2013-14: Week 11

Owen Jones reports on Just Wood Premier Division

Week 11 of the Burton and District Snooker League began with a close match in the Premier division between title challengers Belmont A and Ivanhoe A. Graham Bailey began for the hosts against Daniel Blunn. Blunn potted well in both frames to put the visitors in front. Fran McInulty then hosted Ian Rennocks and played some great stuff, including a 31 break to beat the in-form Ivanhoe player. With the scores tied at the half way stage, up stepped Belmont’s talisman Ian Archer who knocked in a 32 break on the way to defeating Ant Moore. Mark Press then closed out the match against Andy Marriott, taking the frame required to seal the 5-3 win for the Belmont side.

The Tutbury Tutters were at it again taking maximum points against an out of sorts Willington B. Steve Hathaway began proceedings, beating Rich Turner to put the Tutbury side on their way to victory. The Mabbott brothers, Steve who knocked in a 30, Dave and Chris who scored a 36 break then piled on the misery defeating Dave Mawhinney, Steve Gaunt and John Hardy respectively. The 8-0 result keeps the Tutters there or thereabouts and continues their good start to the season.

Champions Burton Cons A hosted the not so young guns Swadlincote Snooker Centre B. Matt Milnes was first up against Adam Harrison. Milnes took two close frames to put the home side in the driving seat. John Shilton played Henry Thomas on the other table, and also looked in fine fettle, taking the frames to put the Cons 4-0 at the break. Darren Coady then played young Harry Farrell. Coady took the first frame with some lovely potting, much to the Farrell’s annoyance. He came back strongly in the second however, to draw the game. Owen Jones closed the match against Ben Davies. It was Davies who took the frames, restricting his opponent to scraps and leaving very little when missing to leave the final score 5-3.

A close game was fought out between Ivanhoe B and Alrewas A with the visitors coming out on top. In the first match Steve Cockerham demolished “fiery” Fred Trueman in the first frame, but Trueman fought back to take the second on the black. Gaz Dolman took the first on the final black that went in off two cushions after some sporting play by Carl Poulton. Poulton took the second to make it even. Adam Walton and Jerry Cook struggled through 2 frames with each taking a share of the spoils. The crucial win of the night came from Captain “hot shot” Hiley with a comfortable 2-0 win over Darren Wilson to give the Legionaires the win.

Willington A also claimed a whitewash victory over Rileys A. Alan Davies, Jan Pawlazych, Dean Johnstone and in-form Gaz Barker inflicting the pain on Taylor Richardson, Andy Spiers, Nigel Tomlinson and Mark Stirling respectively. This result shows what a good Willington side are.

Alrewas B scored yet another big win on the night, beating the unfortunate Belmont B 7-1. Will Sherratt went up first against Brett Craddock and duly took both frames to put the Alrewas side in front. Alan Wilson then played out a hard fought draw with Micky Morris. Phil Marklew put in another eye catching performance, beating Rich Goldby, knocking in breaks of 30 and 31 in the process. John Sharpe closed out the match taking two close frames against Arron Vaughan.

Mark Vaughan reports on David Wain Division One

South Derbyshire Snooker Centre C faced a tough home game against Burton Cons B with both sides chasing promotion, Andy Bloor took on Dave Shipton in the first match and Dave took an immediate lead with good potting to then unluckily go in off on a pink, from that point on it was all Andy who won both frames to keep his 100% home record. The game on the other table took a little longer and Burton Cons Tom Egginton had the run of the ball against Brian Bloor and won both frames to tie the scores, Swads Simon Orpwood played Jason Anguish who has recorded some good wins this season and continued by potting consistently to win the first with Simon making some great pots in the second to go into a 13 point lead on the brown only to see Jason clear the table to win the game, the last match between Garton Bloor and Burton’s Dave Plunkett saw Dave pot well making a couple of breaks over twenty and see him pleased with his potting to give his team a great 6-2 away win.

Burton Cons C bounced back from the 8-0 mauling they received last week to win a close match against Alrewas C, Mick Buckland for Con’s was first on against Karl Hancox and it proved to be a good contest, Karl taking the first with some great pots and Mick’s excellent safety play eventually earning him a draw, Steve Castledine and Ian Bradford shared two close frames as did Jim Jennings and Colin Wood to leave the result resting on Burton captain Ian Shrive and Alrewas’s Rob Mcmeechan with Ian playing his best snooker of the season so far to win the match for his team 5-3

Newhall B hosted second in the league South Derbyshire Snooker Centre D with last season’s team mates playing each other, Adam McNulty for Newhall had some run in the first to win it but pulled away in the second making Wayne Brewin concede the frame with the colours still on the table, Mark Anslow played well in the two frames he took off Andy Rice putting Newhall 4-0 up, the trend continued with Martin Hicks potting well in both frames to comfortably beat David Wain. Callum Gray was last on against Lee Sherratt and won the first with the help of a 32 break and went on to win the second on the blue for a great 8-0 result for Newhall.

