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Last chance to make finals
LADDER positions five and six are up for grabs in the final round of the Northern snooker competition, with last chances for the Flaming Devils, Works Red and Works Blue to make the finals.
Longford RSL and Works Navy have missed the cut.
Reigning billiard premier Works Green and this season's minor premier Works Black played a 2-2 draw last week in what most people believe was a rehearsal for this year's final.
Works Gold's impressive 3-1 win moved Works Gold back into third but it still has a chance to take second spot and earn the double chance.
Works Blue and Works Navy, both keen to get off the bottom of the ladder, had 3-1 wins.
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SPORT IN BRIEF - BILLIARDS FINAL 2011
Courtesy Examiner - 26 Feb, 2011 01:00 AM
Billiards finals: The finals of the Northern Tasmanian Billiards Championship are being played at the Launceston Working Men's Club today. Defending champion Graeme Pickett is under pressure from David Bates, who is the top ranked player in Northern interclub billiards competition. Bates is playing the better at the moment and will start favourite. The quarter-finals start at 10am, the semi-finals at noon and the final is at 2pm over two hours. Last year's runner-up Peter Donati is seeded No.2 but is expected to struggle to get over Bates to make the final.
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World champ in Launceston
THE reigning eightball world champion, Englishman Michael Hill, is to play exhibition matches in Launceston.
The 2008 and 2010 world masters champion and winner of 26 professional titles will be at the Launceston Working Men's Club on Thursday, April 7.
Spectators are invited to attend and watch a man considered to be the best eightball potter in the sport's history. Call the club on 6334 2100 for more information or contact
Works Green flourishing
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Black on top after win over Longford
WORKS Black wrapped up the Northern snooker competition minor premiership with a 3-1 win over Longford RSL.
It is 10 points clear of second and third placed teams Works Green and Works Gold, with three weeks remaining in the home and away series.
Black teammates, David Bates and Bruce Lockley, both won their matches to extend their rivalry for the consistency award.
Bates leads at this stage achieving his nine wins from 11 matches.
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Battle for consistency trophy
WORKS Black teammates David Bates and Bruce Lockley are locked in a tense battle for this year's billiards roster consistency trophy.
As well as trying to keep their top-of-the-ladder team in first place heading into the finals, they are both on nine wins for the season with four matches remaining.
Bates achieved his nine wins from 11 matches, while Lockley has played 12. Dean Wilson and Rolf Stevenson are in third place with eight wins, followed by Glen Johansen, Steve Leary, Josh Rainbow, Derek peart and Wayne Purdon on seven wins.
Another milestone
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Works sides in top form this year
LAST year's Northern billiards premier Works Green and bottom team Works Blue were the big winners this week with both teams scoring 4-0 wins, against Longford RSL and Works Gold respectively.
The Green team has moved to third and on form looks set to give this year's finals series a real shake.
The other team showing good late-season form is the Flaming Devils, which scored 3-1 over Navy to move to a clear second on the ladder.
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Eightballers successful in titles
After a solid week of competition in Darwin against the seven best juniors from each state, Tasmania had lost only one match, to the ACT.
The side, consisting of co- captains Stephen Kaine and Blake Marshall, plus Max Crosswell, Cale Barrett, Jacob Marshall, Brodie Stubbs and Phoenix Smith, progressed to the grand final, where it defeated Queensland 8-4.
The win capped a great week for Tasmanian junior eightball, with Stubbs finishing second to Queenslander Hayden Goode in the under-12 national titles and Barrett losing the under-15 grand final 6-4 to Queensland's Vijay Randall with Marshall finishing fourth.
Tasmanian junior development officer Cyril Triffitt said: "Overall this was a great effort from all players as Tasmania was one player short and started each match conceding one game.
"These young men travelled all the way to the Northern Territory to compete in what has been for the last 20 years a game that is dominated by the bigger mainland states and territories."
