Guernsey 21 22 season

[oge]

Bar billiards - New era
Following an AGM on _Mon 2/8/21 a new Bar Billiard committee was formed with the architect of the singles league, Darren Ogier taking over the role of President, he was joined by previous committee members Matt Ogier and Ben wilding. Also returning to the new committee are former members Bob Chapple and Ian Champion with new member Geoff Ogier filling the remaining committee place, Following the success of the trialled Singles league for the 20-21 season, the association members voted to adopt the new singles league format from the 21-22 season.
The new league starts on Tuesday the 14th September. The new format has attracted a number of new members therefore requiring the league to be split into 2 divisions. The first Division will have 13 entries and the second division 12. Each match will consist of playing double games with a point for each game. The player with the highest aggregate score over both games will also receive an extra point. Players will play each other twice over the course of the season.

There are 5 venues that will be used on a rota basis. Hampshire, Mariners, Happy Landings, Ex Service club and West Legion club.

Full fixture lists will be delivered to the various pubs within the next couple of days

[oge]

Despite the impact of Covid the new Guernsey season league got underway last night (14/09/21). One of the entrants is currently in isolation as he was tested positive positive to Covid. As the new league is singles it meant only one match will need to be rarranged.

In match 1 held at the Happy Landings division 1 players Matt Wilcox went to battle with Normana wilkinson. Both players showed rusteness and although Norman walked away with 3 points both will be looking for some improvement as the weeks progress. In the first game Matt scored 1960 and Norman pipped him with 2440. Game 2 was also a low scoring affair as Norman scored 1760, however Matt had black pegged during the game and ended with Zero.


Match 2 was a second division match between the more experiend Darren Pipet and new commer Carla Allen. Darren took all 3 points with scores of 1340 and 1940 v Carla of 270 and 980. Carla improved during the 2 games and i see that she will get better and is likley to reap some revenge on Darren when they meet again later in the season.

Match 3 between 2 new players Kerrie Totty and Blake Batiste. Both were obviously nervous which contributed to the excitement of the game even dispite the low scoring. Blake lead for most the match and with the bar dropped he still held a sleander lead. However Kerrie was playing steady and picked off the last few balls. Trailing by 270 she put the red and final ball straigt straight into the 200 and win by 70.
Game 2 was every bit as exciting with kerrie scoring just 470 points however Blake only 540 and with the last ball, who would have the nerve to putt and secure the win. Well it was neither of them and after 5 attempts each the game ended therefore meaning that they too a point each and a half each as they finsihed with the same scores.

[oge]

Week 1 games held at the Mariners.

Ian Champion met Bob Chapple in match 1. Well known as 2 heavy weights in Guernsey Barbilliards these 2 normal partners in the pairs faced off in the venue at the mariners.
Ian with the first break scored 7580 and sets the first highest break of the season a target i am sure will be beaten in the coming weeks. Bob Chapple then played out the remainder of the time with 4480, with his break to come. Bob Managed a narrow win in the second game with 5190 v Ian 5920. Therefore Ian took the aggregate score point to win 2-1.

Match 2

Steve Carre returned to the game from a short break to meet new comer Claire Gauvain. Steve took all 3 points with scores of 1570 and 2230. Claire strruggled scoring 370 in game and dispite improving in game 2 she black pegged to end up with zero.


Match 3

This was always going to be a tight match between father and son Mat Ogier and Ben Wilding.Ben Lead off well winning the first game comfortable with 4670 v 450 to his dad. Mat and experinced player with a number of Island caps would of been confident to take the second game and the aggregate score, however the Ben had other ideas and piped the second game 3830 to 3760 to take all 3 points.

Match 4

We were expecting a tight game as we welcomed Back star of BBC radio John Randall who hasnt played for a number years as he took on the relative new comer Adrian Bush.

John took the first game with 1690 v 720 points. However Bushy was able to bounce back in the second game and also claim the extra aggregate point.

