Pudsey A are closing in on the Bradford & District Sunday School Billiards League title after making a decisive move in the title race.

They emphatically won away to nearest challengers Bradford Deaf Centre B 5-0 to take a commanding seven-point lead at the summit with two games to go.

As if it could not get any better for them, third-placed Deaf Centre A also lost heavily, going down 4-1 to Pudsey B.

Princeville D, who were fourth, beat Princeville C 4 -1, to leave all three challengers level in joint-second, but needing a monumental comeback to try and snatch the title out of the grasp of Pudsey A.

In the penultimate round of fixtures, Pudsey A meet Princeville D, while the two Deaf Centre teams visit Princeville, with their opponents Princeville A and C well out of the running and just fighting, along with Pudsey B, to avoid finishing rock-bottom.

RESULTS:

PRINCEVILLE A 1 PRINCEVILLE B 4

PRINCEVILLE D 4 PRINCEVILLE C 1

BRADFORD DEAF CENTRE A 1 PUDSEY B 4

BRADFORD DEAF CENTRE B 0 PUDSEY A 5

BREAKS:

R Bowes (Pudsey B) 54, 41 & 35; C Jarvis (Princeville D) 52; T Kershaw (Princeville A) 35 unf.

LEAGUE TABLE (all played 12):

PUDSEY A                        37

PRINCEVILLE D                30

BRADFORD D DEAF CENTRE B      30

BRADFORD DEAF CENTRE A      30

PRINCEVILLE B                24

PRINCEVILLE A                22 

PUDSEY B                         21

PRINCEVILLE C                 18