FATHER AND SON TIP THE SCALES FOR TANSLEY POTTERS

JOE NEVILLE ... age no barrier

THE NEW T & M Motors Snooker League season got underway boosted with extra sponsorship towards trophies and prize money from Lowes Catering Ltd and the usual Player of the Week sponsors Clay Cross Brotherhood back on board, we thank them all in the opening week.
Tansley Potters, who narrowly missed out on the end of season play offs last season travelled to the revamped Edgefold No1 team with the Matlock club mixing up their players in all three teams from last season.
Scott Brooks (20 break) took the opener 80-42 as he returned to the first team with some aplomb before Steve Hawkins' 25 clearance saw him equalise with a 68-48 win.
Age is still no barrier for league stalwart Joe Neville in his 83rd year, and he put in a sterling performance to give the visitors the lead with a 70-42 success.
Steve Burton levelled matters at 2-2 with a 51-25 salvo but eventually it was the father and son partnership of Joe and Radford Neville who carried their side to an opening day win thanks to a 69-26 scoreline.

Colin Marchington of Bolehill No1 makes the early running in the highest break chart though his excellent effort of 44 at Belper Royal British Legion came at a stage when he was trailing 47-0 and indeed it was opponent Steve Bullock who took the frame on the pink to put his side one-nil up with a 72-60 verdict.
Ricki Slack and Simon Zoppi then nudged the visitors 2-1 ahead before Justin Weller levelled playing a second frame as reserve with the home side short on the opening day.
However, a scrappy deciding pairs leg saw Slack and Ian Birks prevail on the pink for a 3-2 Bolehill win.

Bolehill No2 were also off to a good start with a 3-2 home win over newly formed Crich Comrades No2. Paul Hubbard and Gareth Rudkin had put the visitors two up but a black-ball win from Paul Young kept the home side in the hunt and then Darren Bunting levelled before the pair teamed up to deliver a thrilling comeback win.

Yet another tight game saw Crich Comrades No1 defeat Edgefold No2 3-2 on School Lane.
Fin Harvey secured the opener on the black for the Matlock cuemen before Nick Berry and Paul Trevett flipped the match on its hinges to put the home side 2-1 up.
Josh Lee on his return to snooker combat levelled things up but ultimately it was Ade Smith and Berry who saw the Tramwaymen over the line 48-14.

The other game saw last seasons champions Alfreton Palmer Morewood No2 starting as if they mean business again with a 4-1 defeat of Clay Cross Brotherhood No1.
With several of the team involved in the 24 hour snooker fundraiser a few days earlier, they came into the game well practiced and it showed on the night.
Duane Parsons had given the hosts the lead but that was as good as it got with Jack Lowe and Paul Sainsbury scoring black ball victories and then Nathan Brown (Clay Cross Brotherhood sponsored Player of the Week) putting in a stunning performance with a 90 points to nine win to seal the overall success.
He then teamed up with Sainsbury to add the doubles leg for good measure.

League week 1: Edgefold Matlock No1 2, Tansley Potters 3; Belper RBL 2, Bolehill Institute No1 3; Bolehill Institute No2 3, Crich Comrades No2 2; Crich Comrades No1 3, Edgefold Matlock No2 2; Clay Cross Brotherhood No1 1, Alfreton Palmer Morewood No2 4; Alfreton Palmer Morewood No1 v Clay Cross Brotherhood No2 postponed. Bye week: Edgefold Matlock No3.
Breaks: Colin Marchington 44; Steve Hawkins 25; Justin Weller 22; Ricki Slack 21; Scott Brooks 20.
Clay Cross Brotherhood sponsored Player of the Week: Nathan Brown (Alfreton Palmer Morewood No2).

