Telford Snooker League

A very tightly fought game here. Jimmy Langley and tugboat kicked it off. It was a battle. Cracking reds, poor misses,in offs and fouls all over. Went to the black and after potting blue n pink,Jimmy then went for a thin cut on black and went in off. Guinness please. Next up Karl Wilson and James Steel squared up. Another nip and tuck frame that twoed and frowed with Karl finally flicking the black in the corner bag,when he went for the middle,hilarious and comical,unless you were James. So third up is Geoff French and Tony Morgan. Some great potting and tactical play in this one too. It went on a bit and there was rumoured to be a couple of the lads asleep at one stage ha ha. Anyway Tony took the frame on the pink. Forth game wasn\'t a classic with both Mokesh and Alan Francis making hard work of it. Mo nicked it. So to the deciding frame between Dean Harris and Iain Atkinson. Don\'t want to be too cruel so I\'ll just say Dean played well and Iain had an off day. On a closing note,the bar takings were triple the usual Wednesday. Thanks Zed team,come back soon. Great set o lads.

After finally registering their first league win the Cue team from the Bayley travelled to Shifnal to take on the high flying F side. Matches between these teams are always closely fought encounters and this one proved to be no different. In the first frame it was the visitors Andy Elliott who did enough with some assured potting to edge out Shifnal's Tony Lloyd 60-31. The second frame was an absolute cracker for the neutral. Gareth Lloyd opened up a fifty point lead with a lovely 39 break and looked to be levelling the match in quickfire fashion. However Bayley's Danny Weaver had different ideas as he knocked in a fine 30 break himself and clawed back to within 13 points with just pink and black left. Gareth left the pink in baulk with the black on its spot but Danny smashed it in almost too well really, as the cue ball landed on the top cushion right behind the black. Not to be deterred he chalked his cue before firing the black into the middle pocket for a re-spot. Neither player deserved to lose but after a short safety exchange Gareth sent the black up into baulk but cruelly the cue ball travelled into the black pocket, leaving Danny the victor 79-72. In the third frame Spencer Rowley took the lead early on but Rob Cook came back with the help of the run of the balls giving him three free balls and it was Rob who sealed the win for Bayley 60-39. In the next frame it was Noel Hitch who got in first but missed a black off its spot letting Chris Petford in with a 16 break to take the initiative. Noel potted well to edge in front but Chris wouldn't go away and as the frame drew to a close it was the Shifnal man who sank the pink to come out on top 55-39 and get a point on the board. The last frame of the night was very tight for long periods with Willie Brown showing his experience, but Spencer Clarke is in fine form this term losing only one frame in all competitions to date. in the end he dug deep to take the frame 62-34 and seal a fine 4-1 win for the Bayley side. Despite the result on another night the score could easily have been different.