Dominant Dale Leads Lenton into Prime Position
Monday Team League (Summer 2023)
Lenton Liberal Club won by four frames to one at home to go top of the table for the first time this Summer 2023 season, as the Nottingham Snooker team league resumed after breaking (or should that be resting…) for the back-to-back early May and King’s coronation bank-holiday Mondays. Dale Prime starred with a 52 break on the way to scoring over a hundred points in the first frame for Lenton against Bulwell Church Institute’s “AJ” side.
Phil Connolly teamed up with Prime to take the pairs frame, the former then securing the five bonus points for Lenton with a 70-3 scoreline before the latter added his second singles to round out a near-perfect night for the Birmingham-born but now Beeston-based potter. Prime’s compilation of 52 pushed his own opening-night 44 down to fourth place on the season’s high-break board, but a 99 clearance also in the first round of matches from Andy Diacopoulos remains comfortably clear at the top.
While BCI AJ now trail Lenton Liberal Club in the league table on that head-to-head result alone, BCI ‘B’ hosted Mansfield’s Towers side and returned a 3-2 verdict to leapfrog their visitors into third place outright. They trail the leading duo by one point.
Mark Morrisey marked his first appearance in the league by winning his singles frame and then combining with BCI B team-mate, Steve Purser, for pairs success. Paul Wainwright Snr nicked the fourth frame on the black to make sure of the match, with Diacopoulos adding a consolation frame for Towers.
Despite losing out at Academy Reds, Spot On Hucknall climb to fifth place and have a game in hand on all of the teams above them. Cary Davies of the Sneinton-based side was the match’s standout player though, winning each of his singles by over twenty points – the second of which under the pressure of playing the deciding frame.
Victory could not lift Reds off the bottom of the table, however, as Carlton & District Liberal Club were also deciding-frame home victors over Academy ‘A’. Two singles wins for Academy’s Toby Bowley sandwiched successes on singles and pairs for Koen Hughes to ensure the final frame would be snooker’s equivalent of a six pointer.
James Bailie held his nerve to take the frame point and with it the five match-win points for the Burton Road side, keeping them a point ahead of Academy Reds in the league table. This latest round of results has given rise to a situation where after just three weeks of play, every team has now won a match but no-one is undefeated.
The Venue had no game last week. With no-one having come forward to replace the dropped-out Phoenix Cue Sports, the league will now proceed to the end of the Summer 2023 season with nine teams. Where the fixtures previously showed matches against the Eastwood side, Phoenix’s opponents will have a blank week.
Next week’s matches see reigning Monday-league champions and current pacesetters, Lenton Liberal Club, travel to Towers to take on last season’s Tuesday-league winners. Academy A host BCI B at Nottingham’s Spot On snooker club, while Carlton & District Liberal Club visit Spot On Hucknall. The Venue and Academy Reds currently occupy the bottom two places in the league table, but both have a game in hand on the teams immediately above them and will be looking to make the most of it when the two sides face off in Rainworth. BCI AJ sit the next round out.
Weekly report courtesy of Jon Shapland (League Organiser)
Match Results (May 15)
League Table
Next Fixtures (May 22)
Spot On Hucknall v Carlton Liberal Club
Academy A v BCI B
The Towers v Lenton Liberal Club
The Venue v Academy Reds
Full League Fixtures
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| Date | Home Team | Away Team |
|---|---|---|
| 17/04/2023 | Academy A | The Towers |
| 17/04/2023 | Bye | Spot On Hucknall |
| 17/04/2023 | BCI B | The Venue |
| 17/04/2023 | Lenton Liberal Club | Academy Reds |
| 17/04/2023 | Carlton Liberal Club | BCI AJ |
| 24/04/2023 | Academy Reds | Bye |
| 24/04/2023 | Carlton Liberal Club | The Towers |
