As Forrest Gump's mum so wisely pointed out, life is like a box of chocolates and you never know what you're going to get. So it is whenever faced with the first contest of the season against the new crop of this year's students.
Fortunately, it turned out that there weren't too many hard centres this time and Grange 4 ran out comfortable 17-4 winners to continue the very successful season so far.
First up was Mike Douglas at No 5 who was able to keep the lid on Scott Charles all the way through and was untroubled to close out 9-3, 9-4, 9-2.
Neil Love at No 4 looked to be in for a harder time against Mark Wallace taking the first in a hard fough 9-7 and then looking quite uncomfortable in a 2-9 second game. In the third and fourth he got his game together and began driving well and left his opponent behind to take the games 9-6, 9-6.
Dean Wood then took to the stage at no 3 and despatched Sean Thomson with some ease 9-1, 9-0, 9-1. Sean had won in previous weeks and was no slouch that the scoreline might have indicated and Dean did well to win so convingly.
Andy Whytelaw at No 2 ran out a convincing winner against Scott Wallace 9-2, 9-0, 9-3 to continue his faultless start to the season.
Sod's Law of course said that somewhere in the chocolate box there was going to be a hard centre and so it proved at no1 for your's truly Mark Dutton facing Michael Ross. Competitive games all round and Michael's greater control of the T allowing him to cut off enough balls to swing the day 6-9, 5-9, 6-9. (No chance of winning with your balls being cut off like that....).
All in all....a good night's work for the 4ths with the only complaints revolving around Neil Love's pathological dislike of pineapple on pizzas.....
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Neil is so right ..... pineapples should not be allowed near a pizza.
The combination is just wrong.
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