JACK & JIM WIN REMAINING SNOOKER & BILLIARDS FINALS

JACK LOWE .... "B" individual handicap winner

THE REMAINING delayed finals in snooker and billiards formats took place this week with Jack Lowe of Alfreton Palmer Morewood taking on Edgefold's Rob Muxlow in the "B" Intermediate Individual Handicap and Whitworth's Jim McCann up against Tansley's Joe Neville in the three-ball game's Williams Cup.
Lowe had come through contests with Reece Johnstone, Andrew Haggarty, Trevor Wright and Ian Doe to reach the final showdown while Muxlow had seen off Sam Kniveton, Alex Fisher and Lee Shaw after an initial bye.
There was a gathering of a fair few people to see the climax at Tansley Potters which turned out to be more of a tactical affair rather than producing any high scoring visits in a match where the players mutually agreed to play a best of 7 rather than the usual best of 5 in this particular event.
Lowe took the first two frames 51-22 and 53-25 in similar vein with Rob not really getting his cue arm going from positions near the baulk cushion.
The third frame was more open with a fair few misses and free balls to boot boosting the totals, but Muxlow was still requiring three snookers on the colours and despite getting two of them, the Amber Valley cueman pulled away again at the end to take it 89-57.
A much more even fourth frame ensued thereafter with the scores locked together at 52 apiece but again it was Lowe who kept his cool to slot home the pink and black and take it 65-52 for a 4-0 success.
This completes a stellar season for the league's most improved player perhaps ever in the space of a few months, having not previously won an individual trophy, this now being his fifth major prize of the season comprising the  open handicap, the pairs handicap (with John Smith), most individual wins in the league with 17 out of 22 and his team also taking the League Championship.

JIM McCANN ... billiards handicap winner

Jim McCann lifted the Williams Cup (Billiards Individual Handicap) also at Tansley with a convincing 139-36 success after 75 minutes, rubber stamped by a 38 break, confirming his good recent form after a run to the semi finals in the English Over 60s plate competition recently whereas Neville, also runner-up in this event last year, had not had much in the way of competitive play of late.

"B" Intermediate Individual Handicap final: Jack Lowe (Alfreton Palmer Morewood) 4, Rob Muxlow (Edgefold Matlock) 0 (at Tansley Potters): 51-22; 53-25; 89-57; 65-52.
Williams Cup (Billiards Individual Handicap) final: Joe Neville (Tansley Potters) 36, Jim McCann (Whitworth Institute) 139 (at Tansley Potters). Breaks: Jim McCann 38.

BOLEHILL No1 DEFY THE HEAT TO BREAK NINE-YEAR DUCK

BOLEHILL INSTITUTE No1 2025/26 Jimmy Harper Plate winners
L-R: Ian Birks, Ricki Slack, Simon Zoppi and Andrew Brough.
Also played: Ian Doe and Colin Marchington.

BOLEHILL INSTITUTE No1 were back amongst the silverware after a gap of nine years as they defeated a depleted Clay Cross Brotherhood No1 line-up to win the Jimmy Harper Plate (Team Aggregate Consolation) for the first time in the club's history, having twice been runners-up previously, including in one of the COVID hit campaigns when the match was carried over into the next pre-season.
With their squad not avid summer practicers, they were keen to avoid similar circumstances this time around with their opponents dealing with a clutch of holidays, so a weeks delay was agreed to allow as many Clay Cross players as possible to take part in at least one of their two finals, they having been narrowly beaten in the six red cup early that previous week.
However, due to unforeseen circumstances, things did not go to plan either with the extreme weather conditions or the home team players availability, and a less than ideal contest ensued in very warm temperatures.
Only Duane Parsons and Graham Jones made the gig for the hosts in the end though no one in the Bolehill team was counting their chickens having lost in a previous season to an Edgefold duo under the same circumstances.
Parsons opened up against Ian Doe, and a tight battle ensued with free flowing snooker at a premium due to the sticky conditions but it was the Bolehill player who prevailed courtesy of a good pot on the black to take it 45-40.
Ricki Slack took on veteran Graham Jones in the next and largely held sway throughout with a couple of teen breaks though the Clay Cross veteran forced a couple of fouls from snookers late in the frame before the Bolehill cueman doubled the black for a 69-43 success.
Jones stepped up again for the next, and giving up the extra ten points for playing twice, had to succumb 67-42 to Simon Zoppi who began to find his potting range more and more as the frame progressed.
So a gradual lead of 56 had been built up by the time of the fourth frame with Parsons turning out again against Ian Birks off level due to the revised handicap.
However, the conditions began to take their toll on the home player with smooth cueing becoming difficult to attain while Birks, arriving later in the evening, actually played some of his best snooker of the season in powering to a 92-7 success embellished by a 22 clearance at the end.
A 141 lead was therefore enough for the white flag to be held aloft, with the pairs leg being promptly conceded for an overall 333-132 result with Birks undefeated in the three games of the competition; his team's previous victories coming over Alfreton Palmer Morewood No2 plus a memorable comeback win at Crich Comrades in the semi final.

