Hustlers were knocked off their all-too-temporary perch at the top of the table with a defeat to an Allsports team which had too much firepower on their last leg.Hustlers’ first three players were greeted with new sticky balls which suited Lewis (47 without a spare), but Lloyd struggled and Andy’s fairly respectable 38 was overshadowed by his opponent’s 49. The outcome was a shortfall of 13 pins.
Second leg tried hard with some consistent scoring and in fact (just) ended up as our highest leg, but the best they could manage was a tie with the opposition, leaving Hustlers still trailing by 13.
Third leg was notable in that it was Hustlers’ lowest leg of the night and yet pulled pins – 8 of them in fact, which reduced the deficit to a mere 5 pins.
It was therefore left to last leg to do the biz. Unfortunately Allsports’ last three were as good as their first, and a 50 by Clive’s opponent left him with a personal 16 pin deficit, Hustlers ending up second best by 20 pins.
| Away vs Allsports 18 Sep 18 | |||||||||
| Place | Player | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Total | V man! |
| 1 | Lewis | 6 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 47 | 7 |
| 2 | Lloyd | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 29 | -9 |
| 3 | Andy | 7 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 38 | -11 |
| Leg | 18 | 22 | 18 | 20 | 17 | 19 | 114 | -13 | |
| 4 | Rob | 5 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 38 | -2 |
| 5 | Chatz | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 39 | 2 |
| 6 | Pete | 6 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 38 | 0 |
| Leg | 18 | 23 | 20 | 21 | 16 | 17 | 115 | 0 | |
| 7 | Swayner | 7 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 37 | 4 |
| 8 | Dave | 6 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 36 | -3 |
| 9 | Ant | 6 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 38 | 7 |
| Leg | 19 | 19 | 18 | 19 | 16 | 20 | 111 | 8 | |
| 10 | Steve | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 39 | 2 |
| 11 | Clive | 5 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 34 | -16 |
| 12 | Gary | 8 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 39 | -1 |
| Leg | 19 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 17 | 15 | 112 | -15 | |