Dawley met Maddocks B this week, where both teams were in the running for honours. Dawley B, at home, saw Paul Harper get them off to a good start by beating Wally Harper 56-15. Ian Ward made it two with Les Hicks on the end of that defeat. Martin Colley for Maddocks then pulled a frame back beating Kev Jones.Gentleman, Doug Morrey, than got the second of the evening for Maddocks, getting the better of Barry Roden. The deciding frame between John Archer and Alex Jones saw Alex make a nice 29 break, and take the last frame for the Dawley side.

Antice B were away to LDS C and came back with three of the five points on offer, which keeps the Anstice side still in touch, and just three points behind the leaders. Some very close games in this match, as John Darrock for Anstice, returned a score line of 58-46 against K. Kesterton, with John Richards for LDS C winning his game easily. Noel Stones made it 2-1 for Anstice, just beating Andy Garbett 48-44. C.Niblett then beat George Hammond to set up the decider between G. Walls and Billy Watson. Billy Watson won the frame 61-40 to maintain the Anstice B side push for promotion.

Comrades A are one of three teams locked with the same amount of points after this weeks matches, but Comrades, away to Newport B fought the Newport side all the way to end up playing yet another deciding frame. John Yapp took the last game for Newport to give the home side victory. Richard Goldie, still in good form made a twenty break in the opening frame as he beat M Wordsell.

Maddocks D played visitors Bayley Q this week with the Bayley Q side losing out 4-1. Ken Davies opened the scoring for Maddocks beating Steve Weatherall 69-25, but after this game all the other frames were very much in the balance for either side. Chris Durham levelled the match 50-48 playing Roy Love. Chris had been ahead by 33 points earlier in the frame and it was potting a long black that meant he was able to scrape a frame he looked like losing. This was followed by Ian Courtney getting the better of Chris Fletcher 59-50. The majority of the game was something the players would probably rather forget, but the last four balls were all excellent pots from Ian. The next two games made it 4-1 for Maddocks, with Tony O’Neil coming from 20 behind on the colours to beat Richard Tranter 44-37, and Mick Wainwright beating Chris Bates 49-34. As I said, a very close match indeed.

Shifnal D, although with home advantage, suffered a 4-1 defeat at the hands of the LDS B side. Phil Cottey took the first frame from Terrie Askew, 75-33, with Colin Gittus adding the second for the little Dawley side by beating Sanjay Chauhan, 62-21. The only point for Shifnal came in the next game with an emphatic score of 59 points for Peter Wharton and just one point for Pete Clarke. Luke Woods and Tom Wotherspoon, both with easy wins took the last two games to complete the rout.

Last report this week comes courtesy of Iain Atkinson of the Hadley A side.

Good Morning gents, match report for Weds 24th Jan 2007.....................we got beat 3-2 by Audco B! Roy Francis beat Mr.Gee (Graham Grocott) in a very close game, which went on & on & on, well into the night! Roy eventually winning 62-54 even with his new PINK chalk & 3piece cue! The 2nd match threw together the 2 Hughes’s, Gareth & Chris, Gareth let the Hadley side down BIG STYLE (by drinking coke all night), however he also lost the match 12-51 in favour of the Audco boys. The next game was between two of the "heavyweights" of the division, Kev Whitehead & Alex Turnbull, Kev winning the frame 63-26, Kev obviously was overjoyed at winning yet another frame, celebrating well into the early hours of the morning, cus nobodies seen him since!

The penultimate frame was between Al Francis & Andy Yates, the rest of the Hadley boys thought Al obviously threw the game in return for a lift home in Andy's cab, However Andy did play well defeating his "fare" 51-18. With the match perfectly balanced on a knife-edge Iain Atkinson went on against Pete Smith & proceeded to constantly miss the f'kin barn door with his proverbial banjo! Losing the game quite easily 13-72 handing the game to Audco, & thus losing our last remaining chance of winning the league! Shame!!

Second Division

Maddocks C maintained their push for promotion with a fine 4-1 win at home against the local men from Minnesota Fats A. Danny Bedworth started the balls rolling and produced some great long pots to beat Kirk Stevenson. 53-20. Darren Wincott played well and soon made it 2-0 against an unlucky Mick Pearson who did have a chance to win it on the colours. 55-46. Next up was Steve Hassack against Mick Egan. Steve missed a few early chances but eventually found some form to take a healthy lead. Mick tried hard to save the match but it was the Ironman that got over the line and take the match for Maddocks. 56-29.

Jimmy Hill, fresh from winning the 2nd Division individuals, came up against Phil Bufton, and it was the Minnie man that played a great frame of safety whilst hardly missing a pot to stop the chance of a whitewash. 35-61. The final match of the night was between Home man Joe Oliver and Neil Pearson. Neil took an early lead before Joe started to find his range and with it a good advantage on the colours. With a great pot on the green, Joe managed to give Maddocks C the 4th point.

