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Winter League Merits Finals
The merits finals took place at Dishers with Dave Preece (Dishers C) capturing the title for the first time since 2008 with a convincing 3-0 win over Phil Malam (Dishers A) in the Final, this was after both players had won 21 out 24 matches in the regular season. Phil made the final with a comfortable 3-0 victory against the Division 2 merits champion, Michael Bedson from Rileys B, who had won 14 out of 17 to top Division 2.
However, Dave was a little more fortunate to see off the challenge of Division 2 runner up, Steve Abbott (Rileys XL), by 3 frames to 1 in their semi final.
The League would like to pass on its thanks to Dishers owned by Dave Preece for kindly sponsoring the Winter merits event.
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| Divisional Winners - Michael and Dave | Dave with League Chairman Barry Brandreth |
Summer League AGM
The Summer League AGM took place on Thursday 3rd May at the Kings Arms, there were three new venues accepted into the League along with an additional team from Rileys after discussion and vote by the 11 teams represented.
The League will start on Sunday 20th May with 3 Divisions as follows;
| Division A | Division B | Division C | ||
| Bridge Inn A | Broughton B | Brunel | ||
| Dishers C | Kings Arms A | Rockwood | ||
| Dishers A | Kings Arms B | Rileys B | ||
| Dishers B | Kings Arms C | Haslington Cc | ||
| Pockets | Dishers Ladies | Hop Pole B | ||
| Captain Webb A | Hop Pole A | Rileys Z | ||
| Rileys A | Rileys Xl | Cumberland | ||
| Broughton A | Captain Webb B | Prince Of Wales | ||
| The Duke |
All information will be distributed to venues by Sunday 13th May and the provisional diary is now on the Diary page.
It was announced at the meeting that Shaun Baker will stand down from the Committee at the end of the Summer season,
leaving a vacancy for the position of League Treasurer. The league will also require a webmaster to take over the running of the website.
Tim Lindop Memorial Trophy
A new name will appear on the Tim Lindop trophy after Daz Jennings (Dishers B) defeated Simon Malam (Bridge Inn A) by 3 frames to 1 in the Singles knockout final. Despite losing the first frame, Daz put in an outstanding performance to beat the three time former Champion.
It could have been a completely different story when Daz was staring defeat in the face at 2-0 down to Mike Beeston (Bridge Inn A) in their semi final, however, he dug deep and won the deciding frame after a lengthy tactical battle.
The second semi final saw the meeting of fierce sibling rivals Simon and Phil Malam, the reigning Champion, and even though Phil started brilliantly with an 8 ball clearance it was Simon who dominated the match winning 3-1.
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Doubles Knockout Finals
It was deja vu at Dishers Pool and Snooker with Mike Beeston and Stu Gregory retaining the Doubles title with a 2-0 victory over Kev Lloyd and Andy Moore in the Final. Beeston and Gregory disposed of the two time Champions Dave Preece and Lyndsey Roberts by 2 frames to1 in the semi finals with Lloyd and Moore beating the Dishers pairing of Lynn Masser and Andy Booth 2-0 in the other semi.
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Team Knockout Final
Congratulations go to Dishers C who retained the Team Knockout title with a 4-0 win over Dishers B.
Simon Cope took the first frame for Dishers C with a scrappy win over Alex Hulme, Andy Moore made it 2-0 with a win over Malc Johnston in a frame that could have gone to either side. Dishers C Captain, Dave Preece then made it 3-0 with a comfortable win over Dave Leslie.
Daz Jennings looked to have pulled Dishers B back into the match, however, in potting the black he also potted a red handing the winning frame to Kev Lloyd.
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