TELFORD SNOOKER LEAGUE

Match Report - 2012/13

 

Bayley Q vs Dawley B. \"You cannot teach an old dog new tricks\" which was initially demonstrated in the 1st frame between Rob Cook and Wally Harper. The frame remained finely balanced throughout with neither player managing to make much headway in a tactical contest, which left Rob potting the black to force a repsot. Wally won the coin toss, putting Rob to play first and when the chance presented itself Wally utilised all his experience to calmly pot the pressure black required. Frame 2 saw Steve Weatherall vs Billy Fletcher, and with Billy not able to gain a foothold, Steve lapped up the chances to take the frame and level the match at 1-1. Frame 3 saw the young pup (OK, but not in the Juniors age bracket) Lee Newton take on Doug Morrey. Lee whose snooker seemed a little out of sorts, did not have any answers to the pedigree wealth of experience that Doug has amassed. No lessons were required by Doug as he found a way (however many cushions needed) to get out of each snooker he found himself in, continuing on to put Dawley back in the lead. Frame 4, with Rich Tranter vs Liam Goodman, and after last weeks loss on the black you could see Rich was out to prove a point. However an even contest resulted up until the last red, where Rich played a clever snooker which produced consecutive fouls and free balls. Make no bones about it, this was the turning point to which it played out in Rich\'s favour to level the scores at 2-2. Frame 5, match decider between Noel Hitch and Geoff Davies, with Geoff off and running like the proverbial greyhound, showing a classy display of potting ability. Geoff had opened up a 42 point lead, with Noel requiring 4 snookers but showing no signs of calling it a day. Some errors from Geoff along with well played snookers from Noel brought him back into the match. Noel had potted a well taken blue, and looked to have taken it to the black as pink went in only for the white to continue round the table and drop in the middle pocket. Geoff finished it off with nice pot on the pink, using up the dogs life of luck, but earning the visitors Dawley B a well deserved win 3-2 over Bayley Q.