Rileys A close gap at top despite loss
6:57pm Saturday 21st January 2012 in Sport By Steve Reed
Rileys A close gap at top despite loss With South London & Kent Pool Alliance Premier Division leaders Brockleians not playing this week it was up to second placed Rileys A and their neighbours, third placed Rileys Woolwich to close the gap.
The derby match was fast paced all night with Tony Halpin winning all three of his frames, two of which were break and dishes for Woolwich with Joe Kane producing another break and dish in his two wins for the second placed team.
Rileys A England International, Adam Coppen was the unluckiest player of the night in losing two of his frames without even coming to the table, although he did go on to win his third frame.
Woolwich were 7-5 up but the classic topsy turvy match came to a climax with a fifteenth frame decider after Rileys A staged a mini comeback.
George Covington eventually beat James Sheed with a great clearance giving Woolwich the game by 8 frames to 7.
Despite the loss Rileys A stay in second, thirteen points behind the leaders and seven points above their opponents in third.
Elsewhere in the division every match had teams next to each other in the table playing each other.
At the bottom Our Lady of the Rosary hosted Bellegrove Social Club A with the home team victorious by 9 frames to 6.
Erith Snooker Master 8’ers beat the team above to leapfrog them for the second week running.
This week it was Brockleians Choppers who thought they may go on to better things after going 3-0 up but the home side went on to win the next eleven frames in a row, including three out of three for both Glen Bradstreet and Paul Clark.
Choppers took the last frame to make the final score 11-4 and drop two places to eighth in the table.
Fifth played fourth in the final game of the division as Pickwick took on O’Connors.
The away side took the first set 4-1 with Pickwick returning the favour in the second to make the score five all but O’Connors piled it on in the third winning it 5-0 to make the overall score 10-5.
O’Connors Jamie Fay was the only one to win all three of his frames on the night.
This win took them to within one point of third while Pickwick stay in fifth, six points behind their opponents.
Bottom played top in the SLKPA Division One where Glenmore Arms II met White Hart and the bottom team started well winning the first two frames but they didn’t win another during the evening as Scott Shephard, Ernie Wellhausen and Alex Thompson all won their three frames to make the score 13-2 to the leaders.
Bellegrove Sharks got over last week’s heavy defeat by beating the team above them, New Eltham Social Club 9-6 but they are still ten points behind them.
Miro Cujic won half of New Eltham’s frames but player of the night has to be Sharks’ Tony Hodsdon who won all three of his games for the first time ever!
It was another long tense night at the Kings Arms where Glenmore Arms A were the visitors.
The home side started well taking a 4-1 lead from the first set but Glenmore’s Lewis Brind tied the match at 5 a piece by winning his only frame of the night to take the second set by the same score line.
Then Kings Arms Alan Dolan and Glenmore’s Alan Enever both won their second frames of the night to keep the scores level.
Kings Arms restored their frame advantage before Corinne Gratton won a hard fought and close game with a wonderful four ball clearance for her second win of the night and victory for the Kings Arms.
The away side took the final frame making the score 8-7 which was crucial as they stay one point ahead of their opponents in the table.
Rileys Rovers went into second place after their 9-6 triumph over Beech Tree Nuthouse.
It looked like they were going to have it all their own way as they went 6-1 up but the Nuthouse staged a comeback winning the next three frames.
Rovers won the first frame of the final set but they had to wait until the penultimate frame to seal the victory with Ryan Francis putting the icing on the cake by winning the last frame and his third of the night.
The first match of this season’s Reserve League was this week and White Hart Reserves have started off just like their main team with a 7-5 win over fellow debutants Royal Standard.
Standard started the game well winning the first set 2-1 but the victors went on to win the next three sets by the same 2-1 score line with Shaun Shephard continuing his good form from the main team winning three frames out of four.
For more information on the SLKPA including league tables visit our website at www.slkpa.com or contact our Secretary Paul Gafa on 07753 926291 with any queries.
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