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Old Ladies spanked by Hustlers

It’s that time of year again – the annual grudge pre-season not so friendly match against the Anchor Old Ladies, who were hosting us this year.  Could we maintain our victorious record of recent years?

Barry was on holiday, but Lofty brought along his newly shaved and polished balls as good luck charms.  To fit everyone in, we agreed to play only 5 hands and have 2 4-person legs.  How would this affect the teams?

We opened with a steady leg, with JimBob setting the score to be chased down.  But the Old Ladies managed to scrape by with a lucky 2-pin lead.  But this merely lulled them into a false sense of security as the 2nd legs faced off. Wallsy soon set a new standard as he got our first spare of the night, soon followed by an  unconverted spare from Lewis (lucky boy – the new mascot hasn’t yet been introduced!).  Settting new top score and beat yer man (BYM) scores, we now turned the game around to take a 24-pin lead.

With Matt guesting, 3rd leg set about stretching the lead still further.  With the help of a staggering +12 from Jim, they added another 3 pins, leaving an easy lead for the anchor leg to defend.  In our poorest display of the night, only Stavros had a positive BYM, while Olive claimed only his 2nd ever beaver (so he claims).  But, despite losing the leg, they did enough to ensure another Old Anchors slaughter.  Victory was deemed to be extremely sweet.

19/8/11 v Anchor Old Ladies @ Suffolk

Lofty 4 6 8 2 7 27 -10

JimBob

4 8 8 7 6 33 +8

Rich

6 6 6 2 8 28 -2

TC

5 4 6 5 7 27 +2

1st leg total 115 v 117

Stu

6 4 4 6 6 26 -8

Lewis

4 8 7 6 9s 34

+15

Steve 7 12 8 4 8 39 +11

Pete

6 7 5 5 5 28 +8

2nd leg total 127 v 101

Mark

6 4 5 7 8 30 -2

Matt

7
7 3 2 1 20 -9
Jim 8 5 7 4 6 30 +12

Gary

6 3 8 9 5 31 +2

3rd leg total 111 v 108

Rob

6 2 6 4 7 25 -4

AS

6 4 7 6 6 29 +7
Clive 4 9 0 5 7 25 -10

4th leg total 79 v 86

Grand total 432 v 412

WON by +20