Southsea Waverley turn up the heat as Cooke's rink dish out the pain to Fareham
They won on three rinks, led by the 11-shot victory on Paul Cooke’s rink, writes Dave Wildman.
John Travers’ rink stopped any chance of Fareham being whitewashed with their six-shot win.
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Hide AdPriory are second after their four-shot away victory at Cowplain.
The winning margins on Priory’s three victorious rinks overcame the 15-shot win on Cowplain’s Mike Hyland rink.
Alexandra and Portsmouth Water slugged out a 77-77 draw, with both clubs winning on two rinks.
The match was decided by a very close measure on the final end.
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Hide AdThis denied Peter Musson’s rink a third shot which would have won the match for the waterboys.
Leigh Park had an excellent 32-shot home win over Waterlooville.
The 22-shot victory by Ben Cope’s quartet was decisive.
Richard Allen’s four-shot victory prevented the whitewash.
In the only match played last week Vospers fell to a 25-shot home defeat by Portsmouth Water.
The Watermen won all four rinks, led by the 17-shot win on Brent Riste’s rink.
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Hide AdBut it got even worse on Friday as they slumped to a 77-shot thrashing at Lee-on-the-Solent.
Unsurprisingly, the Solent club won on all four rinks.
The rinks of Graham Hillier and Dennis Wren both recorded 26-shot victories.
In division two Star & Crescent saw their title hopes dented as they fell to a 13-shot away defeat at Crofton, only picking up two points from the match thanks to Simon Filippi’s rink.
Crofton won the other two rinks, led by Charlie Read’s quartet.
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Hide AdMilton Park closed the gap to Star after their 32-shot home win over College Park, winning on three rinks.
The size of the victory was down to the 27-shot win by Andy McKain’s rink.
At the bottom of the table, Denmead lost again, this time by 16 shots at home to Gosport.
The 22-shot win by Tony Horne’s men did all the damage.
Bottom-club Bridgemary are still winless after their 25-shot defeat at Naismith.
Mick Chandler’s rink did most of the damage with their 20-shot win for the victors.