Meanwhile, the recent English Over 60s Billiards Championship run again at Derby's Cueball saw league players Jim McCann and Ricki Slack put up decent showings with Jim reaching the semi final of the Plate competition and Ricki progressing to the second round proper of the main event.
Jim went under by just seven points 152-145 to eventual main event semi finalist Terry MacAdam and then had wins over Paul Wood (179-124) and Eva Palmius (237-111) in the Plate before falling 169-131 to eventual winner Ron Bickerdike, who ran in a 72 break.
Ricki defeated 2019 over-60s champion Mick Cooper 203-173 with a break of 45 before running into twice English amateur champion Phil Welham who as expected was too hot to handle, the latter securing a 369-143 verdict including runs of 98 (from his first visit in open play) and 76 amongst others.

Jimmy Harper Plate (Team Aggregate Consolation) final: Clay Cross Brotherhood No1 132, Bolehill Institute No1 333.
Breaks: Ian Birks 22 (Clay Cross Brotherhood sponsored Player of the Week).

CLAY CROSS No2 & EDGEFOLD No1 COLLECT THE SPOILS

CLAY CROSS BROTHERHOOD No2 Jaeger Trophy play-off winners 2025/26
L-R: Mark Bower, John Roseman, Callum Greenfield and Lee Shaw.

EDGEFOLD MATLOCK No1 - Bob McCartin Six Red Cup winners 2025/26
L-R: Tommy Smith, Duncan Harwood, Steve Burton, Richard Ferguson and Rob Muxlow.

TWO MAJOR finals were contested this week with the Jaeger Trophy league play offs coming to a conclusion at Crich Comrades fought out between the league's top two teams who finished level on points in the regular season and the Edgefold Club hosting the Bob McCartin Six Red Cup showdown which was deferred from earlier in the season.
Alfreton Palmer Morewood No2 had pipped Clay Cross Brotherhood No2 to the league title on the most wins rule and in the meantime both had scored convincing victories in the play off semi finals over Edgefold No2 and Bolehill No1 respectively.
Callum Greenfield, who has taken his play to a higher level in the second part of the season, was again in imperious form as he took the opener for Clay Cross reeling off his twelfth straight win with a run of 20 - just one of a string of contributions in that period - as he delivered an 81-23 success.
The second frame was the tightest and most pivotal of the night with Jack Lowe, most successful player of the current season, up against Mark Bower but after a tense battle it was the Clay Cross cueman who fired home the deciding black for a 47-46 verdict and a 2-0 lead.
And a high quality third frame saw Lee Shaw (22 break) battle hard to edge out hotshot youngster Kai Hopkins by taking brown, blue and pink for a 60-47 success and a win for the team in straight frames.

