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AEBF Mens Team 2007

Open Team: SA 16+4 v VIC 16+0

This was a great match between 2 great teams. All mistakes were punished early and at half time it was 8-8. The Vics then pulled away to lead 16-13 in the final set and were just 1 frame away from consecutive titles. However the SA side fought back with some great pool. At 16-14 with Paull Clack taking on Mick Delahunty it looked like it would go to the final frame when Delahunty played some great positional pool after getting a couple balls off his break.

 

However he missed his second last ball and allowed Clack into the frame. Clack was on the out for the win but miscued on a straight ball to the middle. After some smart safety from both players Clack left Delahunty a tough long pot which he knocked in and also potted his last ball to have a shot at the black for the frame. He hit the black softly and it jawed over the corner pocket. Clack took on a tough thin cut to the corner but missed the pot and Delahunty potted the black to send the match to the final frame. The last frame was played between Kelvin Lee and John Manias. With Manias attacking early, but couldn’t find the out. Kelvin went for the out as well and landed perfectly on his last ball to get position for the black. He potted his last ball but landed short on position with John’s ball covering the pot to the corner. Kelvin punched in the cross double to the other corner pocket and sent the SA side into celebrations.

With Vic looking depressed after blowing the lead and SA with all the momentum it came down to a 7 player, 1 frame race to 4 wins playoff. SA simply blew Vic off the table in the playoff and took out their first title since 2004. comments by Dane Beeton

TEAM STATS

AUSTRALIAN TEAM TO TRAVEL TO ENGLAND

Open Team

John ‘Rusty’ Wheeler – Singles Champion, Player of Carnival
Ben Nunan – Vice Captain
Marc Robertson
Steven Woods
Paull Clack
Alec Evreniadis – Captain
Travis Crawley
Justin Sajich
Brenton Collier
Jake McCartney
Mark Williams
Luke Carter
Team Manager – Phil Dando

 

 

 

OPEN TEAMS Leading Players QLD

Pos

Name

Team

Played

Won

%

1

Rusty Wheeler

QLD

41

30

73.17%

2

Barry Kitchener Jnr

QLD

41

24

58.53%

3

Justin Thursby

QLD

42

23

54.76%

 

Brent Read

QLD

42

23

54.76%

5

Darren Gordon

QLD

35

20

57.14%

6

Shannon Purcell

QLD

36

18

50.00%

7

Dane Beeton

QLD

32

16

50.00%

8

Pat Broderick

QLD

36

16

44.44%

9

Steve Lees

QLD

31

10

32.25%