Marlboro did manage to post the evening's third high team game and series of 942 and 2,701 but lost the last two games by close margins. The `old guys' Jim Godwin and Leon Smith were tops for Marlboro.

Spoilers took an identical 16-14 win from Terminators despite rolling short-handed. Dudley Browne did most of the damage with the top game of 256 and 610 series for the winners while Kevin Swan was high for the losers.

Gosling's kept pace with the leaders, taking a 26-4 win from Signature Card.

Although they placed no one on the honours list, a consistent team effort with Hilton Hayward led the way. For the losers, it was Clyde (Tango) Burgess with the high score.

The bulk of the honours went in the match between Tools and Equipment and Stevedoring Services with T&E winning 24-6. As luck would have it, Stevedoring rolled their top game of 955 and high series of 2,815 of the season, both good for second high honours for the evening.

T&E managed to post a 1,002 game and 2,933 series to take top team honours.

Individually, Ed Stovell had a 234 game and top series of 662 while Steven Riley led the winners with the third high game of 243 and second high series of 651 with Dean Lightbourne third with a 642.

The final match saw Thompson's rally in the last game to draw 15-15 with Team Spirit. Vernon Daniels' second high game was tops for Spirit while Leroy Ming managed to lead Thompson's.

Tonight's matches: Spoilers v Team Spirit; Signature Card v Marlboro; T&E v Terminators; Mix Ups v Thompson's; Gosling's v Stevedoring.

Tonight is also the turkey shoot presentation at 9.30.

HARNESS RACING RAH Some $4,000 in prize money will be at stake when the Driving Horse and Pony Club stages its Boxing Day Stakes Races on Sunday at Vesey Street starting at 11.30 a.m.

The programme will include 18 regular races and three stakes races, for two, three and four-year-olds. The two-year-olds are Dark and Stormy, Flame On, Abbe and High Time Lindy while the three-year-olds are Diamondway and Abby Dabby Doo. The four-year-olds include Shamrock Tuxedo, Eddie the Great, Catch A Fire, Pleasant Surprise, Ponder Babe, Guston's Crackerjack and Direct Toy Boy.

The sponsors for the race day are Ray Brothers, John Barritt and Sons, Bank of Bermuda, Animal and Garden House, Rising Sun, Terceira's Gas Station and the Driving Horse and Pony Club of Bermuda.

SOCCER SOC The Mini-Minor, Minor and Bantam division games between Devonshire Colts and Somerset postponed from last weekend have been rescheduled for December 28 at Somerset Cricket Club. Starting times are as usual.