Dec 10 2009
Snookered Again
The “A” team of Robert Waite and David Fenn entertained the Rayleigh Mill “C” team in the second round of the District 1240 Snooker competition. Rayleigh Mill shaved a closely fought contest and will go forward to the quarter finals where they will meet the winners of Rayleigh Mill “A” and Basildon “A”.
The first frame began with Rayleigh taking a commanding lead as Martin Hodson made a creditable break of 22, but Corringham edged to within 2 points of their opponents before Martin cleared the blue and pink to take the frame.
The second frame started Corringham’s way with their opponents losing their way slightly and giving away twelve points. At one time Corringham led by more than 20 points until the wheels began to come off. David took on a fine cut into the middle pocket for the yellow, and although the object ball fell into the pocket the cue ball carried on into the top pocket. At his next two visits to the table, David managed to repeat the process leaving Corringham just a couple of points to the good. Rob then played safe (or so we thought), leaving the cue ball tight against the baulk cushion with the deciding black near the pink spot. To our utter amazement, and to bouts of hysterical laughter, Carl miscued his shot. Striking down on the ball, his cue slipped and the cue ball started off in the direction of the far left hand pocket and would miss the black by several inches, then to everyone’s amazement, it arced around in a curve and struck the black ball and sent it into the pocket giving Rayleigh their win. All four players were splitting their sides with laughter at the unlikely outcome, but defeat was taken in good heart and we wished our opponents all the best in the next round.
This was a close fought tie played in the true spirit of Rotary, in which all concerned thoroughly enjoyed each others company. Fellowship was again the winner.
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