Hastings 4 pin summer league

[ozzie]

Week 1 Jenny A v Ashburnham

Result 3-3

Thought I would have a go at this in the summer this
year and played probably my first game in Hastings
for I guess about 5 years nice to visit the Jenny
Lind again good evening with the Jenny Guys and I
think a fair result in the end although it could have
gone either way.
Lovely music from the other bar with a very talented
singer who I am sure could grace any stage.

Ray 1500 Jimmy 950 Jimmy lost more than he scored
if he had kept all he lost it would have been close.
Ray with a 600 break where he mastered the break shot
a couple of times.

Andrew 730 Phil 1780
I was always ahead in this one Andrew struggled to
to score off the break despite getting balls back
on numerous occasions.

Paul BP Bob 1780
This game was very close until a couple of minutes
from end when Paul black pegged he wouldn't be the
last of the evening.

Andrew 2030 Matt 420
Again reasonably close till again this time Matt was
the black peg toppler.

Paul 810 Jimmy 650
Paul not as sharp as in his first game but done enough
as Jimmy again scored easily enough but lost more than he
kept.

Ray 920 Phil 1370
Luckily for me Ray could not score off the break as
effectively as his first game this time I was the toppler
losing 1800 points and a 830 break Ray could not take
advantage and I managed to get my nose back in front
and stay there.

Thanks all for a good evening and for all in Hastings
getting the league going it is great to see it hanging
in there with a determined bunch of players both old and
new.

Regards Po

[gandalf the untidy]

Fixtures

22/05/2024	Jenny A	v	ash		stag A	v	Jenny B		stag B	v	bye
29/05/2024	stag B 	v	Stag A		Jenny B	v	Jenny A		bye	v	ash
05/06/2024	jenny A	v	Stag B		ash	v	jenny B		stag A	v	bye
12/06/2024	stag B 	v	ash		Jenny A	v	Stag A		bye	v	jenny B
19/06/2024	Jenny B	v	Stag B		Stag A	v	Ash		Jenny A	v	bye
26/06/2024	Jenny B	v	stag A		Ash	v	Jenny A		bye	v	stag B
03/07/2024	Stag A	v	stag B		Jenny A	v	Jenny B		Ash	v	bye
10/07/2024	Jenny B	v	Ash		Stag B	v	Jenny A		Stag A	v	stag A
17/07/2024	Stag A	v	Jenny A		ash	v	Stag B		Jenny B	v	bye
24/07/2024	Stag B	v	Jenny B		Ash	v	Stag A		bye	v	Jenny A
											
31/07/2024	Jenny A	v	ash		stag A	v	Jenny B		stag B	v	bye
07/08/2024	stag B 	v	Stag A		Jenny B	v	Jenny A		bye	v	ash
14/08/2024	jenny A	v	Stag B		ash	v	jenny B		stag A	v	bye
21/08/2024	stag B 	v	ash		Jenny A	v	Stag A		bye	v	jenny B
28/08/2024	Jenny B	v	Stag B		Stag A	v	Ash		Jenny A	v	bye
04/09/2024	Jenny B	v	stag A		Ash	v	Jenny A		bye	v	stag B
11/09/2024	Stag A	v	stag B		Jenny A	v	Jenny B		Ash	v	bye
18/09/2024	Jenny B	v	Ash		Stag B	v	Jenny A		Stag A	v	stag A
25/09/2024	Stag A	v	Jenny A		ash	v	Stag B		Jenny B	v	bye
02/10/2024	Stag B	v	Jenny B		Ash	v	Stag A		bye	v	Jenny A

[gandalf the untidy]

Great Match at The ash last night v Jenny B

Matt Jones 1070 v 1550 Steve Astley
Steve and Matt were both targeting the 200 hole for a fair part of the match so scores were a bit down

Phil Osborne 6670 v 1970 Colin Southouse
Phil on fine form with a quality 5250 opening break, 1 was guesting for the Jenny as they were 1 short, took me too long to be comfortable on the break to make inroads

Bob Osborne 4770 v 1149 Alex Reardon
Bob Always in the driving seat with breaks of 860,1180 & 880

Colin Southouse 8340 v 430 Matt Jones
Another opening break of 5270 from me to nip Phil's season high break followed up with a 2660 break very creditable on an away table

