The Inter Area One-Day event 2017

[barbelman]

A reminder that this will be held at Didcot Conservative Club on Sunday 12th February 2017.  All eight associations have confirmed their seven-aside teams and they have been drawn thus;

Group A
Wallingford
Witney
Northampton
High Wycombe

Group B
Eynsham
Portsmouth
Oxford
Reading

The analogous Ladies competition is struggling for entries at five asides so it has been decided to make it THREE a side.  
Please let me know the number of teams your association will enter as soon as possible please.

The Ray Sturgess Cup qualification age has been raised to thirty and I am inviting entries - it will NOT be possible to play in both the Ray Sturgess and the main competitions this year I am afraid.

[barbelman]

OK - this is the last call for the Inter Area Ray Sturgess Under 30s and Ladies One Day Singles Championship.
One more lady and a couple more U30s would be good but it's all workable now. 

I have at the moment;

Under 30s
Kyle Ingram
Stephen Coleman
Lewis Stratford

Ladies
Mary Leeming
Sophie Shambrook
Pauline Withey
Sonya McIntyre
Mel Stanbridge
Jenny Parsons
Myra Hawkins
Carla Jolly
Janet Burns

[barbelman]

Sunday saw the 2017 Inter-area one day event take place at Didcot Conservative club when about 80 of us gathered for this annual occasion. It was not possible to run a ladies team competition this year due to various factors, but we decided to do a ladies individual Championship on the day and this proved very successful.

In the seven-a-sides the usual two groups were drawn and after some very competitive billiards the final tables looks like this;
Group A; Wallingford 15 points, Northants 12 points, High Wycombe 9 points and Witney 6 points.
Group B; Portsmouth 14 points, Reading 11 points, Eynsham 11 points and Oxford 6 points
In the Final Wallingford prevailed by four games to Pompey’s two to retain the title and the seventh game was unnecessary.
Dennis Atkins (4/4) Tony Martin (4/4), Lorin Clough (3/3), Simon Coleman (3/3), Ian Moss (3/3), Dennis Claydon (3/3), Terry Vallis (3/3) and Mike Jones (3/3) were all undefeated on the day. Stephen Coleman took the highest break award with 10,450.

In the Ladies Individuals competition we ended with eight players, including two from Northampton - the first for a very long time.
Group A, consisting of Mary Leeming, Jenny Parsons, Myra Hawkins and Janet Burns was very close with Myra just squeaking into the final by a small 40 to Mary, both of them having won two games.
In the opening game in Group B Carla Jolley of Reading beat Pauline Withey by 20 and this set the scene of the afternoon, with Carla remaining undefeated to go through to the Final. Pauline was second, Mel Standbridge third and Sophie Shambrook of Northants fourth.
In the Final, Carla Jolley had the break in the first game and beat Myra Hawkins by 5040 to 790. In the second they were neck and neck for a long time until Myra saw it was unwinnable at 2610-2240 to Carla, and conceded gracefully. Well done to Carla, her first title in the ladies game.
She also took the ladies high break award with 5470.

Only 3 entries in the Ray Sturgess U30 championship but all high quality players in Lewis Stratford of Oxford, Kyle Ingram of Wycombe and Stephen Coleman of Northants. They played a round-robin and the table looked like this;

Final Table	P	W	L	Aggregate
Stephen Coleman	4	4	0	43980
Kyle Ingram	4	2	2	24950
Lewis Stratford	4	0	4	5400

So Stephen Coleman is the 2017 champion and also took the high break award with 11,070

An excellent day and many thanks to Jenny Parsons, Dave Tooke, Dave Barnes and Terry Alder for helping, to Dave Barnes for selling so many raffle tickets, to the Didcot Con Club staff and catering people and of course to Mark Trafford, the Oxon BBA, Dave Alder and the AEBBA for supplying the tables. Many thanks to everyone else who helped during the day and to all who contributed to the raffle and bought tickets, on which we depend so much for our funding throughout the year.

