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American Pool 9-Ball Tournament
Rileys American Pool and Snooker - Coventry
Hertford Place
The Butts
COVENTRY
Warwickshire
CV1 3JZ
www.rileysltd.com
Jamie.white@mpsa.com - Tournament Organiser
Tel: 07951 969108

Sunday 18 March 2007

Phil Morgan (left) and Craig Osborne after the final.

Ipswich reigns in Coventry Mothers Day 9 ball Tournament

Riley�s Ipswich had the proud honour of supplying both the winner and the runner up in the 9 ball open tournament held at Coventry Hertford Place Riley�s on Sunday 18th March.

After a long day of 6 group matches, and 4 knockout matches Craig Osborne finally lifted the winner�s trophy and collected the �130 first prize.

Phil Morgan was the Shotgun�s unlucky victim in the final but by reaching the final Phil ensured that the runner�s up trophy and �50 second prize also travelled back along the A14 to sunny Suffolk.

"Read more" for the details.

In total there were 27 entries to the tournament, with players travelling from as far away as Evesham, Berkshire, Derby, Leicester and of course Ipswich. There were even a handful of players from Coventry which is an encouraging sign for those trying to promote the game in the area. The organisers were hoping for more entries but Mothers Day could have been many players excuse.

Initially there were four groups, three groups of 7 players, and one group of 6 players. Four players qualified from each group to make a last 16.
Group matches were all played race to 5, and overall the group results seemed to go to form as the bigger names in the tournament all qualified through the group stages fairly comfortably.

The knockout stages were played race to 7 until the semi-finals ( race to 8 ), and the final ( race to 9 ).

THE STATS

Results from knockout stages:

Last 16:
John Beesley 7 � 3 Pete Blanchard
Tom Johnson 7 � 2 Tony Fry
Phil Morgan 7 � 3 Luke Hart
Michael Altintop 4 � 7 Tim Singh
Aslam Abubaker 7 � 6 Andrew Warden
Craig Osborne 7 � 2 Nigel Francis
Thomas Emes 7 � 2 Paul Morgan
Kev Simpson 7 � 4 Simon Corke

Quarter Finals:
John Beesley 5 � 7 Tom Johnson
Phil Morgan 7 � 5 Tim Singh
Aslam Abubaker 2 � 7 Craig Osborne
Thomas Emes 7 � 3 Kev Simpson

Semi Finals:
Tom Johnson 4 � 8 Phil Morgan
Craig Osborne 8 � 4 Thomas Emes

Final:
Phil Morgan 2 � 9 Craig Osborne

Craig Osborne proudly displaying his winner�s trophy

There was a �5 flyer for players knocked out at the group stage (8 runners), this was won by Mark Hughes who defeated Jamie White 5-3 in the final.

The full list of 27 runners:

Jamie White
John Beesley
Paul Morgan
Tony Fry
Neil Bodger
Kev Simpson
Craig Osborne
Phil Morgan
Pete Moore
Andrew Warden
Nick Leith
Tim Singh
Ryan McDonald
Michael Altintop
Dean Bennett
Luke Hart
Nigel Francis
Aslam Abubaker
Peter Tombs
Elio Laranjinha
Indy Oujla
Peter Blanchard
Gavin Salter
Thomas Emes
Mark Hughes
Tom Johnson
Simon Corke

Prize Breakdown:

Winner         �130
Runner Up         �50
Semi Finalists     �25
Quarter Finalists     �10

Phil Morgan with the Runner�s Up trophy

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