JOLLY Blues beat Land Girls by 24 pins to open up a six-point lead over their title rivals in the Wellington Ladies Skittles League on Monday.

Land Girls have now been joined in second place by Split Pins who pulled off a 31-pin victory over Geronomo.

Results: Water Babies 328 (Mandy Hutchings 46), All Blacks 305 (Cynth Phillips 41); Wanderers 349 (Caroline Davy 51), Pin & Tonics 343 (Mel Beal 49); Split Pins 311 (Bev Jones 47), Geronimo 280 (Trish Lettley, Sonia Avery 44); Jolly Blues 376 (Ali Campbell 53), Land Girls 352 (Anna Price 56); Wobbly Pins 313 (DebbieNewstead 47), Muppets 301 (Tina Chilcott 49).