Spartans 9-5 Monkstown
Rockers 12-2 Whitehead Trojans
Valkyries 2-12 Teddy Bears
Eastway 5-9 Castle
Greenisland 11-3 Alpha
Scorpions 6-8 Pirates
MSC Trojans 11-3 Barbarians
Eastway 5-9 Castle. Derek Whiteside's Castle men continued their stuttering start to the season against a constantly improving Eastway team. They looked to be coasting at 2-0 with wins from D.Irwin and T.Whiteside but Tom Larmours Eastway had different ideas and played some great stuff with great finishes from R.Whiteside, Larmour himself and a sublime potted black out of a snooker from T.Greer. The home side led 4-3 at the interval. Castle had to dig deep and wins from J.Meredith and P.Roberts helped them settle before T.McCorry put the visitors over the line to ease the pressure. It was a fine performance from Eastway and neutrals would say they deserved a point. Worrying times for the Castle though.
Greenisland 11-3 Alpha. Greenisland entertained Alpha but it was the visitors who took an early lead through N.McAllister capitalising on a missed black. But the hosts reeled off the next 6 frames in a row courtesy of G.Burns (2), W.Morrison, H.Warwick, A.Harris and S.Lennon to take a commanding interval lead of 6-1.Burns then got his hat trick of frames for the second week running to put Greenisland on the hill at 7-1. It was tempoarily halted as McAllister's notched up his and Alpha's second frame of the match. Greenisland then ran out another 4 in a row to seal the points with Harris, Morrison, Akehurst and Lennon on the scoreboard. L.Carson played well to win the last frame of the evening for the away side.
Rockers 12-2 Whitehead Trojans. The Rockers maintained the defence of their title by swiftly taking a commanding 6-1lead at the interval, only losing the single frame to ex Spartan S.Hamilton. The Whieabbey RBL lads carried on the momentum in the 2nd half with another 6-1 scoreline with Hamilton again being the only point scorer for the visitors. Arbuthnot, Butler and Harris all scored the maximum 3/3 as the Champions sent out an ominous statement as they stormed to top position in the League table.
MSC Trojans 11-3 Barbarians. This was a tighter match than the scoreline suggests.The first 4 frames were shared before recently crowned European Individual Wheelchair Champion Rab McMaw won in 2 visits to give the hosts the edge at 3-2. Rab Browns team never looked back after this, reeling off another 4 in a row to lead by 7-2. M.Porter pulled 1 back for the visitors but another 4 frame burst gave the MSC Trojans a convincing 11-3 win which moves them up to 6th in the table.
Spartans 9-5 Monkstown. Monkstown opened up brightly with S.Walker playing a perfect positional shot off his last colour to land plum on the black, but it was soon 1-1 when new boy E.Martin making his home debut finished very precisely. A massive fluke from S.McWhirter on his last colour and an easy black, gave the hosts the edge at 2-1. R.Hawkins and K.English made it 4-1 and a wonderful double pot from E.McDowell followed by a long black put Spartans further ahead at 5-1. R.Henderson finished well to pull one back for the visitors to give an interval score of 5-2 to the home side. A wonderful quick fire break and dish from G.Russell and a win for P.Henderson brought Monkstown back to 4-5 on the night. But delightful pool from Martin with his 2nd frame of the night and another McWhirter win put Spartans on the hill at 7-4. The points were soon secured for the Spartans with a tidy finish from English and D.Lowe got on the scoresheet to make it 9-4. P.Henderson potted the black out of a snooker to give Monkstown the final frame of the evening.