Courtesy Examiner Newspaper - Article 2 - 15 July 2009
CUE SPORTS BY ANDREW SALTMARSH
Wright leads after round 4
Wright is a clear leader of the 34 starters after four rounds of play at Launceston Workers Club, winning 51 frames from a possible 66.
On August 1-2 Wright and another 17 players from the North - including last year's state team open players David Lee and Andrew Saltmarsh - will compete with six players from Hobart led by last year's vice-captain Sam Thurgood to make this year's team.
•The women's team to represent Tasmania at the Australian eightball championships in Canberra from October 18-30 includes Northern players Fiona Plummer, Denise Millington, Debbie Rainbow and Rachel Howe.
Plummer also won the women's singles title, defeating Millington 3-2.
•The selection trial for this year's Tasmanian masters team will be at the Hobart Workers Club on Saturday, from 10am.
Entry and full event details are on the Eightball Tasmania website (www.eightballtasmania.com.au).
The top four over-50 qualifiers will make up the team for the national titles.
•A strong turn-out gathered for the division 2 and 3 singles championships with more than 50 players at the LWC on June 30.
Division 2 was won by Rex Purcell from the Black Stallion, who defeated David Kearnes, of the LWC Warriors.
David Murfet, of the LWC Roosters, took the division 3 title from Max Brient, of Sunny Hill.
•The Australian men's team finished runner-up to reigning champion England in the world eightball championships.
After finishing in fifth position and only just making the finals, the team qualified for the grand final by defeating Malta 11-6 and then Wales 11-10.
The women's team finished third, losing 13-8 to Wales in the semi, while the under-18 juniors finished on top of the ladder but were knocked out in their semi- final by India.
•Cale Barrett, of Penguin, qualified for the quarter-finals of the under- 18 snooker championships at Kings Entertainment Centre in Melbourne.
Barrett, who only took up the sport this year, finished second in his group winning three matches from four, but lost his quarter-final 3-0 to eventual winner Kurt Brown, of Queensland.
Andrew Rainbow won one match from four played and Kyle Fisher and Josh Rainbow did not manage to win a match from their group.
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