16th February 24 v FJ Lions (A) Won 373-363

The Tattis' returned to the Q.Club for the first time since moving home alley to take on second placed FJ Lions and they ran out victors by 10 pins after an exciting high scoring game, 373-363.

Annoyingly the game suffered from frequent stops & starts as people used the door to the main bar whilst bowling was in progress but it served to support the Bogoes main reason for moving to the Military Club.

Bennys' spare gave the Tattis' an early lead but the frequent disturbances to play during the second leg ruined any momentum they had and they suffered a poor total that just about crept into the 80's. 

The Lions took the initiative with two solid legs of 94 & 89 to leave the Bogoes 95 to level when they returned from the mid-game break. Boom...., Booby floored a fantastic 15 then Boom again, Berti followed with a flopper, then moments later a hatrick of Booms, as Stuee joined in with another 15 spare. This quick sequence of large spares matched what Lions had done & with the rest of the team performing well, the leg ended on a huge 107, 12 pins ahead. 

Their final leg suffered again from a very long pause as players from the other alley were in transition & using the bloody door again. After about ten minutes or so, the game restarted with Stuees' 6 then Rustys' 8 before Berti floored his second spare, this time a 16, and finally the leg came to an end with Boobys' 7.  

FJ Lions faced a score of 102 to win but, failing to increase their spare count, this total was out of reach and the Tattis' edge two points closer to the title.

A slight concern for Captain Ali will be the injury suffered by Jonah who clashed with the Q Clubs' furniture during the opening leg. The table came out on top of the argument to draw blood from Jonahs' bowing hand but somehow, he managed to see out the game.

Update 17/02-24: Ali has sent Jonah to hospital for a scan to ascertain the extent of his injury. More to follow in due course....

"Brilliant win in what was an excellent game. Lions recorded their highest home score of the season and each time we came to the alley we had been set a challenging total. 

Good first leg of 96 was boosted yet again by a brilliant spare by Benny and although the second leg was disappointing we were still in the game!! Two good legs by the home side left us 95 to level on the the 3rd and we put ourselves in a strong position thanks to 3 15 spares by Rob, Ian and Stuee in an excellent leg of 107. Although the game was still in the balance Ian’s brilliant 16 to finish just put the game out of reach of lions and we ran out winners by 10. 

In a fixture that in the past both teams haven’t always seen eye to eye this was played in good spirit which was shown at the end with both teams acknowledging what a good contest it had been. 

One comment that I overheard was from my old school mate Robbie Harris “ Ian Collins one man team”…. not quite but not far off because he once again propelled us to victory with that excellent 16 to finish and again topping the scoring with yet another 40 plus score, 48 infact, a feat he’s achieved for the team 114 times Keep it going boys 6 games to go !!"