Minnesota Fats B kept their momentum going this week as they met the Maddocks C team at the Minnesota club. Minnesota B recorded a 5-0 victory quite comfortably on the evening, with Darren Weston returning to the fold and having a great clearance of 65 in his frame with Sean Hassack. That score line 106-22 to Darren.

Anstice A are keeping their good run going and also had a 5-0 win when they were away to the Coddon C team. There were breaks of 21 and 23 from Neil Price in his match with Mick Stokes and Neil won that frame 98-7. Nigel Wallcroft also had a 33 break whilst beating Garry Owen 58-31.

Maddocks A were at home to Shifnal B, and this match went to Shifnal B 3-2. Phil Davis could not contain the potting and safety play of John Fallows and went down 85-16. Ian Eldridge lost to Matt Davies, but then again most do! Ian Skelton playing with a back injury was unlucky to miss the final black, which his opponent, Aaron Sparkes took, to beat Ian by six points, Aaron 58, Ian 52.Leigh France beat Angus Way 48-36, and in the final frame, Dave France took some pressure balls to leave the final score as reported, 3-2.

First frame saw young Liam Goodman up against Lee Elcock. Liam took an early lead and looked in good shape but Lee came back well and with the colours remaining score was level 32 all. Lee then had two bits of good fortune when he fluked the yellow and green in consecutive shots and then cleared to pink to win the frame 52-32. Second frame saw Rick "I've been away but I'm back" Bailey playing Phil Cottey. Rick used all his guile and experience to claw out a victory 52-27 to bring the match all square. In the third frame Mark Jones came up against the evergreen Jesse Lowe. Mark forged ahead in this frame with the aid of a 25 break. He kept the frame tight after that and went on to win the frame 69-25 to put Dawley 2-1 up.

Fourth frame saw an out of sorts Pete Nolan play Stu Russell. Stu took an early lead and never looked in trouble after that as Pete struggled to find the form he has showed of late. Stu ran out an easy winner 79-33. Final and deciding frame saw Sean Nolan up against Ade Henry. Ade started in his usual fashion by thumping in an excellent long red and taking an early lead. However Sean was in no mood to see his side lose at home and with some excellent snooker of his own went on to win comprehensively 80-22 to win the match 3-2 for Dawley. Good night for Sean as he had raced back from Shrewsbury where he won his match frame in the Shrewsbury league 98-3 !!

This report courtesy of Mark Jones.

Mid table Broseley gained a 4-1 win over Bayley E side, who were a player short on the evening. Neil Caswell had a nice 42 break in his frame with Ali Jones to win 53-22, but even with the four one win, Broseley can forget their title challenge for this season it seems!

The Bayley A side were at home to Coddon A and the Bayley side won this match 3-2. The Coddon side are doing better than their counterparts, Coddon C, and it looks like it may be a close relegation battle between any of the bottom six teams, but lots of games to play yet!.

Second Division

Little Dawley G played hosts to the Audco C team this week and this match was a 4-1 win the Little Dawley team. Audco C seemed to be cruising at the start of the season, but with a couple of 4-1 losses things change very suddenly. The score lines in this match were actually very close and it wasn’t until the last frame of the match that Audco gained their solitary point of the evening. John Williams was the winner for the Audco side beating G. Clement 52-38.

Shifnal F will be pleased with their 4-1 win over the Bayley B side. Shifnal, who were home, took the first two frames before Dan Oliver, who is playing very well at the moment, beat Fred Harper 74-50. Shifnal then replied by taking the final two frames via Roy Martin and Chris Petford.

Bayley F played at home this week against the Second Club A side, and this match went to the Trench side 3-2. Phil Whitby and Graham Darrell won for the home side, but yet another poor result for the Bayley men who are second from bottom. A good finish from Mike Thompson who beat Alan Turner with a fine shot to take the final black to win his frame.

Maddocks B lost their home match with Shifnal a 3-2 in a very closely contested match. The match was decided in the final frame, and in a high scoring game Steve Jones from Shifnal beat Roy Adams 70-59.

Third Division

Maddocks D, still with a nice lead at the top of the table went to the Little Dawley club to play their C team. The Maddocks side lost 3-2 to their opponents. Maddocks lost the first two frames but managed to take the third frame courtesy of Cheryl Caswell beating John Calvert 57-32. Cheryl has only lost once so far this campaign. With the match at 3-1, Fred Spragg then took the last frame to add respectability to the overall score. Fred beat Carl Kesterton 49-23. That result leaves the top two positions as per. But a valuable point gained for the Little Dawley side.

Shifnal D failed to take advantage of the aforementioned result, although with the home advantage when they played Newport B. This match see sawed until the end, when another deciding frame had to be played. Campaigner Les Stirling made no mistake for Newport when he won the last frame 5-20 playing Barrie Easthope.

Hadley A were at home to Little Dawley D, and the Little Dawley side took all five points. Kevin Whitehead lost to Sean Cross who had a 22 break during the match, that score 59-42 to Sean. The next frame was very close with another one of Hadley’s strongest players, Ken Booty, going down to Luke Edwards. There was no respite to be had as Little Dawley D took the next three frames with ease.

Anstice B are putting some good results together now, and this week saw the Anstice take all five points from the Little Dawley B side. So five up for the D team and five down for the B team. Anstice were in total command and it was only in the last frame where they might have conceded a point, but it turned out another win when Billy Watson got the better of Dan Soltys 44-38.

Alan Turner    

Alan.Turner@telfordsnooker.com

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