CLAY CROSS No2 & EDGEFOLD No1 COLLECT THE SPOILS

CLAY CROSS BROTHERHOOD No2 Jaeger Trophy play-off winners 2025/26
L-R: Mark Bower, John Roseman, Callum Greenfield and Lee Shaw.

EDGEFOLD MATLOCK No1 - Bob McCartin Six Red Cup winners 2025/26
L-R: Tommy Smith, Duncan Harwood, Steve Burton, Richard Ferguson and Rob Muxlow.

TWO MAJOR finals were contested this week with the Jaeger Trophy league play offs coming to a conclusion at Crich Comrades fought out between the league's top two teams who finished level on points in the regular season and the Edgefold Club hosting the Bob McCartin Six Red Cup showdown which was deferred from earlier in the season.
Alfreton Palmer Morewood No2 had pipped Clay Cross Brotherhood No2 to the league title on the most wins rule and in the meantime both had scored convincing victories in the play off semi finals over Edgefold No2 and Bolehill No1 respectively.
Callum Greenfield, who has taken his play to a higher level in the second part of the season, was again in imperious form as he took the opener for Clay Cross reeling off his twelfth straight win with a run of 20 - just one of a string of contributions in that period - as he delivered an 81-23 success.
The second frame was the tighest and most pivotal of the night with Jack Lowe, most successful player of the current season, up against Mark Bower but after a tight battle it was the Clay Cross cueman who fired home the deciding black for a 47-46 verdict and a 2-0 lead.
And a high quality third frame saw Lee Shaw (22 break) battle hard to edge out hotshot youngster Kai Hopkins by taking brown, blue and pink for a 60-47 success and a win for the team in straight frames.

The six red contest played simultaneously saw Edgefold No1 taking on Clay Cross No1 with Rob Muxlow taking an extended opening frame 44-14 before Tony Blant equalised with a 37-13 salvo.
Veteran Graham Jones (25 break) has been in an excellent run of form lately and he engineered a 38-27 success to put Clay Cross into the lead but a black ball win for Tommy Smith 37-36 kept the scores level again.
All was down to the scotch doubles events, and Smith stayed on the table to partner Muxlow to a 46-22 victory and put his team on the verge of lifting the trophy.
However, Blant and Duane Parsons were having none of it and came back strongly to equalise again before Steve Burton and Smith (Clay Cross Brotherhood sponsored Player of the Week) finally saw the Matlock side home with Burton potting a sublime long pink after Smith had doubled the blue for a 41-20 success and overall 4-3 victory.

Jaeger Trophy play-off final: Alfreton Palmer Morewood No2 0, Clay Cross Brotherhood No2 3 (at Crich Comrades).
Bob McCartin Six Red Cup final: Edgefold Matlock No1 4, Clay Cross Brotherhood No1 3 (at Edgefold Club, Matlock).
Breaks: G Jones 25; L Shaw 22; C Greenfield 20.
Clay Cross Brotherhood sponsored Player of the Week: Tommy Smith (Edgefold No1).