[oge]

Week 1 games held at the Hampshire


Match 1

2 former island players met for the first time in a number of years and with Paul Dyer narrowly missing out in the island singles final recently he would of been the favorite against Paul Le Gallez. Paul though set off well in the 1st game and set a score that Mr Dyer was unable to catch with 3720 v 2330.
Game Mr Dyer would be looking to at least match Paul Le G first game score and if possible pass it to set up a good chance of for the etra point. He managed this with 4110 and Paul Le only coming back with 1150.


Match 2

2 more new commers to the league got their season under way where Mike Bichard Beat Shaun Lihou. Shaun was unable to keep any scores during the first game after a number of knocked over pegs and score 100 points with the last Ball and Mike scoring 720. The second game was much improved affair with Mike also taking the second game with 1940 v 920.

Match 3


2 of the current Island team met on day 1 with Roy Le Page taking on 5 times World champion and current Guernsey singles champion Trevor Gallienne.Roy was a comfortable winner in game 1 with 6170 v 2830. But with Trevor break to come it was never going to be enough for the extar point. Trevor broke with just over 7000 points and Roy was unable to muster much, Trevor went on to win with 9000 v 890.

Match 4

Another 2 new players kicked their seaosn off with Luke Bush winning both games v Chris Bourgaize.

In the first game luke scored 1190 to chris 440 and in game 2 luke scored 1500 with Chris scoring 440 points again.

[Sir Chancelot]

Ben and Norman joint top of Division 1 with 3 points (lol)
That won't last for long !
Better enjoy it whilst we can.....

[oge]

Week 2 if the Guersney Barbilliards Singles

Highlight of the week was the vast improvement in play from Claire Gauvain and Carla Allen. Playing on the super fast top at the West Legion these 2 went head to head. With Claire Gauvain looking for her first points of the campaign. Claire really struggled the week before, however on this occasion she was scoring 100's and 200's for fun. She took and ealy lead in game 1 with a respecival break of 1020, however Carla Pegged her back with the highest break in div 2 to date with 1260 and take game 1.
Claire though was able to continue her good form to pinch the second game and win 2-1 4830 to 4270.

Former team mates and island players Roy Le page also met at the West Legion but their game was no match to the excitement of Claire and Carla.
Despite Darren having the opening break Roy Led for the majority of the game before Darren managed to build a score to over take Roy winning 2800 v 2160 . Roy did have his Chance to win but missed and lost some vital scores in the closing minutes. In Game 2 Roy had an awful start and left the balls in horible positions and made it difficult to get the break back. Darren manage to take and early lead however Roy managed to compose himself to play out the remainder of the table to win 6590 v 1240 and take the 2-1 win.
In the match between Bob Chapple and Nroman wilkinson Bob chapple walked away with all 3 points in a one sided affair. game 1 bob won 9330 v 2100 and in game 2 won 11250 v 2490. Bob now has the leading Div 1 break of the season with 7900.

It was good to see the young Leon Ogier return after isolation from being positive Covid victim. However he may of wished he took another week to recover as he lost 3-0 twice firstlly to Matt WIlcox. Matt scoring 1360 and 2060 to Leons 720 and 0.
He then went on to lose to his vasty more experience brother Darren. Darren showed no mercy for his suffering younger sibling. Despite having the break Leon was unable to keep any score and Darren ran away with a 6170 v 0 win. In Game 2 Darren had the break and with a number of small breaks ran up a score of 10,390 v 100

Div 2 Blake Batiste was slightly fortunate to win both games v Chris Borgaize. With Chris losing a break of over 1300. Blake won the first 1030 v 430 and the second 740 v 490.

After a 20 year break John Randall is starting to show some glimpses of his former self. However Darren Pipet managed to PIP him on the aggregate score by just 120 points. Darren took the first game 1580 v John 1130, John though came back in the second winning 1840 v 1510.

