WINNING WEEK FOR BUNTING IN ALL COMPETITIONS

MICK BUNTING ... successful week on the baize

TWO teams out of play-off contention battled it out for pride of place in the penultimate round of T & M Motors Snooker League fixtures and it was Bolehill Institute No 2 who came through courtesy of a 3-2 win over Matlock Club.
Graeme Wood edged the opener  62-50 but Keith Robertson equalised soon afterwards and Mick Bunting scored the first of two victories in a week over Keith Manlove, 62-45 on the night before repeating the dose with a 3-2 success in the Open Individual Handicap semi final the following evening.
Paul Holmes levelled at 2-2 but Robertson and Bunting teamed up to score a 57-34 verdict in the deciding doubles leg.
Bolehill No 1 took advantage of Matlock Golf Club's inactivity to spearhead the table again as they scored a last gasp 3-2 triumph over Belper Strutt Club.
Paul Jarrett had edged Strutt in front but Ian Birks took his singles match and then teamed up with Ricki Slack to score a nail-biting black ball success in the all important pairs leg.
Elsewhere, Edgefold defeated Crich Comrades 3-2 with Rob Muxlow and Sean Dobney doing most of the damage and Cliff Gould and Ade Smith offering resistance from the Tramwaymen.
League week 20 results: Matlock Club 2, Bolehill Institute No 2 3; Bolehill Institute No 1 3, Belper Strutt Club 2; Edgefold Matlock 3, Crich Comrades 2.

T & M Motors Snooker League   P        W      L     Pts

Bolehill Institute No 1                   17       13       4     49

Matlock Golf Club                         16       11       5     47

Crich Comrades Club                   18       11       7     47

Belper Strutt Club                         16         7       9     43

Edgefold Matlock                          17         7     10     43

Bolehill Institute No 2                    17         6     11     35

Matlock Club                                 17         4     13     31

Leading wins: G Jones 12/16; C Marchington 11/15; P Jarrett 10/13.
Leading breaks: R Dicken 40, I McKay 39.

GOLF CLUB TOP AGAIN AFTER TIGHT BATTLES ALL ROUND

KEITH ROBERTSON...big wins for BOLEHILL No 2

RATHER APTLY it would take a fool to predict the outcome of this season's T & M Motors Snooker League after three more tightly contested matches that went down to the wire on the first day of April.
Belper Strutt Club had been timing their run nicely up until now to move within shouting distance of the leaders but they fell 3-2 to a rejuvenated Bolehill No 2 side.
Keith Robertson (21 break) stormed through the opener for the hosts, winning 72-17 before Mark Newby and Ian Peacock shared frames for their teams.
Steve Bullock edged a tight fourth frame on the pink to level it up but Robertson finished as he started as he teamed up with Martin Forster (21 break) to take the deciding doubles leg 74-21.

Matlock Golf Club moved a point clear in the title race as they defeated Edgefold also by the minimum margin.
Charlie Hodgkinson, the reigning speed champ, once again showed he is no back number with a 61-22 success to equalise before Graham Jones and Tony Blant secured the deciding pairs match.
Sean Dobney had put the visitors temporarily in front prior to that.

Crich were back to winning ways as they saw off Bolehill No 1 also by 3-2. Paul Trevett took the last three balls to snatch the second and Ade Smith was in fine form to put his team ahead before Keith Fretwell made the game safe. Ricki Slack and Ian Birks hauled back some respectability in the pairs leg with breaks of 27 and 25 respectively.

Sean Dobney (37 break) is making a brave fist of retaining the Open Individual Handicap competition as he once again has reached the final, defeating Keith Robertson (34 break) 3-2.

And Ian McKay notched the week's highest break of 42 via a 3-0 win over James Travis in the OMYA Cup scratch semi final.

League week 19 results: Bolehill Institute No 2 3, Belper Strutt Club 2; Matlock Golf Club 3, Edgefold Matlock 2; Crich Comrades 3, Bolehill Institute No 1 2.
Breaks: I McKay 42; S Dobney 37;  K Robertson 34,21; R Slack 27,20; I Birks 25;K Manlove 22,22; D Harwood 21; M Forster 21; S Zoppi 20.

T & M Motors Snooker League   P        W      L     Pts

Matlock Golf Club                        16       11       5      47

Bolehill Institute No 1                   16       12       4     46

Crich Comrades Club                  17       11       6      45

Belper Strutt Club                        15         7       8      41

Edgefold Matlock                         16         6     10      40

Bolehill Institute No 2                   16         5     11      32

Matlock Club                                16         4     12      29

Leading wins: G Jones 12/16; C Marchington 10/14; A Lowe & M Newby 10/15.
Leading breaks: R Dicken 40, I McKay 39.