Last seasons champions St Denys B joined forces with Hamble Social and enjoyed victory in the first game for this seasons edition of the Southampton billiards league, it started well with Mark and Tony Spridgeon putting Hamble 2-0 up and Tony firing in a superb 30 break against Clive Gamblin, Clive later rallied with a 30 of his own but fell short by a huge 200-140 margin, Rob Smith got 1 back for Curdridge and gave some hope in the aggregate race winning by 61 points which left the ex St Denys pair Chris Bishop and Harry Yard to settle the tie, Chris had a comfortable win with breaks of 57 and 43 despite the tables slight quirks ending both breaks prematurely and Brian Bull beat Harry in the last game to narrow Curdridges deficit to 4-2

Chandlers returned to league action against St Denys after a year out but it did not go quite as planned as Mark Emm's side left Chandlers with all 6 points! Danny Zagaroli and John Mullane hit their usual standards with Danny hitting breaks of 64, 46, 48 and 35 and John registering this seasons highest 81 and a 32, despite this Mark Emm and Mike Hogg enjoyed comfortable wins as they took advantage of the HC rules. Malc Willis continued the charge with a staggering 187 point win with Derek King and Adie Bridger putting the icing on the cake.

Sarisbury and Park Gate fought out a closer battle with Gary Wilton making the difference for Park with a 33 break and a 64 point win over his opponent to secure a 4-2 win, John Oldfield and Geoff Knapp both won for Sarisbury but Steve Boterhoek and Adam Humphries both backed up Gary well with victories for the away side.