THE top two teams clashed in round 13 and it was ladder leader Mallee Bearings narrowly taking the points 6-5 over Cooke's Pools and Spas, who have now slipped to third on the ladder.

It was Cooke's Pools and Spas first loss in five rounds.

Mallee Bearings won both the doubles matches which proved to be the difference, and in particular the second, when Joel Thomas and Daniel Jansen outlasted Ka...