Friday 5 September 2008

Wyatt clinches it for Imps

Patriots 472 The Imps 479

Keith Wyatt finished with three stick ups to swing the match in the favour of the Imps after they found themselves 25 pins behind at the Goldies on Thursday night.
Both sides had a poor start with Imps beating Patriots hand of 60 by 1 pin.
Patriots second hand included four stick ups, B.Kimber (17) Daz Studley (15) Wayne Goff (12) and Lee Cooke (12) as they hit a massive score 0f 85, the Imps had no reply to the home sides impressive hand and could only hit a poor 59 hand to go 25 pins behind.
A 16 stick up from T.Macey helped Patriots to a 69 hand, but this time the Imps faired better with Stick ups from Kev Diment (14) and Barry Knight (11) helping them to a 72 hand which pulled them 3 pins back.
The Goldies side were again amongst the stick ups on the fourth hand with Studley (12) and Goff (16) again the danger men as their team hit 70, Phil Goodland gave the Imps a good start with a 12 stick up but the Imps were unable to get another and finished with a 67 hand to go back to 25 down.
A poor hand of 60 by Patriots gave the visitors a chance on the fifth hand and with stick ups from Barry Gosney(15) and Keith Wyatt (12) the Imps hit 76 to pull 16 pins and leave 9 pins between the teams.
A 14 stick up on the sixth hand from anchor man Lee Cooke gave patriots a 68 hand, but the Imps were now getting stick ups and two more from Mark Ackerman (15) and Keith Wyatt (16) gave Imps another 76 hand and a 1 pin lead.
Patriots could not get a stick up on the last hand and scored 60 for the third time of the match to leave Imps just 60 to win. Three 8's and a 9 from the top half gave them a perfect start and when Barry Knight got his second stick up of the night the game looked over, but Baz boltered his last ball and sixth man Martin Haime got a 4 to leave the bottom two 8's to win, but the pressure was taking off the anchor man when man of the match Keith Wyatt hit a 14 stick up to leave Terry Gosney 2 to win, and an 8 gave the Imps a 7 pin victory.
Keith Wyatt was top for Imps with 73 while for the Patriots Lee Cooke hit 67.

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