Southampton Social Clubs
Snooker Individual KO (The Mintrum Cup)
for the 2011 / 2012 season
The
Southampton Town Championship
Individual Snooker Knockout
MIKE Finn retained the
snooker Town Championship title in what spectators declared as the greatest
final in living memory.
As
the social clubs page went to press, the 26-year-old wrapped up a 4-2 victory
over Churchills A teammate Billy Castle.
Castle
earned a place in the record books when the 19-year-old compiled a 115 break in
the fifth frame. It was the first century scored in the 64-year history of Town
Championship finals.
Finn
contributed breaks of 55, 63, 60 and 56.
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JORDAN Winbourne, who will
be 16 tomorrow, has fired a warning shot across the bow of his Town Championship
semi-final opponent Mike Finn.
The
Sarisbury Social A teenager beat defending champion Finn (Churchills A) 2-0 in a
Super League fixture.
Billy
Castle (Churchills A) meets Ben Tanner (Eastleigh WMC A) in the second semi.
Eastleigh
Railway Institute hosts both matches on Thursday at 7.30pm.
Meanwhile,
St Denys Conservative Club will host the pairs semi-finals on Thursday, February
23, at 7.30pm.
And
the league revealed this week that all snooker finals will be played at Bitterne
Conservative Club this season.
TOWN
Champion Mike Finn is one match away from
the “best buzz of the year”.
Finn,
bidding to claim the Frank Mintrum Cup
for the third time in four years, beat Satpal Hans (Chandlers Ford Central) 2-0
in this season’s quarter-finals.
“The
Town Championship is the one everyone wants to win,” declared the 26-year-old, who turns out for Super League champions-elect
Churchills A.
“If
I play as well as I know I can, then I have a good chance. But, then again, if I
play as bad as I know I can, then probably not.
“I
will be practising hard for it as it’s the one to win in a season. And the
final nights when you get 50-odd people turning up to watch the game is the best
buzz of the year.”
Ben Tanner, 19, reached his first semi-final after
trailing Drew Farminer by 29 points with one red left in the first frame and by
40-plus points with five reds left in the second.
FRANK
MINTRUM CUP, TOWN CHAMPIONSHIP
Quarter-final
results: Mike Finn (Churchills) 2 Satpal Hans (C/Ford Central) 0, Ben Tanner (Eastleigh
WMC) 2 Drew Farminer (Romsey Comrades) 0, Danny Gallant (Eastleigh Railway
Institute) 0 Jordan Winbourne (Botley RBL) 2, Billy Castle (Churchills) 2 Adam
Nash (Churchills) 0.
Results are in.....
FRANK
MINTRUM CUP
Outstanding
second-round results: S Hans (C/Ford Central) 2 S Masters (Atherley Bowl)
0, M Parsons (Eastleigh Rail) 1 P Naismith (Woolston T&L) 2.
Third-round:
D
Farminer (Romsey Coms) 2 G Phillips (Woolston T&L) 0, A Nash (Churchills) 2
W Crotty (Hythe Club) 0, S Allen (Totton Rec) 1 D Gallant (Eastleigh Rail) 2, M
Benzey (C/Ford Central) 0 Hans 2, K Vane (C/Ford Central) 0 B Castle
(Churchills) 2, D Hobbs (Park Gate RBL) 0 M Finn (Churchills) 2, B Tanner
(Eastleigh WM) 2 W Muddiman (C/Ford Central) 0.
Quarter-final
ties (Jan 12): Finn
v Hans, Tanner v Farminer, Nash v Castle, Gallant v J Winbourne (Botley RBL) or
Naismith.
First-round
results: P Naismith
(Woolston T&L) 2 T Azor (C/Ford Central) 0, J Winbourne (Botley RBL) 2 P
Tavender (Park Gate RBL) 0, M McLean (Churchills) 0 S Allen (Totton Rec) 2, L
Bell (Woolston Soc) 2 R Eldridge (Atherley Bowl) 0, D Hobbs (Park Gate RBL) w/o
J Mines (Eastleigh Rail), K Vane (C/Ford Central) 2 G Shefford (B/Stoke Inst) 1,
P Lawrence (Park Gate RBL) 1 I Finch (Park Gate RBL) 2, M Wade (Eastleigh Rail)
2 C Christodoulou (Park Gate RBL) 1, G Leech (Park Gate RBL) w/o S Skeery
(Atherley Bowl), C Moulsdale (Woolston T&L) 2 P Shears (Eastleigh Rail) 1. S
Hans (C/Ford Central) v N Jennings (Churchills) & M Parsons (Eastleigh Rail)
v D Hui (Churchills) are subject to protests and their second-round ties are
suspended.
