My report this week starts with Maddocks A at home to Minnesota Fats B where Maddocks lost 5-0 to the Minnesota side. Phil Davis started the match and although having chances, he missed them whereas his opponent, Darren Weston didn’t. Next frame saw Shawn Harris get the better of Ian Skelton, and then came a comprehensive win for the Minnesota man, Keith Price, notching up 71 points to Leigh France’s 11. Les Stirling gave Ian Duffy a good game but was edged out 69-53. Finally, Dave France was beaten by Simon Yeats to make it a clean sweep for the Minnesota side.

Broseley A were away to the Sir John Bayley A side, and they gained a 4-1 win with Spencer Rowley being the only winner for the Bayley side. Highlight of the evening was a 72 break from Mick Brezwyn whilst he was playing S. McLeod.

Shifnal A also compiled a 5-0 win over the Bayley E side with John Fallows having a 34 break against M. Francis, that score line 69-34. Dave France from the Bayley E side also knocked in a 27 but it wasn’t enough to overcome Lindsay Knox.

In the local derby between Dawley A and Little Dawley A the opening frame saw M. Jones lose to Lee Elcock on the black, with Jesse Lowe putting LDS A. two up when he played Rick Bailey. B. Mitchell made it 3-0 after beating P. Nolan before S. Nolan pulled one back, getting the better of C. Hales. Grant Heighway then recovered another point on his way to victory over S. Russell.

Second Division

Third placed Audco A took on leaders Maddocks C and inflicted their first away defeat of the season by four frames to one.

The game kicked off with Andy Phelan playing Danny “rather be watching Chelsea” Bedworth. The game started with Danny taking control but Andy put in a good break to fight back and leave the contest on the black. The away man held his nerve and cut the ball into the middle to win. 41-48. Next up was a mouth-watering game between Andy “Jenny” Kendrick and Steve “the Boro’” Hassack. Andy took the advantage but Steve fought back well with a good break. All went to the pink and, after Steve missed the object ball, Andy took the pot in the middle to win. 53-34. Graham Darrell then played a great entertaining frame with Jimmy Hill, with Graham playing a solid safety game and Jim potting from the lampshade. All went to the black and an unfortunate miscue from the Ironman left Graham with the easy task of putting his team in front by a solitary point. 55-54.

Mike Hughes took on away skipper Graham Hoof and went for his shots with not leaving much for his opponent. Despite Graham playing one of his best performances, it was not enough and Mike took the match for Audco. 65-32. The final frame was between Alan “retiring” Turner and Joe “retiring” Oliver. The silver fox played some great snooker (with a little bit of luck) and showed his best form to make the outcome 4-1. 61-37. The result of this match has given Audco a great chance of Promotion with Maddocks looking over their shoulders. What a match in store next week with Audco taking on Coddon B, both pushing for that.

Report courtesy of Jim Hill.

After Audco’s result, the second place in division two is tied between Audco and Coddon B who played away to LDS G. A couple of very close games in this match with the Coddon team taking the first three points. In one of those frames Andy Jones made breaks of 30 and 31 has he beat Rob Whithington, but LDS G then took the last two frames with both games appearing to be on the black according to the scores. G. Wiley beat Steve Downs 56-50 followed by a win for T. Bell over Dave Holmes, 54-45.

Minnesota G recorded a fine 5-0 win when they were away to the Second Club B side. Nick Turner, first up, won comfortably, 54-3, playing G. Firmstone, then James Price followed suit adding another point beating Paul Crooks. Tony Marsh wasn’t to be outdone and duly took the third frame from Toby Welsh. Neil Robinson for the Trench side couldn’t’ stop the Minnesota impetus, and Craig Davies made it 4-0. The final frame saw Aaron O’Donnell beating D. Welsh to make it the full five for Min G.

Second Club A returned to form this week and will be well pleased with their 4-1 win after visiting the Shifnal F side. Second club took the first two frames courtesy of L. Giles and K. Owen, before John Briscoe gained the first point of the evening for Shifnal with a win over Ian Ferriday. In a close game K. Mears just got the better of Fred Harper 58-50 before G. Arnold took the last game for Second Club A with victory over Chris Painter.

Coddon C and Bayley B, in mid-table, were playing at the Coddon club, and this match went to the wire with Daniel Ballard from Coddon winning the deciding frame against V. McLeod 50-32 to give the Coddon side a 3-2 win.

Third Division

Dawley B returned a good result when they made the trip to play Comrades A. Comrades started well enough, just taking the first frame when S. Jones beat Colin Thorpe 47-38, but that was the only frame they took for the rest of the evening as the Dawley side showed why they are top of the division. Kev Jones for Dawley opened the Dawley sides account with a win over S. Preece 51-34, followed by Ian Ward in a tight game with C. Bristow, where Ian got the to the winning post 54-45. Barry Roden had a comfortable win over M. Jones 44-13, with Alex Jones making it four to Dawley when he beat C. Crook.

It just gets better & better, Hadley A went to Anstice B, who are 2nd in the league, with, what we thought was a severely depleted squad, missing 3 of our regular players & having to sign a last minute replacement to even make a team up! However we started brilliantly, with first dependable Kev Whitehead beating Johnny Darrock 64-37 with some majestic snooker. This was followed by the new "lad" Ken Booty, who we picked up in the pub earlier, not knowing whether he could play or not! He was really chucked in at the deep end when we found out he was to play Noel Stones! However despite his affliction of having had too many curries (a clear case of Booty & the Beef!!!) he proceeded to play some brilliant snooker to inflict Noel’s first defeat of the season, 69-26, however in all fairness to Noel he did miss some easy shots (by his own high standards). The 3rd frame threw together young Danny Francis (playing only his 2nd game this season) & Mick Cahill, the writing was on the wall when Mick went into a 32-point lead, only for Danny to respond brilliantly by taking a few reds & all the colours to take the game 47-44, a superb performance!

Unfortunately it went downhill from there on, but with the match sewn up, there was little pressure on the 2 remaining players, Tugboat losing in a very high scoring game (8-37!) against Steve Wimbush. The final frame saw Ian Atkinson take on Billy Watson, in a controversial match, with both players being subjected to a torrent of abuse, heckled, barracked & generally having the p**s taken out of them, they proceeded to play some c**p snooker with Billy coming out on top 39-33. All had a cracking night & thanks go to the Anstice lads for their hospitality, especially the food, which was gratefully received by Tugboat who obviously hadn't eaten since August! Onwards & upwards then for the Hadley team, who are now eyeing up a league & cup double!

Maddocks D visited the Newport British legion and came away with a 4-1 win after K. Davies lost to John Yapp in the opening frame 53-46. That was as close as it got for the Newport side as Maddocks polished off the next four frames.

Bayley Q were at home to LDS C, and even though Rob Cook and Steve Weatherall won the first two games for the Bayley side, they then saw the LDS C side win the next three games. G. Walls had a 25 clearance in his frame to beat Chris Fletcher, and Chris Durham lost the fourth frame after completely missing the pink with only two balls left and a thirteen point lead! Last on for the Bayley team was Richard Tranter, who in his own words, played possibly his worst game ever.

Alan Turner    

Alan.Turner@telfordsnooker.com

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