Heady Times for Jumbo Jets

Jumbo Jet Set took maximum points against a struggling C&G Show team to go top of the table. Having taken a 13 pin lead at the conclusion of leg one, Jumbo Jets found scoring difficult over the next three legs, but still good enough to win all three by narrow margins to increase their lead to 22 pins. Knowing the game was almost certainly theirs, Jumbo Jets then produced a 78 pin last leg total to leave C&G needing a mammoth 101 pins to pull off an unlikely win. And while C&G produced their best leg score of the game, they fell well short of the target.For Jumbo Jets, Joe Cahill made 38, Dennis Compton 37 (incl 12 stack), Mick Stanton 36 & Darren Summers 34 (13 stack).Best for C&G Show were Paul O’Neil with 32 (14 stack), Angela Guest also 32, and James Attwaters 31.

Another team leaving the opposition a mammoth target to win were Engineers. They built a 33 pin lead when winning each of the first four legs against The Borough before, in the fifth leg, making their lowest leg score of the game. That still left The Borough wanting an unlikely 84 pins to win and so it proved although The Borough did salvage another half point by matching Engineer’s last leg score of 60 pins. This was Engineers’ third successive win – the best sequence by any team so far this season – and on the back of good scores from Andy Clewlow 40 (11 stack), and 36 each from Luke Saunders (10 stack), and Joe Kelso.For The Borough, George Few made 39 (12 stack), and Steve Court & Julian Workman 33 apiece.

Seventy two pins were needed by Bernie’s Bolts in the game’s last leg to beat Nomads but they could only manage 55 pins. The Bolts, playing a bowler short, started the game well by pinching leg one by two pins. But Nomads were level after leg two before edging leg three by two pins, and leg four by a further six pins. They then made the best leg score of the game, 63 pins, to leave The Bolts wanting those 72 pins which were always out of reach.Graham Hanley, Andrew Coombes and Wendy Coombes made 36, 36 & 35 respectively for Nomads.In response, best for The Bolts were Dan Goodman with 36, Lewis McSweeney 33 and Craig McSweeney 32.

And a nerdy stat for you. The season is only six weeks old and already five different teams have topped the table.

Results

Jumbo Jet Set 10pts (310 pins) - C&G Show 1pt (271 pins)

Engineers 9.5pts (331) - The Borough 1.5pts (298)

Nomads 9pts (316: 10 players & 296: 9 players) – Bernie’s Bolts 2pts (280: 9 players)

Table

                        P          W         L          Pts

Jumbo Jet Set   5          3          2          35

Lodge Farmers  5          3          2          30.5

Nomads            5          3          2          29.5

Engineers          4          3          1          27.5

The Borough     6          2          4          27

Bernie’s Bolts    5          2          3          22.5    

C&G Show        4          1          3          14