Second-round
ties (by Nov 3): Winbourne
v C Holland (Nursling Soc), B Castle (Churchills) v J Barton (Eastleigh Rail), J
Wilkinson (Atherley Bowl) v G Phillips (Woolston T&L), G Shields (Atherley
Bowl) v Allen, J Coyle (Eastleigh Rail) v D Gallant (Eastleigh Rail), P Owen
(Eastleigh Rail) v M Finn (Churchills), Bell v M Benzey (C/Ford Central), D
Clark (Totton Rec) v B Tanner (Eastleigh WM), Leech v Hobbs, Vane v L Burnet
(Eastleigh WM), Moulsdale v W Crotty (Hythe Club), Wade v A Nash (Churchills), D
Farminer (Romsey Coms) v S Boterhoek (Park Gate RBL), Hans or Jennings v S
Masters (Atherley Bowl), W Muddiman (C/Ford Central) v Finch, Parsons or Hui v
Naismith.
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Last Season (May 2011)
Final Mike Finn beat Nick Jennings 4 - 1 .
A dodgy white ball nearly wrecked proceedings at the Shirley Conservatives club in Anglesea Road. Neither player could stun or screw the cue ball, even run-through shots became difficult to control. Finn won the frame, but as players and spectators alike were not happy with the situation, officials changed the errant white. Finn won the next two to go 3 - 0 up, which included a 63 clearance in one and a 50 break in the other.
Jennings replied with a solid show of potting in the fourth frame, but the match was over when Finn took control of the fifth frame, with good control of the white around the pink and black spots.
Mike Finn won this event two years ago.... Nick Jennings won the cup last year.
earlier news
EASTLEIGH Railway Institute hosts the Town Championship semi-finals on Thursday 10th Feb: Drew Farminer v Nick Jennings, Mike Finn v Adam Nash.
and the results were as follows.......
Semi-final
results: Drew
Farminer (Woolston Cons) 0 Nick Jennings 3 (Churchills). Frame scores (breaks):
33-64, 29-71(52), 39-65(59). Mike Finn (Woolston Cons) 3 Adam Nash (Woolston
Cons) 1. Frame scores: 82-8, 60-22, 28-59, 48-37.
Final
(Shirley Cons, Mar 24, 7.30pm, best of seven):
Finn v Jennings.
SNOOKER: Three of the four
semi-finalists in this year’s Town Championship play for Woolston Conservative
Club A.
Mike
Finn, the 2009 champion, takes on the 2006 champion Adam Nash while their
captain Drew Farminer meets Nick Jennings, from Churchills, who lifted
the Frank Mintrum Cup last season.
Meanwhile,
Eastleigh WMC has been chosen to host the Burroughes & Watts team knockout
semi-finals.
Woolston
Cons A take on Churchills A while Eastleigh Rail C meet Chandlers Ford Central A
on March 3 at 7.30pm.
FRANK
MINTRUM CUP
Quarter-final
results: Adam Nash
(Woolston Cons) 2 Kevin Vane (C/Ford Central) 0, Nick Jennings (Churchills) 2
Dave Hobbs (Park Gate RBL) 0, Alex Dunkley (Sarisbury Soc) 1 Drew Farminer
(Woolston Cons) 2, Mike Finn (Woolston Cons) 2 Paul Naismith (Woolston T&L)
0.
Semi-final
draw (Feb 10, venue TBA): Farminer
v Jennings, Finn v Nash.
Frank Mintrum Cup, second round:
S Barton (Woolston T&L) 2 S Reid (Churchills) 1,
P Tavender (Park Gate RBL) 0 D Farminer (Woolston Cons) 2,
D Hobbs (Park Gate RBL) w/o B Price (Hythe Club),
J Barton (Eastleigh Rail) 0 J Warren (Churchills) 2,
M Russell (Woolston Cons) 1 M Finn (Woolston Cons) 2,
D Hildyard (Woolston Cons) 2 S Allen (Totton Rec) 1,
L Ashbolt (Ashlett Club) 2 M Benzey (C/Ford Central) 1,
C Christodoulou (Park Gate RBL) 0 C Holland (Shirley Soc) 2,
M Parsons (Eastleigh Rail) 1 A Nash (Woolston Cons) 2,
T Azor (C/Ford Central) 2 R Longhurst (Shirley Soc) 1,
G Leach (Park Gate RBL) 0 G Still (Botley RBL) 2,
J Winbourne (Botley RBL) 1 A Dunkley (Sarisbury Soc) 2,
P Lawrence (Park Gate RBL) 2 S Crosswell (Churchills) 0,
K Vane (C/Ford Central) 2 W Crotty (Hythe Club) 1,
C Mousdale (Woolston T&L) 0 N Jennings (Churchills) 2,
O Tydeman
(Woolston Cons) 0 P Naismith (Woolston T&L) 2.
Third-round
ties (by Dec 9): Paul
Lawrence v Dave Hobbs, Alex Dunkley v Gary Still, Jerry Warren v Mike Finn, Lee
Ashbolt v Kevin Vane, Sam Barton v Paul Naismith, Terry Azor v Drew Farminer,
Adam Nash v Dan Hildyard, Chris Holland v Nick Jennings.
© October 2010 by Antony Aldridge