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Golden Balls

Once more at home, this time against bottom of the table Old Golds, Hustlers were looking to end their losing streak.  Could we regain our pre-Christmas form at last?

 

1st leg looked OK as they began the match, but that soon changed as we began to drop pins.  Despite a valiant 40 from Lewis (with our 1st 9 of the match), Old Golds pulled out a 15 pin lead.  2nd leg struggled along to our highest leg score of the night, managing to pull back 4 pins in the process, leaving the game finely poised at halftime.

3rd leg once again struggled to 100, with Salty setting our lowest score of the night.  With 2 spare 9s against us, we dropped a further 19 pins to leave the anchors with a mammoth task.  Rob hit our 2nd 40 of the night and Neil our 2nd 9, as they equalled the top leg score.  With the Golds dropping pins, hope was emerging for the ‘Slurs.  But it wasn’t quite enough and we failed to win once more!

We’re back at the suffolk on Tuesday for an away game against Ullenwood CC.  Hopefully the sea air of Bournemouth will work some magic on us this weekend and we can come back refreshed and re-energised for the challenge ahead of us.

21/2/11 v Old Golds @ Suffolk

Gary 8 4 3 6 5 6 32

Pete

4 6 6 5 5 6 32

Lewis

7 9 7 4 6 8 41

1st leg total 105 v 120

TC

6 5 7 7 5 7 37

Jim

4 5 6 4 5 7 31
AU 4 7 7 6 7 8 39

2nd leg total 107 v 103

Mark

3 6 4 1 8 7 29

AS

3
8 6 6
6 8 37
Stu 6 6 8 6 6 2 34

3rd leg total 100 v 119

Rob

8 8 7 4 7 8 42

JT

8 4 4 4 5 6 31
Neil 6 5 9 3 4 7 34

4th leg total 107 v 93

Grand total 419 v 435

WON by -16

Bowled over

At home against 1 of the relegation candidates, Hustlers were favourites to get back on track.  Surely we could stump Cheltenham CC.

Gary opened the bowling with a 9, with an 8 from Pietersen Peter-son and a 7 from AU.  They maintained their form throughout and 40’s from Gary & AU brought us a 9 pin lead.  Lewis kept the run going with another 40, but Rich & AS faltered in their play and CCC managed to pull the pins back, to leave the match all square at the halfway point.

3rd leg once again struggled to 100, but managed to lose just 4 pins, to leave the game finely poised as the tail enders faced off against each other.  Rob scraped his way to 40 with the help of a last hand 9, but JT & Neil couln’t escape the low 30s and, as hard as they tried, the anchors couldn’t stop the Cricket Club as they dropped a further 7 pins.

We need to get back to winning – let’s hope another game at home next week goes our way as we take on the Division’s strongest side (they are holding the rest up!), before travelling to the Suffolk for an away match the following week.

14/2/11 v Cheltenham CC @ Suffolk

Gary 9 7 7 8 8 6 45

Pete

8 7 4 5 7 6 37

AU

7 5 6 8 6 8 40

1st leg total 122 v 113

Lewis

7 9 8 4 9 5 42

Rich

7 7 2 6 4 3 29
AS 5 5 5 7 4 8 34

2nd leg total 105 v 114

Mart

3 5 6 7 8 3 32

Jim

4
8 5 7
6 5 35
Clive 7 3 6 3 7 7 33

3rd leg total 100 v 104

Rob

6 7 5 7 6 9 40

JT

4 7 8 7 2 6 34
Neil 6 7 4 6 5 5 33

4th leg total 107 v 114

Grand total 434 v 445

WON by -11

Hustlers down with the Champs

Following on from 2 defeats, the Hustlers ventured out to Churchdown to take on the Chosen Champs.  Could they stop the rot?

 

Hopes were high as AU racked up our first 40 of the night. but TC’s lowest score of the season helped the Chosen to a 13 pin lead.  But we’ve come back from worse gaps, so the game was still on as 2nd leg took over.  But they proved to be even worse, as Steve made his lowest score of the season and we lost a further 26 pins.  Still, it could have been worse at this stage & Pete did win the raffle – surely an omen.

3rd leg stuttered to 100 as Mark got our first 9 of the night.  And so, once more it came down to the anchors to save the game – the draw was still on!  Gary ably supported 40s from makeshift skipper Rob & JT (who got 2 9s in the process) as they ran up our highest leg score of the night.  But a series of 9s and spares from the Chosen saw them take the leg by 9 (a success compared to the rest of us).  And so, Rob’s first game as captain this season ended in our heaviest defeat. 

Fortunately, Clive’s back next week as we start a run of 4 games back at the Suffolk (even if 1 of them is an away fixture!).  We will be looking to regain some form, especially with 5 dropped for the match!

9/2/11 v Chosen Champs @Churchdown Club

Lofty 7 6 5 7 7 5 37

AU

5 7 8 5 7 8 40

TC

5 3 4 4 4 5 25

1st leg total 102 v 115

Stu

5 5 6 5 4 7 32

Jim

8 4 7 5 3 6 33
Steve 3 3 5 5 5 5 26

2nd leg total 91 v 117

Lewis

6 7 7 5 7 3 35

Mark

6 2 4 6 5 9 32
AS 3 5 5 8 6 6 33

3rd leg total 100 v 113

Rob

6 8 8 8 4 6 40

Gary

4 8 3 7 7 6 35
JT 4 7 9 7 4 7 43

4th leg total 118 v 127

Grand total 411 v 472

WIN by -61