MAYES SETS THE TONE FOR ALFRETON IN CUP FINAL

ALFRETON PALMER MOREWOOD Captains Cup winners 2015/16
L-R: Kevin Rowland, Will Salt, Andrew Beardsley, Jamie Rowland, Ralph Edgson and
Simon Mayes.

TWO finals this week saw Alfreton Palmer Morewood lift the Captains Cup Team Aggregate competition whilst Andy Russell and Duncan Harwood received the Denis Morton Pairs Handicap Trophy.
Simon Mayes put the Amber Valley outfit in pole position for the team event at Belper Strutt Club as he struck breaks of 34 and 23 en route to a 104-42 success in the opener, leaving Bolehill No 2 with their work cut out.
Keith Robertson engineered a 60-59 win over winning most player runner-up Kevin Rowland in the next though that made little impression on the scoreboard.
Once Andrew Beardsley notched a 56-39 verdict in frame three to increase the advantage, the writing was on the wall and despite a valiant stand from Martin Forster, whose 60-42 win looked like being more conclusive at one stage, so it proved.
The concluding  doubles leg was nip and tuck but irrelevant to the whole context of the result so Robertson and Ian Peacock waved the white flag with a 5pts deficit to leave Alfreton 293-228 victors.

DENIS MORTON CUP Pairs finalists 2015/16
L-R: Steve Bullock, Andy Russell, Duncan Harwood and Mark Newby.

Andy Russell was in exhilarating form in the doubles final played at Palmer Morewood Club, notching breaks of 51,47 and 23 (twice) as he and partner Duncan Harwood dominated proceedings to score a 4-0 triumph.
This left unlucky pair Mark Newby and Steve Bullock runners-up for the third successive season, the closest frame being the third which went down to the pink.
Edgefold No 1 are also winners of the Jimmy Harper Plate competition as Matlock Golf Club have had to concede the final due to lack of available players.
Captains Cup Team Aggregate final: Alfreton Palmer Morewood 293, Bolehill Institute No 2 228.
Denis Morton Pairs Handicap final: Andy Russell / Duncan Harwood 4, Steve Bullock / Mark Newby 0.
Jimmy Harper Plate Team Aggregate final: Edgefold Matlock No 1 w/o, Matlock Golf Club scr.
Breaks: A Russell 51,47,23,23; S Mayes 24,23.