20th Sept. 24 v Painters 'B' (A) Won 370-366

The Tatti's gained their first points of the new season with a four pins victory over Painters 'B' at the Richmond Club, 370-366.

Chasing a really good 98 opening leg by Painters, Berti made full use of his single pin opportunity by felling seven pins with his spare ball. Unfortunately though, the luck then ran out with the leg stuttering to a sub 90 as the Bottom half failed to reach 40. 

Not to be deterred, new boy Eric 'The Red'  soon floored his first ever spare for Bogoes which helped the bottom half recover themselves with a 50. The top half gave the BH's a lesson in how to back up a good start. Captain Ali started it with a wonderful flopper in his 14 and Booby finished it with a well taken 15 spare. They added another 58 to the leg leaving Painters another 98 to stay in front.

Credit to Painters, they produced an excellent second leg ton to edge two pins ahead and backed it up with a sold 86. 

In the third leg, Benny's 14 spare and a great 52 bottom half total pushed the total over the 90 mark and the call was 'same again' to keep the pressure on their opponents. However, the less said about the BH's finish the better!

As the game looked all but lost, Booby floored a late-late 14 spare to scrape their leg total into the 80's and leave Painters requiring 87 to win. Despite matching the Tatti's spare count in their final leg, they surprised everyone by falling 5 pins short. Funny Ol' game!

Congratulations to Eric, for achieving his first win & first spare.

Excellent win in the end in a game that could’ve gone either way. Painters opening leg of 98 really put us under but good spares by Rob, Ian, Eric, his first (of many) for team and the captain kept us in the game. 

The home side responded with an excellent 2nd leg ton and aided by Benny’s 14 spare on the 3rd we found ourselves 3 up. Good last needed to leave painters a challenging total, well the least said about it the better, until Rob rescued the leg with a brilliant 14 to finish. With 87 to win it was always going to be in the balance but a 2 proved decisive which gave us a much needed win.

An excellent 40 by Ian ( yet again) but it was Rob who deserved to take the top score accolade with his brilliant total of 43

13th Sept. 24 v Woodpeckers (H) Lost 336-339

Friday 13th turned out to be very unlucky for the Tattis' as they lost their opening game of the new season against Woodpeckers by 3 pins, 336-339.

The less said about that performance the better. 

Congratulations to Eric on his debut. It's a shame it wasn't a successful one for him but hey-ho, the Bogos' can put that right at the Richmond Club next week against Painters 'B'. Up the Tattis'.

Not the best start only good spares by Ian and cheese on the 2nd leg kept us in the game. But a disastrous 3rd should have been the end of the contest but woodpeckers surprisingly let us off and when returning for the last leg 88 was the target to win, a game frankly we didn’t deserve to. 

A slow start made it difficult but Benny’s brilliant spare gave us hope. Unfortunately the top half couldn’t muster the 8’s to win, falling short by 3. 

Early days and all that but 336 won’t win you many games and we should be getting the target that was set us. Well done woodpeckers and cheese for joint top scoring with 34"