| 24/04/2023 | The Venue | Lenton Liberal Club |
| 24/04/2023 | Spot On Hucknall | Academy A |
| 24/04/2023 | BCI AJ | BCI B |
| 15/05/2023 | Carlton Liberal Club | Academy A |
| 15/05/2023 | Bye | The Venue |
| 15/05/2023 | BCI B | The Towers |
| 15/05/2023 | Lenton Liberal Club | BCI AJ |
| 15/05/2023 | Academy Reds | Spot On Hucknall |
| 22/05/2023 | BCI AJ | Bye |
| 22/05/2023 | Spot On Hucknall | Carlton Liberal Club |
| 22/05/2023 | Academy A | BCI B |
| 22/05/2023 | The Towers | Lenton Liberal Club |
| 22/05/2023 | The Venue | Academy Reds |
| 05/06/2023 | BCI B | Carlton Liberal Club |
| 05/06/2023 | Academy Reds | BCI AJ |
| 05/06/2023 | Lenton Liberal Club | Academy A |
| 05/06/2023 | The Venue | Spot On Hucknall |
| 05/06/2023 | Bye | The Towers |
| 12/06/2023 | Carlton Liberal Club | Lenton Liberal Club |
| 12/06/2023 | Academy A | Bye |
| 12/06/2023 | Spot On Hucknall | BCI B |
| 12/06/2023 | BCI AJ | The Venue |
| 12/06/2023 | The Towers | Academy Reds |
| 19/06/2023 | The Venue | The Towers |
| 19/06/2023 | BCI AJ | Spot On Hucknall |
| 19/06/2023 | Academy Reds | Academy A |
| 19/06/2023 | Bye | Carlton Liberal Club |
| 19/06/2023 | Lenton Liberal Club | BCI B |
| 26/06/2023 | Carlton Liberal Club | Academy Reds |
| 26/06/2023 | Spot On Hucknall | Lenton Liberal Club |
| 26/06/2023 | Academy A | The Venue |
| 26/06/2023 | BCI B | Bye |
| 26/06/2023 | The Towers | BCI AJ |
| 03/07/2023 | Academy Reds | BCI B |
| 03/07/2023 | The Venue | Carlton Liberal Club |
| 03/07/2023 | Bye | Lenton Liberal Club |
| 03/07/2023 | Spot On Hucknall | The Towers |
| 03/07/2023 | BCI AJ | Academy A |
| 10/07/2023 | The Towers | Academy A |
| 10/07/2023 | Spot On Hucknall | Bye |
| 10/07/2023 | The Venue | BCI B |
| 10/07/2023 | Academy Reds | Lenton Liberal Club |
| 10/07/2023 | BCI AJ | Carlton Liberal Club |
| 17/07/2023 | Bye | Academy Reds |
| 17/07/2023 | The Towers | Carlton Liberal Club |
| 17/07/2023 | Lenton Liberal Club | The Venue |
| 17/07/2023 | Academy A | Spot On Hucknall |
| 17/07/2023 | BCI B | BCI AJ |
| 24/07/2023 | Academy A | Carlton Liberal Club |
| 24/07/2023 | The Venue | Bye |
| 24/07/2023 | The Towers | BCI B |
| 24/07/2023 | BCI AJ | Lenton Liberal Club |
| 24/07/2023 | Spot On Hucknall | Academy Reds |
| 31/07/2023 | Bye | BCI AJ |
| 31/07/2023 | Carlton Liberal Club | Spot On Hucknall |
| 31/07/2023 | BCI B | Academy A |
| 31/07/2023 | Lenton Liberal Club | The Towers |
| 31/07/2023 | Academy Reds | The Venue |
| 07/08/2023 | Carlton Liberal Club | BCI B |
| 07/08/2023 | BCI AJ | Academy Reds |
| 07/08/2023 | Academy A | Lenton Liberal Club |
| 07/08/2023 | Spot On Hucknall | The Venue |
| 07/08/2023 | The Towers | Bye |
| 14/08/2023 | Lenton Liberal Club | Carlton Liberal Club |
| 14/08/2023 | Bye | Academy A |
| 14/08/2023 | BCI B | Spot On Hucknall |
| 14/08/2023 | The Venue | BCI AJ |
| 14/08/2023 | Academy Reds | The Towers |
| 21/08/2023 | The Towers | The Venue |
| 21/08/2023 | Spot On Hucknall | BCI AJ |
| 21/08/2023 | Academy A | Academy Reds |
| 21/08/2023 | Carlton Liberal Club | Bye |
| 21/08/2023 | BCI B | Lenton Liberal Club |
| 04/09/2023 | Academy Reds | Carlton Liberal Club |
| 04/09/2023 | Lenton Liberal Club | Spot On Hucknall |
| 04/09/2023 | The Venue | Academy A |
| 04/09/2023 | Bye | BCI B |
| 04/09/2023 | BCI AJ | The Towers |
| 11/09/2023 | BCI B | Academy Reds |
| 11/09/2023 | Carlton Liberal Club | The Venue |
| 11/09/2023 | Lenton Liberal Club | Bye |
| 11/09/2023 | The Towers | Spot On Hucknall |
| 11/09/2023 | Academy A | BCI AJ |
Participating Venues
BCI Snooker Centre
Vere Street, Bulwell, NG6 8YL
Teams: “BCI B & BCI AJ”
Carlton & District Liberal Club
21 Burton Road, Carlton, NG4 3DT
Team: “Carlton Liberal Club”
Lenton Liberal Club
18 Osmaston Street, Lenton, NG7 1SD
Team: “Lenton Liberal Club”
Spot On
Vine Terrace, Hucknall, NG15 7HN
Team: “Spot On Hucknall”
Spot On Cue Sports
Davisella House, Newark Street, Sneinton, NG2 4PP
Team: “Academy A & Academy Reds”
The Towers Snooker Club
Botany Avenue, Mansfield, NG18 5NG
Team: “The Towers”
The Venue
Kirklington Road, Rainworth, Mansfield, NG21 0JY
Team: “The Venue”