Rice exits as a champion
DAVID Rice took home a winner’s trophy from his last event on the Cuestars Under-21 circuit.
The 21-year-old from Fordingbridge collected the Six-Reds Challenge trophy from guest professional Kurt Maflin during Finals Day at Jesters Snooker Club, Swindon.
On his Cuestars debut in December, 2014, he made the Bronze semi-finals in Bournemouth. He won the final event that season in Salisbury, finished fifth in the rankings, earned promotion to Silver and ended this season ranked seventh.
Elsewhere, James Budd (Fareham), the only player to beat Joe Perry at last season’s Finals Day, repeated the feat this year by seeing off world number 50 Kurt Maflin on a re-spotted black.
Maflin won his other ten exhibition frames and compiled a 100 against Arron Smith (who had also had a 100 knocked in against him by Gold champion Mark Lloyd).
SIX-REDS RESULTS (ONE-FRAME MATCHES)
PRELIMS: Bowen Zhu (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Ben Crump (Mayfair, Gosport), Nat Kidner (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) beat Ally Pollard (Salisbury SC), Reece King (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) beat David O’Callaghan (Greenbaize, Bournemouth).
LAST-16: Mickey Joyce (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Connor Shaw (Greenbaize, Bournemouth), Dan Sykes (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Keegan Reed (Salisbury SC), Arnie Petty (Salisbury SC) beat Callum Browne (Player’s, Westbury), David Rice (Salisbury SC) beat Harry Joyce (Chandler’s Ford SC), Zhu beat James Budd (Fareham SC), Callum White (Copnor SC, Portsmouth) beat Kidner, Kaine Petty (Salisbury SC) beat Adam Cowdroy (Greenbaize, Bournemouth), King beat William Forster (Mayfair, Gosport).
QUARTER-FINALS: M Joyce beat Sykes, Rice beat A Petty, White beat Zhu, King beat K Petty.
SEMI-FINALS: Rice beat M Joyce, White beat King.
FINAL: Rice beat White.
Picture by Tim Dunkley
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