The Sicar­ios Bil­liards Club is cre­at­ing quite a stir on the Na­tion­al Pool League cir­cuit. 

Their First Di­vi­sion team has won three in a row, and the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion team is in the midst of a four-match win­ning streak.

On Tues­day, the Di­vi­sion 1 team played host to Lucky Sports at Bil­liards Place in Aranguez and came away with an im­pres­sive 4-1 win.

Dy­lon King got the hosts off to a win­ning start against Kar­daish Gob­indass, and de­spite los­ing the first frame, got the bet­ter of his op­po­nent four frames to two.

Mikkel Govia stretched the Sicar­ios lead, dis­pos­ing of Vashish Dalips­ingh 4-1, in­clu­sive of a break and run in the third rack and a nine-ball com­bi­na­tion (tack­le) in the fourth. 

Dalips­ingh’s lone win came in the sec­ond frame. The dou­bles match was next and fea­tured Sicar­ios vice-cap­tain An­dre Creece and Sachin Ram­nar­ine against Lucky Sports cap­tain Dim­itri Nanan and Dami­an Solomon.

The vis­it­ing pair won the first two racks, but the hosts hit back to lead three to two and looked set to reg­is­ter a come-from-be­hind win, but some bad miss­es late in frames six and sev­en of­fered up some chances for Nanan and Solomon, which they glad­ly ac­cept­ed, 4-3, the score line in favour of the Lucky Sports duo. 

With the match score Sicar­ios 2, Lucky Sports 1, a win for the hosts would seal the match, and Al­lan Lawrence, who was un­de­feat­ed go­ing in­to the round 6 match, was once again clin­i­cal, beat­ing Ron­nie Moral­li, 4-1. Sicar­ios cap­tain John East­man would fin­ish off pro­ceed­ings against a very com­pet­i­tive Fran­co Her­nan­dez.

East­man lost the first frame but bounced back to win three straight racks. Her­nan­dez was not pre­pared to give up and fought back to tie things up at 3-3. Un­for­tu­nate­ly for him, East­man fin­ished stronger, for­mal­is­ing the 4-1 re­sult.

The win pro­pels the Sicar­ios Bil­liards Club Di­vi­sion 1 team up the ta­ble from fifth to fourth place.

Mean­while, at the same venue, the Sicar­ios Pre­mier Di­vi­sion team was play­ing at home against The An­ni­hi­la­tors. Both teams made the jump from the first di­vi­sion in­to the pre­mier­ship af­ter sev­er­al play­ers on their re­spec­tive squads were pro­mot­ed in rank from B class to A on Wednes­day. 

The Sicar­ios seem to be hav­ing an eas­i­er time ad­just­ing to life in the high­er di­vi­sion, while The An­ni­hi­la­tors con­tin­ue to strug­gle.

The Sicar­ios Pre­mier Di­vi­sion team is cap­tained by Adri­an Lo­gie, who, in­ci­den­tal­ly, is one of two play­ers in their line-up who are ranked as B-Class play­ers.

The Round 6 match-up showed the gulf in class as the hosts con­demned the vis­i­tors to a sixth straight loss.

Fred Gra­ham opened for the Sicar­ios and jumped out to a three-nil lead against Rishi Sam­path, but what should have been an ear­ly night turned in­to a marathon bat­tle of at­tri­tion last­ing just shy of two hours. Sam­path re­fused to go away qui­et­ly, win­ning four frames on the trot to turn the ta­bles and lead 4-3. Gra­ham, a 65-year-old vet­er­an of the game, called on all his years of ex­pe­ri­ence to not suc­cumb to what would have been an em­bar­rass­ing loss and found back some form, along with some luck, to close out the game 5-4. Adri­an Mo­ra was next for the hosts, drawn to play Ka­mal Ho­sein. The two shared the first four frames, with Mo­ra win­ning the first two and Ho­sein the next two. Mo­ra, who is al­so the man­ag­er of the

Sicar­ios Bil­liards Club opened up a two-rack lead with the sixth frame end­ing with a six-nine com­bi­na­tion. Ho­sein pulled a frame back to trail 3-4 and made a fa­tal er­ror in the eighth frame, lin­ing up the two ball with the nine ball, which Mo­ra ac­cept­ed the gift with the eas­i­est of com­bi­na­tions. Sicar­ios vice-cap­tain Al­bi Knights and for­mer cap­tain Kevin Browne were drawn to play in the dou­bles against Bar­ry Ash­meed Syne and Gu­niss Seecha­ran. The vis­i­tors strug­gled to come to terms with the ta­ble, con­stant­ly snook­er­ing each oth­er. The hosts cap­i­talised on those er­rors to win 5-2. Muham­mad Rah­man, the oth­er B-ranked play­er on the home team, came up against Shas­tri Ba­boolal, who was sub­bing for Le­ston Shade. Rah­man, aka Doc, took con­trol ear­ly and ran out to a 3-nil lead. Ba­boolal, how­ev­er, showed glimpses of bril­liance win­ning the next two racks. Rah­man re­stored some or­der with wins in frames six and sev­en to take the game 5-2. Lo­gie would give the Sicar­ios team their first 5-nil sweep of the NPL 9 Ball league with a 5-3 win against Ron­nie Ram­saran. Ram­saran won the open­ing game, but Lo­gie would show his class by win­ning the next four racks. Ram­saran showed some class of his own, win­ning frames six and sev­en, but the task proved too much, and the Sicar­ios skip­per com­plet­ed a 5-3 vic­to­ry. That win pushed the Sicar­ios Bil­liards Club to the top of the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion stand­ings with four wins and one loss. In fact, the top four teams in the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion all have four wins and one loss.

In oth­er Pre­mier Di­vi­sion Match­es

Unit­ed Stars (2 nd) are sec­ond af­ter de­feat­ing ‘D’ Un­der­dawgs (5 th) 3-2

Gold­en Arch­es (3 rd) were on a bye

Ri­valz (4 th) beat Cen­ral Stars (7 th) 3-2

Cuetrollerz (6 th) beat Shoot­ing Stars (8 th) 3-2

The An­ni­hi­la­tors round off the nine team di­vi­sion

In First Di­vi­sion Match­es

Pock­et Preda­tors (1 st) con­tin­ue to lead the stand­ings af­ter beat­ing Crazy 8’s (7 th) 4-1

Rox­bury Shot Callers re­main in 2nd spot with a 4-1 win over Ken­ny’s (14 th)

Ago­ra Stingers are 3rd with a 4-1 over Shoot­ing Stars (13 th)

Unit­ed Stars (5 th) topped Scotchie’s Nu­bian Kings (10 th) 3-2

Dekko All Stars oc­cu­py 6th spot af­ter beat­ing JJ Shoot­ers (11 th) 3-2

And Pan­thers (8 th) de­feat­ed Top Shooterz Krew (12 th) 5-nil