The EABA visit to Jersey
The EABA visit to Jersey took place the weekend 11-12-13th May 2013
A Wonderful welcome by the Jersey Snooker & Billiards Association started what was a most enjoyable weekend by all.
Rob Hall kicked off the proceedings with sessions of tuition,Rob who is Ranked number one for the past four years passed on some of his skills that was much appreciated by all present and was a great hit on the island.
The results of the matches are on the link
The EABA wish to thank Guy Heys and all the members of the Jersey Billiards & Snooker Association for their hospitality and kindness .
Clive
Junior Finals Day
Junior finals took place at Grantham Snooker and Pool Club. Results are available Here
EABA AGM / Jock McGregor
The 2013 Annual General Meeting of the EABA will take place at ‘The Q Club, 4 Cornhill Lane, Boston PE21 6EZ on Saturday 4th May at 1.00pm. All members are invited to attend including junior members, although junior members are not eligible to vote.
Propositions Must be proposed and seconded within the terms of the Constitution and be received by the Secretary at least 14 days prior to the date of the AGM.
Election of Officers must be proposed and seconded within the terms of the Constitution and be received by the Secretary at least 14 days prior to the date of the AGM.
The position for Officers due for election is Secretary – to serve for three years. The current Secretary Mr Tim Godolphin has indicated he is willing to accept the nomination for this position again.
All non officer members of the Committee are due for election – each for one year.
The position of Head of Junior Section is currently vacant.
The ‘Jock McGregor Handicap’ will be held on Sunday 5th May 2013 at ‘The Q Club’. Play will commence at 11.00am. The entry fee is £15, Junior entry fee £10, and there will be a plate competition for first round losers, and all prize monies will be dependent on number of entries. As this will be limited entry; if you intend to enter please inform Stephen Crosland on Tel. 01943 863883 or e-mail: sxland1@yahoo.co.uk prior to the event
HOTEL ACCOMODATION
The New England Hotel.Boston tel 01205 365255
A Special deal has been arranged with the above Hotel for any one wanting to stay
overnight Favourable rates are £60 Twin/Double per night or £40 Single per night
Quoteing EABA Billiards
The Hotel is quite near the club and comes highly recommended.
English Amateur Results now Updated
Full results of main competition and plate are now available Here
ABC #6 ClayCross Results now Updated
Full results of main competition and plate are now available Here
URGENT NOTICE
The English Match-Play Short Format
WILL NOT NOW be played at the NSC ( Leeds)
A new venue is arranged for the same date 17th March 1013 At
THE ATACK CLUB. NUNEATON
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ABC #5 Cambridge Results now Updated
Full results of main competition and plate are now available Here
The Friendly Cup
The Fiendly Cup was held in Derby last weekend 19th–20th Jan 2013 ,A big thank you to the Beaconsfield for thier hospitality and warm welcome once again.
The Northern Irish lads braved the snowy chilly weather and came over to challenge for the cup, what they didn’t count on was the formidable English team headed by Steve Crosland, Billy Bousfield started the matches off with his style of play we are all used to several 100+ breaks followed by the inform Darren Kell with more 100+ and 143 unf break,This all left the door open for the practicing duo of Chris Taylor and Rob Hall ,Kenny Campbell from Ireland came to me and said ” I had two shots against Rob and one of them was the break off” Sorry lads the final result was England 50 –14 Northern Ireland.
Tom
ABC #4 Leeds Results now Updated
Full results of main competition and plate are now available Here
ABC Clay Cross 11th November 2012
Many thanks for your patience
All results and rankings and breaks are now on and up to date
Must apologise for not having the results to hand but we are advised that we will have them after the weekends Internationals in Dublin.
The final of the ABC Main competition was fought out by Chris Taylor and Mark Hatton,Chris starting off with a very nice 71 break and with only 10 mins to go was 52 ahead when sportingly he called a foul on himself and Mark came to the table knocked a 42 in .
With only a few minutes left with the scores level at 171 Chris missed and Mark stepped in and had a break of 41 to leave Chris with no time to come back.
The Plate Competition was fought out by Arthur Winn and Tony Clegg with Tony not up to his high standard and Arthur playing normal Mr consistency came home the winner.Great day was had by all with Rob taking a back seat for once.
Full results of main competition and plate are now available Here
Grand Master Areas results are also online See teh results section for details.
Tom
ABC #2 Cambridge Results Available
The second ABC results are now available on-line, There has been a delay due to the ref’s being rather busy with the World Billiards over at Leeds. I attended the event on Tuesday and saw lots of great action by our members. Rob Hall appeared to be playing well managing a win over Gilcrest and Chris Taylor appeared to be playing well having taken the scalps of several of the top Indian players.
