This week was the final game of the first round of the season.  We were up against Templestowe Hotel, at home.  With Templestowe the ladder leaders, we knew the games would be hard, but we knew we could take it to them and walk away with the win.
Unfortunately we had a poor start with with many of our players losing their first frames, and at the end of the 1^st ¼, we were down 8 – 4.  Not the most ideal start, and this meant we had to knuckle down, and play to the ability we knew we had. 

This we did, and the frames started flowing our way with more consistency.  Because of this, we rattled them enough that they dropped more frames, and the score at ½ time was 13 – 11. 
But as any quality team does when under pressure, they produced a second effort, which did not take us by surprise, but did raise their confidence.  On the back of this, they started to gain on our 15 – 11 lead, eventually drawing equal, and then they continued to move ahead. 
After the 2^nd half, Templestowe was able to walk away with a 30 – 18 win. 
Congratulations to Marco Peccenini for taking 3 of his 4 frames, and thanks to Michael Hoskins taking a frame in his 2^nd Division debut. 
Anyway, next week is another week with us having the return match against The Pool Room, at home.  

4th Division Report

This week had us facing the same opponents this week as the 2^nds in the Templestowe hotel at their home ground.
Unfortunately we had to forfeit our 2^nd doubles combination, which put us 3- 0 down before a ball was hit.  Our first singles player, Mark Fraser, however got us off to a good start taking 2 of his 3 frames. We hoped this meant for a fruitful night for this new team, but unfortunately not so.  Even though a few of the frames were tight, we did not take advantage of mistakes our opposition made, and made too many of them ourselves.  Justin Rosmalen, trying to lead by example, followed Mark in taking 2 frames.  Unfortunately a loss of 28 – 8 was our score for the night.
We all know that pool is a very difficult game to play.  With time comes knowledge and experience.