The six red contest played simultaneously saw Edgefold No1 taking on Clay Cross No1 with Rob Muxlow taking an extended opening frame 44-14 before Tony Blant equalised with a 37-13 salvo.
Veteran Graham Jones (25 break) has been in an excellent run of form lately and he engineered a 38-27 success to put Clay Cross into the lead but a black ball win for Tommy Smith 37-36 kept the scores level again.
All was down to the scotch doubles events, and Smith stayed on the table to partner Muxlow to a 46-22 victory and put his team on the verge of lifting the trophy.
However, Blant and Duane Parsons were having none of it and came back strongly to equalise again before Steve Burton and Smith (Clay Cross Brotherhood sponsored Player of the Week) finally saw the Matlock side home with Burton potting a sublime long pink after Smith had doubled the blue for a 41-20 success and overall 4-3 victory.

Jaeger Trophy play-off final: Alfreton Palmer Morewood No2 0, Clay Cross Brotherhood No2 3 (at Crich Comrades).
Bob McCartin Six Red Cup final: Edgefold Matlock No1 4, Clay Cross Brotherhood No1 3 (at Edgefold Club, Matlock).
Breaks: G Jones 25; L Shaw 22; C Greenfield 20.
Clay Cross Brotherhood sponsored Player of the Week: Tommy Smith (Edgefold No1).

ALFRETON PM No2 & CLAY CROSS No2 TO MEET IN FINAL

MARK BOWER put Clay Cross No2 ahead

THERE was a calm before the storm as three semi finals took place before the main showdowns at the end of the T & M Motors Snooker League season with the Jaeger Trophy playoffs taking centre stage alongside the remaining Jimmy Harper Cup fixture.
The league champions Alfreton Palmer Morewood No2 took on fourth placed Edgefold No2 in the end of season top tier competition and were firm favourites with the Matlock side having struggled for personnel in recent weeks and were again missing hotshots Scott Brooks and Reece Johnstone for this encounter.
Ben Monk took the opener for the hosts 82-58 in what looked one of the toughest match-ups of the night with last season's open handicap winner Josh Dakin.
Young Kai Hopkins added the next with a 78-35 success and the outcome was secured with Jack Lowe's 55-13 win in frame three, which meant a tenth consecutive occasion the team at the summit had made the final.
Carlos Zaragoza made it four as he spoiled the return of Trevor Wright who was back from an enforced layoff before Lowe and Hopkins completed the nap hand in the doubles.

Bolehill Institute No1 travelled to runners-up Clay Cross Brotherhood No1 bidding to improve on their less than stellar play-off record but it was Mark Bower who struck first for the hosts with a 67-37 salvo.
Ricki Slack (55 break) was in his best form for some time to equalise, having been unlucky earlier in the frame when in splitting the pack from the black, he saw the cue ball disappear in-off but recovered in fine fashion to engineer a 85-18 success.
However, that was as good as it got with John Roseman (21 break) re-asserting the home team's advantage with a hard fought 77-47 victory and then Callum Greenfield (29 break) always holding sway to seal the deal with a 68-30 win and leave Bolehill with just one final appearance (albeit a winning one) from 12 play-off ventures.

There was drama in the Jimmy Harper Plate contest, with Belper Royal British Legion thinking they had snatched overall victory when potting the black in the doubles leg but there had been an error in scoring and the incorrect target had been set meaning it was the hosts Clay Cross No 1 who were actually still in front.
The select committee deemed a replay of that leg later in the week to be the fairest option, but the Clay Cross pair of Duncan Waring and Graham Jones made no mistake in that so the result stood.
Wayne Shooter edged the opener on the black before an 88-49 Graham Jones riposte was followed by Tony Blant's 57-42 success.
Justin Weller, turning out for the second time as the reserve, took a 67-46 triumph to keep them in the hunt but ultimately it was to no avail when the mathematics were finally sorted.

Jaeger Trophy play off semi finals: Alfreton Palmer Morewood No2 5, Edgefold Matlock No2 0; Clay Cross Brotherhood No2 3, Bolehill Institute No1 1.
Jimmy Harper Plate (Team Aggregate Consolation) semi final: Clay Cross Brotherhood No1 293, Belper Royal British Legion 290.
Breaks: R Slack (Clay Cross Brotherhood sponsored player of the week) 55; C Greenfield 29; J Roseman 21.

