Up for the Cup !

Another week of skittles kicked off last Monday with a trip for the Jockey's to the Bell Inn at Winsham. We were never in the game against the Bell Aftershocks and ended up losing by 12 pins and 1-11 on points. A visit to the Bell is always welcome though because Tony the landlord keeps four ales on.
This week there were Lynx Wildcat from Yeovil Ales,Healey Silverstone from the Cottage Brewery and BVB Drayman and Branoc. I wasn't driving so I had no excuse not to try them all !
Thursday saw me back at the Perry Street Club and the Hustlers match against the Marauders. Unfortunately they only had five players so it made for a rather hollow victory as we ran out winners by 14 points to two.
Whilst at the club I picked up the winter edition of the Somerset CAMRA magazine 'Pints of View', the first to be printed in colour and also containing my account of our visit to the Great British Beer Festival back in August.

On Friday it was back to the club for our Knockout Cup Final match against our great rivals the Outlaws. Our opponents won the toss and chose the bottom alley and to go first. They posted a score of 98 which was a challenging target but we responded well with a score of 95. The second hand finished with us taking a 5 pin lead before the Outlaws had a poor third hand of 78 and we extended our lead to 29 pins.
After their last hand we were left with a target of 59 to win the cup and we cruised past out target to win the cup for the third year in a row.