Before I go into last night’s results it was great to see 6 out of the 12 premier league players selected to trial for this year’s WA state squad (4 FDDA and 2 SSDA), congratulations to Brad Austen, Kim Lewis, Lewis Kirk and Peter Sutton from Fremantle and to Tim Pusey and Mick Zdun from South Suburban, good luck in the trials lads. Brad, Tim and Kim all featuring in the top 8 averages, well done.

Tim Pusey registered the highest average this week with 92.94 and two wins. Also unbeaten in week 10, Brad Austen and Kim Lewis winning both of their games and Lewis Kirk playing three on the night and taking the maximum 6 points available to boost his ladder standing. Lewis registered the highest finish of the night with a 156 and there was plenty of other ton plus pegs, notably Brad with a 138 and Steve with a 127.

Joe Salter improved on last week’s effort to register a point against Peter Sutton in a 5-5 draw and led 3-0 against Brad with some clinical pegs only for the experience of Brad to show through seeing him run out the eventual winner 6-3. 13 180’s a decent haul, Tim and Mick with 3 each, Lewis and Joe 2 each.

A season high group average of 79.12 from the 10 players (Damo and Graham missing this week) showed the standard is improving as the season progresses. The matches are getting tighter as we approach the halfway point next week and with just 5 points separating 2nd and 5th and plenty still to play for the focus moves to week 11.