Audco A, still chasing the Maddocks men, lost the three opening frames when they visited Second Club B. Bob Lane for the home side, beat reserve Richard Jaggs who was making only his second appearance of the season. Paul Crooks took the next frame from Alan Turner with good length of the table potting before Tom Firmstone made it three by out potting Mick Hughes. In the fourth frame Andy Kendrick stopped the rot for the Audco side by pulling a game back when he defeated Dave Welsh 49-13. Captain, Graham Darrall then got the second and final point of the evening in a good game with Neil Robinson.

In spite of the Second Club B sides win, it did no favours for their A side, as they went the short journey to the Coddon club and failed to take a single point from the encounter with the Coddon B side. Mark Wall took the first frame from Ian Ferriday in a close frame, 50-41, with A Jones adding the second over L. Giles. Another close game saw D. Lloyd beat G. Arnold 53-43, followed by a good display of snooker from D. Holmes, who recorded a 37 break in his victory over K. Mears. N. Pearce made it a clean sweep for the Coddon B side beating K. Owen 55-20.

Minnesota G remain in fifth place after their match with LDS G. The home side Min G saw their captain Wayne Weeks open the batting, and win the first frame, with the LDS G side taking the next courtesy of R. Levenue who beat Tony Marsh. Craig Davies restored the lead for Min G beating G. Copson, and then James Price secured the match defeating G. Wiley before I. Fleming took the last point for the LDS G side.

Bayley D, at home to the Coddon C side, could only take two points from the fixture, and cannot seem to make much headway up the table recently. Dave Dudley got the Bayley side off to a good start beating the useful Josh Wall, but then Coddon hit back with Matt Bothwell levelling matters in the second game playing Jim Lewis. Daniel Ballard added another to Coddons account beating Mark Bedall before Darren Rhodes took the match to a decider by beating Ray Whitehead. Frasier McKinnon proved too strong for Brian Aberdeen and took the match for the Coddon side.

Bayley B fared slightly better in their home match against the Shifnal F side, and took the first two frames when Kev West beat Chris Painter in a high scoring game 65-51, and Craig Baugh beating Phil Edwards 65-25. Fred Harper pulled one back for Shifnal defeating Dan Oliver, and then Dave Chapman for the Shifnal side levelled the match to pave the way for another deciding match.Dick Oliver won the last game comfortably 51-11 when he played John Briscoe.

First Division

Leaders Minnesota B seem to be on course for the title with a 4-1 win over the Anstice C team at Minnesota. Keith Price made a 53 break in his win over Darren Wilkie and then Shaun Harris had a 38 break whilst defeating Danny Weaver. Ian Duffy suffered a rare defeat when Steve Camp overcame him with a score line of 86-52, but that was the only blip in the match as Darren Weston put min B back on track also recording a 42 break during hid game with John Jones. Simon Yeats made it 4-1 beating C. Woods.

Broseley A managed a 3-2 win in a tough match against the Shifnal A side. Broseley who were the home side, saw Graeme Long lose on the black to John Fallows before Mick Brezwyn returned a good win over Neil Price 57-1. Angus way had a comfortable victory over Carl Walker 72-17, as did Si Thomas for the Broseley side, when he played Lindsay Knox. The last game must have been very entertaining as Andy Easthope put together a 42 break and still lost the frame to John Banks 77-67.

LDS A send the Bayley F side down a notch or two in the table as they inflicted a 4-1 defeat over the Bayley side at Little Dawley. Little Dawley raced into a 3-0 lead courtesy of Tim Hicks, Jesse Lowe and S. Russell, before stalwart Ritchie Hulme got the only point of the evening for the Bayley F side defeating Lee Elcock. B. Mitchell made it the 4-1 result as he beat Paul Maxfield in the last frame of the match.

Shifnal B were at home to Maddocks A, and although Matt Davies took the first frame with a 46 break for the home side defeating Ian Eldridge, Maddocks were determined to give nothing away. Maddocks took the next four frames with only Dave Peplow getting close to maybe a second point, and that was against Ian Skelton, and the score line, 64-55.

Finally Anstice D at home to the Bayley A side also had a 4-1 win putting the Bayley A side back in the relegation scrap. The Anstice team saw the return of Steve Nichols to the Bayley A side and it turned out that Steve would be the only winner on the night for the Bayley side, and in fact that was in the opening frame when Steve got the better of L. Badhan. After that it was all downhill for the Bayley side with S. Rowley losing out to N. Wallccroft 62-25. A Elliot then beat Bob Mason 54-21 followed by M. Musgrave 64-7 defeat of M. Hudson. The final frame was in much the same vein with S. Collins notching up a 55-5 win over Chris Morgan-Adams.

Alan Turner    

Alan.Turner@telfordsnooker.com

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