Honours even in top-two clash

Snooker: 

THE top two teams played each other in the Saw Tech Shaw Snooker League and the honours were shared.

Tara Leisure took the first frame but D Wood hit back for Royton Cons with a fine win 102-48 which included a 31 break.

Comrades B were at home to their A team but crashed to a 5-1 defeat, C. Sladen stopping the whitewash in the fourth frame.

Tara Leisure (330) 3, Royton Cons (333) 3: M Keating 87, T Carter 77l; C Lord 48, D Wood 102; S Blomeley 69, W Timperley 58; C Keating 71, P Lever 39; C North 55, L Burgess 57.

Cards 4-1, Darts 3-2.

Cartshaft (346) 3, Crompton Cons (359) 3: D Smith 68, S Shearing 60; W Clarke 86, D Horton, L Navesey 41, C Sneyd 97; M Simms 71, A Clarke 73; G Leecy 80, J Parker 79.

Cards 4-1, Darts 2-3.

Comrades B (328) 1, Comrades A (376) 5: L Williams 48, M Hobbs 77; A Barrass 54, J Higginbottom 78; M Taylor 76, A Mottershead 89; C Sladen 91, D Colton 56; L Patterson 59, F Sutherland 76.

Cards 3-2. Darts 2-3.

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