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A Shadows Cliff hanger

The Hustlers played their last game of the season and, as is now customary, drew lots for playing position.  And what an interesting lineup it produced.

First leg was very much a mixed bag.  Dobbin set a good pace with a 9 and the night’s only spare on his way to our 1st 40 of the night.  TC backed it up with a middling score, while AU stuttered to his lowest score of the season.  And so we handed over trailing by 2 pins.  But that was soon pulled back as 2nd leg set about turning the game around, with Stu getting his top score of the season, ably supported by JT and Wallsy with yet another 9 spare!  At the halfway point we were now 14 pins ahead and feeling very happy.

With Olive setting his top score of the season with a pair of 9s, 3rd  leg put in a good show to add a further 12 points to our lead, before handing over to the all-star anchor leg.  Jim set the pace with another 40, ably supported by a 40 from Lewis.  And so it was down to JimBob to make the game safe.  Opening with a 9, he soon made sure that he won Barry back off Rich, before launching his effort to claim our lowest score for himself – only missing out by a single pin.  But it was enough – we lost 12 pins, but came out winners  to end our season back on a positive run.

No more games this season, but we have the AGM ahead of us and the hopes of another front pin run to come.

4/4/11 v Shadows @ United Services Club

Rob 5 9 6 7 5 11 43

AU

2 2 4 5 7 6 26

TC

6 7 7 6 7 4 37

1st leg total 106 v 108

Stu

8 8 8 9 8 6 47

Steve

9 9s 7 5 8 5

45

JT 6 7 8 7 9 6 43

2nd leg total 135 v 119

Mark

5 6 6 6 3 8 34

Clive

9
7 8 8
7 9 48
Gary 9 5 4 6 7 4 35

3rd leg total 117 v 105

Jim

5 7 7 7 8 7 41

Lewis

7 7 7 9 8 5 43
JimBob 9 2 0 1 6 3 21

4th leg total 105 v 117

Grand total 463 v 449

WON by +14