Minnesota B were at home to Bayley A this week and nearly made a clean sweep. Darren Weston opened the batting against Spencer Rowley and Darren was in fine form as he knocked in a 52 break when he won the first frame. Keith Price added a second for Min. B beating Bob Mason before Shaun Harris put paid to Steve Fletcher. Bayley A did gain a point in the next frame courtesy of Chris Morgan-Adams who beat Simon Yeats 59-58. Ian Duffy secured the last point to make it 4-1 to Minnesota B.

Time is running out for Broseley A as the Min. B. side keep the pressure on at the top of the division. Broseley A were at home to struggling Dawley A and managed a 4-1 win over the Dawley side Simon Thomas got Broseley one up beating Sean Nolan but in a close frame next, Rick Bailey produced a fine performance by beating Graeme Long. That was the only hic-cup for Broseley as they took the next three frames to get the 4-1 result.

Shifnal A were 4-1 winners at home to Bayley F with Tom Maxfield getting the away side off to a good start when he took the opening frame marginally against Andy Easthope 55-52. Neil Price easily beat Azear Khan and in the next match Angus Way, with a 49 break, beat Richie Hulme 75-51. This frame must have been quite short as Richie also had a 41 break during the game. Lindsay Knox beat Paul Maxfield and the last game between John Fallows and Eddie Whitehead looked to be a black ball finish, 50-38, with the win going to John Fallows.

LDS A are maintaining their form and this week was no different when the Anstice D side visited them. Jesse Lowe opened for the Little Dawley side and notched up the first point in a close game with Laki Badhan. Nigel Wallcroft had an easy win over Stewart Gwilliam with the next frame being a black ball game with Stewart Russell just bettering Andy Elliot 55-53. The last two games were comfortable wins for Colin Hales over Mick Musgrave and Byron Mitchell against S. Collins.

Maddocks A made the trip to Madeley and secured a 4-1 result. Maddocks took the first two frames courtesy of Phil Davies and Ian Skelton before Steve camp got one back for the home side. However, that was the only point of the evening for Anstice as Leigh France and Les Stirling had comfortable wins over Frank Williams and Chris Woods.

Bayley E were at home to Shifnal B with home player, Andy. O’Brien losing the first frame to Aaron Sparkes 52-24. Steve Hoof made it one apiece as he beat Rob Wright, then Matt Davies for Shifnal, tipped the balance in favour of Shifnal when he beat Andy. Jones. The match then swung the other way as John Squire got the better of Dave Peplow, leaving Dave France and Nigel Stallard to play the decider. Unlike last week, Nigel Stallard lost this decider and Dave France won the game and match for Bayley E 3-2.

Second Division

After a poor showing against Audco last week, leaders Maddocks C suffered a shock defeat at home to Coddon C. Danny Bedworth started the match off but found Danny Ballard in great form and the Trench man continued his good season with another win, 29-63. Jimmy Hill soon levelled the match with a second victory this season over young Mark Tusel, 72-27. Darren Wincott started his frame well against Josh Wall, but the Coddon lad managed to keep in touch. All went to the black and Josh managed to pot the away side back in front and avoided a “slap” from his Dad (Mark plays for the chasing Coddon B side), 39-48.

Steve Hassack produced one of his best performances and gave gentleman Matt Bothwell little chance with some controlled snooker to leave himself top of the “most wins table”, 82-13. The deciding frame was between Joe Oliver and Fraser Mackinnon and it was the away man who took the advantage with a little bit of Scottish luck. Joe fought back well before Fraser fluked a snooker and the home man could not recover, 23-57. This gave Coddon C a great result and leaves the leaders looking over their shoulders.

Joint second in the table saw Coddon B playing Audco A, where Audco always seem to struggle. This occasion was no different as the first frame saw Andy Kendrick take on Mark Wall. A scrappy game where neither player seemed to get to grips with the table, saw Mark beat Andy on the black. Meanwhile on the adjacent table, Audco player Andy Phelan was never at the races and shook Andy Jones hand before getting to the colours. Steve Downes potted the balls off the lampshades and Mick Hughes did all he could to keep up, but unfortunately with just four colours left on the table Mick knocked the black in with the brown ball, and left the his opponent the easy brown and a comfortable win.

So all downhill for Audco but in the next frame Alan Turner and Dave Lloyd enjoyed a competitive and highly entertaining frame. Good potting and great safety from both players saw Dave wanting snooker on the blue to draw. This he duly got with Alan hitting the pink to give Dave a chance to win the frame. Alan then got a snooker back witch gave him enough impetus to go on and win the frame. In the last frame Dave Holmes played Graham Darral, who has been playing well of late, and although Dave put up a good performance Graham potted well again this week, and took the second frame for Audco and salvaging what could have been a disastrous evening for Audco. So four games left and one point between second and third!

Second Club A revived their fortunes again this week when they recorded their second match win in a row with a 3-2 victory over LDS G. How different Second Clubs position might have been without the two five nil defeats they suffered recently! Ian Ferriday started the match and in a high scoring game with R. Levenue just won that frame 61-60. K. Owen lost the next frame to T. Bell and then LDS G took the lead when Graham Wiley beat L. Giles. Graham Arnold restored the balance with a victory over Graham Copson, and in the last Keith Mears beat Rob Withington 46-30 to make it 3-2 to the Seconds Club.

