After a strong performance against out of sorts Dominoes, Hit and Miss go ahead of Duo to take second place by eight points. The final gap to Brothers Grimm was 27 points.

The Turkeys were 2-10 losers for the second week tonight, losing to Lightning Strikes who between them head all but one of the high score lists. Graham Lewis had the best handicap series of the night, 649 (scratch 508) with Terry Highton next best with 631. Their combined score 1,280, was the scond best of the league. John Bryer had the best scratch series: 557 but did not reach 200 in any game.

Both Terry and Graham had new high scratch series scores and Graham also improved his best game by 12 to 197 - a clean game. (244 with handicap).

The league scratch average this week was +0.1 to end the league at 148.9.

Turkeys were knocked down from second to fifth after losing a high quality match with Dominoes who move up to fourth. Duo had a walk over when their opponents were unable to get to the Bowl and the twelve points lift them two places to second, ahead of Hit & Miss on pinfall. Hit & Miss recovered their form to win 10-2 tonight and keep up their challenge for second place.

The match between Turkeys and Dominoes produced almost all of the high scores tonight. Once again Rose Barton was top scorer with a magnificent 639 (702 with handicap) including the best two games of the night 231 (252) and 229. Martin Cook was next highest, more than 100 pins behind at 535 (613).

Liz Lake scored her highest game of the league; 220 (262 - the best handicap game of the night), an improvement of 17 on her previous best. Liz also had the second best handicap series tonight - 628. Kim Stone and Julie Pinder of Glitter Girls and Graham Lewis of Lightning Strikes all improved their best games of the league.


Diane MacFarlane was successful with a 2-5-10 split

The league scratch average this week was +0.1 to 148.8

After only 17 years of trying, Brothers Grimm made sure of their first winter league title with two weeks to go. They beat nearest rivals Hit & Miss 12-0 in a rearranged match from last week and went on to beat Glitter Girls by 8-4. With 35 points lead over new second place Turkeys and only 24 to play for, the Brothers are sure to win by a big margin.

Hit & Miss struggled to find any form and lost both matches tonight and slip down to third place, one point behind the Turkeys.

Martin Cook and Harry Hargreaves dominated the high scoring list tonight: Martin hit his best scratch series of the league - 566 (647 with handicap) including the best game, 244 (271). Harry also had a 500 series and the second best game and together the Turkeys had the best team scores. Their high game, 453 (514) knocks Dominoes off the top spot for the league so far.

Keith MacFarlane improved his high game for the league by 10 pins to finally get a 200 game - 202 (238). Tony Pearce had a new high game as well, up two to 174 (229)


Kim Stone was successful with a 5-7 split and Brian Grayson converted one on the other side, 5-10

The league scratch average this week was -0.1 to 148.7

The first v second match, Brothers Grimm and Hit & Miss, was postponed to next week so the other contenders all made ground tonight; Turkeys in third by only four points, Duo in fourth by eight points and fifth place Dominoes by eleven.

For the second week Rich Lester had the best scratch series with another seasons best 555 (636 with handicap) - consistent bowling as all his games were less than 200. Martin Cook was again in the top three scorers with 528 (609).

Pride of place tonight though goes to Diane MacFarlane who scored a lifetime best 232 game (275) which included five strikes in a row. Diane goes straight to the top of the handicap series list for the league.

Carrie Bryer improved both her high game and high series tonight.


The league scratch average this week was +0.1 to 148.8

With two losses and a draw in the last three weeks, Brothers Grimm's lead over Hit & Miss in second has now fallen to 16 points. Hit & Miss didn't take full advantage of the Bros losing 2-10 to Lightning Strikes by only drawing against Mac Too. The gap to Turkeys in third is now only nine points and Duo move up to fourth after a good win over Dominoes who now look unlikely to retain their league title.

Rich Lester had the best scratch series with a seasons best 552 (636 with handicap) including the best scratch and handicap game 234 (262) - also a seasons best. Martin Cook had another good night with a 531 series (612) with a 202 game.

Lightning Strikes hit a new high team game and series for the league and feature in all the team high score lists.

Terry Highton had a new high game for the league; six higher at 220 (246)


Steve Emmony was successful with a 5-7 split.

The league scratch average fell this week by 0.3 to 148.7

The gap between Brothers Grimm in first and Hit & Miss in second narrowed by another six points tonight and now stands at 20 points. Hit & Miss had their fifth win in a row while Brothers Grimm, playing with a blind, only drew with the Owls. Turkeys, in third also make up some ground and are now 31 points behind top spot. Dominoes move up a place to fourth after beating Self Inflicted.

Only two 500 series and two 200 games tonight: Alan Barton was top scorer by some way with 589 (643 with handicap) and also had the best game with 202 (220). John Bryer, in the same match, hit the only other 500+ series; 521 (596). Lesley Reeday had a successful night - almost reaching 500 with 496 and a season best game of 195 (233 - the best handicap game of the night)

Carrie Bryer improved her best game score for the season to 133 (208) and was successful with a 4-5-7 spare chance.




The league scratch average fell this week by 0.1 to 149.0

Second place Hit & Miss produced their best series of the season to beat leaders Brothers Grimm and close the gap to 26 points. Fourth place Turkeys also beat the team above them, Dominoes, and go ahead of them. Duo, last weeks fifth place won convincingly and also move ahead of Dominoes to fourth. The result of all this is the top of the table is much tighter that it was.

Martin Cook's run of good form continued and he was again top scorer with 545 (626 with handicap) including the second best game of the night, 212 (239). Richard Lester had the next best series: 535, (619), just one pin better than Terry Highton who he was playing against. There were 8 500+ series tonight.

Rose Barton hit the best game, 222 (241) in the same game as her opponent Martin Cook scored a 212 (239).

Paul Simmons improved his high series by 17 to 518 (641), the best handicap series of the night.

Martin Cook was successful with a 1-2-10 split.


The league scratch average improved by another 0.1 to 149.1