Alex Reardon 50 v 10,610 Phil Osborne
I Challenged Phil to better my opening break and when Alex missed Phil came to the party with a fantastic 10,420 break only the second i've seen. The previous was a Nigel Senior effort some 20 years ago in Eastbourne

I've now got a new target to beat, great to have a challenge and great to see Phil playing in Hastings again

Steve Astley 1920 v 3280 Bob Osborne
A close match until near the end when Bob got a 1290 break
Always nice to play against Bob he's hard to beat in this format

The Ash 4- 2 The Jenny B

[tommo III]

Aug 15, 2024 18:08:22 GMT gandalf the untidy said:

Phil Osborne 6670 v 1970 Colin Southouse
Phil on fine form with a quality 5250 opening break, 1 was guesting for the Jenny as they were 1 short, took me too long to be comfortable on the break to make inroads

Colin Southouse 8340 v 430 Matt Jones
Another opening break of 5270 from me to nip Phil's season high break followed up with a 2660 break very creditable on an away table

Alex Reardon 50 v 10,610 Phil Osborne
I Challenged Phil to better my opening break and when Alex missed Phil came to the party with a fantastic 10,420 break only the second i've seen. The previous was a Nigel Senior effort some 20 years ago in Eastbourne

20 years ago? Seriously?
None of us in Sussex had heard of 4-Pin until 2013 and the first E.Anglian Open held in a church hall in Norwich.

Nigel's incredible milestone was made in the 2016 E.Anglian at Sudbury, where in a group match he had a 9500 break, and finished on 14,530.

Great effort from Phil (and yourself) though.

[gandalf the untidy]

"Time is an Illusion" Tommo

[Q]

20 years ago? Seriously?
None of us in Sussex had heard of 4-Pin until 2013 and the first E.Anglian Open held in a church hall in Norwich.

Nigel's incredible milestone was made in the 2016 E.Anglian at Sudbury, where in a group match he had a 9500 break, and finished on 14,530.

Great effort from Phil (and yourself) though.

I can remember Roy Wells getting his first 'home' table, (at a guess around 2009), finding the break impossible and then realising that the table was narrower than usual... that's my first memory of a narrow table

[tommo III]

My memory of narrow tables stretches back further than that, Q: the Stepping Stones in Westhumble (foot of Box Hill) had two side by side - 50 years ago ?  And when Mick Wright and myself were investigating pubs to join the Redhill League (back in the 1990s) we found one in the Hedgehog (Burstow) and one in the Black Horse (Hookwood). Getting the break normally was absolutely impossible, as you say.

2013 saw the first foray for anyone in Sussex to play 4-Pin competitively, and the All-England tables were hired for all the Opens, so Nigel's amazing break was made on a standard width table where he was able to sneak both balls into the 50s, narrowly avoiding the mushrooms with very little margin for error. (What we know as the "Eastbourne Shot" - Colin and Phil also being masters of the same).

The World 4-Pin, held in Sudbury every March, now uses bespoke narrow tables, commissioned by Jeremy Fry and most of them manufactured by Alan Turner who based in Crewe. However, for those who still want to play competitive 4-pin on a normal table, there is always the Northants Open in late May, or the new Inter-counties in (west) Surrey in late November. As well as the Leagues (Hastings, Norwich, Newmarket). 
  

[gandalf the untidy]

Aug 16, 2024 10:11:05 GMT gandalf the untidy said:

"Time is an Illusion" Tommo

lunch time doubly so

[tommo III]

Aug 16, 2024 16:42:29 GMT gandalf the untidy said:

Aug 16, 2024 10:11:05 GMT gandalf the untidy said:

"Time is an Illusion" Tommo

lunch time doubly so

Sounds as if you have fitted twenty years' playing into the last ten years.
Unfortunately for someone my age, time advances very quickly, so 2013 and the start of our 4-pin adventure only seems like yesterday.
 

[Q]

Aug 16, 2024 18:57:47 GMT tommo III said:

Unfortunately for someone my age, time advances very quickly, so 2013 and the start of our 4-pin adventure only seems like yesterday.
 

Tell me about it Clive, do you realise that it is 17 years since I left Sussex, and 10 years since I last played bar billiards of any variation

[tommo III]

Aug 17, 2024 11:39:43 GMT Q said:

Tell me about it Clive, do you realise that it is 17 years since I left Sussex, and 10 years since I last played bar billiards of any variation

Basingstoke too far ?

