2007-2008 NEWPORT & DISTRICT POOL LEAGUE
For immediate release
Friday, January 4th, 2008
SHAKESPEARE WRECK JUNCTION A’s UNBEATEN RECORD
NEWPORT (Shropshire): League newcomers Shakespeare took a superb 4-2 win at previously unbeaten Junction A, as the league took a wide open ‘Championship’ feel to it. The visitors rocked the solid Staffordshire side to leap into the top four in the league and cost the Junction A team their chance of topping the table for the first time.
The table-topping King’s Head – who were dramatically knocked out of the cup by the inconsistent Lilleshall Sports Centre before the Christmas break – dropped their first points of the league campaign after being held to a 3-3 draw at Chetwynd End by a determined third-placed Audco side, who have now taken two draws in the last two games.
Matt Collins and Ian Perry got the home side off to a dream start with a 2-0 lead, but Paul Trevor and Andy Lycett pegged them back to 2-2 with some dogged play. The King’s Head made it 3-2 in the first of the doubles’ matches, but Tom Sayce potted a great red and a winning black for the visitors to eke out a superb draw in the second doubles’ match.
The Junction B earned a 3-3 draw at bottom-of-the-table New Inn, but the result for the match between the Navy Club and the Sutherland Arms at Muxton ended in a 4-2 away win for the Telford side.
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2007-2008 Newport & District latest league table @ 4/1/08
Team P W D L F A Pts
King’s Head 4 3 1 0 19 5 11
Junction A 4 3 0 1 15 9 9
Audco 4 2 2 0 14 10 8
Sutherland Muxton 4 2 1 1 14 10 7
Shakespeare 4 2 1 1 13 11 7
Lilleshall SC 5 1 2 2 13 17 5
Boat Gnosall 3 1 1 1 9 9 4
Junction B 4 1 1 2 11 13 4
Navy Club 5 1 0 4 10 20 3
Wheatsheaf 4 0 3 1 10 14 3
New Inn 5 0 2 3 10 20 2
League matches still to be played to date.
Junction A v King’s Head
Audco v Boat Gnosall
2007-2008 Newport Pool Cup – quarter-final draw
New Inn Newport v Lilleshall Sports Centre
Audco v Boat Gnosall
Navy Club v Sutherland Muxton
Shakespeare – BYE
Matches to be played on Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Ends
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