Hastings & Bexhill Bar Billiards league

Derby day 4-1 win's for home teams
Sunday 11th October
The Cutter A and Jenny Lind B came away with 4-1 home wins in their respective derbies in the first week of the season whilst being the home team.  Meanwhile just up the hill the Ashburnham Arms started with a 3-2 win over the reigning champions the Old King John.

Jenny Lind B 4 Jenny Lind A 1 - Report by Steve Astley
 
The new season commenced at the Jenny Lind with a gentle match between the home A and B team.  Andrew kicked off for the A’s but mis-cued on his second shot and Steve took an early lead for the B team. Andrew seemed to find too many white pegs throughout the game allowing Steve to take first blood for Jenny B. 
Andy Horsler then stepped up for the B’s and after a slow start kicked into gear playing the fastest shots of the night banging in a close to 3 thousand break on one visit alone. You can never discount Andy’s opponent though; Jimmy is often capable of pulling some extraordinary billiards out of his hat. But tonight Andy’s whirlwind tactics put him way ahead at the finish line.
Andy’s brother Jez is an equally fearsome adversary. Tonight it fell to Jenny A’s Paul to try and stem the flow from the B team’s onslaught and he made a valiant effort but Jez’s hogging of the table with a 3k break and a further 4k break that he sadly lost gave Paul no time to catch up. Three nil to the B team as the tastiest sandwiches on the circuit appeared.
Jenny A pulled out their secret weapon for the forth game: Billy seamed to have the edge over the B’s Alex throughout most of the frame but Alex fought back valiantly and when the bar fell Alex was in reach of another win for his team. Luckily for Billy, Alex dropped two of the last three balls in low scoring holes and Billy delivered a coup de grâce with the final ball into the 100 hole triggering sighs of relief from the A team benches.
The evening rounded off with A team’s Captain Ray shooting against B team’s Rob. Ray took early control of the proceedings with Rob struggling to find his feet but eventually Rob settled in and started putting together and keeping some decent breaks which saw him cruising to a forth victory for the Jenny B.
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Ashburnham Arms 3 Old King John 2 - Report by Sandy Harmer
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The first game of the season saw the Ashburnham Arms take on the reigning champions the Old King John.  Mick Osborne and Nigel Doe started with both players cancelling each other out. Nigels game took a downturn as he couldn't clear and knocked more pegs than balls he potted. Mick cleared four times and managed a few 1k breaks to take the win.  The home side doubled their lead as Sandy Harmer took the second game, Sandy started with a 7k break, Chris Lamb struggled to keep going on his break as Sandy was back on with a 2.5k break to break 10k.  The third game saw Matt Jones on his debut for the team after his blockbuster loan from the Jenny Lind A, Matt took on Andy Ellison, Andy was off early and Matt took full advantage by producing a fine performance to score a PB 5370 break, Andy fought back and scored a valiant late 2730 break to end a very good game which could've ended differently if there was a few more minutes.  Matt ended up with a break and scored PB, not a bad debut to have!  The away side got on the board as Roger Andrews beat home captain Dave Pearce.  Roger was out of the blocks early with a 2580 break, Dave built small breaks but Roger kept clearing and scoring small breaks to keep extending his lead.  The OKJ made the scoreline 3-2, Mark Bailey beat Dave White, Dave started very well and built a 4k break only to put the break down four times Mark built small breaks as Dave struggled after his earlier success and Mark took the game.

Cutter A 4 Cutter B 1 - Report by Tom Pope
 

Cutter A play Cutter B to open the 3 pin season, with and enjoyable night and some close games. Joe and Pete play the first game. Joe builds a break but takes a peg. Pete leaves the 1-up short. Both get chances to knock balls in; they succeed in building breaks but take a lot of pegs between them. It could go either way; Pete edges it to take the win. Cutter A 1 – Cutter B 0

Colin and Dave are next on the baize. Colin opens his account with 2590. He goes on to extend his lead and win. Cutter A 2 – Cutter B 0

Mike and Jay get underway with Jay making a 1100 break. Mike replies with a 1200 and then closely follows it with a 4600 break. Jay’s playing well but couldn’t catch Mike. Cutter A 3 – Cutter B 0

Tom and Sam are the post sandwich entertainment. Both get off to decent starts. Sam opens an early lead. Tom’s works to catch him. Bar goes. Sam wins. Cutter A 3 – Cutter B 1

David and Dave are last to play. David’s out the gate with a 2 grand break. Dave comes back and almost catches him before David puts in another break to see him over the line. Cutter A 4 – Cutter B 1
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