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| ALFRETON PALMER MOREWOOD No3 Captains Cup winners 2023-24 L-R: Guy Taylor, Carlos Zaragoza, Ady Lowe and Jack Lowe. Also played: Alex Fisher. |
Carlos Zaragoza put Alfreton into an early ascendancy as he took the opener in fine style 77-33 and with Guy Taylor adding to this with an excellent 64-42 win, a very healthy lead of 66 had been built up.
Mark Newby threatened to claw a fair amount of this back for the Legionnaires but in the end had to settle for a 56-45 verdict and his team still had it all to do.
A nip and tuck frame in the fourth saw Ady Lowe start well with a teen break but Justin Weller battled valiantly and despite potting pink and going in off near the end, he was not to be denied and came back to eventually take both remaining balls for a 57-56 turnaround.
With a 54 lead though, the odds favoured Ady and Jack Lowe in the doubles leg but Weller and Steve Bullock had other ideas and despite some perfectly decent play by the frontrunners, began to erode the deficit.
A 33 break from Weller and then some astutely laid snookers had Alfreton in a real sweat and with the last three balls remaining, the lead was only five points.
But up stepped the hero of the hour Jack Lowe to produce absolutely stunning pots on blue and pink at this point and send the team and their supporters into raptures with an overall score of 282-266.
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| ADE SMITH and NICK BERRY, "B" Individual Handicap finalists |
After fouling soon before, Smith redeemed himself with a double on the blue but unfortunately for him left a golden chance on the pink straight after which Berry duly despatched to take the opener 60-41.
The next saw Smith needing the last three balls to tie but his safety on the blue went wrong and Berry stepped in to make it 2-0 with a 57-34 scoreline.
And aided by some particularly good potting, Berry sealed the deal in a very tight decider as he took blue and pink for a straight frames win.
There was also one remaining delayed T & M Motors Snooker League contest and it has happy faces all round as Clay Cross Brotherhood's 3-2 defeat of Tansley Potters saw both teams make the end of season Jaeger Trophy play offs for the top four.
Joe and Radford Neville were in winning form to put the hosts 2-1 ahead but an otherwise youthful line up had to bow to the vast experience of the visitors at the final countdown as Duncan Waring and Graham Jones secured the deciding doubles leg 83-44.
Captains Cup (Team Aggregate) final: Alfreton Palmer Morewood No3 282, Belper Royal British Legion 266 (at Clay Cross Brotherhood): 77-33; 64-42; 45-56; 56-57; 40-78(33).
"B" (Intermediate) Individual Handicap final: Nick Berry (Crich Comrades) 3, Ade Smith (Crich Comrades) 0 (at Crich): 60-41; 57-34; 77-67.
T & M Motors Snooker League: Tansley Potters 2, Clay Cross Brotherhood 3.
Breaks (inc. comps): J Weller 33; R Neville 28; D Waring 21.
T & M Motors Snooker League P W L Pts
Edgefold Matlock No 1 16 15 1 59
Crich Comrades 16 10 6 45
Tansley Potters 16 7 9 42
Clay Cross Brotherhood 16 9 7 41
Edgefold Matlock No 2 16 8 8 40
Alfreton P Morewood No 3 16 6 10 37
Bolehill Institute 16 7 9 33
Alfreton P Morewood No1 16 6 10 33
Belper Royal British Legion 16 4 12 30
Alfreton P Morewood No 2 0 0 0 0
Leading breaks: R Mulliss 51, D Smith 49.
Leading wins: S Burton 13/16; R Taylor & M Newby 11/15; D Smith & R Neville 11/16
