Trojans travelled to the Q Club for
a clash with the second placed, Titans.
Trojans pulled the trigger first with a win from a veteran of the game, Trev Whiteside.
Up stepped the Ryan the king slayer Mackillop for the Titans to take out a
clinical finish. Killer Millar stepped up and done what Millar does and grinded
his opponent and to submission, taking to the Titans into an early lead 2-1. Trojans
‘never say die’ attitude quickly bounced them back with a win from Chris Hobson.
The crafty pensioner, Alan Corrigan was up next to break and dish his opponent
in a record time of 35mins. The Titans took the next four in a row with three
more break and dishes. Trev Whiteside stopped the momentum and give his side
hope of getting something from the game. He took out with a great finish to
take the score to 7-3. Mark Millar and Andy Quinn took the match to 9-3. Stevie
Hamilton for capitalized and took out a great finish making the game 9-4 with
the final game of the night was two titans of the sport Ryan the king slayer Mackillop
and king Kenny English it was Kenny to win the leg and tell Ryan “That’s a
proper lag.” Kenny went on to dry break giving Mackillop
cherries to finish the clash off 10-4 these three points were enough to move to the top of the league.
Grange Pool Team in Ballyclare hosted third placed Times Bar Scorpions. The first frame went to Scorpions captain, Lee McIlreavey and Grange’s captain Jackie Murdoch hit straight back. Scorpions Paul Kerr took the next and Granges hit back through Richard Kitson. Scorpions took the next two frames via a break and dish for Aaron Leslie and another for win for Paul Kerr. Stephen Herron had a fine break and dish to secure a half time score line of 3-4. Scorpions rallied and raced to ‘the hill’ with three on the bounce for Lee McIlreavy, Aaron Leslie and Davy Blair. Jackie Murdoch took out a superb finish to reduce the arrears to 4-7 before Davy Adair secured the points. Darren Whiteside and Lee McIlreavy took the final two frames to give the Scorpions a flattering score line of 4-10 against a very good side. Man of the match was Scorpions captain Lee McIlreavy with a solid hat trick of wins.
Pink Ladies hosted stablemates, Colts in Greenisland WWMC derby. Glen
Burns got the Colts off to a great start and each Colts team member followed
suit resulting in the score line being an impressive seven nil upon entering
the half time interval.
Burns would also get his team over the winning
line in the first frame of the second half followed my fellow John (Cujo)
McClean making the result at this stage strongly in the Colts favour with a
score line of nine nil.
The Pink Ladies hit back in the next two with a most impressive win containing at least four-highlight reel shots by Tracie Cooke and a strong performance by Jean McIlroy. Final score Pink Ladies 2 Colts 12.
Bowlers vs Q Club.
The Bowlers welcomed Q Club to Carrickfergus for a competitive match. The visitors got off to a flying start, capitalizing on some early errors from the Bowlers to secure three quick wins. However, the home side fought back strongly, levelling the score at 3-3. Young Matthew Booysen had the chance to complete the comeback, but fellow youngster Joel Quinn held his nerve to secure his second win of the night.
After the break, Q Club took the first game, but
the Bowlers responded well, winning the next two to make it 5-5.
In the closing stages, Q Club’s greater
experience proved decisive as they claimed the final four games, sealing a
well-earned 9-5 victory. Despite the loss, the Bowlers continue to improve,
though eliminating costly mistakes and refining shot selection will be key to
their progress.
A special mention goes to William Irvin for a
well-executed break and dish, while Ian McMillan was undoubtedly the Bowlers’
standout player, winning all three of his matches.
In what seemed to be an epic match Times Bar Tigers had a 7-7 draw with Railway Blues.
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Legion had no match.