Wallingford Comrades Club Team Stats (Match 8)

7th November 2012 - Match 8
A TEAM	Pl	W	L	Pts for	Av	Pts ag	Av	%	Breaks over 25
Pete Billingham	6	5	1	339	57	175	29	83
Nigel Prior	6	5	1	325	54	189	32	83
Kev Higgs	5	4	1	268	54	197	39	80
Tom Williams	6	3	3	257	43	283	47	50
Jon Hawkins	1	0	1	64	64	96	96	0
Kev Gray	2	0	2	55	28	119	60	0
Dave Greathead	3	0	3	72	24	205	68	0
Nick Somarakis	0	0	0	0	###	0	###	####
	A Team win (just!), 3-2 away v Fairmile. Captain starts convincingly & Nigel & Tom also follow with wins (both on the black) before it all goes a bit wrong. Kev Gray loses after Stu Foley clears with 22 to win, but poor Anchorman 'pulls the plum' in Phil Collins who compiles an excellent 67 break to pull 2 frames back for Fairmile.
B TEAM	Pl	W	L	Pts for	Av	Pts ag	Av	%	Breaks over 20
Brian Orton	6	4	2	354	59	242	40	67
Dave Glaves	3	2	1	133	44	140	47	67
David Rowe	2	1	1	85	43	91	46	50
Rob House	7	3	4	328	47	309	44	43	31
Pete Beaumont	5	2	3	224	45	236	47	40	25
Andy Rance	8	3	5	320	40	387	48	38	27, 32
Bob Elliott	3	1	2	95	32	185	62	33
Kevin Pickworth	6	0	6	174	29	349	58	0
Simon Ellam	0	0	0	0	###	0	###	####
	B Team lose 2-3 home v Wantage. Kev loses 1st v Neil Craycraft but 'new boy' David Rowe beats Matt Todd 63-27. Andy drops a frame but Brian puts in a solid 4th to beat Sean Dorian. In a thrilling last frame Rob makes a 31 break only for Sid Barnes to fire back a 37 & eventually nick it on the pink! Good effort lads!

D&DS&BL Over 50s round 2

Unfortunately Andy Rance couldn't find any of his recent 'big breaks' form & sadly lost 2-0 away to Ian 'Sid' Barnes (no shame there Andy, after all he is the reigning League Singles Champion!).

Let's hope Brian Orton & Dave Greathead fare better in their matches! Good luck lads!

Wallingford Comrades Club Team Stats (Match 7)

31st October 2012 - Match 7
A TEAM	Pl	W	L	Pts for	Av	Pts ag	Av	%	Breaks over 25
Pete Billingham	5	4	1	276	55	162	32	80
Kev Higgs	5	4	1	268	54	197	39	80
Nigel Prior	5	4	1	255	51	133	27	80
Tom Williams	5	2	3	198	40	238	48	40
Jon Hawkins	1	0	1	64	64	96	96	0
Dave Greathead	2	0	2	60	30	115	58	0
Kev Gray	1	0	1	21	21	62	62	0
	On All Hallows Eve the 'scary' A Team record their first 5-0 of the season at home v Crown Tech! However, only 4 players record wins as Crown field only 4 players! Disappointing for Anchorman as Walk-Overs don't count as wins on this table! Good performances from all the winners though! Let's keep this going!
B TEAM	Pl	W	L	Pts for	Av	Pts ag	Av	%	Breaks over 20
Dave Glaves	3	2	1	133	44	140	47	67
Brian Orton	5	3	2	294	59	222	44	60
Rob House	6	3	3	278	46	250	42	50
Andy Rance	7	3	4	291	42	323	46	43	27, 32
Pete Beaumont	5	2	3	224	45	236	47	40	25
Bob Elliott	3	1	2	95	32	185	62	33
Kevin Pickworth	5	0	5	148	30	265	53	0
David Rowe	1	0	1	22	22	64	64	0
Simon Ellam	0	0	0	0	###	0	###	####
	It's 'Fright Night' of a different kind for the B Team as they end up with no 'sweets' on their Trick or Treat travels to Abingdon Con who win 5-0! A big welcome to new signing David Rowe who makes his league debut (don't worry Dave, they don't all play like that!). Gasp... Mr 100% drops a frame... to Olly 'Goblin' Hoeblyn!

D&DS&BL Week 7 match reports

On Halloween (with a Full Moon!), it was one scary extreme to another for the Wallingford Teams this week!  The A Team get their first 5-0 win (BOOH!  Scared yet?  LOL!), but the B Team get their first 0-5 defeat (now that is scary!).

Wallingford A had a home fixture v Crown Technology (who only had 4 players!).  Captain Pete started nicely with a convincing win 68-32 v an 'off colour' Olly Walker.  Nigel 'VC' Prior follows this with a 'toughed out' win 43-24 v Paul Claydon.  Tom Williams plays a lovely 3rd frame & when all his team mates were convinced he was going to slot in the first 25+ break of the season for the A Team, misses a straight forward black with more reds at his mercy!  There was no 'fright' in the end for Tom though & despite gallant efforts by his opponent Steve Digby, Tom ran out a winner by 58-33.  Kev 'Cuz' Higgs played the Crown 'Demon', Andy Harper who potted some outrageously good shots!  Unfazed by this, Cuz still won by 42-32 but not before scaring all the team & giving them collective heart failure when, with the frame won, narrowly misses going in-off the pink after potting 'frame ball' blue!  Poor 'Anchorman' Dave Greathead (fresh from a win in his Club Veterans 1st round match) gets a Walk-Over!  And with 7 matches played, DG is still seeking his first win of the season (damn SICK & BYE weeks!)... maybe next week in 'The Shed' at Fairmile Dad?  Don't forget your 'short cues' boys!

 

The 5 points gained by the A Team sees them meteorically rise in the table to 3rd!!!  Helped somewhat by the teams who were above having their BYE weeks & Abingdon RBL losing 1-4 at home to Fawley (!) - it'll even itself out... but Abingdon are looking pretty hot so far this season!

 

Wallingford B went Trick or Treating over to Abingdon Con A & despite promises of 'goodies' from the A Team for every point/winner, came away with their points bag empty!  Captain Kev Pickworth lost 21-58 to ex-Marlborough Captain, Steve James.  Dave 'Mr 100%' Glaves lost 32-80 to Olly Hoeblyn who made a substantial 39 break in the process.  Poor Bob Elliott had another 'high' break put past him in losing24-69 to Nigel Barker who made a 35.  The B Team 'blooded' a new signing (what a match to be your 'first' v the Premier Division leaders!) & they welcomed David Rowe (who Captain Kev said played very well & has a nice smooth cue action... reminiscent of his team-mate Rob House... who ironically Dave was standing in for!).  Unfortunately Dave lost 22-64 to another Dave, their Captain, Dave Lewis who made breaks of 28 & 24 (welcome to the Prem/1st Division!).  In the last frame Andy Rance couldn't summon one of his regular high breaks as he lost 25-77 to Jamie Szacjak who made a 30 break.  Thank goodness Halloween's only once a year eh?