Mid Sussex Heroines

I have just sent a message to the Reaper, thus:

Your Mama wins the British Isles Open Championship, and your Other Half wins the Plate.
Doesn't get much better than that ! 8-) 8-)
tommo

It's true! Lorraine Hall became BIOC Ladies Champ today up in Redhill, adding the title to the Sussex Ladies Singles Championship which she won back in January.

You can read all about it on the Surrey Board.

Other notable performances by our Mid Sussex Ladies:
Main Competition Quarter-finalists: Jenny Edwards; Colleen Park.
Plate Semifinalist: Ros Appleby.

Hayley Tunstall (Semi-Finalist, main competition) and Sandra Race (Plate Winner) are also occasional players in the Mid Sussex league for Bob Hall's Hurst 'A' team.

[H]

Congratulations Ladies, all of of whom have a lot to be proud of, but of course a huge huge huge well done to Mama Hall for a sterling performance beating three England players on the way!

[BB Warrior]

Congratulations to Lorraine on a superb performance today.....!! ;D

A fantastic achievement adding the British Ladies title to the Sussex Ladies Singles title that she won just 3 months ago. 8-)

Mid-Sussex were certainly very well represented in the quarter-finals of the main competition with Jenny and Colleen both playing well to reach that stage, with Hurst A "supersub" Lady H making the semi-finals on her birthday. 8-)

Another occasional "supersub", Sandra Race, made sure that she took home some silverware to go with Mr Reaper's (make sure he uses his pink duster to keep it clean! ;D) and Ros reached the Plate Semi-Finals.

Well played the Mid-Sussex Heroines...... ;D ;D

[Chunky Monkey]

Well Played Ladies. A great performance by all. ;) 8-)

[Q]

Well done ALL the ladies, you've done us proud.

Nice to see that half the quarter-finalists have played Mid Sussex this season ;D

Lorraine... I'm glad I'm not playing Mid Sussex anymore, I'd be back to being an also ran, CONGRATULATIONS ;D ;D

[specialone]

Last time I spoke to you, you were very down about your game. You then beat me and have not looked back. I myself however, have not won since then.
Very well done.
Shaun

[Sparky]

Congratulations Lorraine what a brilliant achievement, and well done to the other ladies. :D :D :D

[iang]

Just to add my congratulations as well to all of you.
we are playing the Droops at the end of season on the Hurst top I will keep my fingers crossed when the draw is done. ;D

Not difficult to find a Mid Sussex Heroine from the Surrey Open played yesterday: this honour must go to Colleen Park who made it to the last 16 of the Main Competition.
After receiving a first round Bye, Colleen defeated Kent's Tony Brown before taking on Mama Hall in Round 3. It was Colleen who triumphed over BIOC Champion Lorraine in a very close match. Surrey's Tony Cross turned out to be a bridge too far, but the last 16 place should earn some coveted National Ranking points. Of the ladies present only Jean Brackenridge also reached this stage.

Mid Sussex Ladies were well represented in the Surrey Open with Lynne Moyes-Robb, Sandra Race, Margo Thompson, Hayley Tunstall, Nikki Hinkins and Ros Appleby all registered players who took part.

[bobhall]

yes well done to colleen but i would like to say my hero of the open would be non other than tommo who played superbly through out the competition.

tommo reached his 1st semi final in an open and was close to reaching the final but one determined nigel senior also a mid sussex player from time 2 time got in his way. but tommo certainly showed wat a great player he is.
so tommo you are my hero

[DA-DM]

Thank you very much ! I wear Charlie perfume but I have never been heroine before......... ;D ;D

Well done to everyone for a great day but especially Tommo for getting that far (need a heroes thread !?), and thanks to Mama Hall for a great game - we both battled hard with table 10 til I showed it who was boss. well, until I was back on the break anyway !! ::)

see you all soon and best wishes to Shiela to get well soon. x

Shucks you two, you'll embarrass me. :-[ ;D
I don't mind having a mentch on the Heroines thread, honest! ;)

Once again we have Mid Sussex Heroines, this time in the 2009 Berkshire Open (write-up extract below courtesy of BB Warrior):

Sept 14, 2009 9:17:27 GMT BB Warrior said:

......a very high quality field in the Plate as well, with Steven Sheard showing dad how to win by beating Chris Reeves in the Final after Steven had beaten Dave Tooke and Chris had beaten Colleen Park in the semi's.

Keith did at least have the consolation of the highest break with the only 20k break on the day, with Sandra Race taking the honours for the Ladies with both the Highest Break (4k+ in a very close game with Mark Brewster) and furthest Lady. ;)

from the Mid Sussex website.....