Bayley B were at home to the Second Club B and started well enough with Kev West making a 29 break in his win over Neil Robinson 68-32. A close game next when Paul Crooks returned a score line of 63 to Craig Baugh’s 56 to level the match. Robin Clarke made his second appearance of the season and played Tom Firmstone. Unfortunately this time Robin was on the losing end as Tom won this frame 54-20. Second club gained another point via Toby Welsh getting the better of Dickie Bedall before Danny Oliver secured the second point of the evening for the Bayley side with a 54-41 win over Mike Thompson.

Bayley D with home advantage lost their match 3-2 to MIN. G. the usual opener, Dave Dudley lost to Nick Turner with Nicks teammate getting the second when he beat Darren Rhodes. Back in the side after some time, Craig Whitehead made a welcome return for hid side as he pulled one back defeating Tony Marsh. Dave Williams levelled the match by beating Wayne weeks and the Bayley looked to be heading for the match win until suddenly Aaron O’Donnell produced a fine 34 clearance to beat Jim Lewis 65-59.

Minnesota Fats A could make no headway up the table this week as they played one of the other teams struggling for survival in this division. Although Minnesota had home advantage to the Shifnal F side they suffered a 4-1 defeat. Minnesota lost the first three opening frames with Dave Chapman winning the first against Mick Pearson. Phil Edwards made it two for Shifnal with Mick Egan losing that one. The third frame was close but Chris Painter added another point to Shifnals tally beating Phil Bufton 61-51. Kirk Stevenson briefly started a comeback with what looked like an easy win over Fred Harper but then John Briscoe for Shifnal made it the 4-1 defeating Neil Robinson.

Third Division

Dawley B at home to the Bayley Q side will take some stopping after another 4-1 win giving them a five-point lead at the top of the division. Paul Harper returned to the side this week and got the Dawley side of to a good start with an easy victory over Rob Cook. That was carried on by Ian Wards win over Chris Durham. Kev Jones made it 3-0 beating Steve Weatherall with Barry Roden following suit in his game with Richard Tranter. Chris Bates stopped the whitewash as he beat Alex Jones in the final frame.

Anstice B, after last weeks shock result to curry and beer specialists, Hadley A, got back on the winning trail at home to LDS B. Looked a good match this as Noel Stones, usually very dependable in this division suffered his second defeat in a row when Phil Cottey took the first frame 74-26, and Phil enjoying a 30 break during the frame. Dave Shaw then pulled one back for Anstice beating Pete Clarke 66-29. John Darrock was next up and also had a break of 26 when he beat his namesake Snowy Darrock 49-20. So, two up, but it looked like everyone wanted to be mentioned in despatches this week as Mick Cahill produced a 30 break and going on to victory against Colin Gittus, that score line 69-45 to Mick. That wasn’t to be the end of the entertainment though as in a good finish to the evening, Billy Watson and Simon Evans had to contest this frame with a respotted black. Simon sank that to get the second point for LDS B

Maddocks B are making a rapid climb up the table and produced a fine 4-1 result when they welcomed Comrades A to their club. Wally Harper opened the first frame and won comfortably enough beating Mark Wordsell 62-34. Les Hicks had a 22 break as he took the second point for Maddocks gaining a 71-34 victory over S. Jones. Doug Morrey wasn’t to be outdone in the next, and went one better with a 27 break, which helped him over the line playing C. Bristow. C. Crook in a very close game got the only point of the evening as he beat S. Pritchard 55-48. John Archer put the icing on the cake for Maddocks making it 4-1 with a win over M. Jones, and Maddocks may well be thinking, are there enough games left for us. Makes for an exciting finish to the season!

Shifnal D was visited by Maddocks D but even with home advantage watched the Maddocks side take three points back with them. Fred Spragg for Maddocks had a 31 break against Sanjay Chauhan to put Maddocks one up, followed by Roy Lowe adding a second when he beat Geoff French. Barrie Easthope then gave the home side hope for revival when he defeated Ian Courtney, but that was short lived as Ken Davies overcame Arthur Aston to make it 3-1 to Maddocks. The last game of the evening saw Peter Wharton rack up 61 points to Mick Wainwright junior’s 55 in a close game.

Audco B were away to LDS C and clocked up a 3-2 win with C. Hughes taking the first point for Audco. G. Walls evened things up and then Alex Turnbull regained the lead for Audco. M. Rhodes just pipped Andy Yates 39-38 to set up the decider between Pete Smith and S. Hamilton. Pete won this game to give his side the match result.

Hadley A were once again beaten by Newport B 3-2, a better showing than our 5-0 mauling earlier in the season. Gareth Hughes, (despite playing with a bad shoulder & bad cueing action), started the rot with a 48-59 defeat to Ian Stevenson. A full one hour and 25minutes later! The 2nd frame of the evening got under way, with the ever-improving Tugboat defeating Alan Munn 58-51 in a closely fought game. Kev Whitehead then increased the Hadley boys’ advantage to take the next frame with a convincing 67-18 defeat of Allan Davies. Al Francis, suffering with a severe ear infection, which was affecting his balance (nothing to do with the eight pints he'd consumed), conceded the next frame against Keith Gardner 16-56. Then with the Hadley bar staff waiting to lock up & go home Iain Atkinson played Richard Goldie (returning to his old hunting ground) & continued his long winless streak, losing 47-62, to land a 3-2 win for the Newport boys. So much for the league title then!

Alan Turner    

Alan.Turner@telfordsnooker.com

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