There will be no report for next week’s snooker, as I am away, but the report after that will combine reports for both weeks. After the divisional knockouts last week, the league got back into action as normal.

Current leaders of division one, Minnesota Fats B, were at home to the Bayley A side who gave them a good run for their money. Ian Duffy and Keith Price gave the Minnesota team a two frame lead, but the Bayley side came back with wins from Ali Jones and Dave France to set up a decider between Simon Yeates and John Squire. Simon took this frame for the match win, 3-2 to Min. B.

Dawley A, at home to Anstice A side, lost this match 3-2, and at present the Anstice lads have second spot with the results that are in.

Bayley A were at home to the Maddocks C team, and in a close encounter beat the Maddocks side 3-2. Darren Wilkie had a 32 break in his win over Spencer Rowley

Coddon A although losing their home match against the Broseley A side 3-2, will probably be well pleased with the result. John Banks playing Matt Bothwell in the last frame, made a good 38 break, but still lost the frame 65-56 to Matt.

Second Division

With byes, and lack of score cards in this week, the table shows the Dawley B side at the top of division two. The Dawley B lads were away to the hapless Bayley D side. The Bayley D haven’t got their act together at all yet, and this week was no different as they lost 4-1. Craig whitehead came close to getting a second point for Bayley, but just lost out to Grant Heighway 49-40. I happened to look over to that match in progress, and thought Johnny Cash had appeared, but it was my mate, Don Pugh, who incidentally was the losing player for Dawley.

Little Dawley G had a cracking match with the Bayley B side, with four of the five frames decided on the black ball. Tommy Bell took the first 59-48 against Craig Baugh, followed by Rob Withington who beat D. Stones 46-44. Graham Wiley won his frame for little Dawley easily before Graham Copson took another black ball game, 50-48, playing Richard Bedall. Finally, Roy Levenue added to the excitement of the evening beating Kev West 62-55.

Minnesota Fats A were away to Shifnal, and came back with four of the five points on offer. Neil and Mick Pearson had comprehensive wins, Neil over Mark Wordsell and Mick over Tony Lloyd. Kirk Stevenson was also a comfortable winner, but Mick Egan lost the only point of the evening when he was defeated by Chris Bristow, 53-19. The last frame was close with Phil Bufton getting the better of Chris Cook 54-40.

Second Club A are mid table, and they took the short trip to play the Maddocks B team. Wally Harper for the home side, lost to Ian Ferriday in a high scoring game, 62-41, with Tom Firmstone, for the second club, adding another point by beating Les Hicks. Doug Morrey pulled one back for Maddocks beating Bob Lane, but then Toby Welch won the match for the Second Club when he beat John Archer. Steve Pritchard took the last frame with a comfortable win over Paul Crooks.

Third Division

Maddocks D are still on top of this division in spite of a 3-2 defeat at the hands of Newport A. Newport were at home, and this match went to the wire after being tied 2-2. In the decider Andy Yates played Cheryl Caswell and won the deciding frame 62-43.

Little Dawley C meanwhile, were entertaining the Newport B side, which went much the same way except in this instance the deciding frame went to Little Dawley for a 3-2 win, when Carl Kesterton beat Les Stirling 54-28.

Anstice B fared much better than of late, and in their home match with the Bayley Q side returned a 4-1 result. Chris Bates for Bayley, gave the Bayley lads the first win of the night beating Steve Smallwood 41-26. Chris Fletcher did his best to make it 2-0 but that score ended 46-45 in favour of Mick Cahill. After that game the remaining wins were quite comfortable for the Anstice team.

Second Club B are not too far off the pace after their good 4-1 win over Shifnal D. After the first two frames it was 1-1, but home player Keith Mears for the Second Club, took the third in a close game 50-41, playing Arthur Aston. Another close match followed with A. Kynaston beating Geoff French 49-36. The last frame saw R. Smith defeat Barrie Easthope 54-47, yet another close game.

My thanks to everyone who turned up at the presentation evening, and many thanks to our sponsor Chris Hardy who presented the prizes. Well done to the committee who do so much to organize the event, and to Angus Way for his help on the evening.

Alan Turner    

Alan.Turner@telfordsnooker.com

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