Marco win absorbing match

Milborne Woodman 439 Marco Wanderers 441

For the second week running, Marco were involved in an absorbing match which could have gone either teams way until the last throw of the match was made. Marco made a fast start with scores of 65,65,72 and 64 taking them into a 24 pin lead after 4 hands. However a 56 hand opened the door for the Woodman and they responded with an excellent 67 hand to reduce the lead to 13 pins. Marco were able to pull a further 2 pins on the sixth hand and took a healthy lead of 15 pins going into the last hand, but much like last week a failure to secure a stick up in the last hand meant the game was not put out the Woodman's reach, with a target of 73 pins to win set. After a steady start the match seemed to be heading the Woodman's way with consecutive stick ups of 12 and 16 meaning the last three players needed 22 to win. However two sixes left last man A. Lovett needing 10 to win and after punching out the middle to leave a three and a split two, a second ball left the winger and the split two saw Marco breath a sigh of relief as they ended up the winners by the narrowest of margins of 2 pins. Top scorer for Woodman was A. Lovett with 66 and for Marco John Norman with 59.