DONNER'S 136 TOTAL CLEARANCE IS ALL-TIME RECORD

ALFRETON PALMER MOREWOOD Captains Cup winners~
L-R: Simon Mays, Andrew Beardsley, Jamie Rowland, Ben Monk, Steve Donner and
Kevin Rowland. Not pictured: Kyle Ryde and Ant McMahon.

STEVE DONNER was the undoubted star of Alfreton Palmer Morewood No2's Captains Cup final victory over Edgefold No 1 at Crich Comrades as he produced the League's highest recorded break in its history, courtesy of a magical total 136 clearance in the opening frame.
Overhauling the previous best of 126 from Scott Cooney in the 2006 OMYA Cup, Donner also usurped the previous best-ever single-frame match contribution of 120 from himself just last season.
Opponent Duncan Harwood was left standing in awe after playing just one safety reply to Donner's break-off and thereafter the Alfreton cueman only once looked slightly out of position but pulled off an excellent double into the middle pocket to keep the break going.
It was going to be difficult for Edgefold to come back from that and when Ben Monk rifled in breaks of 32 and 24 in the next, the writing was already on the wall.
Simon Mays added to the deficit in frame three as he took an 82-60 win despite Steve Clark's run of 21 keeping him in the hunt mid-frame.

When the Matlock men did eventually reverse the trend, it was only by a single point as Sean Dobney edged a 59-58 verdict  and despite him teaming up with Harwood to secure a 60-27 win in the doubles leg, there was still a 396-301 final scoreline in favour of the Amber Valley men.
This leaves them just one win away from completing the never-before-achieved quadruple grand slam of all four team trophies after they took home three of them last season.

ADY LOWE .. Open Handicap winner

Meanwhile, the Open Individual Handicap Trophy went to Alfreton No 3's Ady Lowe for the first time who defeated Tansley's Joe Neville 4-1 at Bolehill Institute.

Neville looked in excellent touch as he took the opener 68-34 with some consistent teen breaks but couldn't quite reproduce that kind of form in the remaining frames as Lowe took control of a largely tactical encounter, scoring just the better of the pair for the bulk of the contest.
A hard-fought third frame going to Lowe on the pink proved to be a pivotal point of the match.

Captains Cup (Team Aggregate) Final (at Crich): Alfreton Palmer Morewood No2 398, Edgefold Matlock No1 301: 136(136)-55; 93(32,24)-67; 82-60(21); 58-59; 27-60.
Open Individual Handicap Final (at Bolehill): Ady Lowe (Alfreton PM) 4, Joe Neville (Tansley) 1: 34-68; 57-32; 51-41; 60(22)-39; 58-37.