Nigel Polhill won the Letchworth A-Class Event

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11 Aug 2014 (AC)

Nigel Polhill won Letchworth's A class event attracted a strong field of 9 players from +1 to -1.5.

Saturday featured a 4 hour game between Simon Hathrell and Jerry Guest. This was won by Jerry but Simon strained his back in the process and had to withdraw from the tournament. Play stopped when Debbie Lines over-hit a roll and, watched by everyone else, it took two referees to decide eventually that the ball was in.

Sunday was "Hurricane Bertha Day" which brought heavy rain at times and some great thunder and lightning. By mid afternoon the main contenders had played their 6 games and all jumped ship not knowing the final result because it depended on the outcome of the last game Nigel v Jerry Guest which started at 4pm in brilliant sunshine and was won by Nigel +8 at 6pm.

In first place Nigel had 83% wins, Jack Wicks was second with three triples and 71% wins. Third was Ian Lines with two triples and 66% wins. Debbie Lines (one triple) and Duncan Hector finished with 3 wins each, Jerry had 2, Nick Steiner and David Marsh had 1 win each.