MARK SETS BELPER UP FOR ANOTHER SIX RED FINAL

MARK NEWBY ... swerve and double to take scotch doubles leg

BELPER STRUTT CLUB are making a bold bid to retain the Bob McCartin Six Red Cup, named in memory of their late team mate,  for a second successive season and will contest the final once more having seen off the challenge of Bolehill Institute No 1 4-2 on Campbell Street.
Steve Bullock played a captains knock to take the opener 52-31 before Mark Newby added the second 42-16 as they looked to reverse their league defeat to the same opposition.
Ricki Slack pulled one back for the visitors with a 41-21 verdict and then Ian Birks triumphed 37-17 to level matters at 2-2.
The first of the scotch doubles legs proved pivotal as Mark Newby, snookered on the brown which was near the baulk pocket, produced a superb masse shot to not only hit but pot it, and with blue invitingly over the pocket for partner Wayne Shooter, just the pink was required.
Newby took on the double and it went twice across into the middle pocket, with the decisive fourth frame added soon afterwards by Bullock and Justin Weller by a convincing 38-1 margin.
The other semi final proved a thriller as Edgefold No 2 defeated Matlock Golf Club 4-3 with a bizarre in-off on the final black from an attempted middle-pocket double deciding the match.
Sean Dobney won two of the three frames he contested while Rob Dickin took each of his scotch doubles legs. Chris Parker and Tony Blant had levelled matters for the Golf Club twice at 1-1 and 2-2 earlier in the night.
Bob McCartin Six Red Cup semi finals: Belper Strutt Club 4, Bolehill Institute No 1 2; Matlock Golf Club 3, Edgefold Matlock No 2 4.
Denis Morton Pairs Handicap first round: G Jones / I McKay 3, J Smith / R Taylor 2; S Dobney / R Dickin 3, K Manlove / P Holmes 0.
Individual Handicap second round: K Manlove 3, A Haggarty 0.
Breaks: R Dickin 39,29; S Dobney 27,22; G Jones 27,20,20; J Weller / S Bullock 20.