The 4^th round of the season saw the team back at home, against the Daisy Social Club (aka The Cutters).  With 1 win, 1 loss and 1 draw, this round was a must win for the team, both for confidence and to send a message to all the other teams that we are not to be taken lightly.

The first ¼ saw the team take an early lead with 8 players winning their first games.  It was a good start, and one which we knew that if we didn’t keep the level of intensity up, could easily be taken away over the next 3 quarters.

 With this in mind, we tried to keep this intensity up through the 2^nd quarter. The team was able to accomplish this, albeit winning 1 less frame, and so at the halfway point, we had a lead of 15 – 9.

With some excellent pool being played by both sides, we never let The Cutters back into the game, with both the 3^rd and 4^th quarters being square, at 6 each in both quarters.  A final score of 27 – 21 made for a win for Fast Break, but one which, with the match meeting afterwards, was agreed should have been more convincing.  A few errant shots by a few players, and lack of playing ‘percentage pool’, meant that the win was not by a larger margin.

Well done to those players who won 3 frames, including Mark Benesovsky, who in his 3^rd season of competitive pool, has stepped up to the plate more so than any other player, and to Jason Lowe, who managed to scrape together 4 frames.

4th Division Report

The fourth round had arrived for the fourth division players.  With each week of playing, the new players are getting better and better, and our first win would not be far away if we kept on improving the way we have been.

Our opponents this night was the Eastern Cobras, based at Rack ‘Em Up.

Straight from the start we had one advantage which was the fact they had to forfeit 3 frames, but unfortunately, as it turned out so did we.  So any advantage we thought we had, was now null and void.  We had to forfeit one set of doubles, whereas the Cobras forfeited one singles player, which gave Lauren Black her first 3 – 0 win… yay!

Fast Break made a great start, with our one doubles combination of Jason Zammit and Sally Jane Eaton winning 2 of their 3 frames.  The singles also followed suit with the first 3 winning 7 frames out of a possible 9, with Mark Fraser winning all 3 of his frames at the number 1 singles position.  This made for a great platform from which we could really press home this advantage.  With some patient pool playing and some stellar shots, the team started to get closer to their first win.  Carly Clarke fought for 2 frames, as did the fourths illustrious captain, Justin Rosmalen.  With this tenacity being shown on the tables, it was a team lifting night as we walked away with our first win of the year, with a final score of 19 – 17.  With this fight being shown, many more wins will come our way this year.  GO FAST BREAK!