Wings flying with three out of four

IN the Southport and Formby Quiz League Handicap Cup semi-finals, conceding 19, Wings overhauled Ainsdale Sands in the seventh round and went on to win 60-52 led by heavy scoring from Tom Farley 23, Dag Griffiths 19 and Maurice Wright 10 with Keith Wilkinson 12 and Jack Gardner 11 leading for Sands.

In the other semi-final, Casablanca, conceding 9, were never able to quite catch Southport FC and went down 46-43 despite all of their players being in double figures, Chris Sumner 14, Dave Dutton and Arthur Jones, both 11, and Bill Thomas 10 and Geoff Wilde 14 and John Hill 10 leading for the football club.

And in the Handicap final, receiving 17, Southport FC led Wings until the last two questions but Wings produced their usual strong finish to snatch the win 56-54.

All of the Wings players were in double figures led by Bob Parry 17 with good support from Dag Griffiths 15 and Tom Farley and Mau- rice Wright, both 12, and Geoff Wilde 14 and John Hill 10 leading the reply.

Wings thus completed a fine season in winning three of the four competitions and coming second in the Handicap League and with Dag Griffiths winning the Mimir Merseyside individual competition.

After a very tense and protracted Pairs competition, Tom Farley (Wings) and Pat Duffey (Quads) just squeezed home against Dave Dutton (Casablanca) and Dan Evans (MPs). Tom and Pat had also won together in 2007.