Well, another Wednesday passes and even at this still early stage of the season there are some really good individual performances and with 4 games played there are only 7 out of 60 teams who remain unbeaten and of those 6 have so far recorded 4 straight wins.
I first need to apologise to Ady Bolton of the Red Lion A whose 11 dolls scored last week included two 5 doll legs, but I inadvertently omitted him from last week’s list of double digit scorers. Sorry Ady!
Luckily for us (Croft Nomads) Ady wasn’t available last week when we played the Red Lion because even without him Red Lion maintained their unbeaten record at the expense of the previously unbeaten Croft winning 4-2 on the night. After the Lion had comfortably won the first leg, Dean Bowler secured the second leg when needing 4 to win as anchor Dean teased us by missing with his first two sticks and then as clean as you like scoring with his next 4 to give the Red Lion the leg. Although Croft managed to secure 2 points with an improved third leg performance Red Lion fully deserved their win. The defeat of the Croft enabled Plum Pudding with a superior doll count to climb to the top of the Premier table when they beat the Vine 6-0.
Elsewhere in the Premier/A section there was a welcome win for Berinsfield SC A and two legs of 28 dolls proved too good for The Vine who succumbed to a 6-0 defeat on the night. Abingdon Con Club and Stanford in the Vale FC both won 4-2 The outstanding individual performance of the night was, surprise, surprise, from Dave Dix for the Con Club who for the second time in the 3 games he has played so far this season hit 14 dolls.
Another outstanding individual performance that should be mentioned was from Sam Coughlan playing for the Crown B in Section F who was the only “sixer” on the night and hit 10 dolls in total.
In the B section WADS Bar continued their winning ways winning at The Fleur Hagbourne and are fully justifying their leap from the F section in 2024 to the B section this year.
Also in this section Abingdon RBL who surprisingly had a shaky first couple of weeks managed their second successive 6-0 scoreline with both Dave Sapey and Tony Barrett leading the way with 10 and 11 dolls respectively.
Also in the B section The Bell A hit a very credible 21 doll leg in their 4-2 win against Abingdon United C
In the C section there was a welcome shared 3 points for the Eight Bells Eaton against The Midget and those 3 points for the Eight Bells means that of the 60 teams in the league this year none remain pointless!
In the C section The Plough West Hanney with a 6-0 victory over Steventon Sports SC B maintain their unbeaten start to the season and the Wheatsheaf hit their highest leg score so far with 19 dolls in their 4-2 win over The Bell B.
Overall last week there were 15 individuals who hit double figures, as mentioned earlier Dave Dix led the way with 14 dolls and his teammate Phil Adams was not far behind with 12 dolls, Steve Enock (Croft Nomads0, Tony Barrett, (AB Con Club), Mason Kelly (The Midget), Matt Hill (Stev Sports B), all hit 11 dolls and Paul Longford (Plum Pudding), Andy Morton (Ab Utd A), Dave Sapey (Ab RBL), Geoff Lee (Berinsfield SC A), Olly Saunders (Wheatsheaf), Dave Collett (The Plough LW), Steve Jones (Royal Oak) Brian Bosley (Marcham Centre A), and Sam Coughlan (Crown A) all contributed 10 dolls apiece for their teams so players from every section other than the F section all featured double digit scorers showing lots of strength and ability exists in all sections this year……..having said that there were also 17 “blobbers” last week and they were drawn from every section other than the Premier so for some including many first timers Aunt Sally is still proving to be a game that takes some getting used to and as well as being good fun, at times can be really frustrating!
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