ALFRETON PM No2 ACCOMPLISH THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM

ALFRETON PALMER MOREWOOD No2  Grand Slam quadruple winners 2022/23:
L-R: Ant McMahon, Steve Donner, Jamie Rowland, Andrew Beardsley, Ben Monk, Kyle Ryde and Kevin Rowland.

ALFRETON PALMER MOREWOOD No2 became the first team ever to win the quadruple grand slam of team events since the modern schedule has been in place thanks to their 3-1 defeat of Matlock Golf Club in the Jaeger Trophy play-off final at Bolehill Institute.
Having done the treble last season, that is seven out of the last eight trophies going Amber Valley way as they added the Bob McCartin Six Red Cup to the aforementioned prize, the T & M Motors League Championship for the Hartshorne Cup, and also the Captains Cup points aggregate competition.

SIMON
MAYS

Andrew Beardsley has certainly been a big factor in the record-breakers' impressive haul with some high winning percentages over this period and he took the opener 66-26 with some solid potting and matchplay.
It was soon level, however, as Ian McKay produced one of his best displays of the season to take the second frame 77-50 and leave all to play for.
Most-winning player Graham Jones was up next for the golfers but could never find his rhythm this time around and Ant McMahon got the better of a scrappy frame to take it 55-16 and re-assert the league champions' lead.

And after a titanic battle in a fourth frame that lasted a full hour, with fortunes swinging to and fro, Simon Mays pulled out spectacular pots on green and brown before a miscue on the pink by his opponent eventually decided the issue in cruel fashion.
It is Alfreton's fourth win in the Jaeger Trophy play-offs having first won it in the 2014/15 season when the top eight qualified and they actually finished seventh!

EDGEFOLD No2 Jimmy Harper Plate
winners 2022/23:
L-R: Steve Burton, Rob Muxlow, Ryan Spencer,
Roy Taylor and Jamie Wright.

Also taking place was the Jimmy Harper Plate final (team consolation aggregate points event) for those departing in the early rounds of the Captains Cup.
Edgefold No2 won the toss for venue against opponents Tansley Potters, and confirmed their improved showing of late with a 325-217 win over the league runners-up.
Roy Taylor got things rolling in the opener with a 79-51 verdict and when Robert Muxlow and Steve Burton also added to that tally with 62-36 and 69-25 scorelines respectively, the writing appeared to be on the wall with an overall lead of 98.
Gray Astle pulled a little of that back as he took the next 67-45 but that still left a mammoth task for his team in the concluding doubles leg to come.
Steve Burton's run of 24 pretty much sealed the deal although Joe Neville quickly hit back with 21 but eventually Burton and Taylor ran out victors 70-38 to rubber-stamp the prize.

Only the Denis Morton Trophy (pairs handicap) final remains to be played and will be delayed until June as neither party could fix up a date in the regular season due to other commitments and shift work.

Also congratulations to Elliott Carpets Billiards League stalwart Jim McCann of Whitworth Institute who finished as a very creditable runner-up in the Jock McGregor handicap event organised by the EABA at Derby recently.

Jaeger Trophy (top four play offs) final: Alfreton Palmer Morewood No2 3, Matlock Golf Club 1 (at Bolehill Institute): 66-26; 50-77; 55-16; 78-58.
Jimmy Harper Plate (team aggregate consolation) final: Edgefold Matlock No 2 325, Tansley Potters 217: 79-51; 62-36; 69-25; 45-67; 70(24)-38(21).