ALFRETON No2 TAKE TITLE & CLAY CROSS No2 LIFT CUP

ALFRETON PALMER MOREWOOD No2 T & M Motors League Champions 25/26
L-R: Carlos Zaragoza, Ben Monk, Kai Hopkins, Jack Lowe. Also played: Adam Cupit, Paul Sainsbury, Alex Fisher, Dean Bullock, Cole Smith, Andrew Beardsley and Nathan Brown.

CLAY CROSS BROTHERHOOD No2 Captains Cup winners 25/26
Duncan Waring (far right) presents the trophy to the fabulous foursome on the night,
Matt Large, Mark Bower, John Roseman and Callum Greenfield.
Also played: Lee Shaw, Andrew Bailey and Damian Woodward.

ALFRETON PALMER MOREWOOD No2 are T & M Motors Snooker League champions 2025/26 by the skin of their teeth after they gained the single point they required from their re-arranged fixture at Edgefold No1 though runners-up Clay Cross Brotherhood No2 gained immediate consolation by lifting the Captains Cup (Team Aggregate) trophy on the same evening with a defeat of Alfreton Palmer Morewood No1.
Alfreton No2 started the week needing five points from their two remaining league fixtures to secure the league title with both matches re-arranged affairs with last seasons champs Edgefold No1.
They seemed to making short work of the matters in hand in the first contest on home baize, running up a 4-1 victory with Kai Hopkins (33 break) running riot in the opening frame with a 93-19 margin.
Jack Lowe added the next with a bit to spare and Carlos Zaragoza marked his return to action with a snug success himself to make it three.
With Ben Monk soon making it four, the title could have been decided on the night with a doubles win but Steve Burton and Duncan Harwood dug in to take it and leave the Amber Valley cuemen sweating overnight.

Matlock was the venue for the return the next evening but this time Steve Burton reversed his previous loss to Lowe with a 63-47 salvo.
It was left to the in-form youngster Hopkins to get the visitors over the line with a black ball defeat of Harwood, who himself had chances on blue and black to put the cat amongst the pigeons prior to this.
Tommy Smith (Clay Cross Brotherhood sponsored player of the week) left probably his best performance of the season till last as he ran up 101 points to put his side back in front and with Rob Muxlow successful in each of his singles and doubles legs, latterly with Burton, no one could accuse the hosts of not giving the eventual king pins a run for their money on the final day.
Alfreton's superior win record was the decisive factor after they matched Clay Cross No2's total of 70 points over the 22 game season.

Meanwhile, Clay Cross No2 were tasting their own champagne after a rampant final performance which saw them see off Alfreton No1 by 403-172 on the aggregate points.
Mark Bower secured a decent lead in the first frame with a 71-47 victory before the only really tight game of the evening went to Matt Large 68-60.
A century points haul for John Roseman in frame three pretty much put the match to bed, but there were still fireworks to come from the home team with Callum Greenfield notching 83 points in his singles and then teaming up with Roseman to total 84 points in the doubles leg.

Back in the T & M Motors Snooker League, Clay Cross Brotherhood No1 hosted a double-header with Tansley Potters with both teams bidding to take their place in the end of season Jaeger Trophy play offs, requiring eight points and five points respectively in order to oust Edgefold No2.
However, a 3-2 win for Tansley was cancelled out rather by a 4-1 defeat so in the end both teams fell agonisingly short in a very tight scramble with two points separating third to sixth.
Tony Blant was the only player twice successful on the night, though Duncan Waring and Graham Jones were in fine form in their doubles contest, with runs of 30, 25 and 24,
Steve Hawkins top scored for Tansley over the two games with 79 points.

In the first of the Jimmy Harper Cup semi finals (Team Aggregate Consolation), Bolehill Institute No1 came from a highly unlikely position to overhaul Crich Comrades 303-289 which saw in effect (including handicaps) a 132 point turnaround over the last two frames.
With a 70 point deficit plus handicaps of 25 and 23 to overcome, the visitors stuck to the task and were rewarded with Ian Birks taking a 33 point success before teaming up with Ricki Slack (25 break) to take the match on the black, which the Tramwaymen by now needed to tie the scores. John Magill had top scored for the hosts earlier in proceedings with Nick Berry and Paul Hubbard also on the mark.

