Having finally gotten back to winning ways, Hustlers made the long trek out to Bishops Cleeve, looking to do the double over Smiths A. Could we finally string a couple of wins together?
1st leg got off to a steady start, with a starring performance from Chairman Pete as his 9 spare helped him to our top score of the night, although it wasn’t quite enough to stop us falling behind. 2nd leg kept the game tight as they only dropped 3 pins in a leg where neither side could break the 100 mrk. JimBob excelled himself to regain possession of Barry the Brasilian beaver after just a single match as he just managed to get our lowest score of the night. And so we turned around trailing by just 8 pins – a gap hardly worth mentioning for the ‘Slurs.
3rd leg soon sorted that out as they racked up our 2nd highest leg score of the night & Smiths got by far the lowest. And so we immediately found ourselves 10 pins in front thanks to a superb 18-pin lead and confidence really rising. Anchor leg just had to cruise and the double was ours. But somebody had forgotten to show the script to Smiths. With Dobbin getting our 2nd lowest score (and leaving us without a single 40 average in the process) it all came down to Smiths’ last hand – get 14 and the game would be ours. The 21 saw us lose by another close margin – it can’t be good for the nerves.
Our penultimate game ses us play our last home game of the season against old opponents, the Cream. We will be looking to avaenge the earlier defeat at Cleeve British Legion against them.
21/3/11 v Smiths A @ RBL, Bishops Cleeve
AU | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 31 |
Pete |
6 | 6 | 9s | 7 | 3 | 7 | 38 |
TC |
5 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 34 |
1st leg total 103 v 108
Lewis |
5 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 35 |
JimBob |
6 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
26 |
Clive | 4 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 33 |
2nd leg total 94 v 97
Jim |
8 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 30 |
Rich |
6 |
7 | 5 | 7 |
5 | 7 | 37 |
Steve | 7 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 35 |
3rd leg total 102 v 84
Mart |
7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 36 |
Gary |
5 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 36 |
Rob | 4 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 28 |
4thleg total 100 v 116
Grand total 399 v 405
WON by -6