Snooker: Week 18 results

'Night of drama' at Douglas Snooker Bar

Week 18 of the Macs Builders Merchants snooker league saw St Olaves A take their three point lead to Port St Mary Legion as Paul Smyth reports: 

Port St Mary Legion 3-2 St Olaves A
 
Marc Morley 47-44 Dave Kelly, Dave started well to catch up, both potted well to keep it close. Marc snatched it with a monster long black with white tight on back cushion for the win. Phil Joynes 82-66 Sean Corkish went the same way. Sean started well and caught up. Never much in it before Phil potted the final pink for frame, however the white went in the corner pocket. Then from ‘in hand’ Sean missed the pink into the middle. Phil then sealed it with a great long pink cueing off of the cushion. Shaun Roberts 65-28 Paul Smyth, Paul potted a teen break then rattled a trickler down the cushion with the black available, leaving Sean to get a nice 29 break which proved decisive. Dave Pickersgill 50-74 Darrell Thacker, Darrell hit some high teen breaks to take the lead, then pulled off some great long pots with power to pull clear and although a safety battle ensued Darrell held on well to win and stay one win clear of Stu Littlewood in the individual standings. Terry Boyle 66-81 James Kerr, James potted well to catch up, then the frame got tactical with safeties from both players. Terry battled hard but James was the stronger and picked up another valuable point. Not the result St Olaves wanted but they stay top from The Hurricanes by that single point.
 
The Hurricanes 4-1 DSB Wannabes
 
Paul Smith reports on a night of drama at Douglas Snooker Bar:
 
Stuart Littlewood 42-11 Harry Minor, the difference here was that Harry potted some good reds but no colours, while Stu racked up points steadily. Gary Conwell 63-94 Steve Cowin, a mammoth grind from Conwell, need snookers and getting them numerous times before Stevie eventually potted the winning colours and the ref went to the bar for a well deserved pint. Chris Dagnall 91-84 Paul McKinstry, Dagsy with a break of 31 closed on Paul’s 77 start. Highlight of the frame was a pot red from Paul that had so much check side on it that Alex Higgins would have been proud of it to leave him perfectly on the pink. Unfortunately that was followed by the lowlight as he missed the straightforward pink. The balls went awkward and Dagsy dragged himself to level after potting the final black. He put Paul in on the re-spotted black and after a few safeties and missed pots from both players Dagsy took it. On what was becoming a very long night Steve Munk 62-54 Fred Corris utilised a spare table and went to the colours with Munky taking another on the black. Paul Smith 53-47 Dave Corris, a fantastic long green from Dave meant Smith would need the last four colours. After potting brown Smith potted an almost straight blue off its spot into the yellow bag with white near the right hand black pocket and cut in a tricky pink. He rattled the black and after Dave missed his half chance it was left easy for Smith to win. Somehow a 4-1 result for the Hurricanes with the Wannabes probably wondering how they only won one frame?
 
Malew 3-2 Finch Hill Rockets 
 
A narrow defeat for the Rockets who stay third, Graham Ashton reports:
 
Frame one ended Eric Drinkwater 51-72 Marek Kenny, Eric missed an easy final green which Marek took together with brown and blue with great positional play to take the frame. James Goodwin 72-68 Ron Grogan was a very entertaining but long frame, never in all my years of league snooker have I seen so many fouls! The Rocket potted some great balls but missed frame ball pink which James took with black to snatch it. Alec Oates 71-24 John Spellman, John struggled to find form following his weekend Joe Davis win and a nice break of 23 from Alec plus other teen breaks was more than enough. David Quayle 58-94 Graham Ashton was a game of two halves with Ashton eventually getting going after profiting from some well laid snookers. Mark Quinn 64-43 Doug Kinrade, Quinn, after three losses got his season back on track taking the decider.
 
St Olaves Musicians 2-3 Newbys DSB
 
Matthew Dodd 72-47 Ste MacDonald, MacDonald didn’t really get going but my correspondent Simon Gardner says Doddsy was firing on all cylinders and was allegedly heard to say, ‘I didn’t hit that one hard enough!’ Peter Collister 58-33 Calum Gardner put the home team two up. Dave Hanlon 80-81 Zain Abideen saw Abideen back in form taking it on the black after an earlier 21 break. John Kennish was slightly below his best chasing his opponents embarrassingly large handicap 64-92 Simon Gardner. Frame of the night, with the result resting on it was Mike Doherty v Pat Maher. Maher kept Doherty 20 behind most of the way, eventually leading by 27 on the yellow. Doc started to plug away until he was 13 behind on the pink only to leave it straight into the middle for Pat to win and give the Newby's their 3rd match win in a row, 40-59.
 
Cue Zone Mob 4-1 Peel Legion
 
The Mob took no prisoners as Peel’s mini revival came to a halt and they were 3-0 down in no time, scores Steve Finnegan (22 break) 71-37 John Kelly, Peter Kirkham (29 break) 74-42 Geoff Hall, Dave Addinall (41 break) 93-68 Mike Crook. Steve Oates surprised his teammates and indeed himself with a 22 clearance to pip Barton Beaumont 56-27. The final frame ended Lee Hunt 44-68 Jim Caley, Caley the only Peel man to show any form on the night.
 
Cue Zone Blinders 2-3 Jacksons

Jacksons took this derby match with wins their leading points scorers Lee Gale and Kam Virk before Dave Cavanagh sealed it. Frame scores, Brandon Forrester 30-56 Lee Gale, Josh Rigg 50-56 Kam Virk, Scott Campion 47-32 Mike Reddington, Sam Palmer 38-63 Dave Cavanagh and Jez Hill 66-29 Tony Dhadwal.