Last night the Jockeys played the second game in four days at the Bell Inn, Winsham. On Friday night we played the Club Originals in the first round of the Jubilee Cup. This is played as a Handicap competition on a neutral alley with each team being awarded pins dependent on their last years league position. We therefore had to give the Club Originals a six pin advantage as we finished above them in the league.
I started spectacularly with a seventeen 'spare' and finished the game with a score of 56 but although we won the game it was only by 3 pins and so we lost overall by 3 owing to the Originals handicap advantage.
So we will have a night off in a few weeks when the second round takes place. Very frustrating !
Ales on at the Bell tonight were the usual Branoc, with St Austell 'Tribute', Bay's 'Hoppy Days' and Cottage 'Battle of Britain'
I started with a Hoppy Days with was a light and golden ale at 4.2% with a refreshing hoppy taste.
I then had a Battle of Britain which was a dark and heavy ale at 4.5% with a fruity aftertaste reminiscent of Christmas cake, before going back to the Hoppy Days and sticking with it for the rest of the evening.
Last night we took on the Bell's home team, The Bell Bandits in our second Nomination League match of the season. We were put on first and posted a score of 75 which our opponents fell short of by 2 pins.
We then hit a score of 89 and by the end of the second hand were 12 pins to the good but with the points shared. We hit 86 on our last hand to leave the Bandits 99 to win.
They made a really good effort though and fell short by only 7 pins and taking the last point to leave the match in our favour at 9-3.
The ales were the same as Friday but as I was the team taxi this evening I only had one pint of the Hoppy Days.
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