Happy New Year to all who read the reports, and hope you all had a good Christmas. My first match report of the New Year, Minnesota B at home to Maddocks A. The Min B side are still leading the table by one point, and this week the Min B team had a 4-1 win over the Maddocks A side. Keith Price took the first frame beating new signing D. Millward, but Ian Eldridge levelled the scores when he defeated Darren Weston. Darren doesn’t seem to have played to his normal form this season! Sean Harris made a return to the scene and he got the better of Ian Skelton to make it 2-1. The next frame saw the highest break of the season so far when Craig Reynolds made a superb 93 break playing Dave France. The last frame saw Darren Pountney take the fourth and final point against Leigh France.

Anstice A are just one point behind the leaders, but unfortunately their five nil victory had to be claimed, as the Coddon A side didn’t field a side.

The only other result in from this division, was from Coddon C who are still to win a match this season. Coddon C were at home to Dawley B and the Coddon side fought well to take the match to a decider, only to see the experienced Rick Bailey beat their last player, Mick Stokes, 50-20.

Second Division

Little Dawley G continue their winning streak and this week they were pitted against the Maddocks B side at Little Dawley. The match started evenly enough with G. Clements defeating Wally Harper. Wally’s team mate, Les Hicks, then making the score even after he beat the useful Roy Levenue. However, that was the end of the Maddocks challenge as the next three frames were taken by Little Dawley G to maintain their impetus at the top.

Audco C were at home to Minnesota Fats A this week, and won this match 3-2. Mick Pink made a rare appearance for the Audco side, and had a comprehensive win over his opponent, Kirk Stevenson in a high scoring frame which saw Mick knock in a 30 break during the frame. Anthony Heathcoat made it two for the Audco lads with Paul Proctor adding a third. Roger Lewis then lost his frame to Min Fats player, Mick Egan, before the last frame, which also went to Min Fats courtesy of Phil Bufton beating Andy Lycett. Third place now for Audco, but I think they will still be figuring for the honours at the end of the season.

Dawley B have a good run going, and they managed a 3-2 win over the Second Club A side at Dawley. The Dawley lads had to make a quick couple of signings to enable them to play their match, and this they did, so credit to them. The match was played at the Dawley club and the first new signing, Tom White lost to Ian Ferriday, hard to beat at anytime. The second new signing, making his debut for the Dawley team, but not without snooker experience, was Alex Nolan, and he beat Paul Crooks to level the score. Grant Heighway lost his frame, first loss for three weeks, when Bob Lane took that frame. Barry Roden set up the decider after winning his frame with Dave Welsh, with the decider won for Dawley by Alex Jones against Toby Welsh.

Shifnal F and Shifnal A, at opposite ends of the table were matched together in this weeks fixtures, and it was the team nearer the top, Shifnal F, who came out on top in this match. Rob Wright opened up the assault on the Shifnal A side beating Chris Bristow, with Chris Painter adding the second and recording a 31 break in his frame. The next frame was very close but G. Lloyd for Shifnal A, just got the better of Fred Harper 67-53 in a high scoring frame. Roy Martin and Dave Peplow took the fourth and fifth frames to make it 4-1 overall score for Shifnal F keeping the pressure on leaders L.D.S.G.

Third Division

Maddocks D increased their lead at the top this week with another 4-1 result, this time at home to the Little Dawley B side. Maddocks raced into a three frame lead courtesy of Ian Courtney, Graham Arnold and Ken Davies, but Colin Gittus clawed a point back from Cheryl Caswell whose form has dipped a little of late. Fred Spragg added the last point to the tally to make it 4-1 to Maddocks D.

The Second Club B were at home to the second in the table, Antice B. The frames were very close in this match except for one of the score lines, but the Anstice lads came out 4-1 winners. Chris Coterhill lost 42-53 to George Hammond, and that was followed by Alan Kynaston just losing out to Mick Cahill, 56-49. Another close frame next, this time the frame going to Second club player Steve Archer, against Billy Watson, 56-53. Noel Stones had a comfortable win over Nick Holmes, and Roger Smith for Second club won the second point of the evening with a win over Steve Smallwood, that score 51-42 to Roger.

Shifnal D had a 3-2 win over Little Dawley D with Shifnal at home. The Shifnal team took the first two frames with Terry Askew and Sanjay Chauhan winning their frames playing Danny Bedworth and Andy Shaw. Sean cross for L.D.S.D. then took a frame when he beat Arthur Aston 47-20. Geoff French won the fourth frame and the match with his win over Luke Edwards. The final frame saw Chris Gifford get the better of Barrie Easthope to make it a 3-2 result for Shifnal.

The last match to report was a local derby match between Newport A and Newport B. Just one point separate these two teams after this match, which was a 3-2 victory for the B side. A. Davies lost out to Chris Hughes giving the A side the lead, but the next frame could not have been closer with Richard Goldie beating Geoff Grocott 55-54. Paul Stokes restored the lead for the A side with a win over M. Rivit. Steve Speake made it 2-2 beating Andy Yates and in the last frame of the evening Les Stirling beat new signing Geoff Howles to give the win to his side, Newport B, 3-2.

Alan Turner    

Alan.Turner@telfordsnooker.com

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