EASB Finals Weekend 2009 - Results

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English Amateur Championship (17 frames two sessions)
David Craggs (Northern Winner) 8-9 Jimmy Robertson (Southern Winner)
52(52)-76(56), 51-53(35c), 18-114(108), 38-73, 88(48)-4, 64(37)-51, 72(54)-53(48), 34-60, 1-87(41), 67(55)-46, 9-72(54), 87-22, 67-36, 48-60, 75-68, 68-63(48), 51-68

English Under 19 Championship (best of 15, two sessions)
Stuart Carrington 3-8 Liam Highfield
75-28, 43-66(49), 14-65(41), 91(76)-7, 33-67, 0-96(96), 72(51)-34, 31-106(35), 14-79(68), 13-67, 1-68(35)

English Under 16 Championship (11 frames)
Sam Craigie 6-3 Tom Maxfield
71-69, 50(33)-14, 13-65(32), 10-57, 37-70, 65(50)-22, 68(52)-27, 60(54)-43, 64(33)-11

English Under 14 Championship (Best of 9 frames)
Darryl Hill 2-5 Oliver Lines
23-49, 0-87(31), 59-35, 36-73, 69-37, 51(35)-65, 36-62

English Team Championship
West Midlanders 3-5 Manchester
(West Mids: Daniel Ward, Lee Payne, Rob James)
(Manchester: Craig Steadman, Chris Norbury, Michael Wild)

English Club Players Championship
Alex Dunkley 5-0 Mike Faulkner
77-31, 48(35)-40, 66-35, 51-38, 98(63)-8

English Masters (Over 40s) Championship (Best of 11)
Mark Rowing 6-4 Colin Norton
46-65, 53-34, 72-31, 69(39)-14, 77-29, 25-98(53,32), 43-74(52), 69-56, 33-62, 72(45)-36

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ENGLISH AMATEUR SNOOKER CHAMPIONSHIP

ROBERTSON DENIES CRAGGS FIGHT BACK IN DRAMATIC LAST FRAME

Jimmy Robertson, Bexhill on Sea defeated David Craggs, Tow Law Town 9-8 on the pink in a dramatic English Amateur final, World Snooker Academy, English Institute of Sport, Sheffield at the EASB finals weekend.

Jury's Inn sponsored the weekends play and provided accommodation for the players and officials.

Frame scores Craggs first :
52(52-76)56, (51-53)35cl, (8-114)108, (38-73), 48(88-4), (64-51), 54(72-53)48,
(34-60): 3-5.

(1-87)41, 55(67-40), (9-72)54, 45(87-22), (67-36), (48-60), (75-58), 46(68-63)48,
(51-68): 8-9.

Robertson won the first four frames to the first interval two of which Craggs should, could have won.

Robertson who won the Pro Ticket Rankings broke down on 20 in the 1st frame, Craggs fired back with 52 missed and his opponent cleared to the pink with a break of 56. 

The 2nd frame was scrappy Craggs led by 36 with one red left, Robertson laid four snookers, Craggs missing on the 4th escape to set up a 35 clearance by Robertson.

With his 2nd chance in the 3rd frame Robertson cleared the table with the highest break of the final 108 adding the 4th frame for 4-0 when Craggs missed the green on 22.

At the resumption Craggs opened his account to set up a three frame run with a break of 48 to win the 5th frame easily adding the 6th frame on the pink after an early run of 37 and nearly donated 7th frame after a break of 54, Robertson back in the frame on 48 snookered himself on the final red.

Both players missed blacks off the spot in the final frame of the session Robertson taking a 5-3 lead on the latter balls with 23 points.

Both squandered two chances in the 9th frame and first game of the concluding session, Robertson taking his 3rd opening with breaks of 41 and 33.

In the next frame the eventual winner missed a forced red along the top rail on 39 and Craggs stepped in with 55 for 4-6.

Robertson extended his lead again to three frames winning the 11th with a break of 54 after Craggs left a red to middle from a poor safety shot at the black end of the table.

