Snooker: Addinall impresses on first appearance back since December

Top of the table clash between St Olaves & Hurricanes

There was a top of the table clash in week 16 of the Macs Builders Merchants snooker league with St Olaves A taking their one point lead to second placed Hurricanes. 

The Hurricanes 3-2 St Olaves A
 
Frame one was surprisingly the only nailbiter on the night going to Stu Littlewood 84-72 Sean Corkish (20 break). Jamie Wilson 32-73 Darrell Thacker, Chris Dagnall (23 break) 76-35 Paul Smyth and Gary Connell 34-64 Dave Kelly saw scoreline seesaw before Steve Munk 77-18 James Kerr sealed it convincingly for the home team. Revenge for the Hurricanes for an early season defeat at St Olaves and they go joint top. Victories for Thacker and Littlewood keep them first and second respectively in the individual league.
 
St Olaves Musicians 4-1 Finch Hill Rockets
 
The Rockets run of six wins came to an end, although the final scoreline doesn't reflect how closely fought this match was with one re-spot black and two other black ballers. Peter Collister 81-79 Marek Kenny was tense with plenty of safety. Kenny potting confidently when the opportunities arose but left the pink up for Collister who dropped it in and then potted an excellent black with the rest. Vinny Dale made his first appearance for nearly a year potting some amazing reds in his usual style and won 64-51 against Ron Grogan who was on good form too. Dave Hanlon 45-52 John Spellman saw both players share several teen breaks before Spellman won on a re-spot. Mike Doherty 70-62 Graham Ashton was a bit of a struggle, close all the way before Doherty finished off with long distance pink and blacks to finish. John Kennish had runs of 22 and 26 to defeat Doug Kinrade 98-79. Rockets stay third, now three points adrift.
 
Cue Zone Mob 3-2 DSB Wannabes
 
The highlight of this encounter was Dave Addinall’s 54 break, this week’s best. Addinall was making his first appearance since December and having lost his lead in the high break league last week to John Kennish this perhaps was no coincidence? Frame scores Tom Miller 38-79 Harry Minor, Steve Finnegan on the black 63-50 Dave Corris, Lee Hunt (20 break) 90-61 Steve Cowin, Dave Addinall 109-90 Paul McKinstry and Peter Kirkham 76-96 Fred Corris. Addinall retakes the high break league lead.
 
Malew 3-2 Jacksons
 
The first two frames were shared on the pink, Mark Quinn 41-49 Lee Gale and Eric Drinkwater 63-51 Kam Virk. The remaining were more one-sided affairs James Goodwin 68-29 Paul Kell, David Quayle 76-26 Mike Reddington, Alec Oates 46-76 Tony Dhadwal. Only Malew’s second win in ten but they still share fourth place.
 
Port St Mary Legion 1-4 Cue Zone Blinders
 
Shaun Roberts was in fine form with an early 28 and followed up with a couple of teen breaks to win 79-43 Scott Campion, but it was downhill thereafter for PSM. Phil Joynes 50-61 Jez Hill was won with a good long pink. Brandon Forrester eased away from Dave Pickersgill 28-57 with good all round play. Marc Morley 71-97 Darryl Hill was decided after Morley left the final brown hanging and Hill cleared with 22 break to follow an earlier 20. Terry Boyle 35-70 Sam Palmer saw the latter trial the ‘Mark Williams’ break off which was greeted with a somewhat mixed response from those in attendance. Unperturbed, Palmer potted well to ease to victory.
 
Cue Zone Reprobates 2-3 Newbys DSB 

Rob Callister 27-64 Ste MacDonald, the latter played well to prevent Callister from scoring. Ashley Howard 81-95 Adam Dooley went to the black. Dooley played a controlled frame to fight back from 57-0 down early doors. Brendan Clague potted everything to freeze out Pat Maher 62-13. Paul Tangeman 23-46 Simon Gardner was a tight battle of safety play and despite some great long pots from Tangeman went Gardner’s way on the blue. Dollin Mercer with some heavy scoring and a 24 break won 71-34 to Calum Gardner.  More top of the table action next week with St Olaves A v Malew and The Rockets v The Hurricanes. Thanks to all contributors.