Junior Ranking Series

Maltings Q Club, Kings Lynn

Sunday, November 3rd, 2003

Twenty-six players entered the season's second Junior Ranking tournament at the Maltings Q Club in Kings Lynn, who kindly sponsored the competition. Kettering's Matthew Sutton won the event in fine style recording breaks of 107, 69 and 54 in the first round, 70 and 54 in the quarter-finals, and 130 in the semi's. However, in the final the rapidly improving Jamie Edwards (Norwich) pressed Sutton all the way allowing the Kettering player only a slender four point victory.

Billy Bousfield progressed the furthest from the small travelling contingent from Teesside, losing in the semi-finals to Sutton, while Daniel Dobbs, who lost in the other semi-final to Edwards, was Lincolnshire's most successful representative.

In the Plate final, Nathan Mann (Norwich) defeated James Roberts (Norwich) in a very close contest, the closing score being 167-161.

Breaks SC; Lincoln

Sunday 5th January 2003

In the absence of Robin Wilson the Junior tournaments are beginning to look much more competitive, and with Matthew Sutton also missing on this occasion, the Lincoln event was wide-open. Even so, the closing stages of this 20-strong field were dominated by Teessiders, with Jamie Barker being the only player from outside that region the reach the quarter-finals.

Billy Bousfield proved to be the best on the day, including notable victories over Michael Donnelly in the semi-finals and John Hall in the final. Craig Murphy made the highest break of the competition, with 101 in his opening match while Donnelly and Hall both passed the 500 aggregate during the course of the day, with 513 and 506 respectively.

Craig Brown won the Plate event, beating Richard Hall 323-308 in the final. This result including a break of 50 by Brown.

Danny Britnall 297 Jamie Edwards 289; Jin Yung Foulger 163 A. Ward 154; Billy Bousfield (45) 266 Craig Brown (54, 46) 261; Craig Murphy (101, 41) 352 Richard Hall (48, 48) 277.

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