Matt Davies knocks in a super 131 to put holders through to next round.

Team knockout 1st round (sponsored by Chris Hardy Tyres). Starting at Shifnal with the holders Shifnal B playing in a local derby against the D side and what an explosive start, With Matt Davies playing T Askew, with T breaking off, which turned out to be his only shot of the game, as Matt sunk a brilliant first red to start his break, then when he reached 41, he took on a difficult brown, but sunk it with aplomb and split the remaining reds to carry his break on, the last difficult red was on the cushion and he gained great position from potting the blue, to sink the last red and after potting the pink, he sank the remaining colours to record a brilliant 131 break, it was a tough act to follow for J Fallows and S Chauhan, both playing well but John running out the winner 72-24 in frame 3 there was a great performance from P Wharton for the D side, as he out-potted the young gun A Sparkes by 76-62, frame 4 say L Knox keeping up his seasons good form with a 76-39 win over G French, A Way then sealed the holders path into round 2 with a 69-25 win over B Easthope. In the match between Shifnal A and Bayley E it turned out to be a tight affair, in the first A O’Brien beat R Davies 55-47, then 2 great wins in the next for Bayley E from D Beyer v M Ainsworth 87-14, D France v M Jones 91-49, the fight back began with S Jones defeating J Squire 49-45, leaving a tense affair in the last with A Jones potting the final pink to secure the win against I Postans 63-55. the Anstice the B team took on Dawley C, with the scores level, the match couldn’t of started any better, with a draw M Cahill 57-57 C Gifford, frame 2 saw J Darrock beat L Edwards 58-33 and it was good win the next N Stones 89 (38 break) N Davis 29 (21 break), frame 4 saw the old timer G Hammond put his side further in command 47-39 A Shaw, leaving J Mills too much to do in the last, as he defeated B Watson 44-41. in the match between Bayley D and Hadley B, it was the Hadley boys who came out on top, K Booty started to pull back the 90 point deficit with a win against D Dudley, in the next C Whitehead pulled those back with a win against D Smout, frames 3 and 4 saw J Wright and M Bailey pull 51 points back, leaving Hadley 42 behind, with ex div 1 player D Pountney going on last for Hadley and knocking in a break of 44 to put his team through to round 2. in the match Dawley B v Broseley A, the away side had to pull back 95 on the handicap and G Long got going with a superb 94-40 win over B Roden, in the next the trend continued with N Caswell, potting brilliantly to outgun L Goodman 101-47 frame 3 was a tighter affair with W Weeks facing S McLeod, Wayne started the better but Simon came back into the game, knocking some great long pots in, to secure a 72-38 win, frame 4 M Brezwyn put his side into a commanding lead with a great display 99-15 over N Brazenall, leaving the home player G Heighway facing an uphill task, even though he beat J Banks 60-41, it was not enough to help his side through. At 2nd club the A side faced Maddocks C, who are flying high in div 1, and it was D Wilkie who did the damage in the very first frame defeating the league chairman 103-12, Daz knocking in breaks of 27 and 64, to carry on his good seasons form, the next 2 frames were tight G Hoof beating B Lane 36-31 and then a fantastic win for the home team as T Welsh defeated I Cleary 60-42, but wins from M Wincott 68-26 over D Welsh and S Hassack 72-7 over N Robinson proved too good for the 2nd club lads. Bayley Q v Coddon B. Chris Durham had a good win over Mark Ebdon who lost his first game of the season, 65 - 21. Mokesh Mehmi then evened things by beating Lee Newton 63 - 44. Late stand in Mags lost to Robert Cook 62 - 22 before Steven Weatherall had an excellent win over Roger Lewis by 84 - 30, leaving Bayley Q 124 up before the last game. Brian McMillan had a good win over Andrew Fletcher by 66 - 27, but couldn’t make the points up and Bayley Q were deserving winners in the end. (Report courtesy B McMillan).

Other results without match cards (due to postal strike), were Maddocks A beat Hadley, Newport B Lost to Coddon ‘A’ and little dawley snooker club A beat Maddocks B.

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