Snooker Pairs KO (The Badger Shield)
Southampton & District Social Clubs
Results and Draw for the Badger Shield 2008 / 2009
Pairs,
first round results:
A & S Smith (Ford Sports) 2 A Stevens & S Berry (Q World) 0, P Stenning
& M Shirley (Q World) 0 A Dunkley & D Hildyard (Sarisbury Soc) 2, G Cool
& S Weymouth (Lyndhurst WM) 0 A Davies & G Pennington (Shirley Soc) 2, A
Taylor & L Yeatman (Churchills) 1 D Riddett & C Collinson (Sarisbury
Soc) 2, D Gallant & M Wade (Eastleigh Rail) w/o J Hardy & M Jauncey
(Woolston Cons), C Holland & D Glasspool (Shirley Soc) 2 P Comber & A
Cameron (Ford Sports) 0, J Barton & J Mines (Eastleigh Rail) 0 L Ashbolt
(Beaulieu/E Boldre) & P Tavender (Romsey Comrades) 2, K Auld & R Binns
(Park Gate RBL) 0 M Finn & M Russell (Woolston Cons) 2, D Wheeler & A
Kane (Churchills) w/o B Price & T Murphy (Lyndhurst WM), T Azor & S Hans
(City Trans) 2 N Davies & J Warren (Churchills) 0.
Pairs,
second round draw (by Nov 13): Gallant
& Wade v M Smith & A Chircop (Q World), G Moore & D Pearce (Totton
Rec) v Davies & Pennington, C Weir & W Renyard (Hythe & District) v
B Rook & D Luscombe (Shirley Soc), I Pardey & N Blake (Sarisbury Soc) v
N Wood & S Cotterall (Woolston Cons), Riddett & Collinson v K Jones
& B Castle (Churchills), K Vane & M Benzey (City Trans) v N Holland
& J Hoskins (Totton Rec), Wheeler & Kane v S Ayres & O Smith (Q
World), D & P Glasspool (Shirley Soc) v Holland & Glasspool (Shirley
Soc), G & P Williamson (Lyndhurst WM) v R Harrison & J Weaver (Woolston
Cons), A Davis & G Haynes (Sway Social) v
Ashbolt & Tavender, Azor & Hans v S Hulbert & A Humphries (Botley
Inst), D Farminer & A Nash (Woolston Cons) v R Martin & S Allen (Totton
Rec), R Pennicott & M Newington (St Denys Cons) v Finn & Russell, S
Smith & L Knapp (Q World) v W Crotty & B Price (Hythe & District),
Dunkley & Hildyard v D & G Cook (Woolston Cons), M Mclean & D
Lovejoy (Churchills) v A & S Smith.
and last season...
2008 Highlight in the quarter-finals... Darren Pearce (Totton Rec A) scored a 119 clearance.
Champions 2008.........Mark Benzey and Kevin Vane
(City Transport)
KEVIN VANE and MARK
BENZEY’S victory in the snooker pairs final will be long remembered for a
break that has been likened to Alex Higgins’ famous 69 clearance in the 1982
World Championship semi-finals.
Churchills’
Dave Wheeler and Andy Kane could not make home advantage tell as the two former
Town Champions from City Transport triumphed 3-1 in a match that exploded into
life in the third frame.
The
two scrappy opening frames were shared.
Trailing
by 54 points in the third with four reds left and the balls not ideally placed,
Vane cleared with a 55 to win on the black.
Andy
Brooke described it as “one of the highlights of my reign as games
secretary”.
Referee
Steve Boterhoek said it reminded him of ‘Hurricane’ Higgins’ break against
Jimmy White and added: “It was fantastic. I can’t remember a break better
than that.”
Vane
said: “I took the green early on knowing full well that I needed three reds
and blacks. There was quite a bit of emotion at the end of it, as you’d
expect.
“It
was one of the best 55 breaks I’ve ever had,” he laughed.
Vane
knocked in a 39 from a fluked red in the fourth and clinched the Badger Shield
on the pink after former Daily Echo
champion Andy Kane’s fine 44 ended with a bad split on the remaining reds.
Vane
added: “Mark kept us in the match early on and in the latter bit I found some
form.”
The
pair saw off three of the league’s strongest teams to reach the final: former
England international Mike Finn and Mark McLean, Eastleigh Railway’s Danny
Gallant and Mitch Wade, and Darren Pearce and Greg Moore, from Totton Rec, in
the semis.
Benzey,
who teamed up with Vane last season, has won the title twice before.
Pearce
scored the competition’s highest break of 119 in the last eight.
Champions 2007.........Ken Jones and Sid Reid (Churchills)
Champions 2006.........N.Davies & DMumford (Churchills)
Champions 2005.........N.Davies & DMumford (Churchills)
Quarter - Finals and Semi's
© February 2006 by Antony Aldridge