Posted by Statto on 16-09-2008 06:37
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Results from tonight:
Warbank 11-5 Better Halfs
On paper this looks like a thrashing, but look a little deeper....
Warbank - historically a 1st Div team, bags of experience, been together a long time...
Better Halfs - fairly new into the league, a few of them played for the Flippers a while back....
Make no mistake - the Better Halfs team acquitted themselves VERY well tonight, and a few of their players were genuinely upset at losing.
The quality of pool I saw from both sides was of a very good standard, and IMO, all that let the Halfs down was their lack of big match experience.
Their chance WILL come again....
Farley Eden 11-9 The Jolly
Eden took an early lead, and looked to be cruising at 5-0 up...but Chris Bensalem's team have taken on his trait of never knowing when they are beaten....5-0 became 6-2, which then went to 8-4.....even at 10-6 they kept battling....
The final will be interesting.....