Cottages take Barrow Friday League snooker title

They defeated reigning champions Barrow Football Supporters Club 2-1 at the Soccer Bar, to take the title by three points from their opponents.

The two captains played against each other first, with Cottages' John Tyerman taking the spoils in a black-ball decider against Alan Eaton.

Josh Howarth pulled one back for the Supporters Club with a win over Dave Simpson, but Billy Burns sealed the victory and the championship with a comfortable 79-38 success against Harold Pearson. With it, came the snooker aggregate prize as well.

British Legion made sure of a top-four play-off place with a 2-1 win over Navy Club B.

Legion captain Alf Carruthers took a nip-and-tuck game over Dave Simpson 70-49, with several few foul strokes playing a part, while Mike Smith claimed a nail-biter against Joe O’Leary on the black – denying O'Leary a shot at the aggregate prize.

Dave Wilkie landed the final game for the Navy, but they missed out on the play-offs by a point.

Roose Cons were the team to take that final play-off spot thanks to a 2-1 triumph over Navy Club A.

Dave Kewley beat Stuart Benson and Lee Majors had a 49-30 win against late new signing Mike Pearson.

Paul Brown took the last point with a comfortable victory over Nick Wilkes.

Billiards champions British Legion finished off the season in style with a whitewash of Navy Club B.

Kevin Quinn, Colin Taylor and Allan Edmondson all won, with Quinn and Edmondson sharing the aggregate prize with Navy A's Geoff Turner and Vickerstown CC's Peter Scott, all having nine victories to their name this season.

Soccer Bar finished third after a 2-1 win over the Cottages.

Howarth and Burns returned to the baize, with the former taking a tight game 100-95 through 19, 15 and 14 breaks.

Denis Plant making it two in a row with the help of a 23 break to beat Adam Cook, with Steve Hetherington getting the better of Jimmy Wilson to stop the dry rub.

Navy A are in the play-off after overcoming Roose 2-1.

Turner was an easy 100-75 winner against Peter Roberts, backed up by Ian Goodwin.

Ray Cooney took the scalp of Alan Harris to pull a point back for the Cons.

Navy A made sure of joint-second with their B-team in the darts thanks to an overpowering 6-1 win.

Goodwin, captain Pat Hunter, Dave Armstrong (125), Neil Jones, Russ Parko (100) and Bryan Jones all triumphed. Nick Wilkes (101) stopped the whitewash.

There were good scores in defeat from Rob Chissim (100) and Terry Chissim (100-111).

Navy B Club beat lowly British Legion 4-3 thanks to Dave Simpson (100), Dave Rafferty (2x125, 137), Chris Kirkby (2x100) and captain Ian Large.

Mike Smith (125-111), Taylor and Quinn (121) were best for the home side.

Champions Cottages rounded-off their campaign with a 5-2 win against the Soccer Bar.

Success at the oche came from captain Shaun McPoland (100), Steve Hetherington, Alan Fraser (100-125), Dave Macmillan (121) and Mala McCoy (100, 107 knock-up).

Mike Fletcher (100) and Barry Butterworth came good for the Supporters Club.

Macmillan, Fraser and McCoy, all with 11 wins each, share the darts aggregate title.

British Legion took all four points at Welch Don through the pairings of Alf Carruthers and Quinn, Tony Woodward and George Horne, and Gordon Hutton with both regular partner Taylor and again with Mike Smith.

Roose Cons' excellent 4-0 home win champions Navy A gave them runners-up spot.

John Rawlinson and Bob Taylor, Jimmy Johnson and joint-aggregate winner John Warburton, and Ray Cooney, firstly with Nick Wilkes and again with Mike Irving, triumphed.

Cottages took third after a 3-1 win at the Soccer Bar, as joint-aggregate winner Paul Fieldhouse, with Steve Hetherington, Dave Leech and Walter Bowes, and Macmillan and McCoy won.

Harold Pearson and Ian Walsh scored by the Soccer Bar.

Treble winners: Kevin Quinn and Colin Taylor (British Legion), at billiards, darts and Welch Don; Mike Smith (British Legion), at snooker, darts and Welch Don; Ray Cooney (Roose Cons), at billiards and twice at Welch Don.

