Bournemouth victory takes Tanner up to fifth
VICTORY in Bournemouth took Eastleigh teenager Ben Tanner up to fifth place on the Cuestars South of England Under-21 Gold Tour.
The 18-year-old (pictured below) defeated Daniel Woods 3-0 in the final of the fourth leg at the Greenbaize Snooker Club.
Woods, 20, who actually beat Tanner in the group stages, now leads the rankings at the halfway point of the season.
In the semi-finals, Tanner saw off Group A winner James Facey (Cardiff) 3-0 while Woods accounted for second-placed Lee Bell (The Academy, Eastleigh) by the same score.
There was no happy New Year for Welsh raider Chris Richards, who started the day second in the rankings.
Richards finished fifth in Group A and dropped one place to third.
Bournemouth lad Rikki Moore made an impressive debut on the tour. He beat Eastleigh’s Liam Burnet in the group stages and took a frame off Danny Tallentire.
The fifth leg of the eight-tournament series is at Chandler’s Ford SC, on February 6.
BREAKS
Ben Tanner: 59, 48, 47.
Lee Bell: 45.
GOLD RESULTS:
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP A: 1st, James Facey (Roath Labour Club, Cardiff); 2nd, Lee Bell (The Academy, Eastleigh); 3rd, James Bolton (Salisbury SC); 4th, Bradley Chappell (Greenbaize, Bournemouth); 5th, Chris Richards (Roath Labour Club, Cardiff).
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP B: 1st, Daniel Woods (Chandler’s Ford); 2nd, Ben Tanner (The Academy, Eastleigh); 3rd, Liam Burnet (The Academy, Eastleigh); 4th, Rikki Moore (Greenbaize, Bournemouth); 5th, Daniel Tallentire (Player’s, Westbury).
SEMI-FINALS (12 points): Woods beat Bell 3-0, Tanner beat Facey 3-0.
FINAL (25/18 points): Tanner beat Woods 3-0.
Picture by Kevin Legg
Two out of two for Midlands raider Inglis
MIDLANDS raider James Inglis has done it again.
The Worcester teenager clinched the fourth leg of the Cuestars South of England Under-21 Silver Tour at the Greenbaize Snooker Club in Bournemouth.
That makes it 11 straight victories for Inglis. He marked his Cuestars debut with victory in the second leg in Swindon in November.
Despite entering just two of the competitions so far this season, the 16-year-old is third in the rankings.
After edging Swindon’s Jodie Symes 2-1 in the last-four, he accounted for rankings leader Daniel Winfield (Player’s, Westbury) 2-0 in the final. It was Winfield’s second successive defeat in a final.
Group A winner Ryan Gavin (Liberal Club, High Wycombe) was knocked out 2-0 by Eastleigh’s Bradley Hatch in the quarter-finals. And Group D winner Gary Wilkins (Player’s, Westbury) lost at the same stage by the same score to Symes.
Winfield remains top with Gavin in second place.
The fifth leg of the eight-tournament series is at Chandler’s Ford SC, on February 6.
BREAKS
Daniel Winfield: 38, 38, 32, 32.
Mark Lloyd: 28.
SILVER RESULTS:
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP A: 1st, Ryan Gavin (Liberal Club, High Wycombe); 2nd, Jodie Symes (Jesters, Swindon); 3rd, Mark Lloyd (Stoke SC, Gosport); 4th, Rob Henley (The Academy, Eastleigh).
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP B: 1st, Daniel Winfield (Player’s, Westbury); 2nd, Cameron Gillon (Stoke SC, Gosport); 3rd, Ben Courcha (Chandler’s Ford SC).
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP C: 1st, James Inglis (Rileys, Worcester); 2nd, Oliver Parsons (Jesters, Swindon); 3rd, Paul Ives (Liberal Club, High Wycombe).
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP D: 1st, Gary Wilkins (Player’s, Westbury); 2nd, Bradley Hatch (The Academy, Eastleigh); 3rd, Joshua Lee (Jesters, Swindon).
QUARTER-FINALS (8 points): Hatch beat Gavin 2-0, Winfield beat Parsons 2-0, Inglis beat Gillon 2-0, Symes beat Wilkins 2-0.
SEMI-FINALS (12 points): Winfield beat Hatch 2-0, Inglis beat Symes 2-1.
FINAL (25/18 points): Inglis beat Winfield 2-0.
