Horsham Finals Night - Tuesday 24th May

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Horsham Finals Night will take place on Tuesday 24th May at Roffey Sports and Social Club.

Can players in the 7.45pm matches please arrive by 7.30pm so that we can get off to a prompt start and try not to keep everybody out too late.

There will be a small entry fee on the door but food will be provided and we have some cracking looking finals this year in which a winner is difficult to call. Please come along and support your league and looking forward to see you all there.

Thanks

Stuart

START TIME	TABLE 1	TABLE 2	TABLE 3	TABLE 4
19:45	LOWER DIVISION SINGLES (Stuart Carruthers v Rob Jones)	TEAM CUP	TEAM PLATE	LADIES SINGLES (Lorraine Hall v Ros Appleby)
20:45	DOUBLES (Dave Lennon & Steve Eely v Dave Howlett & Keith Newman)	(Stout House BB v Roffey CC)	(The Bull v The Plough)	MASTERS (Gareth Lloyd v Jim Greensted)
21:45	SINGLES (Adam Kuzimski v Dick Dewdney)	SENIOR SINGLES (Derek Taylor v Jim Greensted)	MIXED DOUBLES (Ding & Mick Johnson v Ros Appleby & Paul Jobbins)
Notes				Times for games on this table may be adjusted depending on Team Cup and Plate draw

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Masters and Ladies Singles players now added.

Please note that the order of games on table 4 has been changed.

Some early photos, in anticipation of the results report and further comment by others.........

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Must start this report with a massive list of thanks to all the people who made the evening possible and enjoyable:

• Graham Sparksman for spending many, many hours setting up four tables. His hard work is reflected in some good scores across all the tables.
• Ian Giffen for his helping in running the evening and with all the hard work done of many weeks to organise all of the trophies and give-aways.
• Ricky and Dick Dewdney for producing the programmes.
• Steve King for running the door and looking after the money.
• Ros Appleby for arriving early to help with the trophies.
• The Stout House, The Plough, Roffey CC Team and Steve Hopkins for sponsoring the tables.
• Mrs Miller for providing the food and to John Miller for financing.
• Jean Brackenridge for turning up to provide the Sussex trophies and staying to make all of the presentations.
• Clive Thompson for being the MC during the presentations.
• Margo Thompson and Ding Johnson for selling the raffle tickets (and taking over £100) and to Rob Jones for being the caller.
• To everyone who provided the raffle prizes.
• To the Roffey Club and staff for the venue and the serving of may drinks.
• To all the players for were involved in the Final for being ready on time to play their matches.
• To all who came along to support their teammates, fellow players and league.

Massive apologies to anyone I have missed.


REPORT:

MEN’S SINGLES:

Australia’s Number One came out on top in the battle of the Stout House BB players taking the first against the break before putting together two good breaks in the second game of 5.5k and 6k to take the trophy Down Under.

LADIES’ SINGLES:

A very close match with all still to play for until the last minute. In a repeat from Sunday Ros won the first but Lorraine fought back in style to take the second. This time there was a third game rather than aggregate score and Lorraine got the balls back at the right time to get the win.

DOUBLES:

Didn’t get to see much of this match but have been reliably told by Twiggy that Noggsy won the Doubles. Dave & Steve couldn’t get going in their attempt to do the Horsham-Billingshurst double while Keith put together some good breaks.

SENIOR SINGLES:

Spurred on by his defeat to Gareth, Jim took no mercy on Derek. Watched on by a small blue fox, Foxy run the table out in the first and then played out the rest of the time in the second after Derek had made a good opening break of 5.8k.

LOWER DIVISION SINGLES:

A very scrappy first game with neither player settling on the table and regularly missing the break. With numerous chances Stuart built a 2k lead; Sammy got the break back with time to chase but broke down a few hundred short. The second was more straightforward with Stuart starting with 3k and getting the break back to add a further 8.5k break to the bar.

MIXED DOUBLES:

Again didn’t see much of this so can’t give many details but Paul and Ros ran out 2-0 winners.

MASTERS:

Jim put a one-up behind early in the first leg allowing Gareth to build a decent lead at the half-way stage with a 10k break. On his break game Gareth quickly settled into a rhythm, was motoring along and making it look very easy on the new speed cloth; he did however need to pot the last ball into the 100 for the 20k but to his great relief it dropped straight down.

TEAM CUP:

Order was changed slightly to allow Ros to play first and free her for the Ladies’ Singles, and she played superbly to get the better of Dick Dewdney. Adam Kuzimski got the BB’s back level and Ricky Dewdney got a good 8k break to move them ahead. Super sub Vernon Sparkes sealed the win before not so super sub Mick Clack (sorry Clacky!) lost narrowly to captain Paul Jobbins in the last.

TEAM PLATE:

The Bull were on form in the Final taking all five games against The Plough. Lorraine Hall and Pete Edwards put them two up before Derek Taylor sealed the win getting nearly 8k against Brian Martin. Andy Farmer-Wright won a close game against Dave Vizor before Rob Hall put the icing on the cake with a 9k score in the last.


