85 hand wins it for Marco

Marco Wanderers 473 The Imps 468

The Imps went into a 12 pin lead after the first hand hitting a 71 hand, but league leaders Marco hit 72 next hand to half The Imps lead to 6. But over the next three hands The Imps increased their lead to 15 pins winning all three hands. Marco hit 72 on the sixth hand but The Imps only lost 3 pins going into the last hand 12 pins up. Marco's top four hit 31 between them on the last hand and the game looked to be going The Imps way but Marco were not going down without a fight and the bottom four produced an amazing finish hitting spares of 13,12,13 and 16 to give them an 85 hand and to leave The Imps 74 to win. The Imps skittled well on the last hand getting four 9's and four 8's but could not get the stick up they needed to win the game and Marco with a 5 pin victory took the 2 points. Imps captain Terry Gosney was disappointed " We had a great chance tonight as Marco were not quite on their game and maybe we should have killed the game off earlier but we didn't and Marco punished us with a great finish"