Challenge and Gilbey Results

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Cliff Jones receiving the Roehampton Cup from CA Council member Brian Shorney (Photo: Julie Horsley)

Results of the Challenge and Gilbey:

Winners:

Handiap Singles (The Gilbey Goblet): Colin Walls

Advanced Singles (The Challenge Cups)

Class A: Cliff Jones
Clss B: Chris Donovan
Class C: Susan Davies
Class D: Roger Mills

The tournament started on the Thursday with 24 players entered into the handicap Knockout for the Gilbey Goblet. It was good to see most games pegged out and this may have been due to the fact that it was played as Full Bisque to base 6, which enabled players to set up breaks. The semi-finals saw Colin Walls(10) beat fellow Sidmouth player Roger Mills(11) +20 and Cliff Jones (0) beat local player Alan Rush (14) +4.
In the Final Colin beat Cliff +22.

Thirty one players took part in the Class Events for the Challenge Cups.

In Block A for the Roehampton Cup Sunday morning saw Mike Hann (Roehampton) last year's winner and Gregory Wicksteed (East Dorset) both on 3 wins and due to play, Mike winning +4. With Cliff Jones (SWCP) beating Dave Mundy (Cheltenham) and David Mooney (Roehampton) beating Tony Bower (Budleigh), (Andrew Willis having his Bye that morning), there was all to play for in the last game with Mike on 4 wins and Gregory, Cliff and David Mooney all with 3 wins. Mike's chance of becoming the outright winner vanished when Dave Mundy beat him +26. In the other games Cliff beat David Mooney and Gregory beat Tony so Mike, Cliff and Gregory all had 4 wins. Who beat whom could not be applied so on quality of wins and then who beat whom Cliff emerged as the winner.

Block B was played as a 5 round Swiss with Chris Donovan (Budleigh) winning all 5 games for the Council Cup.

Block C for the Reckitt Cup was divided into 2 blocks.
In one block Susan Davies (Roehampton) and Roger Hendy (Sidmouth) both had 3 wins with Susan the block winner having beat Roger. In the other block Peter Nelson (Sidmouth) and Rodney Parkins Medway) again both had 3 wins with Peter being the block winner having beaten Rodney.
In the Final Susan beat Peter +13

Block D for the Stevenson Cup Roger Mills (Sidmouth) won the block.
On Saturday evening players were able to relax with an excellent Tournament Dinner in the clubhouse.
The weather for the weekend was fine and mainly sunny - rather a rarity this summer, a real bonus.