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ROSMALEN - The runner up missed his two main players, Frédéric Caudron and Eddy Leppens, who showed up in the German league and met each other there (Caudron-Leppens 40-15 in 11 innings), but the Dallinga-Frans Bevers team showed its power with a 7-1 victory in the away match against Post Luchtkanalen. Jean Paul de Bruijn was the best man in the fifteenth league round: the 'Zeeuw' flaunted with a 50-19 win against Huub Wilkowski in only 19 innings.
TOVV.nl/MCR, Snellen Recycling and Martens Cleaning, the other teams in the top four ranking, all took the full profites in the the last round before the winter stop.
TOVV is the leader with 29 points before Dallinga with 27, Snellen with 20 and Martens with 18. The first pursuers are A1 Biljarts with 15 points and Landswelvaren and Dekker Keukens with 13.
Jean Paul de Bruijn, Glenn Hofman, Jean van Erp, Barry van Beers, Eddy Merckx and Raymond Ceulemans were the most prominent performers in this session. Ceulemans showed a great regularity of scoring in his match against Kees Wittens: with runs of 9, 8, 7, 7 and 6, the emperor took the match 50-22 in 29 innings.
Jean Paul de Bruijn had a formidable start against Wilkowski with 33 in 10 innings and a 14 run in between. Glenn Hofman stepped on to the finish in another delightful match, 50-19 in 21 innings.
Jean van Erp (Martens Cleaning) found his way to victory including runs of 13 and 9 against Ronny Daniels (50-23). Barry van Beers (Snellen Recycling) defeated one of his most feared opponents in the important match against Dekker: the Belgian giant Jef Philipoom. The 'Brabant guy' pulled the trigger with a 50-26 in 26 innings.
Snellen Recycling won the match thanks to Peter Ceulemans (victory over Jacob Haack Sorensen 50-44 in 37), Barry van Beers and Harrie van de Ven, who defeated Rene Derks 50-34 in 50.
TOVV continued his winning race with a 7-1 against A1 Biljarts. The most prestigious match, between Frans van Kuyk and Raimond Burgman, two Dutch top players, was won by Van Kuyk 50-39 in 32. Dave Christiani took a one-point-win against Martien van der Spoel: 50-49.
Van Wanrooy Transport bested the team of FDV Jacoby 6-2 with a great victory of Ad Broeders in 28 innings.
Mineral and Holland Van den Broek shared the points. Frans van Schaik and Dick Uum took in the matchpoints for the Amsterdam team in the away match. Anno de Kleine topped his opponent Inwon Kang with a marvellous run of 19, when the Korean led 32-24 in 28 innings. De Kleine needed 7 more innings to come to the finish.