SWSA 2012 Spring Snooker Festival

PLtheRef wrote:The Islander as 1-2 down.

Ben Harrison next and if it reaches a decider, randam

Wild wrote:well played jakey.

did us all proud holding your own

Wild wrote:Team Snooker Island has won 4 matches 4-1,4-1,4-1 and 3-2 so they in the semi Finals waiting on confirmation who they are playing in the Semi Final but order of play for the Island is

Oliver Brown
Kyren Wilson
Reanne Evans
Jake Frank
Ben Harrison.

and Team SI is represented in the Open Final where Kyren Wilson plays Ben Harrison for the Trophy

Sonny wrote:Great weekend, proud of the team, they all stuck together and played as a team, watching each other and they all played their part. I'm absolutely shattered so will leave it till tomorrow before I start some sort of write up. I'll be interviewing some of the team over the course of the next few days/weeks so keep an eye out.

One thing I'm going to hopefully get started on is uploading the Harrison v Evans video to youtube. A lot of you won't have seen much of them play, well this match has everything you need to see to gage what the players are about. I missed the first frame but I got the rest, and managed to squeeze in a quickfire 99 break from Kyren on the adjacent table during a safety exchange.

I was a big fan of Ben before the event as you all know, and he won the individual beating Kyren 3-0 in the final, but I am also now a huge fan of both Kyren and Reanne. Hopefully you'll see why when you watch the footage I took this morning.

As I've written that I may as well briefly sum up the final. I had a dilemma over the line up and after discussions with Reanne first, then Ben at McDonalds, then my team captain from York over the phone, I went with strength and to go all out. No disrespect to Jake obviously but we had a big 3, then Oliver who is capable of beating anyone if he gets a chance so it was hoped we would get 3 wins from those 4 players.

Kyren got us off to the best start, then Reanne had one of those frames where things didn't go her way and she didn't get a clear cut chance. Credit to her opponent but she did nothing wrong. Oli played ok but had a strong opponent and played a couple of inexperienced shots towards the end when maybe safety would be the best option (tough pots to tight middles taken on). Then Ben came on and blasted his opponent off the table, and in the last frame Jake was a little hero. He was up against a very strong player who pushed Kyren in the open semi-final, and Jake had him sweating and twitching with lots of good safety and tieing the balls up everywhere. In the end a couple of nudges didn't go his way and the West Midlands guy had a 30 odd break that proved crucial. Jake also had a very thin clip red to middle which he potted only to see the cueball go in off, it was very unlucky and proved the crucial shot.

All in all though, a great event. Now time to upload that match.

Sonny wrote:She is plenty good enough, believe me. In fact, I would describe her snooker as awesome.

Sonny wrote:John change your twitter password immediately.

John From London Town wrote:Well done SI. Running teams in these type of comps takes a lot of organising & a clear head.
Well done Roland, fine job done mate.

Sonny wrote:You can say that about the order Wild but if I was starting again the only thing I would change would be to swap Ben and Reanne. To leave Kyren till last man and risk losing 3-1 and not playing him would've been stupid. Plus the guy he beat was their best player I was told.