RESULTS:

RESULTS
MEN'S SINGLES
	Adam Kuzimski	Dick Dewdney
Game 1	5500	2000
Game 2	11830	640
Game 3
RESULT	2	0
LADIES' SINGLES
	Lorraine Hall	Ros Appleby
Game 1	550	4420
Game 2	6370	1690
Game 3	3490	2900
RESULT	2	1
DOUBLES
	Dave Lennon & Steve Eely	Dave Howlett & Keith Newman
Game 1	2620	6510
Game 2	2130	3190
Game 3
RESULT	0	2
SENIOR SINGLES
	Derek Taylor	Jim Greensted
Game 1	0	17760
Game 2	5840	8150
Game 3
RESULT	0	2
LOWER DIVISION SINGLES
	Stuart Carruthers	Rob Jones
Game 1	4250	3090
Game 2	11690	1660
Game 3
RESULT	2	0
MIXED DOUBLES
	Ding & Mick Johnson	Ros Appleby & Paul Jobbins
Game 1	1690	4420
Game 2	1160	3530
Game 3
RESULT	0	2
MASTERS
	Gareth Lloyd	Jim Greensted
Leg 1	10970	2120
Leg 2	20020	0
TOTAL	30990	2120
TEAM CUP
	STOUT HOUSE BB	ROFFEY CC
Game 1	Dick Dewdney	Ros Appleby
	1410	4460
Game 2	Adam Kuzimski	Mick Kirwan
	5750	1300
Game 3	Ricky Dewdney	Ian Giffen
	8990	1220
Game 4	Vernon Sparkes	Graham Sparksman
	7310	1570
Game 5	Mick Clack	Paul Jobbins
	4140	4620
RESULT	3	2
TEAM PLATE
	THE BULL	THE PLOUGH
Game 1	Lorraine Hall	Geoff Parsons
	4780	3010
Game 2	Pete Edwards	Keith Potter
	2960	1690
Game 3	Derek Taylor	Brian Martin
	7970	880
Game 4	Andy Farmer-Wright	Dave Vizor
	3460	2760
Game 5	Rob Hall	Mark Webber
	9380	360
RESULT	5	0

A tremendous report there from Stuart, and the list of thank-yous matches mine given out last night, so I don't think we've forgotten anyone - apart from yourself for jointly sponsoring Table 3 with Hoppo.

The raffle incidentally raised £150 plus.

It was my privilege to be the scorer for Gareth's epic break of 20,020 on the "dreaded" table DC20. The little blue fox mascot obviously wasn't galvanised while that was going on, but had recovered its powers for the backlash in the Seniors when its alter ego made a 17,760 play-out.

I can now start working on a report for the website, and meanwhile here's a pic of our new Mens Singles Champion and Player of the Year:

Mister 20k:

Mar 7, 2016 23:02:15 GMT rawwbj said:

And its Roffey H for the win!
All four players in the semis, how long since that happened.
And a guaranteed new name on the trophy.

What was that about a new name on the trophy ? I don't think so........

[iang]

As Stuart & Tommo have said another great night of Horsham Bar Billiards with all comps finished by 10.30. I would like to add my thanks to those already given & congratulations to all the Finalists. It was pleasing to see we had no problems with the tables and the one that caused trouble last week was used for the Masters & Ladies Singles Finals with a 20K from Gareth.

To follow on from Stuart's excellent report here's the other awards presented on the night.

League Champions Roffey Club Y
League R/up Stout House BB
Div 1 Best Performance Gareth Lloyd P22 W18
Joint Best performance Lee Cable P22 W18

Div 2 Winner Windmill GG
Div2 R/up Stout House A
Div2 Best Performance Clive Thompson P21 W18

Men's High Score Gareth Lloyd 18570
Men's High Break Gareth Lloyd 18570

Ladies High Score Lorraine Hall 6780
Ladies High Break Lorraine Hall 3940

Men's Special Performance Award Adam Kuzimski

Ladies Special performance Award Ros Appleby

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May 25, 2016 16:14:36 GMT tommo III said:

Mar 7, 2016 23:02:15 GMT rawwbj said:

And its Roffey H for the win!
All four players in the semis, how long since that happened.
And a guaranteed new name on the trophy.

What was that about a new name on the trophy ? I don't think so........
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I obviously meant the runners up trophy. ;)

There's always next year, Sam, although I think Hoppo would like another crack at it after four failed attempts.

May 25, 2016 13:46:17 GMT tommo III said:

I can now start working on a report for the website

My update facility is down at the moment but here's a preview:

docs.google.com/document/d/1V0YzWO0nQT7lO8ZbKa8t__nEkWZIFW3aAKCd6_-DSWg/pub

More post-presentation photos have arrived........keep 'em coming, folks !


Mixed Doubles Champions Ros and Paul


The BBs' Big Three: 1 current Singles Champ flanked by 2 former ones !

Not on Page 2 yet, are we ?


The Mens Doubles Champs in separate photos....above Noggs and below Twiggy

Two action pics: above the Silver Fox, and below the Dude taken during the Team Cup...

Jean kindly agreed to be the V.I.P. presenting our awards......


......including the Masters to Lloydy.

The Limeburners team chill out in the corner.......



Finally what a haul:

Team Cup winners, League Runners-up, Player of the Year, and Mens Singles Champ.............BOOM !

[iang]

          


Team Cup Runners Up Roffey CC

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May 25, 2016 21:11:05 GMT tommo III said:

May 25, 2016 13:46:17 GMT tommo III said:

I can now start working on a report for the website

My update facility is down at the moment but here's a preview:

docs.google.com/document/d/1V0YzWO0nQT7lO8ZbKa8t__nEkWZIFW3aAKCd6_-DSWg/pub

That's a great report Tommo.

May 26, 2016 21:08:03 GMT iang said:

That's a great report Tommo.

Everyone else has provided the material (scores, reports and photos) - I've just cobbled it all together.

No apathy seems to exist in our League, which I think is a wonderful situation.

Excellent three-quarter page writeup on Page 85 of this week's West Sussex County Times.

[iang]

Picked up a copy of the paper today.
Great report with photos good to see the League get some good coverage, well done Clive.