A Game of Two Halves

Last night the Hustlers skittle team began the defence of last years league title with our first match of the season against the Young Guns.
We started steadily with a hand of 81 but our opponents came back with a score of 83 and both points. We improved on the second hand with 89 but again, thanks to a couple of 'spares' they took the hand with 94 and both points again.
We upped our game again on the third hand with 91 and we still hadn't hit a 'spare'. The Young Guns however had two more spares and hit 99 with both points again. We were now 15 pins down and had no points, not a good start to our campaign.
The last hand saw us hit 100 thanks to a fantastic spare from our 'anchor man' Steve P, hitting the right hand corner and sending it over to the left hand back second and making a 13. This left our opponents 86 to win but surprisingly they could only manage to hit 79 and we won the game by 6 and by 10 points to 6.
I had another good night hitting 67 without a spare to finish top score.

On another subject the result from the Minehead Beer Festival saw the Quantock Brewery scoop the 'Beer of the Festival' with their Rourkes Drift at 4.2%. Sadly the tasting notes say that its a 'Light refreshing lager style beer' which is why I didn't go anywhere near it on the day !