Big break as Coleraine and District Snooker League begins this Thursday

The Triangle Snooker Club have entered six teams this season and the first matches played were Triangle A against Triangle Destroyers and team captain Willie Eakin went head to head against Johnny White.

This match showed pre-season nerves and lack of practice as a lot of mistakes were made by both players and a draw was a fair result.

Big Lee Caulfield and Billy Moore had a better match. Lee took the first with a tidy 29 break, however Billy didn't give up and took the second to level the match.

Aaron Moffatt and Allen Tosh were also a bit jittery and only managed a draw.

Newcomers University A played Triangle Young Guns with Keith Hunter taking on Stevie G winning both frames easily and making a tidy 44 break.

Dean Reilly and Gerard Carson had a similar match with Dean winning easily.

Last up was Corry Sweeney and Sean Cunningham and Corry took both frames easily a 6 - 0 win for the Young guns.

University B went head to head with Triangle B. M Broderick and Ady Toner got this fixture under way. There was no big scoring from both players but Ady managed to take both frames.

D Buckley and team captain Willie Boreland had a better match with Willie having to work for hard to claim both points. Marc Hutchinson and D Leonard got the last match underway, and Marc, who had made a 80 break before the match, struggled to pot two balls during both frames but just managed to claim both points, to seal a good 6 - 0 win for Triangle B.

Ballymoney All Stars were at home to Ballymoney Diamonds and up first was M Graham and S Quigg also new players in the league this season but S Quigg held his nerve to claim the first two points for his team.

G McIntyre and W Skinner went head to head and after some poor safety from Skinner, McIntyre took both frames.

Man of the match A McGonigle took on J McCooke and won easily to seal a good 4 -2 win for the All Stars.

Dunloy United were at home to new comers Dunloy Chiefs and team captains Martin Crawley and J Cairns got things underway with Martin claiming the first two points for his team.

Brendan McTaggart and K Mclean faced off in match two but the Chiefs K McLean didn't lie down and took a point off Brendan to claim their first point.

Randal McDonnell and C McTaggart again shared the points.

The last fixture was between Coleriane Hawks and Garvagh. Up first for Garvagh was David Baker against the Hawks Don Leighton. Both frames were very open it was David who took the first frame.

However Don kept potting in the second and had a little rub of the green to take the team's first point.

Marcus Dickson and Kenny Hutchinson went head to head with both players playing poorly, but Marcus managed to win both frames after a poor show from Kenny.

Peter Roulson and Walter Purcell played the last match and Peter outplayed Walter in all aspects of the game with a tidy 44 break in the second to claim both points.