21/22 Sep - WBBA Team Challenge II (Hampshire Court Hotel & Spa, Basingstoke)

Worth following WBBA's website as their intention is to share events around the country.

[gandalf the untidy]

<p></p>

Players Name	Team	Average	Played	Won	brk	Total	season	pb	hi	500's	750's	1ks	1.5ks	2ks	2.5k	3k	3.5k	4k	4.5k	5k
						score	h/score		break												total
COLIN SOUTHOUSE	STAG A	4,358	19	14	11	82,810	8,480	8,480	5,270	8	5	11	3	1	2	7	2	1	40
PHIL OSBORNE	ASHBURNHAM	3,935	20	19	10	78,690	10,610	10,610	10,420	10	8	6	6	1	1	2	34
BOB OSBORNE	ASHBURNHAM	2,652	17	12	8	45,080	4,770	4,770	1,950	10	6	3	1	20
ALEC POPE	STAG A	2,199	18	11	9	39,580	3,670	3,670	1,740	11	5	1	2	19
STEVE ASTLEY	JENNY B	1,778	19	12	9	33,790	2,520	2,520	1,240	7	2	2	11
PETER PAYNE	STAG A	1,718	20	9	9	34,360	3,810	3,810	1,470	14	4	3	21
DAVE DOW	STAG B	1,704	14	4	6	23,850	3,080	3,080	1,180	9	4	1	14
MATT JONES	ASHBURNHAM	1,625	21	12	10	34,130	3,330	3,330	2,070	8	4	1	13
RAY NORTON	JENNY A	1,596	23	12	14	36,710	2,630	2,630	670	8	8
JEZ HORSLER	JENNY B	1,593	13	5	9	20,710	2,930	2,930	970	3	2	5
ANDY HORSLER	JENNY B	1,590	2	1	1	3,180	2,840	2,840	710	2
TOM POPE	STAG B	1,528	22	10	8	33,610	2,460	2,460	1,130	6	1	7
PAUL WICKENS	JENNY A	1,378	25	9	13	34,440	2,450	2,450	890	5	2	7
OLLY CHECKLEY	STAG A	1,367	7	2	4	9,570	1,890	1,890	890	3	1	4
ANDREW LIPSCOMBE	JENNY A	1,341	12	7	6	16,090	2,090	2,090	730	2	2
CHRIS ALDRIDGE	STAG B	1,318	18	7	9	23,720	2,300	2,300	880	8	1	9
ALEX REARDON	JENNY B	1,216	13	4	5	15,810	2,440	2,440	800	4	1	5
JIMMY SULLIVAN	ASHBURNHAM	1,201	12	4	7	14,410	2,670	2,670	1,320	3	1	4
ROB BOUCNIK	JENNY B	894	16	1	8	14,300	1,880	1,880	620	2	2

[gandalf the untidy]

<p></p>week 15 of 20 28/08/24

Players Name	Team	Average	Played	Won	brk	Total	season	pb	hi	500's	750's	1ks	1.5ks	2ks	2.5k	3k	3.5k	4k	4.5k	5k	total
						score	h/score		break
COLIN SOUTHOUSE	STAG A	4,164	23	16	13	95,770	8,340	8,340	5,270	12	6	13	3	1	3	7	2	-	-	1	48
PHIL OSBORNE	ASHBURNHAM	3,958	24	23	12	95,000	10,610	10,610	10,420	14	8	9	2	7	1	1	1	-	-	2	45
BOB OSBORNE	ASHBURNHAM	2,959	21	16	9	62,130	4,770	4,770	1,950	16	9	5	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	34
ALEC POPE	STAG A	2,220	22	13	11	48,850	3,670	2,670	1,740	15	7	1	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	25
DAVE DOW	STAG B	1,731	16	5	7	27,690	3,080	3,080	1,180	12	4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17
MATT JONES	ASHBURNHAM	1,708	25	14	12	42,690	3,700	3,700	2,070	9	9	2	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	21
RAY NORTON	JENNY A	1,628	25	13	15	40,700	2,630	2,630	670	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10
PETER PAYNE	STAG A	1,622	24	9	11	38,920	3,810	3,810	1,470	14	4	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	22
JEZ HORSLER	JENNY B	1,593	13	5	9	20,710	2,930	2,930	970	3	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
STEVE ASTLEY	JENNY B	1,589	23	13	11	36,550	2,520	2,520	1,240	7	3	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12
TOM POPE	STAG B	1,478	26	12	10	38,440	2,460	2,460	1,130	6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7
ANDREW LIPSCOMBE	JENNY A	1,433	16	10	8	22,920	2,090	2,090	730	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
CHRIS ALDRIDGE	STAG B	1,431	21	9	11	30,050	2,300	2,300	880	10	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12
OLLY CHECKLEY	STAG A	1,367	7	2	4	9,570	1,890	1,890	890	3	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
PAUL WICKENS	JENNY A	1,341	27	9	14	36,200	2,450	2,450	890	6	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8
ANDY HORSLER	JENNY B	1,220	4	1	2	4,880	2,840	2,840	1,030	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
ALEX REARDON	JENNY B	1,216	13	4	5	15,810	2,440	2,440	800	4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
JIMMY SULLIVAN	ASHBURNHAM	1,201	12	4	7	14,410	2,670	2,670	1,320	3	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
ROB BOUCNIK	JENNY B	894	16	1	8	14,300	1,880	1,880	620	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2

