Off the Spot Singles 2011

Henry Brooks won his first Brighton title by winning the off the spot singles beating Nigel Senior in the final. Henry doesn't play in the Brighton League any more but has played for the Albion in the past. Henry narrowly made it though the group stages at Dave Ingram's expenses by making the necessary score against Tony Jenner to go through. In the semi final he overcame reigning champion Ian Lelliott. Nigel also made stuttering progress through his group, losing his first match to Kyle Ingram, but he knew he was through when he lost his final group game to Ian Lelliott on aggregate scores. Nigel beat Steve Mariner with the days high scoring match 13,830-9,730 in the semi to progress to the final. The final was played on a tough table which players had struggled all day, but Henry showed great patience to run out a fairly convincing winner.

Only 11 players showed up for the tournament, which was disappointing, and were split into 2 groups, one of 6 and one of 5. The top 2 would progress to the semi finals, 3rd and 4th place guaranteed a plate berth. Group 1 was won by Stvee Mariner who won all 5 of his games, Henry edged out Dave Ingram for 2nd, Colin Green took 4th to eliminate both Tony Jenner and Kevin Stoner. In Group 2 Ian Lelliott won all 4 of his games, Nigel finished level on wins with both Stuart Mepham and Kyle Ingram but had done enough on aggregate scores. Lana Stoner was eliminated but did well in her first ever competition.

The plate was won by the 2009 runner up, Dave Ingram, in a good final against Stuart Mepham. Nigel Senior took the highest break of 5,860 which only counted in the group stages. Well done to Henry who won his first title in Brighton - hopefully he will be back to defend it next year, and against a bigger field!

Many thanks to the Romans for hosting a very successful day of bar billiards.

Previous Competitions

Off the Spot all time averages (since it went to one day in 1999)