WEEKLY UPDATE 3rd OCTOBER 2024

A chastening tale to start with this week

I was sat at the Deaf Centre on Tuesday evening feeling very pleased with myself, having made a break of 40 and winning by 118 - when news came in from Princeville that Richard Bowes had made breaks of 94 and 54 and won by 161. Well played Richard. (Talk about being put in my place!!)

Despite the best efforts of the remaining Princeville A players, Richard's big win was sufficient to see Pudsey win by 51 points and record their first victory of the season. At the Deaf Centre however normal service was soon resumed, as Ihjaz Hussain and Peter Wood significantly outperformed their handicaps, and so the Deaf Centre recorded a 57 point win to remain unbeaten with 7 points from their 3 matches. The other 7 points on offer have been shared between the other 3 teams with Princeville A on 3 and Pudsey and Princeville B on 2 each

This coming week sees the return fixtures of those played this week, with both defeated teams close enough to contest the aggregate point if they have a good night. Princeville A will be at Pudsey while the Deaf Centre visit Princeville B

Richard's score of 265 was comfortably the highest of the night (and of the season) and even with his minus 50 handicap applied, he still had the highest score plus handicap this week. Trevor Kershaw scored a creditable, if distant 104, which contributed to the pair recording the highest combined score of the week (by almost 100 points) . Ian Ford's score plus handicap has now exceeded 200 in every game so far, giving him and his opponent the highest combined score plus handicap again this week (assisted this time by Peter Turner) and had he and Peter Allan managed another 8 between them in the first week he would have achieved this distinction in all 3 weeks so far.

I seem to have sorted my techy problems (not sure how) but all 3 weeks scorecards can now be viewed on the Scorecards page. Fixtures for the League competition, starting on 29th October, have also been loaded to the Fixtures and Results page. Handbooks and entry forms for the Individual and Pairs competitions will be available shortly

Stephen Kershaw

Secretary