The Second ABC was won by Rob hall who defeated Mathew Sutton narrowly in the final, Rob also took the high Break with a great 349 break.
The plate was won by our very own Jim McCann who defeated Chris Mitchell who took the plate high Break with 58.
Full results of main competition and plate are now available Here
Interview with Advani
I was forwarded an interesting Interview which mentions Snooker but has some interesting Billiards stuff as well to read click Here.
UK SENIORS OPEN BILLIARDS CHAMPIONSHIP ( Over 50’s)
EABA held the UK Seniors Championships at the Beaconsfield Club in Derby at the weekend with a total of 29 entries and was played on a round robin format .Both the main competition and the plate competition saw some fine billiards played and the real competitive closely fought out matches. The last eight of the main comp saw David Sneddon just beating Tony Clegg in a close match 271-245. Brian Harvey had a great match with Arthur Winn with Arthur just loosing out by 28 points.
The bottom half of the draw had Chris Mitchell and Branston Hoole in another duel , Chis getting the upper hand, The final of the main was what most people described as the most exciting final for years with Dave Sneddon having a flying start and getting ahead by almost 200 points before Steve came back at him near the end with David on 418 and Steve at the table on 384 with an unfinished break of 30 when the bell went Dave coming out the winner on 418—414.
The Plate semi finals saw three of the Irish guys competing Jim Mc Cann getting through with breaks of 74-54 ,Whilst in the other semi John Mc Intyre seeing off Paddy Donnelly with the last pot white as the bell went to win by 1 point giving him the push to go on and beat Jim in the final.
A superb weekend was held by all and another smoothly run event by Clive Scott and his merry men in blazers. Seniors.
Tom Hughes
Midland Counties League 2012
The Midland counties league season starts again and new match reports are being published on the internet for the first time on this site. As the league is played across various counties I have decided to store the match reports under Worcester the home of the secretary John Smith.
This will be updated once a month as matches are played on a Sunday monthly. The format of the league is three one hours matches played off handicaps this makes the travelling worthwhile and produces some nice league breaks. If anyone is interested in putting in a team please contact John Smith whose contact details are listed on the Billiards Map – Worcester.
A full match report for September is also now online as the bottom of the Worcester page. Makes interesting reading a certain EABA member makes a guest appearance for Staffs Universal.
Whitworth Masters
Once again a very successful and well enjoyed weekend of Billiards . The weekend started with the group stages round robin format and produced some lovely Billiards, not all players playing their A game yet still provided some great matches.
Saturday night was a great success with the dance floor showing the Strictly grass routs and Brucie sorry Bob Slee giving a twirl or two, A big thanks goes too all the Whitworth members for putting on another wonderful social evening . Sunday saw the final stages of the Whitworth Masters and once again living up to its reputation with some fine sporting gestures as Steve Crossland and Chris Taylor unable to overcome the social night and allowing Rob and Jim to go on and contest the final, Rob won the very close battle after Jim missed a fairly gettable in off whilst in front and left Rob to retain his title.
We watched Billy Bousfield present the trophies and give Bob Slee a big thanks for organising and running of the Whitworth to a wonderful round of applause.
Results are now online
Tom Hughes
ABC Results Available online
The first ABC of the Year took place at Leeds on Sunday the 9th September. Full results of main competition and plate are now available Here
The event was won by Rob Hall who beat Phil Welham in the final. The High Break was won by Jon Bagley with 197.
The plate was won by by Dennis Marr who beat Geoff Brassington in the final. Geoff took the high break with a 114.
Rankings Updated and are now online
Entry Packs have now been posted for all ABC events and the English Amateur.
Membership for the 2012-2013 season in now invited from 1st September 2012. There are several ways in which membership can be obtained.
A membership form can be downloaded here by clicking here Membership Form
Use the contact us form on the site and request a pack be sent out in the Post. Contact Us
Entry to the English Amateur Championship can be obtain by filling in the form which is available here EABA Championship Form
Should you require any further information please contact the Web Controller Tom Hughes on the following email address: tomsani@aol.com. We are responsible for organizing various tournaments and events including:
- The English Amateur Championship.
- Six one day ranking tournaments throughout the course of the season, which (combined with English Amateur results) leads to International status if attaining a top 8 finish.
- The Whitworth Masters.
- The County Cup.
- A one-day Handicap Tournament.
- The Grand Masters.
Juniors are well provided for, with six of their own Ranking Tournaments, along with Under-16 & Under-19 National Championships.Competitors wishing to enter any of these EABA events, must be members of the Association in order to compete (see Printable membership Form)
Christmas Draw
The Christmas draw was held and the winners names are
£150 .00 Tina Owen-Seliton
£100.00 Stephen Kershaw
£50.00 Philip Welham
Congratulations to all
