Liza Furnival won the Cheltenham C-Level GC event

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Liza Furnival wins the Barter Cup

Once again this weekend's Barter Trophy was quickly oversubscribed to the point where next year's allocation will be increased to 24. However, this year's 4 block winners were Liza Furnival, Brenda Duplock, Claire Herring, (all undefeated) and Richard Pinder who went through to the knock out stage with their respective runner ups. The remaining players went into their own consolation knock out plate. This was won by Jill Shaw 7-2 over Andy Brister. The main event saw Liza Furnival continue to dominate, while Graham Brooksbank had to battle his way through his opponents 7-5 and 7-6

The final was of a high standard and saw Graham race to a 5-2 lead, but was pulled back to 6-6, leaving him first up to the 13^th unfortunately he was short, surprisingly so too was Liza giving the advantage back to Graham. Their next two balls were better and Graham did indeed have the first shot which landed on the near wire leaving Liza a wide gate to go in off which she did settling in the jaws. Graham could do little to remove it and Liza promoted herself through to retain the 'Barter trophy' for a second consecutive year!

(All scores are on CS.) It is normal to thank everyone at the club that help to set up and run a tournament for others to enjoy. However, I would like to particularly identify Brian Jamieson for making himself available to referee throughout the day, which allowed me to rest!