Division One.

This top of the table clash was a thriller. In frame one the ever reliable Matt Davies faced Keith Price, with both players on the top of their game. Keith took an early 30 lead, but Matt responded well to close the gap. Keith then missed his position on the final green, and Matt cleared to put his side one up. In the next Darren Weston played Ian Duffy, who is having a cracking season. Ian was quickly out of the blocks and opened up an unassailable lead to level the scores. In frame 3 Az Sparkes played Neil Price, and it was the away player who started best, but Az came back well, and in a table clearing 25 break put his side in the lead. In frame four John Fallows played another old timer in Shaun Harris, both potting well early on, but John is in good form this season and took the remaining balls to give his side the win. It was just by how many as Shifnal Captain Angus played young Tom Maxfield. It was tight early doors, and when Angus played a safety shot, leaving Tom in a chinese snooker, with the balls open, he thought he might leave something, but Tom had other ideas and knocked in a brilliant long red, leaving himself a hard shot at the black. Tom also took this on and potted it going on to compile a very good break of 87 to leave the score 3-2. With the Shifnal lads facing the harder run in, this looks like a good result for the Anstice lads

  Bay E 4 (Andy O'Brien, Ali Jones, John Squire, Dave France) Cod A 1 (Steve Downs); Mad A 3 (Ian Eldridge, Ian Skelton, Phil Davies) Daw A 2 (Alex Nolan, Pete Nolan); LDS G 1 (Roy Leneveu) Bay F 4 (John Williams, Paul Trevor, Mick Hughes, Alan Turner);  

 Division Two.

 Bayley B bounced back from last weeks disappointing defeat, with a solid home win 4-1 to 2nd Club A. Danny Oliver was up first against Ian Ferriday, and with Danny struggling a bit with his game, Ian took full advantage and deservedly won the game comfortably 58-20. Craig Baugh kept up his great form beating Grenville Thompson 83-13 with some classy long pots. Tom Mulholland got back to winning ways beating Dave Welsh 66-18, taking the last couple of reds with high value colours to take the frame. Dickie Beddall has had his best season for a few years, and knocked in some fantastic long balls with the occasional slice of luck that you associate with Dickie! Mike wasn't at his normal fluent best, but take nothing away from Dickie who won the frame 53-23. Last up was the always impressive Ben Sewell, who even with a bad back still played better than certainly I could ever dream of! As is customary with Ben he knocked in a solid 34 in the middle of the frame, but by his own admission lost concentration trying to get perfect position. Toby didn’t get many chances and was limited to long pots from the back cushion to try and get in, and this proved to be the difference with Ben taking the frame 73-14. Much needed win and should all but secure a playoff place baring any disasters!!! Touch wood

Cod C 3 (Daniel Ballard, Garry Owen, Matt Bothwell) LDS C 2 (Lee Foster, Jon Calvert);    Daw B 0 () Edn A 5 (Mike Reynolds, Lee Harris, Craig Reynolds, Roger Lewis, Richard Jones); Had B 4 (Kev Whitehead, Laki Badhan, Jon Wright, Darren Pountney) Mad D 1 (Ian Courtney); LDS B 4 (Richie Heighway, Colin Gittus, Sam Drake, Chris Lawson) Bay A 1 (Chris Morgan Adams); Shi A 3 (Mark Jones, Steve Jones, Eddie Mullard) Shi F 2 (Rob Wright, Chris Painter);

 Division Three

Bayley Q vs. Hadley A. Frame one saw some impressive flowing potting from Rob Cook, as he took on Richard (Tugboat) Benting. Rich put up his defences, but they were not as good as his other team (Spurs vs. Milan), so Rob won the frame 67-45. Frame two with Captain Chris Fletcher taking his form in the right direction to win 51-22 against Danny Francis. Tony Morgan was left wondering if his mad motorway dash was for the best, as Lee Newton secured the match win for the Bayley with a score of 74-0. Al Francis potted the better individual shots, but could not string enough together, losing 48-25 to Steve Weatherall. Richard (1,2 shuffle) Tranter, made it a rare night to remember for the Bayley lads with a 67-5 win over Iain Atkinson. Hadley A stated you don’t get more consistent than them of late, leaving Bayley thankful to claim a 5-0 win. Rob was so delirious he could not remember Iain's name, with Iain claiming Al had played twice then, as Hadley left laughing.

 New A 3 (Wai Loon Loo, Brian McMillan, Mokesh Lal) All 2 (David Finney, Nick Gwynne);  2nd B 2 (Patrick Kershay, Nick Holmes) Edn B 3 (Daniel Nickolas, Dan Morris, Gurd Singh); Daw C 3 (Chris Gifford, Luke Edwards, Sean Cross) Bay D 2 (Mark Beddall, Jim Lewis); Ans B 4 (Mick Cahill, Noel Stones, Nigel Wallcroft, George Hammond) Shi D 1 (Dave Chapman);