No 1 TEAM BACK FROM BRINK IN THE BOLEHILL DERBY

COLIN MARCHINGTON sunk the black for BOLEHILL No 1

THE Bob McCartin Six Red Cup group stages took centre stage this week and the most thrilling climax came in the Bolehill derby as the No 1 team came from 0-3 down to take a 4-3 verdict over the No 2 outfit on the deciding final black.
Ian Peacock scored a comprehensive opening frame win for the No 2-ers before Keith Robertson fluked the black into the middle pocket to make it 2-0.
Martin Forster soon had the third on the board before Ricki Slack and Andrew Brough combined with aplomb to record a 30 break in the scotch doubles, then Slack partnered Colin Marchington to make it 2-3 soon afterwards.
Ian Birks, a late arrival, made it just in time to equalise in the final singles leg and it was he and Marchington who took the concluding doubles frame, the latter coolly executing a cut into the middle pocket from under the baulk cushion to earn the verdict.

Edgefold No 1's Andy Russell and Nathan Haymes scored the highest run so far in scotch doubles play with a 34 at Matlock Golf Club though it was the latter who scored a 5-2 victory as Charlie Hodgkinson top scored in frame three and Nick Kay decided the issue soon afterwards.

This was the Golf Club's second outing of the week, having earlier been defeated 5-2 in a re-scheduled match at Alfreton Palmer Morewood where Andrew Beardsley top scored.

The Alfreton side had also defeated Matlock Club by the same scoreline the previous night, with Simon Mayes (22) and Mick Mackfall (21) amongst the breaks.

The other match saw Sean Dobney notch a 32 break as Edgefold No 2 saw off Belper Strutt Club 5-2.

Bob McCartin Six Red Cup Group A: Matlock Club 2, Alfreton Palmer Morewood 5; Alfreton Palmer Morewood 5, Matlock Golf Club 2; Matlock Golf Club 5, Edgefold Matlock No 1 2.
Group B: Bolehill Institute No 1 4, Bolehill Institute No 3 3; Edgefold Matlock No 2 5, Belper Strutt Club 2.
Breaks: A Russell / N Haymes 34 (sc/dbls); S Dobney 32; R Slack / A Brough 30 (sc/dbls); C Parker 25; S Mayes 22; M Mackfall 21; A Beardsley 20.

Group A                                    P       W      L       Pts
Alfreton Palmer Morewood       2        2       0        10
Edgefold Matlock No 1              2        1       1         8
Matlock Golf Club                      2        1       1         7
Matlock Club                              2        0       2         3

Group B                                    P       W      L       Pts
Bolehill Institute No 2               2         1       1        10
Bolehill Institute No 1               2         2       0         8
Edgefold Matlock No 2             2         1       1         5
Belper Strutt Club                    2          0       2        5