[barbelman]

Here are the averages from the Inter Area Sevens;

	Name	League	P	W	L	Agg	Average
1	Dennis Atkins	Wallingford	4	4	0	25600	6400
2	Dennis Claydon	Portsmouth	4	4	0	24190	6048
3	Tony Martin	Wallingford	4	4	0	18860	4715
4	Simon Coleman	Northants	3	3	0	32890	10963
5	Lorin Clough	Northants	3	3	0	31290	10430
6	Mike Jones	Eynsham	3	3	0	23770	7923
7	Tony Woolvin	Portsmouth	4	3	1	25360	6340
8	Terry Vallis	Reading	3	3	0	17030	5677
9	Chris Newson	Portsmouth	4	3	1	16470	4118
10	Ian Moss	Eynsham	3	3	0	10290	3430
11	Paul Lawson	Wallingford	4	3	1	11840	2960
12	Damien Coates	Northants	3	2	1	30750	10250
13	Andy Godden	Wycombe	3	2	1	27160	9053
14	Ray Hussey	Wycombe	3	2	1	21210	7070
15	Tony Willis	Witney	3	2	1	19030	6343
16	Jon Bamsey	Witney	3	2	1	17610	5870
17	Stephen Coleman	Northants	3	2	1	17570	5857
18	Lee Radford	Portsmouth	4	2	2	22520	5630
19	Doug Carswell	Wycombe	3	2	1	15420	5140
20	Richard Garratt	Oxford	3	2	1	15090	5030
21	Ian Moquet	Wallingford	3	2	1	15080	5027
22	Andy Burns	Reading	3	2	1	15040	5013
23	Sid Ponting	Eynsham	3	2	1	15010	5003
24	Phil Hawkins	Reading	3	2	1	12440	4147
25	Pete Burton	Wallingford	4	2	2	16030	4008
26	Leon Beer	Wallingford	4	2	2	15520	3880
27	Dave Tooke	Wallingford	4	2	2	15100	3775
28	Tony Webster	Portsmouth	4	2	2	14780	3695
29	Alan Lowe	Oxford	3	2	1	10650	3550
30	Colin Winstone	Eynsham	3	2	1	9250	3083
31	Alan Donovan	Wycombe	3	1	2	22210	7403
32	Ernie Jordan	Wycombe	3	1	2	15140	5047
33	Barry Radford	Portsmouth	4	1	3	19060	4765
34	Roger Bowen	Witney	3	1	2	13270	4423
35	Terry Alder	Reading	3	1	2	12850	4283
36	Dave Alder	Reading	3	1	2	12570	4190
37	Jason Neale	Northants	3	1	2	12470	4157
38	Allan Lacey	Oxford	3	1	2	12370	4123
39	Graham Alder	Reading	3	1	2	11340	3780
40	John Patey	Oxford	3	1	2	10510	3503
41	Terry Isard	Wycombe	3	1	2	10150	3383
42	Keith Lewendon	Reading	3	1	2	10150	3383
43	Dan Woolvin	Portsmouth	3	1	2	10080	3360
44	Stewart Greenaway	Northants	3	1	2	8170	2723
45	Pete Soanes	Eynsham	3	1	2	7830	2610
46	Thomas Ellis-Rees	Witney	3	1	2	5440	1813
47	Norman Morton	Wycombe	3	0	3	18150	6050
48	Phil Griffin	Eynsham	3	0	3	11130	3710
49	Steve Walker	Witney	3	0	3	9450	3150
50	Martin Friend	Witney	3	0	3	9010	3003
51	Jim Thomson	Northants	3	0	3	8230	2743
52	Sean Stratford	Oxford	3	0	3	8190	2730
53	Bill Keenan	Witney	3	0	3	7200	2400
54	Lewis Stratford	Oxford	3	0	3	7130	2377
55	Bob Pincombe	Oxford	3	0	3	6610	2203
56	Geoff Powell	Eynsham	3	0	3	3740	1247