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Pegasus Snooker Club was the venue for the best of seven frame final of the Notts Amateur Snooker Championship between BCI Snooker Centre's Keith Holgate and Arnold Civil Defence's John Fountain.
Fountain had defeated Mike Langdon, Barry Stark and Chris Winter to reach the final. Holgate had beaten Kirk Wesselby, three-time winner Tony Hart and Wayne Martin on route to the final.
Holgate got off to a good start, winning the opening frame 70-14. In frame two Holgate really started to flow, making an excellent 58 break to seal an 81-6 win. Fountain was unable to settle but his game improved in frame three as he made things much tougher for his opponent. Nevertheless, Holgate played some solid snooker to take a tight frame 51-35 and go 3-0 up. Fountain was now desperate to get a frame on the board and he got off to a steady start in frame four. Unfortunately for Fountain Holgate continued to produce the goods and he knocked in a quality 28 break to take the frame 61-23 and lift the trophy for a third time.
Keith Holgate 4-0 John Fountain
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John Fountain (left) and Keith Holgate (right) with the famous trophy
yep....Congratulations Keith on winning the old trophy for a third time - some feat that. Also well played to John Fountain on a superb run to the final.
I would also like to offer a big thank-you to Malc Belshaw who put in a lot of effort in restoring the Notts Amateur this season after several years of no competition. Looking at the fine old trophy last night made me realise just what an important competition this should be to every amateur snooker player in Notts...so many great names on it dating all the way back to 1928 no less!!!
So here's to hoping that next year we get even more entries to what is our 'Blue Ribbon' Snooker Competition.
Mike Langdon (Tournament Secretary)