After last week’s stunning win, the Hustlers were looking to carry that winning streak back to the Suffolk and regain the fortress. How would they fare?
Memories of last week’s start were still fresh in our minds as we opened up against Smiths A. Another 40 from AS was enough to keep honours even in a hard fought first leg. 2nd leg continued the tight battle but Gary’s 40 (with our only spare of the night) wasn’t enough to counter Pete’s masterful beaver and we turned around trailing by a mere 2 pins at the midpoint.
There was still plenty of time to go as 3rd leg took over, but a faltering display from both sides saw us drop a further 3 pins with our lowest leg score of the night. But it was still not all over as we looked once more to the anchors. And very soon we began to ship yet more pins as Lewis opened up with another Beaver to regain control of Barry and the doubts began to settle in. But, by the 4th hand, we were back on level terms once more and the game to play for. The 5th hand saw us finally take the lead and it was up to Cap’n Clive & Neil to make sure of the win with a 40 apiece.
Next week we travel to the wild outreaches of Bishops Cleeve to take on the Cream at the RBL. Can we pull off a win there?
29/11/10 v Smiths A @ Suffolk
Mark | 7 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 34 |
Jim |
4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 36 |
AS |
7 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 40 |
1st leg total 110 v 111
Pete | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 26 |
Steve | 9 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 36 |
Gary | 6 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 43 |
2nd leg total 105 v 107
Mart |
6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 37 |
Rich |
7 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 31 |
AU | 4 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 33 |
3rd leg total 101 v 104
Lewis |
0 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 31 |
Clive |
6 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 42 |
Neil | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 43 |
4th leg total 116 v 105
Grand total 432 v 427
WIN by 5