T & M Motors Snooker League: Alfreton Palmer Morewood No2 4, Edgefold Matlock No1 1; Edgefold Matlock No1 4, Alfreton Palmer Morewood No2 1; Clay Cross Brotherhood No1 4, Tansley Potters 1; Tansley Potters 3, Clay Cross Brotherhood No1 2 (played at Clay Cross).
Captains Cup (Team Aggregate) final: Clay Cross Brotherhood No2 403, Alfreton Palmer Morewood No2 172: 71-47; 68(21)-60; 102-26; 83-17; 84(23)-32.
Jimmy Harper Plate (Team Aggregate Consolation) semi final: Crich Comrades 289, Bolehill Institute No1 303.
Breaks (inc. comps): K Hopkins 33; D Waring 30; G Jones 25,24; R Slack 25; R Neville 23; C Greenfield 23; M Large 21.
Century points haul: John Roseman (Clay Cross Brotherhood No2), Tommy Smith (Edgefold No1).
Clay Cross Brotherhood sponsored Player of the Week: Tommy Smith (Edgefold No1).

T & M Motors Snooker League        P        W        L      Pts 

Alfreton P Morewood No2                 22       15         7      70

Clay Cross Brotherhood No2            22       14         8      70

Bolehill Institute No1                         22       14         8      61

Edgefold Matlock No2                       22       12       10      61

Tansley Potters                                  22       13         9      60

Clay Cross Brotherhood No1            22        12      10       59

Belper Royal British Legion               22       10       12      57

Edgefold Matlock No1                       22       11       11       56

Alfreton P Morewood No1                 21       11       10       49

Crich Comrades                                22       11       11       48

Edgefold Matlock No3                       22         5       17       37

Bolehill Institute No2                         21         3       18       27

Leading breaks: K Hopkins 72; C Greenfield 52.
Leading wins: J Lowe 17/22; M Newby 15/20; J Neville 15/22.

JACK LOWE AND JOHN SMITH WIN PAIRS HANDICAP FINAL

JACK LOWE and JOHN SMITH ... an uplifting experience

ALFRETON PALMER MOREWOOD'S JACK LOWE and JOHN SMITH teamed up for the first time to lift the Denis Morton Pairs Handicap Trophy with a convincing 4-0 final victory at the home of Tansley's father and son partnership of Steve and Joe Hawkins.
Having come through their previous rounds with Duncan Waring and Duane Parsons, Sam Kniveton and Fin Harvey and Richard Ferguson and Rob Muxlow all with 3-2 victories, the Amber Valley cuemen were glad not to have to bite their fingernails too hard on this occasion as they took hold of the match from an early stage.
The opening frame went their way 64-24 with the last three balls being confidently dispensed by Lowe and with the Tansley pairing requiring snookers on the colours in the next, they were forced mainly into pots over the pocket before the pink ball eventually secured a 2-0 lead.
Things were only slightly better for the hosts in the next as they needed all the colours to tie but with Hawkins Senior striking the blue instead of brown, it was snookers required and Smith quickly made it three.
The fourth frame was easily the most nip and tuck and for a while it looked like the arrears were likely to be reduced but several snookers combined with the miss rule brought the Alfreton duo back into the frame and a fine long pot from Lowe was followed by a match winning pink and an academic black to complete a great nights work for him and his partner.

