● What a fantastic debut in the CDPL for Carrickfergus Golf Club. They got off to a flying start leaving the Greenisland Colts trailing by 5-2. The Colts hoped to do better in the second half but quite apart from it genuinely being one of those nights with missed blacks and cue ball in offs from breaks they did seem to still be on holiday after the summer recess. That is not to take away from the Carrick teams performance in any way as they really did prove to be a very attacking team with good strong potters and infact went on to do even better in the second half making the final score on the evening Carrickfergus Golf Club 11 - Greenisland Colts 3
The Colts welcomed the Golf Club to the league and the Golf Club welcomed the Colts to their Club. A very friendly enjoyable start to the league new season for both teams.
● The Q Club started the season well, taking the first 4 frame in Whitehead, but the Trojans fought back to make to 4- 3 in the first half. In the second half, there were lots of very close frames, but the Q Club had their experience to fall back on and took the second half 4 game to 3. Congratulations to the Q Club on a great win . Top player for the Trojans was Thomas winning 3/3 and top players for the Q Club was Andrew and Marty 2/2
●Tonight, The Q club titans where up against the Grange with the match sure to be tense with both new teams in the carrick league and really did not disappoint. Kick starting the titan's off was Rhy's giving the titans 1-0 lead which Quickly followed on 3 more good frames from Tyler,mark,dean making it 4-0 to the titans before richard kitson stepped up for the grange and Kick started the grange off the mark now 4-1 with then ryan mckillop making it 5-1 to the titans but the never say die attitude from the grange instantly woke up from life support winning the next 4 in a row from jim gilchrist,gary cowan,richard kitson,paul shannan. Then up stepped tyler sharp shooter mckee to stop the rot for the titans, with the newly crowned player of the season ryan mckillop in larne pulled out a great finish, only to go in off the black very unlucky, ricky moulds steps up next with a great technical battle against richard kitson only too just come out ontop making it 7-6 titans, Alan and paul final match of the night with a alan win gets the win for the titans or paul win for a draw for the visitors it was paul that come out on top with a great clearance to take the frame under extreme pressure. Finish in the night 7-7 Great bunch of lads and great night had by all,
Players of the night
Tyler from titans 2-2
Paul from grange 2-3
● Last season's runners up scorpions travel to The McConnell's Of Doagh to Play lasts years Harbour Cup winners The Railway Blues. The first frame seen Lee Mcilreavy see off Ryan stewart to take the first point of the night. Second frame seen a dry break from Neil McFaul only for him to watch Paul Kerr make a lovely reverse dish. Wesley Smyth got the blues off the mark in the third frame. The scorpions stepped up a gear taking the next four frames with wins from Darren Whiteside, Michael Wilson, Colin Rafferty and debut cueist Stephen Johnston leaving the first session with a scoreline of 6-1. A second debut for Davy Blair kicked off the second session with a win. Neil McFaul got the blues there second frame on the board after a tactical frame against Paul Kerr. The blues pushed on with Wesley Smyth winning his second frame of the night beating Stephen Johnston. Darren Whiteside got his second of the night beating Robin Kerr. Sammy Duff clawed one back for the blues after a slip up from Michael Wilson. Lee Mcilreavy and Colin Rafferty won the last two frames of the session to see out the win for the Scorpions. Final score was 10-4 in the scorpions favour.
● The Whiteabbey royal British Legion welcomed the Carrickfergus bowling club this was a tight match it went one way and then the other way Kevin Mullen got the legion of to a good start the bowling club got the next two with wins for Gary McClure and lan McMillan Rab butler made it all square Ricky topping put the match all square the legion rattled off 4 games in a row with wins for Gareth Robinson Darren McFarland John Rainey and Dessie McCullough before Ian McMillan got one back for the bowling club it was a great match and I wish the bowling club all the best in the future games. Results 8-6