Gallienne takes all 3 points in clash with Le Gallez. Paul still showing a bit of rusteness from not playing seriously the past few years was always going to find it tough going against the Magnificent Gallienne. Trevor winning 2840 v 480 and 8500 v 940.

Adrian Bush beats newcomer in tight opening game 1560 v 1390 against the breaks to set up a 3-0 win winning game 2 1580v 630.

Ian Champion grabs a late point as Paul Dyer domintes proceedings at the Ex servicemens club. Paul was comfortable winner in Game 1 with 10,480 v 0. Paul also started off well in game 2 leading with over 3,000 before Ian came back with a 4500 break and win 4680 v 3740.

Young Luke Bush scored a nice 2 - 1 victory over Steve Carre. Luke took a comfortable win in the first game 1190 v 80, Steve came back in the second winning 1210 v 870 but luke took the aggregate points.

[Sir Chancelot]

Fixtures for 5/10/21.

Hampshire
Roy Le Page v Paul Le Gallez
Steve Carre Bye.
Matt Wilcox v Mat Ogier
Chris Bourgaise v Adrian Bush

Ex Service
Darren Ogier v Ian Champion
Blake Batiste v Claire Gauvin
Bob Chapple v Ben Wilding
Kerrie Totty v Darren Pipet.

West Legion
Trevor Gallienne v Norman Wilkinson
Mike Bichard v John Randall
Paul Dyer v Leon Ogier
Luke Bush v Carla Allen.

[oge]

Bar Billiards Report week 4

Week four in the singles bar billiard league saw Trevor Gallienne continue to head the Division one table when he defeated Norman Wilkinson with a combined score of
20970 – 2050 over both legs, a break of 9250 in the first game followed by one of 8060 in the second allowed him to take all 3 points
Ian Champion who last week could only stand and watch as Trevor Gallienne gave him a masterclass in Bar Billiards redeemed himself this week when he recorded the highest break of the season to date with 11830 in the first leg of his match against Darren Ogier, and follow it up with a second leg 7450 – 2340 win to give himself a 19380 – 2470 total score and take all 3 points. Bob Chapple however remains in second spot just one point behind Gallienne after beating Ben Wilding emphatically, taking all 3 points with 14660 – 3360 win over both legs.
“Diddy “ Dyer retains third spot with 9 points although unexpectedly dropping a point against bottom of the table Leon Ogier who took the first leg 3800 - 2600 , however Diddy came back strongly to take the second 10870 – 2220 and the aggregate point to win the match with an overall score of 13470 – 6020
Paul le Gallez followed up last weeks fine result against Island player Darren Ogier by defeating anther Island player this week, this time it was Roy Le Page who suffered at the hands of Le Gallez after losing the match 6340 – 8520 moving the latter into fourth spot in the Div one table.
Matt Wilcox was unlucky to be drawn against a back in-form Matt Ogier this week, who scored a massive 16700 – 2160 win, 10670 of which he amassed in the first leg .
Darren Pipet extended his lead at the top of Division two after taking all 3 points in his match against newcomer Kerrie Totty with a score of 6250 – 720,
Luke Bush remains in second place after recording a 2 – 1 win over Carla Allen with an overall score of 5010 – 1650 after both legs, who if she carries on improving at the rate she is doing will be a force to be reckoned with in the future
Adrian Bush takes 3rd spot in Div two when he beat Chris Bourgaize 4750 – 2270 the latter playing in his 1st season in bar billiards, anther player who is improving week in and week out.
Blake Batiste holds on to 4th place after taking the extra aggregate point to win the match
2 – 1 from Claire Gauvain
The remaining match of the week between Mike Bichard and John Randall ended with the former player taking all three points after recording 2900 – 900 over both legs

[oge]

