BOTH BOLEHILL TEAMS BOOK PLACE IN SIX RED CUP FINAL

MARTIN FORSTER saw BOLEHILL No 2 off to the best possible start

THE first action of 2016 was a triumphant one for the teams from Bolehill Institute with both the first and second teams reaching the final of the Bob McCartin Six Red Team Cup, courtesy of thrilling victories over Alfreton Palmer Morewood and Edgefold No 1 respectively.
The No 1 team travelled to the Amber Valley cueists home and took an early lead as Ricki Slack took brown, blue and pink to edge the first while Colin Marchington increased the advantage soon afterwards.
Jamie Rowland with the performance of the evening pulled one back in the next before Ian Birks took a tight frame to reaffirm the lead at 3-1 with just the three scotch doubles legs left.
However, Alfreton rallied gamely to take the first two of these with Rowland again impressive in partnering his father Kevin and Simon Mayes to square things up at 3-3.
But Slack and Marchington kept cool heads in the decider wqith a 47-21 win after a titanic battle.
The No 2 team scored a 4-2 victory over their Matlock vistors with Martin Forster, Mick Bunting and Keith Robertson all scoring individual victories to give them a commanding 3-0 lead with four to play.
Andy Russell fought back from well adrift to keep the game alive in frame four and then he and Nathan Haymes pulled back another in the first of the scotch doubles legs to make it 3-2.
But ultimately it was to no avail as Robertson and Bunting took the next on the pink to make sure of an all-Bolehill final in Easter week.
Bob McCartin Six Red Cup semi finals: Alfreton Palmer Morewood 3, Bolehill Institute No 1 4; Bolehill Institute No 2 4, Edgefold Matlock No 1 2.
Denis Morton Trophy (Pairs Handicap) first round: Nick Kay / Jack Lynch 0, Neil Parkinson / Robert Muxlow 2; Ricki Slack / Colin Marchington 0, Richard Ferguson / Nathan Haymes 2.
Breaks: R Ferguson 22.