Potters Under 21's - Event 7 (July 2007)

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FIRST OPEN FOR MEARS

JENNINGS FINAL JINX AGAIN

MANN BEATS DOWNING ,14, IN PLATE FINAL

Ryan Mears crashed the party in the latest Under 21?s, Potters, Coalville beating Nick Jennings 3-1 in the final too win the 7th event in the year long series from a healthy field of 37 players ? 12 of the top 32 absent mainly due to the Pontins Pro-Am.

With the win Mears, 18 rockets up the rankings to 8th place from 47th in only his 2nd event at the club. Jennings, 15, the runner up in three of the last four events has to be content by climbing one place to 2nd headed still by Alex Dunkley for the last five months.

Mears won the 1st frame easily (87-12) with breaks of 31 and 38, Jennings looked in control of the 2nd frame leading by 39 points with one red left after a break of 44.
However Mears laid a snooker which resulted in a free ball then Jennings went in off the yellow to hand Mears another chance duly taken (68-54) for 2-0.

Jennings won a close 3rd frame (56-70) but Jennings under final losing pressure beckoning again fluffed a fairly difficult yellow and Mears applied the finish (70-39) a feature of Mears play was a strong safety game.

Mears beats leader Dunkley
Nine new players made their debut at the club Mears trouncing one them Daniel Parks 4-0 established Nathan Jones 4-2, Mears 52 break, Danny Douane 3-1, 62 break and lastly Alex Dunkley 3-2 surviving a fight back from 2-0 ahead.

Jennings reached his 5th final in his last 8 events at the club in both age groups by beating Luke Higginbotham 4-0, 46 break, Sameer Knight 4-1 efforts of 44,46 and 57, Matt Jelley 4-3. 40 break.

In the quarters Jennings made a break of 69 to beat Richard Binns 3-1 the Yorks player conceding 76 points in fouls during the 1st frame the same number embroidered in large letters on his shirt ? Binns made a 76 break in his last match !
Jennings led Lee Shanker 2-1 in the last four with a run of 73 winning 3-2 on the black when Shanker missed the pink losing by the same score in the April event.

Spooky rematches
The previous week Mears won the Rushden Under 19?s beating the same players in the last three rounds including Dunkley 3-2 after leading 2-0.

Kyren Wilson made the only ton of the day a 111 to go with efforts of 45,43,61,55 and 41 stopped in his tracks 3-0 by now highly rated Shanker with breaks of 54 and 69.

All Brummie plate final
Mitchell Mann defeated Callum Downing only 14 in all Birmingham plate final 2-1 with a 68 break to go with other breaks earlier of 86,48,43,81,48,67,61 and 80.

p.b for Tydeman
Ollie Tydeman upped his highest match break to 84 but still lost out 2-1 to Mann in the plate quarter finals in his first event.
Gene Lam also reached the plate last eight at the first attempt losing 2-1 to EASB finalist Tom Maxfield ? The Pastille Kid? losing by the same score in the semi?s to Downing who made breaks of 46 and 48.

Tom Pendlebury also a newcomer at Potters lost 3-0 in the quarters of the Main Event to Dunkley who made a break 97 to go with a 91 in the previous round.

Malcolm Thorne

Last 64 ? 5 points
N.Jennings (Winchester) 46 bt L.Higginbotham (Birmingham) 4-0
K.Yates (Derby) 46 bt 56 C.Downing (Birmingham) 4-3
M.Mann (Birmingham) 48,86 bt W.Baird (Southampton) 4-0
N.Colehan (Leeds) bt M.Sheehan (Bromsgrove) 4-2
N.Jones (K.Lynn) 41 bt K.Callaghan (Coalville) 4-0

Last 32 ? 10 points
S.Lam (Leeds) bt A.Anastasiou (Derby) 4-2
R.Binns (Leeds) 72 bt S.Mooney (Boston) 4-0
Jennings 44,46,57 bt S.Knight (Leicester) 4-1
M.Jelley (Leicester) bt S.Harvey (Bedford) 4-0
L.Shanker (Derby) 44,49 bt D.Lambert (Derby) 4-1
J.Stone (Nottingham) bt G.Lam (Leeds) 4-2
K.Wilson (Kettering) 43,45,111 bt Yates 4-3
Mann 43 bt D.Gaskarth (Derby) 4-0
A.Dunkley (Southampton) 41,46 bt 41,55 A.Harris (Coalville) 4-1
D.Hildyard (Southhampton) 41,67 bt Colehan 4-2
O.Tydeman (Chandlers Ford) bt T.Maxfield (Telford) 4-1
T.Pendlebury (Bolton) bt 42 S.McGaw (Southampton) 4-2
D.Douane (Cricklewood) 45 bt J.Hildyard (Southampton) 4-2
J.Fountain (Nottingham) bt J.Jelley (Leicester) 4-0
Jones 40,44 bt A.McIntyre (Southampton) 4-2
R.Mears (Aldershot) bt D.Parks (Derby) 4-0.

Last 16 ? 15 points
Binns 76 bt S.Lam 4-0 & Jennings 40 bt M.Jelley 4-3
Shanker 44,84 bt Stone 4-1 & Wilson 41,55,61 bt Mann 4-1
Dunkley 91 bt D.Hildyard 4-1 & Pendlebury bt Tydeman 4-3
Douane bt 83 Fountain 4-1 & Mears 52 bt Jones 4-2.

Qtrs ?25 ? 30 points
Jennings 69 bt Binns 3-1 & Shanker 54,69 bt Wilson 3-0
Dunkley 97 bt Pendlebury 3-0 & Mears 62 bt Douane 3-1.

Semi?s ?35 ? 60 points
Jennings bt Shanker 3-2 & Mears bt Dunkley 3-2.

Final ?50/?100 ? 150/100 points
Mears 31,38 bt 44 Jennings 3-1


Plate

Qtrs ?15 ? 5 points
Maxfield bt G.Lam 2-1 & Downing bt McIntyre 2-1
Knight bt McGaw 2-1 & Mann 61,67 bt 84 pb Tydeman 2-1

Semis ?25 ? 7 points
Downing 46,48 bt Maxfield 2-1 & Mann 80 bt Knight 2-1.

Final ?35/?50 ? 15/10 points
Mann 68 bt Downing 2-1

Top 32 ? Event 7 - # absent ? 72 on full list
1(1) A.Dunkley 481, 2(3) N.Jennings 422, 3(2) K.Wilson 367,
4(4) # Stephen Craigie 263, 5(6) L.Shanker 214, 6(5) N.Jones 213,
7(11) M.Mann 176, 8(47) R.Mears 169, 9(14) R.Binns 161,
10(7) # L.Highfield 150, 11( # J.Lisowski 150, 12(9) # L.Page 150,
13(10) # A.McGill 147, 14(13) K.Callaghan 140, 15(12) # J.Pritchett 138,
16(15) J.Fountain 135, 17(16) C.Downing 135, 18(17) M.Jelley 125,
19(21) S.McGaw 120, 20(1 J.Jelley 119, 21(20) S.Mooney 116,
22(25) S.Knight 115, 23(27) J.Stone 105, 24(26) A.Harris 105,
25(19) # M.Wasley 103, 26(22) # J.voyce 120, 27(23) # O.Brown 98,
28(24) # Sam Craigie 97, 29(2 A.McIntyre 93, 30(29) K.Yates 90,
31(35) D.douane 87, 32(30) A.Anastasiou 81.