Handicap games this week


Matt Wilcox v Kerrie Totty 2500 Hampshire 7.30pm
4000 Chris Bourgaize v Ian Champion Hampshire 8.10pm
Bob Chapple v Leon Ogier 3400 Hampshire 8.50pm
1300 Paul Mason v Steve Carre Hampshire 9.30pm


Paul Le Gallez v Darren Pipet 1000 Mariners 7.30pm
Darren Ogier v Blake Batiste 3800 Mariners 8.10pm
John Randall v Shaun Lihou Mariners 8.50pm
1300 Mike Bichard v Luke Bush Mariners 9.30pm


9100 Claire Gauvain v Trevor Gallienne Happy Landings 7.30pm
2600 Carla Allen v Norman Wilkinson Happy Landings 8.10pm
2200 Adrian Bush v Roy Le Page Happy Landings 8.50pm
Paul Dyer v Ben Wilding 800 Happy Landings 9.30pm


Trevor overcomes his aggregate deficit of 9100 to win 15240 to 10360
shock of the night as Carla Allen beats Stormin Norman 5290 to 2960
Roy le page overcomes bushy 11360 to 4400
Paul Dyer wins 6320 to zero.

Paul Le gallez Beats Darren Pipet 6490 to 3150
Darren Igier beats Blake Batiste 9750 to 5330
John Randall recives a Bye
Luke Bush Narrowly beats Mike bichard after Bish Black pegs while over 2k up 1290 v 1140

Matt Wilcox beats Kerrie Totty after she black pegs 3 times
Ian Chammpion beats Chris Bourgaise
Paul Mason Beats Stave Carre

Bob and Leon have posponed their game for a later date

[oge]

Singles knockout
There were 3 main shocks i.e. div 1 players losing to Div 2 players

Darren myself losing to Steve Carre
Luke Bush beating Ben Wilding
Darren Pipet beating Leon Ogier
Also
Mat Ogier beats Matt Wilcox
Norman Wilkinson beats Kerrie Totty
Ian Champion Beats Adrian Bush
Roy Le Page Beats Chris Bourgaize
Bob Chapple beats Mike Bichard
Tom Oliver beats Paul Le Gallez
Paul Dyer Beats Blake Batiste
John Randall Beats Carla Allen
Trevor Gallienne progresses with a bye
Paul Mason beats Claire Gauvain

[Sir Chancelot]

This week saw a few postponed or re-arranged matches.
In the First Division, Norman played Champ at West Legion and despite losing a 7,500 break, Champ still beat me 2-0.
Trevor, now reunited with his cue played Geoff Ogier and Mat Ogier at Ex-Service club and comfortably won both matches 2-0 to collect the maximum six points with the aggregate scores.
Ben Wilding picked up 3 points defeating Roy Le Page in both matches.
In the Second Division, the ever-improving Luke Bush scored an impressive 9,530 over two legs to defeat league leader Darren Pipet 2-0 on the Hampshire table.
Next week sees the Open Island Pairs knockout, First Round.
World Pairs finalists Bob Le Moignan & Trevor Gallienne v Paul Le Gallez & Shaun Lihou.
The tie of the week though is the match between World Pairs semi-finalists Bob Chapple & Ian Champion, who have been drawn to play against Paul Dyer & Mat Ogier. Both matches are due to be played at Hampshire Lodge.
At the Mariners Inn Tom & Luke Oliver play Leon Ogier & Blake Batiste
and Luke & Adrian Bush will play John Randall & Darren Pipet.

[Chris_Sav]

How was Trevor reunited with his queue?

[tommo III]

Nov 19, 2021 8:17:10 GMT Chris_Sav said:

How was Trevor reunited with his queue?

Delighted, as you can see !

[Sir Chancelot]

Nov 19, 2021 8:17:10 GMT Chris_Sav said:

How was Trevor reunited with his queue?

Blue Islands found it still in Jersey and flew it back to Guernsey as far as I am aware.

