A bad case of the grumps

Determined to put the Cup failure behind them, Hustlers went into tonight's match looking to resume their league form against the Gamps.

A middling performance saw 1st leg establish a remarkable 22 pin lead, with only Swayner failing (narrowly) to beat his man.  2nd leg saw both sides struggling, with the Gamps just nudging it, despite Gary's lone positv e BYM.  But we still retained the lead at half time - just a shame we were whitewashed in the raffle.

A struggling 3rd leg (with Clive as the stand out player with our first 9 and 40 of the night) were rapidly dropping pins woth no sign of an end.  Despite shipping 14 pins, they did, however, manage to keep us ahead as they handed over to the Anchors.  Nails were being well & truly bitten over the 1st 3 hands as the game gradually returned to all square.  Then Pete's newly regained form soon showed itself again as he chalked up our 1st spare of the night, closely followed by our 2nd from Rob in an incredible  hand of 33.  And that was to prove decisive as we saw the game out with Pete's top score cheering the team up greatly as we clawed our way back to another win.

We're away at the Adam & Eve next week, with only a bare minimum team vailable, so no illness will be welcome.  And we hope that we will be able to decide on our trip venue & dates by then.

10/10/11 v Gamps @ Fox Suffolk

Steve 5 8 6 8 6 5 38 14

Mark

4 5 2 8 6 6 31 -1

TC

3 7 7 7 7 6 37 9

1st leg total 106 v 84

Andy

3 5 4 7 5 6 30 -3

JimBob

7 5 7 3 2 7 31 -10
Gary 4 7 3 5 6 7 32 7

2nd leg total 93 v 99

Mart

5 5 5 5 4 7 31 -11

Stu

3
3 4 4
5 8 27 -7
Clive 8 7 7 9 7 5 42 4

3rd leg total 100 v 114

Lewis

7 6 6 6 6 8 39 3

Pete

4 8 9 15 8 4 48 8
Rob 7 6 4 12 6 5 40 0

4th leg total 127 v 116

Grand total 426 v 413

WON by 13

Comments

Well done

Well done 'Slurs.........

Another opportunity taken to prove you didn't need me!

Maybe we should play at the "Fox Suffolk" every week :-) Has TC invented a new venue?