SUSSEX OPEN RESULT

[JB]

Congratulations to Keith Sheard on winning this years Sussex open. Runner Up was Steven Sheard.
The plate was won by Gareth LLoyd and the runner up Paul Sainsbury.


Sure someone will go into more detail later.

Thanks Jean, and thanks Boball for the earlier bulletin.

Jun 10, 2012 19:19:56 GMT bobhall said:

well henry kept up that form and went on two get to the sussex semi final before falling to steven sheard who was beaten by his dad

Well done Henry who has now earned recognition on the National stage. 8-)

How wonderful to have a father and son Final after a couple of years ago an all-brothers (Sainsbury) final at the Kent.

Congratulations to Milko on winning back-to-back Opens (Surrey and now Sussex). Who can say he won't now make it a hat-trick at Kent, more or less the only one he needs for the full set? ;)

[bobhall]

winner keith runner up steven

semi h v steven and keith v barry radford

1/4 steven v roger taylor and H v dave france and barry V dave reeves and finally keith v jean.

it was a great day today excellent food pete sainsbury managing to get the highest break of 17120 in his first game before falling to bobhall in his second.

[Colemanator]

Well done Keith  ;D

[JB]

Full Results

Ladies High Break - Jean Brackenridge 7160
Highest Break - Pete Sainsbury 17120
Plate R/Up - Paul Sainsbury
Plate Winner - Gareth LLoyd
Losing Qtr Finalists - Dave Reeves, Roger Taylor, Dave France, Jean Brackenridge
Losing Semi Finalist - Henry Brooks, Barry Radford
Runner Up - Steven Sheard
Winner - Keith Sheard

[barbelman]

Jun 10, 2012 21:57:51 GMT JB said:

Congratulations to Keith Sheard on winning this years Sussex open. Runner Up was Steven Sheard.
The plate was won by Gareth LLoyd and the runner up Paul Sainsbury.


Sure someone will go into more detail later.

Blimey Keith - are you drinking special milk these days?!  Absolutely brilliant mate and you kept the young whippersnapper in his place ;D

Very well done on (yet another) Open win.

cheers
Tony

Well done Keith.

[bigtj]

Well done Keith, an excellent well run day, thanks to Alan and Jaen and those who helped to make it such a good day.

Well done to H on his first Open semi final, sure not long before going one better.

[BB Warrior]

Congratulations to Keith on his victory.... 8-) ....commiserations to Steven who proved that "third time lucky" isn't always true. :'(

All of the results are now available on the Sussex Website....

www.sussexbarbilliards.com/Sussex/Sussex%20Open/Sussex%20Open%202012.htm

Many thanks to Jean for sending me the scores so quickly.... and for all of her (and others) hard work over the weekend. ;D

[peetee]

Congratulations champ on your Sussex win
Well done
Cheers
Pete

[milko]

Thanks for all the above messages of congratulations.

With all the good players about these days it feels great to win back to back Opens and will be trying my hardest to make it three by winning my first Kent Open next month.

This was a very proud and emotional moment for me to play my son Steven in the final of an Open Singles tournament and very pleased to win it for the fourth time, although there was a feeling of sadness for him afterwards (only lasted a short while ;)) because this is the third consecutive Sussex Open final that Steven has finished as Runner-Up. That is still a great achievement for him because this is one of the biggest and hardest to win.

May I thank Jean, Alan & Co on another well organised event and Jean also kept the schedule close to time by making sure all the matches had markers later on by going round with the microphone asking people to mark. (Though she failed to spot me once because I was hiding behind my cue ;D)


Keith

[JB]

I wonderd what it was you were hiding behind!  :o Although not as bad as the 2 people i found hiding behind the wall outside the Ladies. They didnt get away with it though lol

Seriously though well played although i think your quarter final was a tough match lol. It must have been hard to play against Steven in the final.

I hope everyone had a safe journey home in the torrential rain. I know it was torrential as i have never seen myself, alan, dave alder and Kev Hall looking like we'd just been swimming after we had loaded the van.

I must say a big thankyou to Alan. Hes not on Sussex Committee but always helps out. He was there 2.30 on Friday to help set up tables, early Saturday checking tables and helping me run 2 competitions and all day Sunday having me shouting orders what to do on the computer, as unusually i was playing a lot of the time.
And then when Dave arrived on his own, dismantling all the tables and getting them loaded on to the van. Id also like to thank Kev Hall for his help on Friday and with his help at the end of Sunday with the tables.


I also have some pictures but need to work out how to put them on here. Might have to wait until back from holiday as am really busy this week. Unless of course someone can do them for me  :-*

Jun 11, 2012 23:23:18 GMT JB said:

I also have some pictures but need to work out how to put them on here. Might have to wait until back from holiday as am really busy this week. Unless of course someone can do them for me  :-*

Hi Jean,
I can put them up for you on the appropriate threads if you want to email them to me as jpgs.
Will PM you with my email address.

Regards,
Clive

2012 Sussex Open Champ KEITH SHEARD adds Sussex to his recent Surrey Open win. (photo courtesy of Jean)

..........and what was given out on the day. (photo courtesy of Jean)

Sussex Open Plate Winner GARETH LLOYD poses with previous day's Under30s Semifinalist Kevin Hall.

[enzo]

Well done Keith and commiserations for Steven, maybe next time?

Thanks to Jean, Alan and everyone else working hard over the weekend, we hope the U30s will continue on for many many years (9 more entries left for me woohoo :D) and is nice to see even younger people than myself such as Daniel and Joe who are not afraid to give it a go! Running it along side the Masters was a great idea and shows it will be a great day later this year with the Grand Prix/National U25s.

[fasttrackphil]

well done keith. you must of took my words on board as i was leaving saying to keep the oxford onslaught going for this year. go and win kent aswell (lol)

[milko]

One more for Steven! 8-)

[colinm]

Well done Keith, yet another win!

A great day, very well organised and good tables a great day out (just a shame I didn't play better).

Colin

[milko]

Jun 13, 2012 22:58:06 GMT fasttrackphil said:

well done keith. you must of took my words on board as i was leaving saying to keep the oxford onslaught going for this year. go and win kent aswell (lol)

Cheers Phil

You're right, Oxfordshire players do seem to be dominating at the moment, as out of the SIX tournaments played so far this year they have had FIVE Winners and EIGHT out of TWELVE finalists. The Guernsey Open being the only one where an Oxon player didn’t win or make the final BUT FOUR of those players that have been finalist's didn't take part in that event! ::)

The run down......
Oxon 8
Guernsey 2
Sussex 2

[Sir Chancelot]

You're right, Oxfordshire players do seem to be dominating at the moment, as out of the SIX tournaments played so far this year they have had FIVE Winners and EIGHT out of TWELVE finalists. The Guernsey Open being the only one where an Oxon player didn’t win or make the final BUT FOUR of those players that have been finalist's didn't take part in that event! ::)

Guys - if you are not in it you can't win  it ;)  simplezzz ;D  

[chellster]

Well said norm xxxxx

[milko]

Blimey! I didn't think there was anything wrong with my last post but it seems I've upset two Nations! :o ??? :P