Unbeaten Plough forge a further point ahead in the Billingshurst Bar Billiards League
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Week 5 results (matches played on 4th November) :
Plough 4, Cricketers VI 1
Plough forged 2 pts ahead in the First Division and remain unbeaten.
Alfold SC 1, Roffey SSC B 4
Roffey B dominate Div 2 with a 3.5 point lead over the other three teams.
Roffey SSC A 3, Springbok Club 2
In a high-scoring match, Dave Howlett (5380), Steve Merriott (8500) and Lee Cable (9660) hit top form for a 3-2 win. Bill Boys (5670) and Trevor Wheeler (5940) won close frames for the visiting Springbok.
Cricketers 2, Windmill GG 3
The home side went 2-0 up through Luke Hamon (5490) and Mick Clack (5740).
Windmill’s talisman Kevin Tunstall pulled one back with a chanceless 10,500: his opening break of 10,400 is the highest on away tables so far this season.
Graham Daniels (4120) and Clive Thompson (6350) then fought hard to keep the visitors’ title drive on course.
League tables
Div 1 - Plough 19pts, Windmill GG 17pts, Springbok 13.5pts, Roffey A 13pts
Div 2 - Roffey B 9.5pts, Cricketers VI 6pts Alfold SC 6pts, Cricketers 6pts
The draw for this year’s World Championships, to be held at the Merton Hotel, St Helier, Jersey over the weekend 13-15 November, has been published, and four Billingshurst Bar Billiards League regulars will be taking part.
Windmill GG’s new signing Kevin Tunstall will be looking to add an 8th title and he is joined by Roffey Club members John Slee, John Miller and Dick Cable.
In the World Championship Doubles, Kevin and partner Gerry Fitzjon of Kent and England have received a first round ‘Bye’, whilst John Miller and Dick Cable have teamed up together and face Oxfordshire's Andy Skinner and Will Cormack. John Slee partners his Tuesday night Redhill captain Tracy Guy and they will play Tim and Johnny Ashton-Barnett of Cornwall.
The World Championship Singles has the players divided into 32 groups of 4 for a qualifying round. Kevin was first out of the hat and in Group 1 will play Phil Osborne (Brighton), Jon Bamsey (Oxford) and Roy Le Page (Guernsey). John Slee is in the rather tough group 12 where he will face Kevin Hall (Brighton) and (alas !) Martin Smith and Dave Jones, both of Worthing. John Miller is in 3-man group 13 with Brighton’s Alan Brackenridge and Redhill’s Max Burt, whilst Dick Cable is in otherwise all-ladies’ group 27 along with Brighton’s Sandra Hall, Redhill’s Caroline Jones and Guernsey’s Carla Allen.
We wish all our players bon voyage and good luck in the year’s premier competition