Saturday 13 September 2008

Granville top as 3CA win again

Dewlish Monsters 412 v 3 C A 425

3 C A maintained their encouraging start to the season with a 13 pin victory away to Dewlish Monsters.

Monsters took an early first hand lead of 6 pins which included a stick up 11 for Sam Crabb. 3 C A recorded a second hand 59 but a reply of only 52 from Monsters gave the lead to 3 C A by a single pin.

The third hand saw the scores all square with 66 for Monsters and 65 for 3 C A. The lead off men on both sides hitting stick ups, Phil Slade for 3 C A with 13 and 15 for Andy Crabb of Monsters.

The game appeared to be slipping away from 3C A in the fourth hand when they could only manage a total of 49, Monsters returned a score of 58 to lead by 9. The final three hands saw good solid skittling for 3 C A with hands of 63, 63 and 66 which proved too much for Monsters.

Andy Crabb top scored for Monsters with 60. Surprise top scorer for 3 C A was Steve "Granville" Prior (58) who had courageously given up his sick bed to turn out. Granville snatching highest score with a last hand 13.

3CA also welcomed back Mike "Biffer" Huxley for his first game of the season following knee surgery in the summer. 3CA can only hope that the medics have done their job and that he will again reproduce the consistent form of previous seasons.

The two teams will meet again at Milborne for the Cup game next Thursday.

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