[Chris_Sav]

Good news! we had no cooperation out of Blue Island a few years back for mullered, brand new, first use good quality luggage.

[Sir Chancelot]

Almost a full programme of fixtures being played in the singles league this evening, and some re-arranged matches. At the Ex Service, in the 2nd Division Carla Allen plays Adrian Bush, then Darren (Pip) Pipet. At the same venue it's Norman v Mat Ogier and Leon Ogier v Ben Wilding in the 1st Division.

[oge]

www.guernseybarbilliards.org.uk/

for Updated results and tables

[oge]

Guernsey Bar billiard report
This week’s complement of bar billiard matches was almost back to normal following the previous 2 weeks of disruption due to covid, with 10 of the 11 scheduled matches plus 3 rearranged matches being completed.
Luke Bush has emerged as the runaway leader in the second division after taking all 3 points from his match against Carla Allen when he recorded a score of 3560 – 2030, over both legs
to give him an 8 point advantage at the top of the table
His father Adrian Bush occupies the runner up spot after recording a 2-1 points win over Chris Bourgaize with a combined score of 4200 – 3340
John Randall moves into third spot when he took all 3 points in his match against Mike Bichard with a combined score of 2430 – 0, however Bichard can consider himself unlucky
not to have at least taken one of those points after black pegging with the final ball in the first leg and doing exactly the same thing in the second leg, as he said after the match “if it wasn’t for bad luck, he wouldn’t have had any luck”
Claire Gauvain had mixed fortunes when she beat Kerrie Totty 3 – 0 in her catch up match and then lost by the same margin to Blake Batiste
Bob Chapple closed the gap on Trevor Gallienne and now only remains in second place due to accumulated score difference when he beat bottom place Norman Wilkinson 3-0 with a score of 16140 – 3550. The two lead the way with 33 points each although Trevor has a match in hand
Darren Ogier took the majority points when he won 2 – 1 in his match against Roy Le Page, after defeating the latter 8650 – 4960, it was not all plain sailing for Ogier though, as after losing the first leg 4690 – 90 he came back strongly to open the second leg with a break of 8500 points to add the aggregate point to his tally.
Ogier’s younger brother Leon took all 3 points in his match against Matt Wilcox with a combined score of 9810 – 1350
The Ogier brothers, father, Geoff Ogier once again failed to emulate his two sons expertise when he went down 2-1 to Ben Wilding, however it was due to the superior play of Wilding who after losing the first leg 6270 – 3230 went on to take the second leg and the aggregate point with 6310 – 540 making a total over both legs of 9540 – 6810
The final match of the night between Diddy Dyer and Ian Champion resulted in a close 2 – 1 win for Dyer with a score of 10110 – 9470

[oge]

Guernsey Bar Billiard report 16th March

With only 2 matches plus any individual rearranged matches to play in the first division Trevor Gallienne continues to head the table after beating former runner up Bob Chapple 2-1 with scores of 12910 – 8820 to relegate Chapple to third place.
Ian Champion moved into the vacant runner-up spot after defeating Ben Wilding 3 – 0 with 18670 – 4680 points, however he remains 7 points behind the leader who has a game in hand
Diddi Dyer suffered a rare defeat at the hands of Geoff Ogier when he struggled to get the hang of the Hampshire Lodge table in their rearranged match and was beaten 2-1 with scores of 6510 – 5020, over both legs, however he remains in 4th spot.
Geoff Ogier then played Roy Le Page in their scheduled match of the week and it was his turn to struggle when Le Page took all three points to defeat him 11260 – 3010
Another player to suffer a 3 – 0 loss was Paul Le Gallez when he was beaten by Matt Ogier 10640 - 4390
Darren Ogier lost 1-2 in his match against Matt Wilcox, the latter recording a fine score of 7670 in the first leg to take the match and the aggregate score over both legs with a total score of 10350 – 4390
The remaining match in the upper division resulted in a 2-1 win for Leon Ogier when he took the majority of the points in his match against Norman Wilkinson with scores of 7860 – 3500 Over both legs.
Luke Bush has secured the second division title with two games in hand over the rest of the division after defeating Kerrie Totty 3 – 0 last week with the fantastic score of 13660 – 530 he is the only player to score over 10,000 points in the second division all year and will be a force to be reckoned with when he joins the more experienced players in the upper division
Darren pipet remains in the runner up spot despite losing 1-2 to Luke’s father Adrian Bush with a combined score of 2970 – 5070 who has a game in hand over Pipet
John Randall finishes his season in third spot after beating Blake Batiste 2-1 in his final match with 2440 – 1520 points , however Blake who still had a match in hand finished his season with a 3-0 win over Mike Bichard with 3560 – 2270 over both legs taking him into 6th place
Steve Carre currently sits in 5th place with a 2 – 1 win over Carla Allen and in 7th place Chris Bourgaize took the majority points against Claire Gauvain with a 2 – 1 win

