An interesting week’s Aunt Sally brought a few surprise results and now, more than a third of the way through the league season the sections are starting to take shape. To date there are clear leaders in every section with The Fox, Boars Hill in section D having achieved the most points to date with 35 from a possible 42.
Before I lead us into a review of last week’s game I would just like to put out a few reminders. Firstly it is the late Tony Ward’s funera this coming with a service at South Oxfordshire Crematorium at 1pm on Friday followed with a gathering of friends and family at the Abingdon RBL club where it is suggested that an impromptu game of Aunt Sally may take place.
The second reminder is that this week amany games have been re-arranged to enable the much anticipated England v Croatia can be watched by all. Many matches have been re-arranged for an alternative night this week, some teams have arranged early start times and some matches have been postponed to a later date (remember that these postponed need to be completed as soon as possible, with the date mutually agreed between the teams and played, ideally by the end of this month). For games NOT played this week the match cards will not be able to be entered online so a copy (photo) will need to be sent to me to enter as the week number will be incorrect and compromise the online scoring system.
My thir reminder is that the Competitions for the Singles, Pairs, Captains and Secretaries will take place at Abingdon United a week next Sunday (28th) at Abingdon United FC. Entry levels are, disappointingly down on last year for each of the competitions. We can and will continueto accept entries until this weekend, but NO LATER. Tjhe only reason for extending the date is simply we want all of the competitions to be both as well supported as possible and as competitive as has been the case in recent years which have produced more than a few big surprises.
My final reminder is that games that have been postponed already this season with the teams agreeing to re-arrange. These games do need to be re-arranged on a mutually agreed date and that date confirmed otherwise the original defaulting side will, unfortunately lose the points as the original postponement was down to them. Whatever the re-arrangement needs to be as early as possible and within the scheduled 18 week season.
Well that’s enough reminders it’s time to turn our attention back to last week! In the Premier section Abingdon Con Club recorded, after a poor start to the season, their third successive victory beating The Wheatsheaf 6-0. It is the first time that Dave Dix and Phil Adams have both been in the line up for the Con Club and it was Dixey who led the way, including another maximum in his 12 doll haul, Phil back from his most recent surgery contributed 11 dolls of his own. The reigning 2025 champions are now 3 points clear at the top of the Premier.
Berinsfield whose season started with 5 successive wins suffered their second successive defeat going down 4-2 to Croft Nomads who, themselves recovered from 2 successive losses. For the Nomads Ian Brook was the second maximum scorer of the week hitting a leg maximum and 12 dolls overall. Alan Bell weighed in with 10 dolls and both Chris Jenkins and Barry Townsend hit 5’s for the Croft. Jack Hawkins was best for the home side with 9 dolls and Richard Jones also had a 5 doll first leg
Elsewhere in the Premier/A section Steventon Sports leading the A section were surprising losers to The College Oak despite Colin Brind hitting 14 dolls the highest score of the night, Plum Pudding and Abingdon United shared the points at Milton Jason Bowler with 10 dolls for United and with a season’s best of 9 dolls, Dave Bradshaw for the Plum top scored on the night.
In the B section the points were shared between The Vine and near neighbours The Bear & Ragged Staff. John Pownceby afor the Vine and Richard Wilsdon for teh Bear both landed 10 dolls apiece. Abingdon RBL were 4-2 victors over the WADS Bar A and the Fleur de Lys were too strong on the night with a 6-0 result against The Fox who returned to Denchworth with their tails between their legs.
The Croft Bar had a good 5-1 return over visitors The Plough Wittenham with Nick Ridge and Kevin Luck top scoring for the home side.
What was particularly noticeable in the B section last weekwas that other than the Cumnor derby overall individual and team scoring in this section appeared to be significantly lower than normal.
By comparison, the C section produced some good individual and team scoring. Both Brian Boseley and Andrew Wilson both hit double figures, “Bose” in his side’s Marcham Centre A 4-2 victory over the Boundary House and Andrew in The Plough’s 4-2 defeat by The Earl A for whom skipper Mick Brown top scored with 9.
In the C section Grove RFC were beaten for the first time in this season going down 4-2 at the Harwellian and there were wins in the d section for The Prince of Wales with Dave Harris leading the way with 9 dolls, The Fox, Boars Hill who took their unbeaten start to the season into week 8 with a 4-2 result against Long Wittenham AC. The Bell Grove’s Steve Browning had another good week with 10 dolls helping his side to a 4-2 win against WADS B and in the same section the Earl A defeated the Black Horse A 6-0
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