Swad Cons A faced the league leaders Stapenhill A and Swads Lee Wood lost out to Steve Ford while on the other table Swads Mark Hadley played well making breaks of 21 and 29 in the frame he took off John Richardson, Simon Mansfield drew the scores level by beating Stapenhill’s Chris Sheldrake and the last match between Paul Slater and Carl Jeffcote ended all square for a drawn match.

The mid table clash between Willington C and Swad Cons B ended drawn Lee Cooke for Willington winning two frames as did Swads Bob Mcnulty.

Tony Coleman reports on Riley’s Division 2

Willington D increased their lead at the top of the Division as the team who are currently in second place.Ivanhoe D had a rest week enabling teams below them to catch up a little.The Willington boys made the long journey to Swad Cons D a most successful one as they came away with a well deserved victory winning 6-2.Skipper Dave Budworth led from the front winning both frames in a tight match with Marc Egan.A couple of seasoned campaigners in Trevor Heath and the Cons Bob Birch shared a highly competitivematch with neither player deserving to lose with both players getting some good pots.Bill Davidson is gradually getting back into the groove with a solid performance in winning both frames against Andy Boam.Brian Alford with his own inimitable style shared the frames with Keiran Dadley which was enjoyed by his team-mates.

Rolleston C and SDSC E who were third and fourth in the division respectively played out a hard earned draw.Kieron Waddell and Andy Jefferies had to settle for a share of the spoils as neither player took the chances when they arrived to win the frame. Rolleston stalwart and captain Kev Norris could not do much on the night against an inspired performance from Ray Stretton who missed very little taking the two frames.Andy Winson for Rolleston came out of retirement to help out his team although a little rusty showed what a talented player he is sharing the two frames with Tony Mitchell.Tony played some fine safety play.It was left to Joe Docksey to get the required two frames for Rolleston to draw the match and this he duly did beating Ray Bancroft in a tight match with Joe’s excellent long potting being the difference.

Belmont C had a very good win 7-1 away to SDSC F.This win moves them into the top half of the table only four points off second position.Belmont were given a great start thanks to Terry “boswie” Bosworth and Brian Cutting winning all of their frames fairly comfortably.Brian Cutting knocked in a great 30 break against the unlucky Henry Carlton.Apparently Brian played his best snooker of the season in winning.Terry against Ashley Beard did just enough to win also.The two senior players on show Dougie Lees and Ken White shared the frames in a very tactical match.Dave Press also won fairly comfortably against Alex Glover with Dave at last finding some good form.

Woodville S&S A whitewashed Swad Cons D 8-0 although the matches were closer then the scores show.For the Cons Jon Petcherstarted off well with a well taken 17 break then Jim Marcer took control of the frame to win it fairly easily.The second frame went down to the black with Jon having the first shot at it after potting a most awkward pink after a short safety battle Jon left the black in the jaws of the pocket awaiting the master cue man Jim to pot it.Although not firing on all cylinders against Pete Fearn, AlanOrpwood was able to raise his game when the frames got down to the colours with some stunning pots. Tony Coleman struggled a little in the first frame with Barry Bentley but won the second fairly comfortably.Pat Ryan was at his mischievous best in the two frames he took off John Griffin.Pat played well within himself to take the first frame.The second frame revolved around a very good snooker laid by Pat and to John’s credit he kept trying to hit the object ball instead of trying to break up the cluster of balls around the object ball which ultimately lost him the frame.

Burton Cons D did very well to come away from Alrewas D with a draw as the A38 boys have been in good form of late.Tom Smith got the ball rolling for Alrewas with a fine display of potting and safety play allied with a little more experience than his opponent Nathan Brooks.Nathan’s father shared two longish frames with John Hill.The second half belonged to the Cons with Al Munnienplaying some fluent snooker in sharing the frames with Brian Eccleston who himself played well.Ian Protheroe secured a well deserved draw when he beat Brian Aldridge in two well contested frames.