Carrick and District Pool League
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Whitehead Spartans who won the Knock Out Cup in the Carrick and District Pool League beating The Scorpions in the final am5260
TUESDAY 20th December 2011 saw the 12th weekly fixture sponsored byCity Air Express.
Results of the matches were as follows:
Monkstown 9
Teddy Bears 5
Valkyries 3
Castle 11
Spartans 11
Alpha 3
Eastway 3
Whitehead Trojans 11
Greenisland 5
Pirates 9
Rockers 9
MSC Trojans 5
Barbarians 4
Scorpions 10
Rockers 9
MSC Trojans 5
Rockers entertained MSC Trojans in their final match of 2011 and Captain J.McClean took advantage of a bit of loose play to put his team 1-0 up. Rockers stalwart A.Arbuthnot made it 2-0 before great finishes from G.Crawley and R.Butler gave the hosts a comfortable 4-0 lead.
M.McIlvenny reduced the arrears to 1-4 but the Champions secured the final two frames of the first session to hold a healthy 6-1 lead. It was to get better for the home side as P.Harris controlled the 8th frame to put Rockers on the hill, and an unbelieveable wafer thin cut on the black by Crawley soon secured the three points for Rockers. To their credit Trojans didn't crumble and D.Montgomery ripped out a superb clearance.
This was followed by another three on the trot for the away side to bring it back to 4-8. But Harris had the last word winning his second in style as Rockers sent a Christmas message that they will be fighting tooth and nail to retain their title
Spartans 11
Alpha 3
SPARTANS never reached the heights from the previous evenings Knock Out Cup success and a determined Alpha team got in amongst them early on and were unfortunate to trail 4-3 at the interval.
But the interval done the hosts a favour as they regrouped and took all 7 frames in the second half for an 11-3 win, although the scoreline was a bit harsh on the visitors. Spartans scorers were E.McDowell 3, R.Hawkins 3, S.McWhirter 2, K.English 2 and Manager T.Maguire 1.
Replying for Alpha were A.Hall with a fine finish, M.Kitson and L.Carson.
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