Comrades Club Team Stats 06/11/13 (Match 9)

A TEAM	Pl	W	L	Pts for	Av	Pts ag	Av	%	Breaks over 25
Aaron Tame	4	4	0	222	56	67	17	100
Pete Billingham	5	4	1	291	58	112	22	80
Dave Greathead	5	4	1	275	55	205	41	80
Nigel Prior	4	3	1	203	51	122	31	75	51
Tom Williams	3	1	2	130	43	120	40	33	34
Kev Higgs	2	0	2	74	37	114	57	0
Nigel Woods	1	1	0	64	64	36	36
Jon Hawkins	1	0	1	33	33	68	68
	A Team win 4-1 away at Harwell A. Aaron keeps it 100% (just!). Nigel turns on the flair with a superb frame winning 51 break! Captain secures the win before Tom pulls the plum in Simon Saunders. In a cracking frame, Tom makes a timely 23 only for Simon to clear brown to pink to win. Dave 'Anchors' the last frame v a deceptive opponent!
B TEAM	Pl	W	L	Pts for	Av	Pts ag	Av	%	Breaks over 20
David Rowe	7	7	0	438	63	145	21	100	36
Andy Rance	7	5	2	367	52	317	45	71
Simon Ellam	7	4	3	353	50	310	44	57
Pirom Phai	6	3	3	309	52	262	44	50	24
Rob House	6	3	3	295	49	271	45	50
Brian Orton	1	1	0	60	60	50	50
Dave Glaves	1	0	1	18	18	62	62
	B Team lose 2-3 at home to Wantage. Simon loses a close frame v Sid Barnes before Dave 'Mr 100%' Rowe levels it v Sean Dorrian. Phai scores heavily but loses v Phil Hall before uncharacteristically Rob loses 9-58 v Dave Williams. Captain Andy salvages some pride in the last v Duncan Nielson.
C TEAM	Pl	W	L	Pts for	Av	Pts ag	Av	%	Breaks over 17
Kev Pickworth	4	3	1	200	50	156	39	75
Hugh Baker	6	3	3	271	45	297	50	50
Alan Wells	6	3	3	239	40	242	40	50
Pete Beaumont	4	2	2	151	38	183	46	50
Bob Elliott	2	1	1	49	25	108	54	50
Joey Edwards	5	1	4	126	25	275	55	20
Jake Crockett	5	1	4	118	24	225	45	20
Dan Milles	1	0	1	30	30	72	72
Luke Wells	1	0	1	20	20	51	51
	C Team lose 2-3 away v Marlborough C. Captain KP makes the most of a re-shaped tip to win 62-50 & Pete follows suit in a close frame 40-35. It all started turning against them after such a promising lead as Joey, Hugh (blame the new tip, eh?) & Jake suffer losses (& Jake, there's no shame in losing to The Legend, Vic Hartley!).

D&DS&BL Week 7 Match Reports

Only one Wallingford Team in action this week as the A & B Team sit out bye weeks.

Wallingford A v RAF Benson

(Match report by Captain KP... edited by your Rep)

Frame one saw Captain Kevin taking on Richie Greatley.  The Skipper always in control of things using all of his years of experience to come out a easy winner 45-1O to put the C Team in the lead 1-0.

 

Frame two saw young Joey Edwards take on Daz Gaukwin.  This was always going to be a tough ask of young Joey as Daz is the holder of the highest break in the league (37) last season.  It was never going to be a easy task & with two breaks of 20 or more there was nothing that look-a-like Andy Hicks (Joey) could do to stop Daz levelling the match at 1-1 with a final frame score of 8-80.

 

In frame three Alan Wells was up against Aaron Coombes.  The young man from Benson got off to a fast start to take a 20 lead, but Alan clawed himself back into the frame needing pink and black to win.  Unfortunately for Alan the pink rattled in the pocket & sat there for his opponent to secure the frame, 28-47 to make it 1-2 to RAF Benson.

 

In the fourth frame, young Jake was to take on the Competition Secretary of the league Sam Beasant (thanks for drawing me against David Rowe in the Novices said Captain KP!).  Jake seems to have a good technique, but needs to sort out his stance to provide a solid base.  With more matches under his belt & a little guidance, it will come.  Unfortunately for Jake, Sam was far too good for Jake, closing the frame out 11-44 making it 1-3.

 

In the final frame five, Hugh Baker (playing with a Club cue as his tip came off the day before) faced Bryan Kettle.  The frame was nip and tuck all the way, but Bryans long game was unbelievable.  Both players had they chances, but it was to be a win for Bryan a very close game on the pink to win, 47-56 making the final frame score 1-4.

 

May l say a big Thank You to stand-in Bar Staff, Tina for providing the supper sandwiches and Benson for playing in such a sporting manner.

So, with that loss, C Team drop below RAF Benson in the 3rd Division, but should take solace from the fact they retain 2nd place in the League.

All Wallingford Teams are in action next week; the A Team travel to newly promoted Harwell RBL A, the B Team host Wantage (who will no doubt be looking to avenge their last visit to Wallingford when they left with no points v the A Team!) & the C Team travel to Marlborough to face the C Team (2nd Division) who are just 1 point behind them on level games!

See you on the practice tables... when I've re-tipped Hugh's cue!