- ROB SHAW
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Seeds to be hard to beat
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26 Jan, 2011 01:00 AM
THE Northern Tasmanian billiards championship will provide some interesting matches, with defending champion and top seed Graeme Pickett and in-form third seed David Bates likely to meet in the February 26 final.
Bates will need to get past the number two seed and last year's runner-up, Peter Donati, and Pickett is drawn to meet Gary Bjarnoe Elliott or Adrian White in the other semi-final.
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Snooker community mourns stalwart Clem Hoggett
CUE NEWS - Courtesy Examiner
18 Jan, 2011 01:00 AM
IT is with sadness that the Tasmanian snooker community marks the passing of a stalwart of the game after Hobart's Clem Hoggett succumbed to a long illness at his Berridale home on Saturday.
Hoggett, who had his 70th birthday last year, was well known for his attacking style of play.
He was runner-up to James Giannaros in the 1981 Southern Tasmanian snooker championship.
The left-hander was also a member of the 1982 Tasmanian team that scored the state's very first win against Victoria, at the Ulverstone RSL Club.
Hoggett, playing last, with the scores at four-all, played a brilliant pink to set up his black ball win against former Victorian champion Harry Andrews.
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Gold rises with win over Devils
John Fraser (200) beat Heath Rainbow (280), Steven Leary (255) beat Roydyn Bishop (120) and Rolf Stevenson won over Andrew Rainbow (275).
For the Devils, Josh Rainbow (305) defeated John Stevenson (270).
Defending premier Works Green travelled to Exeter to inflict a 3-1 win against the country team.
For Green, Dean Wilson (270) beat Derek Peart (280), Dallas Fry (280) beat John Adams (305) and Glen Johansen (265) won in a close match against Chris Reid (250).
For Exeter RSL, Rex Swain (185) was the only winner, beating David Thomas (305).
Works Red was too strong on the night for Longford RSL. Alan Armitage (240) defeated Graeme Purdon (315), Keith Coomber (175) defeated Adrian White (155) and Peter Seaman (305) beat Dennis Collins (315).
Wayne Purdon (245) was Longford's only winner, defeating Philip Rowbottom (280).
Ladder-leader Works Black and Works Blue drew 2-2, after Black's David Bates received a forfeit to keep his unbeaten record intact.
Bruce Lockley (215) played well to defeat Michael Leslie (220). For the Blue team, Peter Donati (105), with the aid of a 49 break, was too strong for Andrew Saltmarsh (220), and Hans Georgieff (265) beat Peter Wallace (265).
Works Navy had this week's bye.
One match between Works Black and Exeter RSL remains unplayed with an agreement that they play a double-header on January 13, their next scheduled game against each other.
Ladder after round nine (not complete): Black 30, Gold 27, Longford RSL 26, Flaming Devils 24, Exeter RSL 24, Green 23, Blue 20, Navy 18, Red 18.
David Bates continues to lead the player rankings, having won seven matches including this week's forfeit, followed by five players who have won five matches from seven played.
Best breaks this week: Peter Donati 49, Roydyn Bishop 41, John Fraser 36, Bruce Lockley 31, 26.
Robertson out
AUSTRALIAN Neil Robertson crashed out of the UK championships on Friday morning (Tastime), beaten 9-6 by Irishman Shaun Murphy.
The world champion had potential problems staying awake during his match after watching the Ashes Test on late-night television in England.
Former number one John Higgins, returning to competition after suspension, won the event, beating Mark Williams 10-9 in an epic final.
Australian players Steve Mifsud, of Melbourne, and Sydney-based Vinnie Calabrese have reached the last 32 of the IBSF world snooker championship played in Damascus, Syria.
Mifsud, the 1995 IBSF world champion, will play Rodney Goggin, of Ireland, and Calabrese will play Gareth Allen, of Wales, for a place in the last 16.
Calabrese has made breaks of 139, 139, 122 and 106. Mifsud's best so far is 112.
For more information: www.nteba.com.au, or call the secretary on 0487171966.
