STRUTT CLUB IN POLE POSITION WITH CLIMAX CLOSE

WAYNE SHOOTER ... tough nut to crack this season

IN WHAT could potentially turn out to be a handover of the League Championship, Belper Strutt Club scored an impressive 4-1 win at last season's champions Edgefold No 1 to go a point clear at the top of the Harriotts Sweet Charot Event Planning League going into the final round of games.
Rob Muxlow (34 break, taking the Viva Restaurant high break of the week mantle for a second successive week) has been in fine form lately but opponent Wayne Shooter has been a tough nut to crack this season and he took a black ball decider to edge the visitors in front.
Mark Newby increased the lead with a 62-42 verdict in the next before Duncan Harwood pulled one back for the hosts with a convincing 79-47 salvo.
However, Ben Monk returned to winning form in the clash of the titans as he avenged his recent OMYA Cup semi final defeat to Andy Russell, with a run of 30 proving pivotal in a 64-30 win to become the Mick Hodgkinson Transport player of the week before he and Steve Bullock added the concluding doubles leg at the end.

Alfreton Palmer Morewood kept up the pressure with a 3-2 win at Edgefold No 2. The two leading protagonists in the race for the player scoring most wins during the season clashed in the opener and it was Rob Dicken who triumphed 70-26 over Kevin Rowland to secure the prize.
It was all square going into the doubles leg but Jamie Rowland and Simon Mayes made no mistake to leave everything to play for in round 21.

Their opponents will be third placed Bolehill Institute No 1 who kept their slim hopes alive with their own 3-2 scoreline over Matlock Club.
Ricki Slack (breaks of 25 and 21) and Graeme Wood top scored for their respective teams with scores in the eighties.

Bolehill No 2 kept up their improved from of late with a 3-2 success at Matlock Golf Club. Ian McKay and Graham Jones had the hosts 2-0 up but a successful fightback culminated in a doubles win for twin brothers Ian Peacock and Martin Forster, who will meet in the "B" Intermediate Individual final after their respective semi final wins this week.

League week 20 results: Edgefold Matlock No 1 1, Belper Strutt Club 4; Edgefold Matlock No 2 2, Alfreton Palmer Morewood 3; Bolehill Institute No 1 3, Matlock Club 2; Matlock Golf Club 2, Bolehill Institute No 2 3.
"B" (Intermediate) Individual Handicap semi finals: Nick Kay 1, Ian Peacock 2; Martin Forster 2, Keith Robertson 0.
Breaks: R Muxlow 34; B Monk 30: S Mayes 28; R Slack 25,21; A Russell 21.

Harriotts Sweet Chariot Event Planning Snooker League
                                         P      W      L      Pts
Belper Strutt Club           20      13       7      59
Alfreton P Morewood       20     13       7      58
Bolehill Institute No 1      20      13       7      56
Edgefold Matlock No 1    20      11       9      53
Bolehill Institute No 2      20       10     10     48
Edgefold Matlock No 2    20       7      13      47
Matlock Golf Club            21       8      13      46
Matlock Club                   21        6      15     38
Leading breaks: B Monk 55; R Ferguson 49.
Leading wins: R Dicken 16/18; K Rowland 14/18; I Birks 13/19.