[gandalf the untidy]

Week 16 of 20 04/09/24

More fantastic scores from Phil Osborne tonight 5410 and 12130 with breaks of 4400 and 9080 charges ahead to take the top spot in the averages, BRILL Mate <p></p>

Players Name	Team	Average	Played	Won	brk	Total	season	pb	hi	500's	750's	1ks	1.5ks	2ks	2.5k	3k	3.5k	4k	4.5k	5k	total
						score	h/score		break
PHIL OSBORNE	ASHBURNHAM	4,328	26	25	13	112,540	12,130	12,130	10,420	15	9	9	2	8	1	1	1	1	-	3	50
COLIN SOUTHOUSE	STAG A	4,140	25	18	14	103,500	8,340	8,340	5,270	14	9	14	3	1	3	7	2	-	-	1	54
BOB OSBORNE	ASHBURNHAM	3,010	23	18	10	69,230	5,150	5,150	3,100	16	9	5	4	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	35
ALEC POPE	STAG A	2,188	24	14	12	52,520	3,670	2,670	1,740	16	7	1	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	26
DAVE DOW	STAG B	1,731	16	5	7	27,690	3,080	3,080	1,180	12	4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17
PETER PAYNE	STAG A	1,625	26	9	12	42,250	3,810	3,810	1,470	14	5	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	23
MATT JONES	ASHBURNHAM	1,615	27	14	13	43,600	3,700	3,700	2,070	9	9	3	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	22
RAY NORTON	JENNY A	1,603	27	13	16	43,270	2,630	2,630	670	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10
STEVE ASTLEY	JENNY B	1,596	25	14	12	39,910	2,520	2,520	1,240	8	4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14
JEZ HORSLER	JENNY B	1,593	13	5	9	20,710	2,930	2,930	970	3	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
TOM POPE	STAG B	1,478	26	12	10	38,440	2,460	2,460	1,130	6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7
ANDREW LIPSCOMBE	JENNY A	1,433	16	10	8	22,920	2,090	2,090	730	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
CHRIS ALDRIDGE	STAG B	1,431	21	9	11	30,050	2,300	2,300	880	10	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12
OLLY CHECKLEY	STAG A	1,367	7	2	4	9,570	1,890	1,890	890	3	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
JIMMY SULLIVAN	ASHBURNHAM	1,319	14	6	8	18,460	2,670	2,670	1,320	5	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6
ALEX REARDON	JENNY B	1,291	15	6	6	19,370	2,440	2,440	800	4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
PAUL WICKENS	JENNY A	1,288	29	9	15	37,350	2,450	2,450	890	6	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8
ANDY HORSLER	JENNY B	1,220	4	1	2	4,880	2,840	2,840	1,030	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
ROB BOUCNIK	JENNY B	1,026	18	1	9	18,470	2,470	2,470	620	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4

["Silent"]

I think as far as I few of us were concerned Phil had been in "top spot" for a while (most wins) but someone found another way to be top

[gandalf the untidy]

Sept 5, 2024 8:47:24 GMT "Silent" said:

I think as far as I few of us were concerned Phil had been in "top spot" for a while (most wins) but someone found another way to be top

Thanks for your comment silent, you have endowed me with more intellect than i have in reality