Sunday 28 September 2014

Greene King Tournament 2014

Saturday 27th September was the 12th running of the Wallingford Comrades Club Annual Greene King All-Day Handicap Snooker Tournament.



21 players were entered split in to 3 groups of 7.  It was a great turn out, especially during late holiday season & great to see so many players both new & old faces, some local & some not so local!

After the Group stages, the top 2 from each Group automatically progressed through to the Knockout Stages, plus the 2 best Third place players from the 3 Groups.  Now this always causes the organiser (Andy Rance) a few headaches with some 'heated discussions' over who should go through!  Thankfully, there were no arguments this year as there were 2 stand-out 3rd places, plus a couple of drop outs which made selection easy.

So the knockout line-up was Rob House v Pete Billingham, Gavin Twigg v Phil Hall, Dave Greathead v Pete Beaumont & Dave Rowe v Kev Higgs. Pete, Phil, Dave & Dave all went through (some fairly straightforward 2-0, some got their money's worth of the free light, 2-1).

Gavin Twigg bowed out but took the Best Non-League player award plus cash prize!

The Semi Final line-up was the 'Battle of the Daves', Dave Rowe v Dave Greathead & the 'Battle of the A Team Captains', Phil Hall (ex) v Pete Billingham (current).

Dave Greathead & Pete Billingham both bowed out, but took Semi Finalists cash prize, with Dave adding the Group Stage High Break Prize with a very respectable 45.







So Dave Rowe & Phil Hall both went through to the Final & Dave potted some superb colours to win the 1st frame.  Phil dug in & battled back in the second to level it at 1-1 & the pair, both looking a little jaded after a marathon 14 hours of play, kicked off the 3rd & deciding frame AT MIDNIGHT!  With both players showing signs of understandable fatigue, it was a close run frame with Dave sealing his maiden Greene King Title on the pink.  Just to boost his Winners cash prize, he also picked up the Knockout Stage High Break Prize with a nice 31.  Congratulations Bud!





Thanks to:
Andy Rance for organising & running the whole event, Good job mate!
John Beardsley for his immaculate table preparation, bless him, he even came back in to prep the tables for the latter stages!
Russ Hawkswell for the lovely green (how appropriate!) Greene King Shields.
Big thanks to our sponsors, Greene King for subsidising the event, making the prize money even more lucrative!
Oz, Lucy & Eric for all their hard work keeping us watered & fed throughout the day & especially for their patience & understanding to allow us to finish at... silly o'clock!
Without all these, the event wouldn't happen, so thank you all!

Club Rep, Pete.

Thursday 25 September 2014

Comrades Club Team Stats 24/09/14 (Match 3)

A TEAM

Pl

W

L

Pts for

Av

Pts ag

Av

%

Breaks over 25

Pete Billingham

3

2

1

163

54

102

34

67

 

Tom Williams

3

2

1

138

46

117

39

67

 

Nigel Prior

2

1

1

99

50

73

37

50

 

Dave Greathead

3

1

2

132

44

168

56

33

 

Kev Higgs

3

1

2

120

40

150

50

33

 

Nigel Woods

1

1

0

53

53

22

22

###

 

Jon Hawkins

0

0

0

0

##

0

##

###

 

Aaron Tame

0

0

0

0

##

0

##

###

 

A Team travel to Marlborough B & get to play on a newly re-clothed table! Captain starts with a 63-10 win v Craig Harper & Tom follows suit (including a nice 24 break) winning 63-17 v Steve Wetherall. Nigel Woods battles v Lee Dixon (ex-Fairmile) to a 53-22 win & Cuz finally gives the new Parris cue a D&DS&BL win, 43-23 v Tony Fisher. Anchorman suffers another week of bad run & loses 41-69 v Laurence Harvey. It's another 4 points though lads!

B TEAM

Pl

W

L

Pts for

Av

Pts ag

Av

%

Breaks over 20

David Rowe

3

3

0

240

80

55

18

100

 

Rob House

2

2

0

100

50

18

9

100

 

Andy Rance

2

1

1

80

40

93

47

50

 

Simon Ellam

3

1

2

115

38

141

47

33

 

Dave Glaves

3

0

3

100

33

146

49

0

 

Olly Walker

1

1

0

55

55

48

48

###

 

Craig Mace

0

0

0

0

##

0

##

###

 

Brian Orton

0

0

0

0

##

0

##

###

 

B Team host Abingdon RBL & get a cracking 4-1 win. Simon finally opens his account & beats Aaron Downey, 54-32! Dave Glaves comes off second best to Duncan Price, 32-56. Olly Walker debuts for the B Team & gets a win v Nigel Archer, 55-48. Dave Rowe hammers Keith Bennett, 90-29 & Rob follows suit v Doug Young, 59-17... just in time to remind their Captain & Greene King Competition organiser what handicaps they should be at the weekend!

C TEAM

Pl

W

L

Pts for

Av

Pts ag

Av

%

Breaks over 17

Hugh Baker

2

1

1

92

46

99

50

50

 

Kev Pickworth

2

0

2

65

33

119

60

0

 

Alan Wells

2

0

2

52

26

119

60

0

 

Adam Beasley

2

0

2

28

14

50

25

0

 

Colin Dalton

1

0

1

31

31

47

47

###

 

Eric Cawthorne

1

0

1

10

10

56

56

###

 

Pete Beaumont

0

0

0

0

##

0

##

###

 

Joey Edwards

0

0

0

0

##

0

##

###

 

Ben Titford

0

0

0

0

##

0

##

###

 

Luke Wells

0

0

0

0

##

0

##

###

 

Despite having the biggest squad in the Comrades, C Team make the trip to Challow with just 4! Captain Kev starts with a 36-71 loss v Chris Rose. Adam Beasley makes his debut v Mike Bishop & shows promise but loses 28-50. Hugh Baker gets a narrow 59-57 win to claim a solitary point (practice on table 2 worked then!). Alan Wells loses 37-53... & inherits Captaincy for next week as KP goes on his hols! Bring us back some Candy Floss from Blackpool mate!