Enjoy a good festive break, we will officially start again on Monday 8thJanuary 2024 with the preliminary road of the Handicap Cup. The handicaps will appear on TT365 soon and I will send a copy to team captains.
In the first division, third placed Amlwch B narrowly beat second placed Police A 23-22 to move within two points of their rivals with a game in hand. No one player dominated in a fixture that provided seven five-game encounters. The computer picked Reg John as the ‘man of the match’, he beat Roger Lee over three games, Brian Cooke in five but lost out to Tony Wan in another five-game match. Tony Wan also beat Andrew Lloyd over five games before losing a third five-game battle to Ben Sutcliffe. The doubles went to Police A 11-9 in the fifth, the same score witnessed Andrew Lloyd prevailing at the expense of Roger Lee.
Rhyl A move up to sixth with games in hand over their immediate rivals following a comfortable 29-8 win over Henllan A. David Daniels dropped only game and Tom Bird two both to Sean Lucas. John Hughes was involved in two five-game matches beatingSean Lucas but losing out to Jonny Hughes.
In a second trip to Rhyl in a week Henllan A beat Rhyl B 27-14 and move into fourth in the table at the end of 2023. Sean Lucas was the ‘man of the match’ beating Ben Moore over five games and Chris Markey and Fred Moore over four games. Ben Moore came from two games down to see off Jonny Hughes in a five-game battle. Josh Parrywas two up, but Fred Moore hit his way back to take the encounter to a deciding fifth game in which Josh prevailed.
In the second division, Craig-y Don A is seventy points clear at the top following a 30-2 win over Craig-y-Don B. Maximums here for both Dave Foster and Ross Lander. Telor Jones extracted a game from Ady Waugh and teamed up with Bridget Prescott to win a game in the doubles.