Quote:

14 Oct 2018
News is filtering through on the results of three National competitions played simultaneously today at the Arborfield British Legion in Reading:
The Special Ladies Open was played in two groups of five players and our own Ros Appleby (BHCC) was Runner-up, coming through from the toughest group containing Jean Brackenridge, Michelle Baden, Pauline Withey and Lorraine Hall. Jenny Florey retained the title for Oxfordshire, Pauline having won it for the previous four years. For Jenny it was her first final win in six attempts.
Tunbridge Wells Constitutional Club took the National Team Championship, beating Henty Arms (Ferring) in the Final, whilst the National Mixed Doubles was won by Mark Trafford & Jenny Florey with Stephen Coleman & Jean Brackenridge the runners-up. Bob and Lorraine Hall made the Semis from an original lineup of 14 pairings – Clive T

[JB]

Welcome back

Thanks.

Sadder but wiser !

[iang]

Well done to Ros & Lorraine.

Welcome Back Tommo

[Sparky]

Welcome back Tommo

Congrats Lorraine and Ros

Quote from Mid-Sussex website:

22 Oct 2018
Lorraine Hall followed up her recent Semi-final showing in the National Mixed Doubles with a good run in the A.E.B.B.A Off-the-Spot Singles, held yesterday at Emsworth S & SC - in which she finished as Plate Competition runner-up: A quarter-final win over Berkshire’s Dave Alder was followed up with a semi-final defeat of current Sussex Champion Christian Cox. Kent county star Gerry Fitzjohn was a bridge too far but, quote, “Gerry was pushed all the way by Lorraine in a very good final” So a big “well done” to her for making it to the final of a National competition, one which with its format offers some good practice for the World Championships next month. The main section was won by Northants’ Lorin Clough, with Kevin Tunstall the runner-up.                          – Clive T

[bobhall]

Oct 22, 2018 14:57:22 GMT tommo III said:

Quote from Mid-Sussex website:

22 Oct 2018
Lorraine Hall followed up her recent Semi-final showing in the National Mixed Doubles with a good run in the A.E.B.B.A Off-the-Spot Singles, held yesterday at Emsworth S & SC - in which she finished as Plate Competition runner-up: A quarter-final win over Berkshire’s Dave Alder was followed up with a semi-final defeat of current Sussex Champion Christian Cox. Kent county star Gerry Fitzjohn was a bridge too far but, quote, “Gerry was pushed all the way by Lorraine in a very good final” So a big “well done” to her for making it to the final of a National competition, one which with its format offers some good practice for the World Championships next month. The main section was won by Northants’ Lorin Clough, with Kevin Tunstall the runner-up.                          – Clive T

Mark james is current sussex champ

Unless you mean off the spot champ then its the 2014 brighton off the spot champ mr matt silent knight

Website update submitted..........apologies to Mark.
So a Hall treble of all the AEBBA Alt Rules competitions !  (2018 R-u in 4-Pin, Triangles and Off-spot)
 

Quote from Mid Sussex website:

12 Jan 2019
Lorraine Hall and Ros Appleby finished runners-up in the Sussex Ladies Doubles, held today at Burgess Hill Con Club, losing to champions Jean Brackenridge and Sandra Hall - who won both their matches - but beating Hayley Tunstall and Michelle Baden.

13 Jan 2019

Jan Bithell was crowned Sussex Ladies Champion today at the same venue. Jan won her group by beating Jean Brackenridge 5220-2580 and 1950-2420 and then Michelle Baden 3520-3760 and 6600-4800 to set up a final against the winner of the other group Sandra Hall where she triumphed by 7080-1550 and 4870-1990.
Ros Appleby had lost to Sandra but had beaten Lorraine Hall in her group to qualify for the final of the Plate against Jean. Here she came agonisingly close to victory, eventually going down by 4330-4790 and 5610-6180.

[iang]

Congratulations to Jan, Ros & Lorraine.

From the Mid Sussex website:

Quote:

09 Oct 2019

Congratulations to ROS APPLEBY for winning the 2019 AEBBA Special Ladies Open - her first National Singles title. She had been runner-up last year in the same event.

Finishing second in what was probably the stronger of the two qualifying groups (- behind Pauline Withey but ahead of Denise Wills and Janet Burns -) Ros went on to Semi-Final victory over Jenny Florey by 7880-4130 over two legs.

Meanwhile Pauline faced a stern test against fellow Oxonian Melissa Standbridge and edged it by 13300-12680.

Time to meet multiple National winner Pauline again in the GRAND FINAL, and Ros emerged triumphant by 5430-4560. WELL DONE ROS ! -Clive T

[jan]

Well done Ros, excellent set of results