Third win for Bronze favourite Probets
SWINDON teenager Connor Probets tightened his grip on the Cuestars South of England Under-21 Bronze Tour with a third tournament success of the season in the fourth leg in Bournemouth.
The rankings leader bounced back from the shock of failing to qualify for the knockout in Portsmouth last month in true champion’s style.
Probets topped Group B, despite losing to Gosport’s Nathan Farmer.
And he accounted for Joshua Hughes (Suzy Q’s, Worcester) and Group A winner Cameron Holt (Liberal Club, High Wycombe) to reach the final.
A 2-0 victory over third-placed Andy Dyer (Player’s, Westbury) gave Probets a 19-point cushion over Callum Browne (also from Player’s, Westbury) at the halfway point of the season.
Bradley Cowdroy made an impressive tour debut on his home tables. He won Group D before eventually losing to Dyer in the quarter-finals.
Eleven-year-old Jasmine Bolsover, from Woking, climbed to joint sixth after reaching the semi-finals where she lost to Dyer.
Holt is also marching up the rankings, he’s now eighth.
The fifth leg of the eight-tournament series is at Chandler’s Ford SC, on February 6.
BRONZE RESULTS:
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP A: 1st, Cameron Holt (Liberal Club, High Wycombe); 2nd, Andy Dyer (Player’s, Westbury); 3rd, Mike Trigg (Chandler’s Ford SC); 4th, Corrie Tallentire (Player’s, Westbury); 5th, Austen Petty (Chandler’s Ford SC); 6th, Nathan Allanson (Greenbaize, Bournemouth).
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP B: 1st, Connor Probets (Jesters, Swindon); 2nd, Jasmine Bolsover (Woking SC); 3rd, Nathan Farmer (Stoke SC, Gosport); 4th, Spike Hull (Chandler’s Ford SC); 5th, Sam Storey (Thatcham SC); 6th, Arnie Petty (Greenbaize, Bournemouth).
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP C: 1st, Callum Browne (Player’s, Westbury); 2nd, Joshua Hughes (Suzy Q’s, Worcester); joint 3rd, Alex Webb (Greenbaize, Bournemouth), Kaine Petty (Greenbaize, Bournemouth), Karl Eggar (Stoke SC, Gosport).
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP D: 1st, Bradley Cowdroy (Greenbaize, Bournemouth); 2nd, Robert Harding (Sovereign SC, Farnborough); 3rd, Oliver Clark (Stoke SC, Gosport); 4th, Owen Court (Greenbaize, Bournemouth); 5th, Stewart Ball (Greenbaize, Bournemouth).
QUARTER-FINALS (8 points): Holt beat Harding 1-0, Probets beat Hughes 1-0, Bolsover beat Browne 1-0, Dyer beat Cowdroy 1-0.
SEMI-FINALS (12 points): Probets beat Holt 1-0, Dyer beat Bolsover 1-0.
FINAL (25/18 points): Probets beat Dyer 2-0.
Silver beats Gold in Plate final
SILVER Tour player Joshua Lee defeated James Bolton, who is 13th on the Gold Tour, in the Plate final in Bournemouth.
Lee, based at Jesters in Swindon, won the consolation competition after finishing third in his round-robin group and missing out on a place in the main knockout.
In the quarter-finals, 16-year-old Bolton (Salisbury SC) ended the run of high-scoring Danny Tallentire, who had chalked up breaks of 54 and 31 in the earlier rounds.
Bolton then defeated home player Rikki Moore, who was making his first appearance of the season.
In the second semi, Lee accounted for Rob Henley (The Academy, Eastleigh).
BREAKS
Danny Tallentire: 54, 31.
PLATE RESULTS
LAST-32: Liam Burnet beat Chris Richards, Danny Tallentire beat Oliver Clark, James Bolton beat Owen Court.
LAST-16: D Tallentire beat Burnet, Bolton beat Karl Eggar, Rikki Moore beat Kaine Petty, Corrie Tallentire beat Nathan Allanson, Spike Hull beat Arnie Petty, Joshua Lee beat Austen Petty, Rob Henley beat Mark Lloyd, Nathan Farmer beat Paul Ives.
QUARTER-FINALS: Bolton beat D Tallentire, Moore beat C Tallentire, Lee beat Hull, Henley beat Farmer.
SEMI-FINALS: Bolton beat Moore, Lee beat Henley.
FINAL: Lee beat Bolton.
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