SEMI-FINAL LINE-UPS OF SIX RED CUP ARE NOW KNOWN

STEVE BULLOCK ... pivotal win

BELPER ROYAL BRITISH LEGION featuring the old Strutt Club players moved into yet another semi final in their favourite competition which honours their former team-mate Bob McCartin with a 4-2 home victory over Tansley Potters in the six red knockout stages.
Mark Newby took the opener 44-22 before Radford Neville quickly levelled with a 43-12 triumph.
Gray Astle then gave the visitors the lead with a 39-12 verdict in frame three but a pivotal black ball win from Steve Bullock once again had the teams deadlocked.
From there on, the Legionnaires bossed the scotch doubles contests with Bullock teaming up with Wayne Shooter to edge his side ahead and Newby joining forces with Paul Jarrett to engineer the decisive blows in a 53-37 success.

They now travel to Alfreton Palmer Morewood No1 who scored an excellent 5-2 win at Clay Cross Brotherhood, putting the game to bed in the first four singles contests.
Andrew Haggarty, Phil Longden plus Des and John Smith were all successful one after the other to render the scotch doubles stages academic.

Bolehill Institute fell behind in their home clash with Edgefold No2 when Roy Taylor potted a storming long pink in the first to come down and gain perfect position on the black which he duly took.
But from thereon, the home side found their mojo and Ricki Slack (24 break) and Simon Zoppi nudged the Wirksworth side ahead with strong performances.
Ian Birks made it 3-1 soon after and then Slack teamed up with Colin Marchington to put the game beyond the visitors.

League leaders Edgefold No1 now travel to Bolehill after a 5-2 win at Alfreton No 3.
Sean Dobney struck first aided by a 22 clearance before two black ballers were shared with Jack Lowe and Steve Burton each victorious.
Scott Brooks took another tight game in the next to make it 3-1 with some of the escapes from snookers top drawer in tit-for-tat duels before Dobney teamed up with James Travis to seal the deal with a run of 27 in the first of the scotch doubles.

Ricki Slack rolled back the years in the Denis Morton Pairs Handicap Trophy first round with a run of 57 as he and Ian Birks moved into the next stages.

In the Billiards Captains Cup semi final, Mayfield Institute defeated Bolehill Institute 293-266 with Keith Gregory coming from way adrift to put his side into the ascendancy.
There was a barnstorming finish to the Williams Cup singles match between Mark Jennings and Jim McCann when despite a break of 64, the latter fell just short of the winning post with Jennings edging over the line in a grandstand finish.

Bob McCartin Six Red Cup quarter finals: Belper Royal British Legion 4, Tansley Potters 2; Clay Cross Brotherhood 2, Alfreton Palmer Morewood No1 5; Bolehill Institute 6, Edgefold Matlock No2 1; Alfreton Palmer Morewood No3 2, Edgefold Matlock No1 5.
Breaks (inc. comps): R Slack 57,24; R Muxlow 32; S Zoppi / I Birks 28 (scotch doubles);  S Dobney / J Travis 27 (scotch doubles); S Burton / S Brooks 25 (scotch doubles); S Dobney 22.

Billiards Captains Cup semi final: Mayfield Institute 293, Bolehill Institute 266.
Breaks (inc. comps): J McCann 64.