THE FIRST competitive action of the season saw a combined Bolehill Institute team with players from both No 1 and No 2 outfits beaten 7-1 by the visitors from Duffield Club.
The two previous encounters, also friendlies, between the sides had ended in fairly close verdicts but on this occasion although some of the restricted-to-20-minute frames were in the balance until the latter stages, they mostly ended up going in the same direction.
Andrew Brough contributed the sole success for the home side with a black ball win over Tom Lucas, which eventually came courtesy of an unlucky in-off from the latter.
Simon Zoppi also showed fine form but unfortunately not in home colours as he swapped sides and filled in for the Duffield team who were a couple of men down and produced a sparkling 27 break in defeating Ricki Slack.
Jimmy Gratton showed his class for Duffield with an excellent clearance of 70 in one of the latter pairs contests, one of the highest breaks seen in the building in competitive matchplay.
Thanks to those who turned out for both teams in this early-season workout, namely Ricki, Simon, Andrew, Colin Marchington, Keith Robertson and Martin Forster along with visitors Danny Cooper, Jimmy and Tom.
Hopefully the cobwebs will have been blown away and its all systems go from here!!
BOLEHILL INSTITUTE pictured on the annual toboggan racing festival day.
