Luke was first off and he is not playing anywhere near his usual standard, probably as he's not getting in as much practice as he was due to work commitments. It was a bit of a low scoring game, but Luke was looking good, but then his opponent looked favourite when potting the first 3 colours and with the other 3 on their spots. He managed the blue too, but had to go in and out of baulk and just came too far on the pink. It was still on into the corner, but he had to send the cue ball round the table to get back for the black. He missed the pink and after a bit of safety play, Luke knocked in a long straight pink to seal victory.

On the other table, Dave Thomas was playing their best player, Darren. Dave had a couple of chances, but did not take advantage, whereas with the chances he had, Darren did put some points together.

Paul Haywood had one of his better games for the season. He got a couple of 20+ contributions and played a few decent safety shots too. In all honesty, Paul never gave his opponent much to go at at all and he needed snookers with 3 reds remaining.

Alan's match, was pretty close but for a 25 break from his opponent which enabled his opponent to get over the winning line..

So, it was 2-2 with Stuart on last and he was not missing much in practice, so the captain was pretty confident of a victory. Particularly as the guy he was playing was a guy who was not familiar to us and was looking pretty nervous early on. Stuart just failed to take real advantage of a couple of decent chances. The crucial point came when he ran out of position and went for a difficult red that was certainly a ball he would pot 6 times out of 10, but he failed and left the balls wide open. His opponent then got into his stride. He amassed 30 points and then fluked a pink which if he'd missed would have given Stuart every chance to get back into it. However, he then proceeded to pot some lovely balls including a superb green which enabled him to nudge the yellow away from the brown and after that it was all academic.