Division One.

 Although I give preference to the teams that actually send a report to me each week, I must mention that in this weeks match against Little Dawley G, young Tom Maxfield knocked in a cracking 110 break against his opponent. Well done Tom.

 Maddocks A took on Bayley E this week, at the Maddocks club, and in the first frame, Andy O’Brien was on fire beating Leigh France including a 34 break. Phil Davies had no problem levelling the match, but in the next although having a 32 break, Ian Eldridge went down to Ali Jones. Ian Skelton set up a decider when he defeated Dave France, before his namesake, Dave France from Maddocks secured the match in a scrappy frame with John Squire.

 Cod A 2 (Dave Lloyd, Steve Downs) Bro A 3 (John Banks, Graeme Long, Mick Brezwyn);   Daw A 3 (Sean Nolan, Alex Nolan, Mark Jones) Mad C 2 (Joe Oliver, Steve Hassack); Bay F 5 (Mick Hughes, John Williams, Graham Darrall, Andy Kendrick, Alan Turner) Cod B 0 (); Ans A 4 (Ian Duffy, Neil Price, Shaun Harris, Tom Maxfield) LDS G 1 (Graham Copson); LDS A 0 () Shi B 5 (Matthew Davies, Aaron Sparkes, Angus Way, John Fallows, Lynsay Knox);

  Division Two.

Hadley B have all but walked away with this division, and this week they visited the Bailey A side who are losing some of their players due to retirement next season. In a close first frame Ken Booty from Hadley beat Chris Morgan-Adams, with Jon Wright adding the second in a low scoring frame with Bob Mason. Laki Badhan made it 3-0 and in another tight frame Darren Pountney beat Maxwell Hodson to make it four in a row. Steve Fletcher captured the last frame for his side to avoid the whitewash.

 2nd A 3 (Paul Crooks, Dave Welsh, Toby Welsh) Cod C 2 (Daniel Ballard, Matt Bothwell); Daw B 1 (Doug Morrey) Bay B 4 (Tom Mulholland, Dan Oliver, Kev West, Dick Beddall )   Shi F 2 (Rob Wright, Dave Peplow) LDS B 3 (Richie Heighway, Colin Gittus, Chris Lawson); LDS C 4 (Lee Foster, Joe Rixom, Jon Calvert, Stuart Gwilliam) Shi A 1 (Steve Jones);

Division Three

 Hadley A needed to win their remaining 3 games 5-0 & rely on 2nd club B to lose all their games 5-0 to move off the bottom of the league - and it started off so well when Richard “Tugboat" Benting impressively beat Mokesh Lal 63-28. This was the first frame Hadley had won in the last 15 ! but it was also the last of the night as Hadley returned to "form" losing the remaining 4 frames. Roy Francis, struggling with his eyesight, put up a brave fight against Wai Loon Loo, eventually losing 48-40 in a very close game . "Walsall" Tony (now known as Norway Tony following his "nil points" last week !) came up against Mick Pink, a newcomer on the scene , & despite a 22% improvement on last week couldn't get the better of Mick, losing 49-22 . Al Francis also battled well against Mark Hebden before going down 60-39. Brian McMillan got the better of Iain Atkinson in a tense final frame , potting the final 2 colours to notch up a 43-35 victory, however Iain was struggling with a bad side ("with" or "in" was unclear !). So it's now a certainty that Hadley will collect another wooden spoon to add to their already impressive collection in their cutlery draw. Roll on next season , when ,with 5 new signings, we aim to mount a serious challenge for 2nd from bottom place ! And considering the amount of frames we lose on the black , we are seriously thinking about removing the thing from the table !!!

  New B 4 (Colin Farge, Wayne Weeks, Steve Speeke, Les Stirling) Edn B 1 (Dan Morris); Bay D 2 (Adrian Smith, Jim Lewis) 2nd B 3 (Nick Holmes, Chris Cotterill, Roger Smith); Shi D 2 (Dave Chapman, Will Brown) Daw C 3 (Chris Gifford, Jamie Mills (25), Luke Edwards); All 1 (David Finney) Ans B 4 (Noel Stones, Mick Cahill, Nigel Wallcroft, George Hammond);