball to win the match by just 3 points.

The match between Coddon B v Comrades was another home win, with Coddon only having to pull back 95 on the handicap! in frame 1 M wall beat S Jones 59–49, the 2nd saw A Jones pull another 18 pts back, beating M Wordsall 51–33, the next 2 frames saw further wins for the home side N Pearce beating M Jones 67–22 and D Lloyd beating S Preece 70–25, putting Coddon 23pts up going into the last, D Holmes saw his side through with, 47–25 over Chris Cook.

At Shifnal the A and B sides entertained Bayley A and Minnesota Fats A respectively, things started well for Bayley with S fletcher putting in a solid display against N price winning 52–43, in the next the ever dependable J fallows took on S Nicholls, John played some good snooker throughout, winning 86–32, in frame 3 L knox took on M hodson, Lindsay is in good form at the moment and he reduced the deficit even further winning 75–36, in frame 4 it was the turn of the away player S Rowley to put his side back in front, he potted well throughout the frame, not giving Angus way any chances to stamp his authority on the game, with Spencer winning 96–25, this left A easthope needing to win by 48 pts in the last, but he came up against a stubborn C morgan-adams, Andy took him all the way, with Chris needing to pot the final black to see his team through.

It was a different story for the B side, with Matt davies in brilliant form, following on from his breaks of 120 and 130 in the Chris ward last week, he again notched another century break against an unlucky K Stevenson, knocking in 109, putting his team ahead on the handicap, M pearson took on R wright in the next winning 58–51, but that was the only win for the away side, in frame 3 R Evans who beat M egan 70–45, further wins from Nigel Stallard and A sparkes completed a comfortable win for the home team.

Finally Bayley E beat Maddocks A, no match card received.

In the consolation cup LDS A took on Anstice D, which resulted in another win for the home side on the handicap, Little Dawley winning all 5 frames, J Lowe beating M Musgrave 61-50 in frame 1, T hicks potted superbly to beat L badhan 73-35, in frame 3 the league treasurer Darren Pountney compiled a nice 40 break to see off A elliot 83-24, with furthers wins for S Russell 54-50 over N wallcroft and L elcock 53-32 over K blackham.

A shock result occurred Maddocks C, were knocked out of the cup by bottom side, LDS G. D Wincott, back from his holiday in Goa, started by clawing back 42 pts from G Wiley to leave the deficit only 28 but soon things started to go wrong for the home men. G Copson managed to add a single point against J Oliver and D Bedworth could only pull back 3 points against R Withington. T Bell then played a magnificent frame against Jim Hill and potted three unbelievable doubles including the final pink off the bottom cushion into the middle bag to win by 10 pts. This left S Hassack to find 37 pts against R Levenue. An unlucky split of the balls for Steve allowed Ray to take control and with only the pink left the Iron man shook his opponents hand.

Hadley A who are languishing at the foot of the 3rd division, beat 2nd division Shifnal F, to edge towards a quarter final appearance for the first time in their history, courtesy of resounding victories by their two most brilliant snooker players Kev Whitehead & Iain Atkinson. Gareth Hughes started the match playing steady snooker however losing 39-63. Kev Whitehead then stepped up to see off Chris Painter playing some superb snooker to take the frame 66-29. Roy Francis was next up with Fred Harper, a very close game ensued (!) with Fred winning 46-43 despite going in off the black at the end. Allen Francis went on fourth against J Briscoe losing in a comfortable fashion 18-74!!! then with the game poised on a knife edge, with only a 34 point advantage the incredible Iain Atkinson went on, challenging one of the 2nd divisions leading players D Chapman, Iain produced some of the best snooker ever to grace the competition coming out with a resounding victory by 55-31, completing what was a sensational win by the Hadley boys 301-243, who decided to celebrate with another drink! (And an Indian!). Edited report, courtesy of Iain. Click here to read the unedited version of Iain's report

Division three team Bayley Q beat mid-level division one team Bayley F. Good scores from Richard Tranter, Rob Cook, and Chris Bates meant the net handicap of 135 was too much for the 'F' boys to recover

Other results were Dawley B beat Bayley B, Audco B beat LDS B, Bayley D beat Maddocks B and Newport B beat Audco A, please note competition match cards to be used with these matches.

Nigel Stallard

Nigel.Stallard@telfordsnooker.com

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