RESULTS

NAVY CLUB A v ROOSE CONS

SNOOKER

S Benson 38 D Kewley 51, P Brown 59 N Wilkes 25, M Pearson 30 L Majors 49. Totals: 1 and 2.

BILLIARDS

G Turner 100 P Roberts 75, A Harris 81 R Cooney 100, I Goodwin 100 R Chissim 40. Totals: 2 and 1.

DARTS

I Goodwin 601 M Irving 325, P Hunter 601 R Chissim 1 599, D Armstrong 601 R Chissim 2 501, N Jones 601 T Chissim 2 501, P Brown 597 N Wilkes 601, R Parko 601 R Cooney 269, B Jones 601 T Chissim 1 584. Totals: 6 and 1.

WELCH DON

K Benson/S Benson 0 B Taylor/J Rawlinson 2, B Jones 1/A Player 0 R Cooney 1/N Wilkes 2, B Newby/P Hunter 1 J Johnson/J Warburton 2, B Jones 2/K Benson 2 1 M Irving/R Cooney 2 2. Totals: 0 and 4.

SOCCER BAR v COTTAGES

SNOOKER

A Eaton 41 J Tyerman 48, J Howarth 65 D Simpson 31, H Pearson 38 B Burns 79. Totals: 1 and 2.

BILLIARDS

J Howarth 100 B Burns 95, J Wilson 71 S Hetherington 100, D Plant 100 A Cok 77. Totals: 2 and 1.

DARTS

M Fletcher 601 K Moscrop 475, J Howarth 453 S McPoland 601, M Edwards 581 S Hetherington 601, B Butterworth 601 B Bowes 599, A Bonner 561, A Fraser 601, A Eaton 501 D MacMillan 601, D Plant 133 M McCoy 601. Totals: 2 and 5.

WELCH DON

H Pearson/J Walsh 2 A Reid/B Bowes 1, A Bonner/B Butterworth 1 P Fieldhouse/S Hetherington 2, I Walsh/E Salton 1 D Leech/W Bowes 2, D Plant/S Martin 0 D MacMillan/M McCoy 2. Totals: 1 and 3.

BRITISH LEGION v NAVY CLUB B

SNOOKER

M Smith 57 J O'Leary 50, A Edmondson 21 D Wilkie 44, A Carruthers 70 D Simpson 49. Totals: 2 and 1.

BILLIARDS

A Edmondson 100 P Kyle 70, C Taylor 100 J Clamp 78, K Quinn 100 I Large 72. Totals: 3 and 0.

DARTS

A Carruthers 367 D Simpson 601, M Smith 601 J O'Leary 597, T Woodward 597 D Rafferty 601, G Horne 421 C Kirkby 601, C Taylor B Linklater 598, K Quinn 601 P Kyle 593, G Hutton 586 I Large 601. Totals: 3 and 4.

WELCH DON

A Carruther/K Quinn 2 D Simpson/D Wilkie 1, T Woodward/G Horne 2 C Kirkby/P Fogharty 0, G Hutton 1/C Taylor 2 R Procter/P Kyle 1, G Hutton/M Smith 2 I Large/D Rafferty 0. Totals: 4 and 0.

STANDINGS

SNOOKER

P

L

Pts

Cottages

36

12

24

BFSC

36

14

22

British Legion

36

18

18

Roose Cons

36

19

17

Navy Club B

36

20

16

Navy Club A

36

21

15

Vickerstown CC

36

22

14

BILLIARDS

P

L

Pts

British Legion

36

9

27

Vickerstown CC

36

15

21

BFSC

36

16

20

Navy Club A

36

17

19

Navy Club B

36

18

18

Cottages

36

23

13

Roose Cons

36

28

8

DARTS

P

L

Pts

Cottages

84

18

66

Navy Club A

84

36

48

Navy Club B

84

36

48

Vickerstown CC

84

39

45

BFSC

84

46

38

Roose Cons

84

59

25

British Legion

84

60

24

WELCH DON

P

L

Pts

Navy Club A

48

20

28

Roose Cons

48

21

27

Cottages

48

22

26

Navy Club B

48

23

25

Vickerstown CC

48

25

23

BFSC

48

27

21

British Legion

48

30

18