With the reds well spread in 12th after a bout of safety Craggs pounced with a break of 45 when Robertson failed with a long risky plant.

Robertson three times got away with mistakes when in trouble in the next game Craggs making a run of 32 mid frame but went in off out of a snooker on the final red
leaving Robertson a good chance somehow he missed a simple brown and Craggs clawed back to one frame behind 6-7.

The 14th frame was a poor effort reds again spread all over the place, Robertson rolled up to the brown after finishing nowhere Craggs with only one shot on smashed in a long straight red missed on 24 and again went in off on the final red giving Robertson
chance to clear with 26 to the pink 6-8.

The 15th frame built up the tension after chances and errors from both Robertson missed a dolly brown for the match Craggs took brown and blue then laid a perfect snooker behind the black, Robertson conceding 19 points in misses leaving Craggs
needing the pink only for 7-8.

Unflustered Robertson rolled in a long red first shot in the 16th frame to set up a 48 break played safe adding 12 more points to lead 0-60, Craggs back in the frame with 46 finishing out of position on the green then twice Robertson had a chance to win on the demon brown ball.

Craggs won the frame with 22 on the black with brilliant pots on the pink and the final ball to force the at one time unexpected decider, Craggs omitting a loud roar after leaving the match area.

The drama of the last two frames was exceeded in the clinching frame Robertson in with a long red early again missed the spotted black on 38, Craggs miscued, Robertson missed, Craggs also in with 38 missed a straight black as well.

With two reds left Craggs led (42-38), Robertson took one red and finished wrong side of the blue resulting the long final red being missed, Craggs also missed but left a fortunate snooker, Robertson a miss and a free ball even the scorer got in on the act by giving the foul to the wrong player.

Everything sorted Craggs still took on the red in baulk but finished nowhere attempted to roll up to the green and failed to reach, Robertson enforced the play again rule, Craggs hit the yellow and set the ball up Robertson potted it and half snookered himself on the green and from the next shot went in off. (51-50)

From in hand Craggs missed the green plus another chance, Robertson potted the green but knocked the blue safe, Robertson knocked in a long brown and played a good safety shot on the blue which eventually he potted along with the pink to end his amateur career on a very shaky high note.


Photograph of Jimmy Robertson courtesy of EASB

Ian Williamson from EASB's main sponsor Northern SC presented the trophies along with Teresa Snell, Jurys Inn.

Malcolm Thorne
English Snooker

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Can you spot the Notts players?

