Wilpshire's 21st party! IT MIGHT be something to do with the law of averages.
It might just be that the Wilpshire snooker team hit a rich vein of form after struggling along week after week. It might be that the once-mighty Cemetery had a nightmare of a night. Or a combination of all three.
Whatever it was, their Blackburn with Darwen League clash ended with Wilpshire's first win in about 20 matches. And anyone would think they had just clinched the league and cup double.
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"It was a dream result for us," said Jordan Danov, who teamed up withskipper Nick Robson to win the last-frame clincher.
"We might be bottom of the league, but we really enjoy our Wednesday nights. And we certainly enjoyed this one. We all piled back into the Wilpshire and had a few to celebrate."
The match, on the Cem, see-sawed all the way through. Ian Atkinson won his first singles match of the season and Jordan also won his frame.
Wilpshire won all three doubles. Andy McDonald, who had won his first singles frame of the season the previous week, paired up with Dave Jarmany, and Ian Atkinson played alongside Noel Atkinson as the match went to 4-3 in favour of the Wilpshire.
League individual cham-pion Mark Jennings played well to beat Nick to level the match and then he teamed up with Steve Halliwell for the crunch. It should have been in the bag for the Cem pair but Jennings missed an easy-enough pink into the middle and Robson stepped in to slot home the pink and the black for the frame and their team's first win since they re-formed towards the end of last season.
"Just watch us climb the table now," said Jordan. "We have Bay Horse tomorrow and they only beat us narrowly on their table. We can concentrate on winning the knockout now. We lost all our games in the knockout last season and all the games so far in the league this season but we reckon the tide has turned."
Cem's singles winners were Baz and Dave O'Kane, Mark Gibbons and Jennings who hadn't quite got over the shock defeat several days later.
"We gave em lumps of weight on handicaps and they had all the luck going," he said, with tongue firmly in cheek . . .
It's the clash of the league's top teams tomorrow when Feniscowles entertain Riley's.
Leaders Fenny, whose popular captain Sean Hillard died early last week, will be hoping to do better than the three points they collected from their trip to the Fox & Hounds in their last match.
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