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Title: Willie Thorne's - September Events
Post by: NS Admin on 02 September 2008
Under 17's - Saturday September 6th - ?10 (Cancelled Sat Sept 20th)

Open Series - Sunday September 7th - ?15

Trousers, shirt and shoes for above events.

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Willie's Big One Handicap ?15 entry
Qualifying dates Sept 13th & 27th + Oct 11th & 25th - 4 players from each day
Can re enter on other days - Plate each day - last 16 Nov 15th

Winner if 32 players per day ?300, runner up ?200, semi ?100, qtrs ?50, last 16 ?35

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Sunday Handicap - Sept 28th (Not 20th) ?10
Most attended event as normal - Perhaps it's the Sunday Roast's
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EASB Premier Junior Tour - Event 1
Sat/Sunday September 20th & 21st (Pre set 48 players)
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Ring the club to book a place 01162 626239 - All club events 11am start

Malc Thorne   
Title: Willie Thorne's Open Series - Event 9 (September 2008)
Post by: NS Admin on 08 September 2008
FOUR TONS DURING PLAY

Ben Woollaston climbed five places to 2nd in his home clubs Open Series, Willie Thorne?s, Leicester after winning the 10th event beating Guy Fraser 2-0 in a reduced final taking both frames easily.

Total entry?s in the series rose to 87 as the days 26 players included 8 new entrants this year, Fraser straight in at 27th place, Simon Seabridge still leads despite missing another event, Woollaston leads his club mate Joe Jogia by just one point, Kristain Willetts drops from 2nd to 4th.

The winner coasted through to the final defeating Sameer Knight and Mike Smith both 4-1 with back to back breaks of 105 and 127 against Smith followed by a 4-0 whitewash of Salim Ullah.

He made breaks of 61 and 70 to beat EASB Under 16 Champion Sam Craigie 3-1 in the last eight, Craigie 58 and 64 and finally Joe Jogia also 3-1 who opened with an 80.

Fraser lost in the top half of the draw 4-1 to Jogia, 104 then cruised the losers section
beating Dean Holme and James Jelley 4-0, Sameer Knight 110 break earlier 3-0 and lastly weary Mike Smith 3-1, 57 break.

Jason Bates won the plate beating James Hastie 2-0 making breaks during the event of 70,79 and 82.

Next event Sunday October 5th ? 11am start - ?15 entry

Trousers, shirt and shoes required.

Malc Thorne
W.Thornes 01162 626239

Main
Last 16 ? 15 points
J.Jogia (Leicester) 97,61,73 bt J.Lee (Stoke) 4-0
D.Douane (London) 64 bt J.Hastie (Loughborough) 4-0
S.Craigie (Newcastle) bt K.Wilson (Kettering) 4-0
B.Woollaston (Leicester) bt S.Ullah (Loughborough) 4-0
G.Fraser (Loughborough) 50 bt J.Jelley (Leicester) 4-0
S.Knight (Leicester) bt A.Jeffers (Liverpool) 4-1
T.Kerslake (Derby) bt D.Martinson (Liverpool) 4-1
M.Smith (Stoke) bt G.Steele (Stoke) 4-0

Quarter finals ?15 ? 30 points
Jogia bt Douane 3-0
Woollaston 61,70 bt 58,64 Craigie 3-1
Fraser bt Knight 3-0
Smith 60 3-2 Kerslake 3-2

Semi?s ?25 ? 45 points
Woollaston bt 80 Jogia 3-1
Fraser 57 bt Smith 3-1

Final ?100/?50 - 80/60 points
Woollaston bt Fraser 2-0

Plate
Semi?s ?15 ? 7 points
Bates 82 bt Mooney 2-1
Hastie bt Ullah 2-0   

Final ?50/?25 ? 15/10 points
Bates bt Hastie 2-0

Top 16 ? Two events remaining
1(1) S.Seabridge 289, 2(7) B.Woollaston 263, 3(3) J.Jogia 261, 4(2) K.Willetts 243,
5(4) S. Mooney 222, 6(8) S.Knight 211, 7(6) J.Jelley 202, 8(10) M.Smith 199,
9(5) L.Highfield 196, 10(9) S.Martin 178, 11(15) T.Kerslake 142,
12(13) K.Wilson 132, 13(11) A.Booth 123, 14(12) K.Yates 119,
15(18) M.Kirk 117, 16(14) A.Lee 111.