DIVISION ONE

 It may be the first week of a new season but it was ‘business as usual’ for the joint favourites for the first division title as both Anstice A and Shifnal B recorded near perfect starts.

 Anstice A hosted newly promoted Bayley F and a patient break of 45 saw Ian Duffy take the first frame against Phil Whitby. Good potting from Keith and Neil Price was good enough to see off Steve Watkin and Mick Hughes. Shaun Harris was unlucky to go in off the blue to give Andy Kendrick Bayley’s only point and a close battle in the last went to Simon Yeats for a 4-1 victory.

 It was the same scoreline for Shifnal B who visited Bayley E with victories for Mat Davies, John Fallows, Nigel Stallard and Angus Way.  Ali Jones was the only winner for Bayley as a 28 break saw him home against Aaron Sparkes.

 Maddocks C got off to a flyer last season but lightning would not strike twice as they went down 4-1 to Little Dawley A.  Maddocks point was courtesy of Joe Oliver while the winners for the Little Dawley men Mat Bailey, Lee Elcock, Stu Russell and Ade Henry.

 Broseley A were narrow 3-2 losers to Dawley A with the highlight of the match a break of 53 from John Banks.  Carl Walker, Sean Nolan and Andy Garbett put the Dawley side 3-0 up with John and Mick Brezwyn picking up the 2 points for Broseley.

 DIVISION TWO

 Newly promoted Hadley B were away to 2^nd Club A for their opener and lost the first frame to Mike Thompson but wins from Laki Badhan, Jon Wright, Ken Booty and Dave Smout  gave them a 4-1 victory and an impressive start to their division two campaign. 

Bayley B hosted Shifnal A and the first frame was a tight one with Craig Baugh eventually edging out Mark Worsdell on the black. Next Tom Mullholland opened up an early lead but a poor safety left Rich Davies a chance which he took plus the last 3 colours to win on the black. A quality frame between Kev West and Andy Carson throughout until Andy needed a snooker with the last 3 balls in very difficult positions. A valiant attempt left Kev with awkward cueing and when he failed to make contact with the blue Andy took the last 3 colours to steal the frame. Mark Jones never gave Danny Oliver a sniff and opened up a 20 point lead early on but a 24 break and the last 2 reds with colours opened up a 20 point lead and gave Danny the frame. Dickie Beddall took on Eddie Mullard in the last, Eddie looked very impressive on his Telford League Debut and knocked in a quality break of 38. Dickie potted some good balls to give himself half a chance but Eddie never let him back in.

 Other Results: Coddon C 2 (Ollie Wall, Matt Bothwell) Eden A 3 (Mike Reynolds, Richard Jones, Steve Powell);  LDS C 3 (Tom Gowers, Joe Rixom, Jon Calvert) Maddocks D 2 (Michael Wainwright, Fred Spragg); Shifnal F 4 (Dave Peplow, Spencer Rowley, John Briscoe, Chris Painter) Bayley A 1 (Steve Fletcher).

 DIVISION THREE

 Bayley Q christened the clubs new snooker room with a closely fought win over Anstice B. The 1st frame was nip & tuck all the way until Rob Cook edged out the final colours  to get Bayley off to a winning start. Noel Stones took the second frame to level the match followed by Mick Cahill, who produced the best spell of potting on the night including a smooth 24, opened up a 40 point lead over Lee Newton who, despite a gutsy fightback just failed and put Anstice B 2-1 up. Another close tussle in the next with an exchange of snookers between Steve Weatherall and John Darrock but in the end Steve potted the pink to level the match at 2-2. In the decider Rich Tranter & Billy Watson locked horns, and only some solid potting by Rich at the end ensured that Bayley Q got off to a winning start.

 Hadley A started their season how they mean to continue with a resounding thumping from 2nd club B, Richard Benting recording their solitary victory against Alan Kynaston, Although the result was much closer than the scoreline suggests. Roy Francis & Iain Atkinson were both in with a chance against Dean Mouncastle & Roger Smith respectfully until the final 2 colours and Tony Morgan narrowly lost to Nick Holmes . Allen Francis never got into his stride losing 46-4 against Chris Cotterill making it a 4-1 victory for the Trench side. Allen subsequently "retired" from snooker after 20+ years of playing in the league, however, after another drink, he announced his comeback, but only as an emergency backup! Having a squad of only 6 players means that emergencies will be coming thick & fast, see you next week Al!

 Other Results: Allscott 3 (Jason Allen, David Finney, Carl Starling) Eden B 2 (Brett Robinson, Daniel Nickolas); Shifnal D 3 (Terry Askew, Nigel Simpson, Will Brown) Bayley D 2 (Dave Dudley, Jim Lewis).

Thanks to all the captains who registered their result via the new web service, those who wrote a few lines about their match are the reports published here in the paper.

 Closing date for entry into this years competitions is 25^th September.