SIX RED KINGS STRUTT BRING UP THE HAT-TRICK OF WINS

BELPER STRUTT CLUB Bob McCartin Six Red Cup winners 2021/22

L-R: Wayne Shooter, Paul Jarrett, Justin Weller and Steve Bullock.
Also played in previous rounds: Mark Newby, Shane Miles.

BELPER STRUTT CLUB are doing their former team mate the late Bob McCartin proud as they secured the cup named in his honour for the third time in five seasons, in which period they have also landed a runners up prize in the event.

The six red cup final saw Alfreton Palmer Morewood No 1 lining up as their opponents at Crich Comrades Club and it was to prove a hotly contested battle before the Belper cuemen emerged victorious as has been the case with some degree of regularity in recent years.
The opening frame swung back and forth before Wayne Shooter took it on the deciding black but Tom Broughton quickly equalised with a tidy second frame success.
Steve Bullock with an early teen break took control at the start of frame three and ran out a 33-6 winner but again it was level after John Smith raced well ahead and stayed there for 2-2.

Andrew Haggarty (standing in for Tom Broughton) and Phil Longden
with the Presidents Cup (highest scotch doubles break award)

The first of the pairs proved pivotal as Tom Broughton and Phil Longden combined admirably to take the highest scotch doubles break of 28 (in the process lifting the Presidents Cup) and move 32-0 to the good but then an incredible backs-to-the-wall effort from opponents Justin Weller and Shooter put the frame in the balance with just pink and black to go.
Leading by four, an untimely in-off left the Belper pairing two points ahead and with the cue ball back in the "D", a simple pot on the penultimate ball ensued as the comeback was completed.
And that effort was rubber-stamped when Paul Jarrett and Bullock took the match-winning leg courtesy of a 37-17 verdict.
Andrew Haggarty and Longden reduced the deficit to the minimum margin in the last doubles but it was academic as Belper once again proved undisputed kings of the short format game.

In the OMYA Cup scratch individual event, the semi finalists became known with Ricki Slack (Bolehill), Ben Monk (Alfreton), Sean Dobney (Edgefold) and Justin Weller (Strutt) reaching the last four stage.
Bob McCartin Six Red Cup final: Alfreton Palmer Morewood No 1 3, Belper Strutt Club 4 (at Crich Comrades): 29-36; 45-13; 6-33; 49-15; 32-40; 17-37; 35-21.
Breaks: T Broughton / P Longden 28 (highest scotch doubles break to win the Presidents Cup); B Monk 28,26,24,21; G Jones 28; D Smith 20.