There was also T & M Motors Snooker League action with Lowe's team still well in the mix despite a 3-2 home reverse at the hands of Bolehill No1, who had recently defeated them in the Jimmy Harper Plate.
Ian Doe took all the colours in two or three visits with some great pots to overturn Alex Fisher's lead who had hitherto looked set to put his side ahead after a 31 break gave him the ascendancy.
Lowe himself looked in prime position on the colours too with a 24 lead but opponent Ricki Slack followed Doe's lead and eventually took a long pink and black into the middle for what had been looking an unlikely 2-0 advantage.
Kai Hopkins with a run of 30 pulled one back but Ian Birks always held sway in the next and with his opponent potting black only to go in-off from one of the latter reds, his lead ultimately became decisive.
Lowe and Hopkins eventually came through in the doubles 71-44 despite trailing early doors.

Clay Cross Brotherhood No2 defeated Edgefold No1 4-1 with Lee Shaw top scoring after Mark Bower had secured a tight first frame, the Matlock side having to wait until the doubles leg to register through Duncan Harwood and Rob Muxlow.
This leaves the Brotherhood top of the table after their completed league programme but Alfreton No2 are five points behind with two games in hand (both against Edgefold No1), and will have the better win record if they jump onto equal points.

There is still one play off place to decide - Bolehill No1 are guaranteed to qualify whether it be in third or fourth place along with the top pair, and Tansley Potters did their chances no harm with a 4-1 defeat of Belper Royal British Legion.
All four singles contests went the way of the hosts with Joe Neville top scoring before three tight frames were also secured though a low scoring doubles frame bucked that trend with Steve Bullock and Paul Jarrett taking it on the black.

The other teams battling for the play-offs saw Clay Cross No1 defeat the short-staffed Edgefold No2 3-2 after taking the first three frames with Graham Jones top scoring.
Black-ball wins for Martin Barwick and Josh Dakin and Jake Neville in the concluding doubles leg kept alive the Matlock sides chances of making the end of the season showdown though they will be reliant on neither Tansley nor Clay Cross earning enough points off each other in their double-header which closes their regular league campaign.

Away from the business end, Crich Comrades defeated Edgefold No3 3-2 with the two Pauls, Trevett and Hubbard, responding either side of Roy Taylor's victory for the visitors and then Ade Smith making the game safe before Taylor and Steve Birds pulled one back in the pairs leg.

And Alfreton No1 ran up a 5-0 win at bottom placed Bolehill No2 with Andrew Haggarty and Cole Smith successful in each of their singles and doubles while John Smith scored in both his frames including as the reserve due to shortages.

Denis Morton Pairs Handicap Trophy final: Steve and Joe Hawkins (Tansley Potters) 0, Jack Lowe and John Smith (Alfreton Palmer Morewood) 4: 24-64; 39-62; 27-58; 49-69.

T & M Motors Snooker League week 22: Alfreton Palmer Morewood No2 2, Bolehill Institute No1 3; Clay Cross Brotherhood No2 4, Edgefold Matlock No1 1; Tansley Potters 4, Belper Royal British Legion 1; Edgefold Matlock No2 2, Clay Cross Brotherhood No1 3; Crich Comrades 3, Edgefold Matlock No3 2; Bolehill Institute No2 0, Alfreton Palmer Morewood No1 5.
Breaks: A Fisher 31; K Hopkins 30.
Clay Cross Brotherhood sponsored Player of the Week: Kai Hopkins (Alfreton PM No2).

T & M Motors Snooker League        P        W        L      Pts 

Clay Cross Brotherhood No2            22       14         8      70

Alfreton P Morewood No2                 20       14         6      65

Bolehill Institute No1                         22       14         8      61

Edgefold Matlock No2                       22       12       10      61

Belper Royal British Legion               22       10       12      57

Tansley Potters                                  20       12         8      56

Clay Cross Brotherhood No1            20        11         9      53

Edgefold Matlock No1                       20       10       10       51

Alfreton P Morewood No1                 21       11       10       49

Crich Comrades                                22       11       11       48

Edgefold Matlock No3                       22         5       17       37

Bolehill Institute No2                         21         3       18       27

Leading breaks: K Hopkins 72; C Greenfield 52.
Leading wins: J Lowe 16/20;  M Newby 15/20; D Waring 14/18