Victory for Bakers at the Bull in Romford

The Bakers mission to stay in the Havering and district league top division was provided with a major boost last night, Bakers produced an impressive away win at the third placed Bull pub in Romford.

Monster opened the singles play at slot 1, after a tactical frame his opponent skillfully closed the game with a 4 ball clearance, the long pot 8 ball being the most impressive shot.

the home side requested that the doubles be played at this point to allow some of their players to attend shift work, Bakers agreed and Tony Cossey and Scott Rose played the first doubles fixture, after the Bull player went in off on their second visit, Cossey swept home a seven ball clearance to clinch the first of the 3 scheduled doubles games

Tony Cossey was also in the next game of singles, again Tony looked like he was going to clear up, again from 7 balls out, however a poor positional shot on the last colour, left a double on the 8 ball, which just refused to drop in the middle pocket. The opponent attempted to made the black safe from the next vist, however a spectacular shot on the 8 ball closed the frame for Cossey

Stuart was next up for bakers, again he played solid pool from a tactical disadvantage, always in with chance thanks to some solid tactics, however his opponent made his tactical advantage tell by clearing the last 3 balls to win, again however a good frame by Stuart.

Yon played next and went through a whole range of emotions in his frame, firstly missing a awkward 8 ball, then seeing his opponent make an amazing miss on a dead straight black, Yon then missed another hard black leaving the opponent another simple simple final shot, which he AGAIN missed, yon sheepishly then dished the final ball to win.

Mich played the next frame, his opponent leaving mitch a mountain to climb after clearing down to the 8 ball, then laying that ball near a pocket. In true Mitch style he took on average 22 minutes to decide on each of his shots and cleared up to win. :-)

Peter had the slot for last frame and after a scrappy affair, his oppoent made a decisive move to clear, however a poor positional shot left him without the final black, Peter swept in to mak it 4 - 2 in the singles and of course 5-2 overall as one doubles had been preplayed.

The final two doubles frames being shared to leave Bakers winning the match 6 - 3.