The 'A' team took on close rivals Elton Lib.

A crucial home match for the 'A' team against close rivals Elton Lib saw Craig Hall get Buchanan's off to a stunning start making mincemeat of his opponent Nick Turrell with a 21 - 7 victory. Craig Brennan kept the 'A' team on track defeating Gareth Evans 21 - 15. Continuing the trend but in a much closer game Andy Howard beat Wayne Yates 21 - 20. Martin Hulme had a slightly more comfortable win against Jake Johnson 21 - 16. With Buchanan's on fire, Martyn Chapman continued the win spree defeating Ian Turrell in a much closer game 21 - 20, Eltons Paul Atherden put out the flames with a 21 - 16 win over Mick Gent. Lee Bleakly continued Eltons revival beating John Knipe 21 - 15. The last game on the card also went to an Elton player with Andy Cairns defeated by Tommy Taylor 21 - 17. Buchanan 'A' are now in third place only 9 points behind top of the table Gaghill's 'A' with a game in hand.

Buchanan 'B' In the danger zone 

the 'B' team away at Sunnybank face one of their closest rivals in the struggle to avoid demotion. After the first four games Sunnybank were firmly in control. Peter Taylor defeated Mark Walmsley 21 - 12. David Ormerod got Buchanans off the mark with a 21 - 14 victory over Will Leach. Things then took a dramatic down hill turn when Toby Heys claimed player of the match award when he destroyed Mike Griffiths 21 - 5 and Scott Heywood hammered John Heywood 21 - 8. Buchanan saw a glimmer of light when Malcolm Holt defeated Carol Dunne 21 - 9 and Michael Holleran beat Terry Crier 21 - 12 putting the match at 3 games each but Sunnybank 10 points ahead on the aggregate. The light was firmly extinguished by Andrew Billington who beat AJ Parker 21 - 14 and Peter Hayes defeating  Martin Aspin 21- 10 giving Sunnybank a 7 -3   victory and putting  the 'B' team in the danger zone.

In one of the highlights of the week the D team took on the C team.

Wednesday night Buchanan D went into battle with the C team. Both teams had manning problems, over the weekend D team captain Billy Smart was aware he was missing four players, one due to a back injury, two on holiday abroad and one due to a work commitment, leaving the team with only seven players.. Fortunately Jonny Quinn managed to get time off to play in this important game. unfortunately at 1755hrs on Wednesday night Billy received a phone call advising him that  John Castley had been in an  accident and was no longer available. John is OK and will return next week. The D team went into the affray a man short. The C team had its own problems with four of its star players unavailable. Two on holiday, Mick Williams injured and their inspiring leader George Etchells  unavailable due to illness. They however were able to field a full team. The first game on the card was a closely fought affair between Gerard Grogan and Steve Kerruish with Gerard the D team player coming out on top 21 - 19.  The next three games all went the D teams way. Jonny Quinn beat Joan Goodwin 21 - 18, both players had lead at some point in the game. In game three Billy Grogan was in the lead from the start. Ian Dean was all ways within touching distance but failed to close the gap with Billy running out 21 - 17. Billy Smarts game against Edwina Patterson was closer than the score line shows with Edwina only managing to score one point in the ends she won, were as Billy got a number of two point ends coming out a 21- 11  victor. At the half way point with the 21 points  conceded by the D team for the missing player the C team lead the aggregate by two points. Game number five had the look of a C team come back as Tony Downes at the tenth end had taken an 11 - 1  lead over Barry Hopper . By end twenty Barry had taken the lead 13 - 12. From there on in he never looked back winning his game 21 - 16 and putting the D team 3 points ahead on the aggregate. In game six  Bernie McArthur got off to a strong start over his opponent Emma Willian and held a firm lead through out the game with a 21 - 12 victory putting the D team 15 points ahead. The final game required top bowler and very experience player Jack Mortimer to keep his novice opponent Julie McArthur down to single figures, by the twelfth end Julie had hit double figures and lead Jack 10 - 8  ensuring the D team won the aggregate, Jack eventually  came off 21 - 12 victor. The final result was D team 138 and 8 points - C team 135 and 2 points. Player of the match goes to all the D team players for a terrific performance against all the odds. The 'D' team now top the their rivals in the Buchanan mini league.

No game for the 'E' team this week.