[oge]

Tuesday 5th April saw the final matches of the 21/22 Guernsey bar billiard season in it’s new format be completed, albeit with a few catchup games for some participants due to the Covid Pandemic, however this didn’t detract from the overall success of the season

As expected Trevor Gallienne took the first division title with games to spare as did Luke Bush in the second division. Gallienne had 2 games at different venues as he looked to catch up on some games. Before hot footing it to the West Legion, Trevor scrapped a 2-1 win over Darren Ogier, where Darren had to recover from 5k down in the last game with just over 6k.

Gallienne looks to finish his season in style, Heading out west he lost the first leg 4400-420 to Geoff Ogier in their catchup game. He then played the table out in the final leg of the final match of the season to win 2 – 1 and record the highest break of the year with a break of 15590

Ian Champion must have been disappointed with Gallienne’s impressive break because in the previous match of the night on the same table, he hoped he had scored enough to win the highest break of the season trophy himself, with a break of 14630 in his match against Matt Wilcox, only to have it beaten by 960 points by Gallienne

Matt Ogier had a busy night when he had to play his scheduled match against Darren Ogier plus two catchup matches against Darren’s younger brother Leon, securing 6 of the 9 points available.

The 2 remaining fixtures in the 1st Division resulted in 2 – 1 wins for both Roy Le Page over Diddy Dyer and Geoff Ogier over Norman Wilkinson

The 2nd Division’s scheduled league fixtures had finished the previous week , however they still had a busy week this week as there were four catchup matches to play, due in part to the Pandemic.

Luke Bush who had already won the division two title 7 points clear of the rest added another 3 points after defeating Steve Carre 3 -0 with scores of 5970 – 1150 over both legs

Kerrie Totty had 3 catchup matches to play, the most notable was against Luke Bush when she inflicted a rare 3 – 0 defeat on the division leader.

Her next two matches resulted in losses when she was beaten 3 -0 and 2 -1 by Steve Carre.





Finals night at the Hampshire Lodge is on 19th April

7 pm Div 2 individual final

7.40pm Pairs Final

9.20pm Handicap Final

10pm Singles Individual Final

10.40pm Presaentations



The season will finish off with a festival of Barbilliards held at the KGV



Friday 29th April at KGV Guernsey Masters @ 7.30pm

Saturday 30th April Open Pairs starting at 9.30am

Guernsey vs England 12 a-side @ 7.30pm

Open Singles 1st May @ 9.30am

[oge]

Last night was the Guernsey Barbilliards was our finals night with the following winners.

Div 1 winner Trevor Gallienne
Island Singles Champion Trevor Gallienne.
div 1 Highest break Trevor Gallienne 15,590

Div 2 Winner Luke Bush
Div 2 KO winner Luke Bush
Div 2 highest Break Luke Bush 3790

Pairs Winners Paul Dyer and Matt Ogier

Handicap Winner Paul Mason