LAND Girls lost for the first time when they went down by 15 pins away to champions All Blacks in the Wellington Ladies Skittles League on Monday.

It means the new leaders are Water Babies who beat Wobbly Pins by six pins with Sheila Parr scoring a crucial 45 for the winners.

Top scorer of the night was Mel Beal who knocked 54 for Pin & Tonics who were 36-pin winners over Geronimo and are still 100 per cent.

Results: Water Babies 311 (Sheila Parr 45), Wobbly Pins 305 (Deb Newstead 43); Pin & Tonics 327 (Mel Beal 54), Geronimo 291 (Claire Rodger 44); All Blacks 352 (Jo Luckhurst 50), Land Girls 337 (Heather Kynaston 49); LOA Spare 304 (Angie Knight, Nat Anderson, June Anderson 42), Mu8ppets 313 (Pam Fleming, Sharon Shearer 43). Highest home score: Mel Beal 54; Highest away score: Heather Kynaston 49).