2009 Jimmy Robertson 9-8 David Craggs
2008 David Grace 9-7 Ben Hancorn
2007 Martin Gould 9-8 David Lilley
2006 Mark Joyce 8-3 Martin O'Donnell
2005 David Grace 8-3 Andy Symons-Rowe
2004 David Lilley 8-6 Wayne Cooper
2003 Alex Davies 8-7 Ben Woollaston
2002 Martin Gould 8-6 Craig Taylor
2001 Luke Fisher 8-4 Sunit Vaswani
2000 Nick Marsh 8-5 David Lilley
1999 David Lilley 8-5 Andrew Norman
1998 Tim Bailey 8-3 Craig Butler
1997 David Lilley 8-7 Robert Marshall
1996 Stuart Bingham 8-4 Peter Lines
1995 David Gray 8-7 Paul Hunter
1994 Matthew Davies 8-5 Michael Rhodes
1993 Neil Mosley 8-5 Eddie Barker
1992 Stephen Lee 13-8 Neil Mosley
1991 Steve Judd 13-10 Ronnie O'Sullivan
1990 Joe Swail 13-11 Alan McManus
1989 Nigel Bond 13-11 Barry Pinches
1988 Barry Pinches 13-6 Craig Edwards
1987 Mark Rowing 13-11 Sean Lanigan
1986 Anthony Harris 13-9 Geoff Grennan
1985 Terry Whitthread 13-4 Jim McNellan
1984 Steve Longworth 13-8 Wayne Jones
1983 Tony Jones 13-9 John Parrott
1982 Dave Chalmers 13-9 Malcolm Bradley
1981 Vic Harris 13-9 George Wood
1980 Joe O'Boye 13-9 Dave Martin
1979 Jimmy White 13-10 Dave Martin
1978 Terry Griffiths 13-6 Joe Johnson
1977 Terry Griffiths 13-3 Sid Hood
1976 Chris Ross 11-7 Roy Andrewartha
1975 Sid Hood 11-6 Willie Thorne
1974 Ray Edmonds 11-7 Patsy Fagan
1973 Marcus Owen 11-6 Ray Edmonds
1972 Jonathan Barron 11-9 Ray Edmonds
1971 Jonathan Barron 11-9 Doug French
1970 Jonathan Barron 11-10 Sid Hood
1969 Ray Edmonds 11-9 Jonathan Barron
1968 David Taylor 11-6 Chris Ross
1967 Marcus Owen 11-4 Sid Hood
1966 John Spencer 11-5 Marcus Owen
1965 Pat Houlihan 11-3 John Spencer
1964 Ray Reardon 11-8 John Spencer
1963 Gary Owen 11-3 Ron Gross
1962 Ron Gross 11-9 Jonathan Barron
1961 Alan Barnett (Wolv) 11-9 Ray Edmonds
1960 Ron Gross 11-4 John Price
1959 Marcus Owen 11-5 Alan Barnett
1958 Marcus Owen 11-8 Jack Fitzmaurice
1957 Ron Gross 11-6 Stan Haslam
1956 Tommy Gordon 11-9 Ray Reardon
1955 Maurice Parkin 11-7 Alf Nolan
1954 Geoff Thompson 11-9 Cliff Wilson (Tredegar)
1953 Tommy Gordon (London) 6-5 George Humphries (London)
1952 Charles Downey (Belfast/London) 6-1 Jack Allen (Blackpool)
1951 Rex Williams 6-1 Percy Bendon (London)
1950 Alf Nolan (Newcastle) 6-5 Gary Owen (Upper Tumble)
1949 Tommy Gordon 6-4 Sydney Kilbank
1948 Sidney Battye (Manchester 6-4 Tommy Postlethwaite (Wolverhampton)
1947 Harold 'Chizzy' Morris 5-1 Charlie Kent
1946 John Pulman 5-3 Albert Brown
1940 Kingsley Kennerley 8-7 Albert Brown
1939 Percy Bendon 6-4 Kingsley Kennerley
1938 Pat Matthews 6-1 Kingsley Kennerley
1937 Kingsley Kennerley 6-3 W.H. Dennis
1936 Pat Matthews 5-3 Charles Beavis
1935 Charles Beavis (Bristol) 5-3 Duggie Hindmarch
1934 Charles  Beavis 5-2 Pat Matthews
1933 E. Bedford 5-1 Albert Kershaw
1932 W.E. Bach 5-3 Ollie Jackson
1931 Pat Matthews 5-4 Harry Kingsley
1930 Laurie Steeples (Rotherham) 5-1 Frank Whittall
1929 Laurie Steeples 5-4 Frank Whittall
1928 Pat Matthews 5-4 Frank Whittall
1927 Ollie Jackson 4-2 Tony Casey (Dublin)
1926 W. Nash 383-356 3-4 Fred Morley
1925 Jack McGlynn 392-308 4-3 W.L. Crompton (Blackpool)
1924 Walter Coupe 413-333 5-2 H.G. Olden
1923 Walter Coupe 432-337 6-1 E. Forshall
1922 Jack McGlynn 423-301 5-2 C. Cox Jnr
1921 M.J. Vaughan 384-378 4-1 Sidney Fry
1920 A.R. Wisdom
1919 Sidney Fry
1918 T.N. Palmer (alias) H H Lukens (USA)
1917 Charles N. Jacques
1916 Charles N. Jacques