Northern Interclub Snooker
The Tasmanian Snooker Championship, played at the Ulverstone RSL Club this weekend, with the finals on August 25/26, again promises to be a weekend of first class snooker. Defending Champion Les Higgins leads the very strong southern contingent, including Gregg Watts, Luke Webb, Brendan Milburn and Steve Carroll and Jeremy Cowie.
If Northwest Champion, Cale Barrett was to win he would become the youngest ever winner, at sixteen years and four months old, the other North West players are Callam Bissett, Gerrad Wicks, Bob Boucher and Geoff Lehman.
Northern Champion Graeme Pickett, twice State Champion and runner up last year, will be joined at the event by Gary Bjarnoe Elliott, Keith Coomber and Bruce Lockley.
Play gets underway at 10 am on Saturday with non stop snooker on three tables at the Ulverston RSL Club, through until 3.30 on Sunday afternoon
Interclub Snooker
Works Green have replaced Works Red as the ladder leader in A Reserve competition, Green had a 6 all draw with RSL White, G Perry and Zane Brown won for Green, Lee Morcom and Dennis Collins were RSL’s winners.
Works Red had a disastrous night, losing 3-9 to Works Amber, Peter Fraser, John Saggers, Peter Grimes and Ethan Brown all won for Amber, Keith Coomber was Red’s only winner.
Works Navy, had an 8-4 win over Exeter Green, at Exeter, Navy’s Warren Hayes and Philip Page were the only winners on the night.
In “A Grade” Raiders continued their winning way beating Exeter 3-1, Lionel Young, Barry Glover and Keith Coomber won for the Raiders, Dean Wilson scored for Exeter.
Works Gold beat Works Blue 3-1, Gary Bjarnoe-Elliott, John Fraser and Ted Mountney won for Gold, Hans Georgieff continued his good season winning for Blue.
Launceston RSL Grey had last week’s bye.
A Grade Ladder after round 15, Works Raiders 38, Works Gold 30, Works Blue 28, Works Black 28, Exeter Social Club 24, Launceston RSL 20, Flaming Devils 12.
Best breaks: Keith Coomber 32, 30, Dean Wilson 28, 23.
Leading Players, Alan Armitage continues to lead the player stats winning 19 frames from 26 played, followed by Hans Geogieff 18 from 27 and Dean Wilson 18 from 27, Keith Coomber 19 from 29, Harley Stebbings 15 from 23, David Sheppard 12 from 19,
Barry Glover 15 from 24.
“A Reserve” Ladder after Round 14 .
Works Green 105, Works Red 102, Works Navy 100, Exeter Green 97, Works Amber 95, RSL White 89.
Leading Players: Phil Rowbottom leads the player stats, winning 14 frames from 20 played, followed by Chris Reid 12 from 18, Warren Hayes 13 from 20, Cor Zoon 14 from 22, Tony Quach 17 from 28, Lloyd Rogers 16 from 26, Louis Wong 11 from 20 frames played.
Best breaks: Adrian white 36, George Zammit 23, John Saggers 22, 22 Ethan Brown 22, Damien Bushby 20.
Results Round 15 “A Grade”
Works Gold 3 defeated Works Blue 1, Frank Clark (34) lost to Hans Georgieff (44) 0-2, John Fraser (16) defeated Micheal Leslie (44) 2-0, Gary Bjarnoe Elliott (6) defeated Rolf Stevenson (28) 2-1, Ted Mountney (44) defeated John Stevenson (34) 2-0.
The Flaming Devils 1, lost to Works Black 3, Heath Rainbow (40) lost to Rodney Martin (40) 1-2, Josh Rainbow (50) lost to Bruce Lockley (18) 0-2, Scott Kopriva (42) lost to David Bates (-10) 1-2, Andrew Rainbow (34) defeated Andrew Saltmarsh (32) 2-1.
Exeter Social Club Black 1, lost to Works Raiders 3, Adam Bindoff (48) lost to Barry Glover (34) 1-2, Rex Swain (20) lost to Lionel Young (34) 1-2, Gary Bakker (24) lost to Keith Coomber (14) 1-2, Dean Wilson (26) defeated Alan Armitage (32) 2-1.
Results Round 14 “A Reserve”
Works Amber 9 defeated Works Red 3, Peter Fraser (26) defeated Bob Cain (50), Tony Quach (42) lost to Keith Coomber (16), John Saggers (44) defeated Peter Seaman (56), Damien Bushby (34) drew with Phil Rowbottom (46), Peter Grimes (54) defeated Graeme Purdon (62), Ethan Brown (48) defeated Louis Wong (64).
Exeter Social Club Green 4 lost to Works Navy 8, Lloyd Rogers (34) lost to Philip Page (42), Steve Farquhar (50) drew with Ray Skinner (44), Greg Reid (32) lost to Warren Hayes (40),Tony Winberg (68) drew with John Fordham (50), Will Cameron (70) drew with Brian O’Byrne, Chris Reid (30) drew with Steve Collins (42).
Works Green 6 drew with Launceston RSL White 6, Glen Johansen (32) drew with Adrian White (24), George Zammit (32) drew with Wayne Purdon (36) Dean Wilson (26) lost to Lee Morcom (30), G Perry (48) defeated Christins Knowles (58), Zane Brown (36) defeated Sue Singline (58), David Thomas (44) lost to Dennis Collins (48).
This weeks matches
“A Grade” Works Raiders v Works Blue and Works Gold v Launceston RSL Grey, at the Works club, Exeter Social Club v The Flaming Devils, at Exeter Social Club, all on Thursday night. Works Black has the bye.
“A Reserve”, Works Red v Exeter Social Club Green and Works Navy v Works Green at the Works Club on Wednesday night, Launceston RSL White v Works Amber at the RSL Club on Thursday night.
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