After 2 stamina drenching weekends of continuous Pool at the Park Plaza Hotel, Antrim we now know our final 21 automatic selection spots for the MENS INTERNATIONAL PANEL. Sam Newell from Bangor and Tom McCorry (pictured right) from Mossley finished joint top with an impressive 52 wins from 70 frames. Unfortunately Sam is unable to travel in April, so in the top 4 play off it was McCorry who claimed the top prize of free return flights, accomodation and £200 spending money at Bridlington. Dee Irwin was Runner Up and won free flights and accomodation with Coleraine pair 17 year old Corey Sweeney and Alan Tosh winning free return flights.
Play offs Semi Finals
Tom McCorry 3-1 Corey Sweeney
Dee Irwin 3-0 Alan Tosh
Play off Final
Tom McCorry 4-3 Dee Irwin
With 5 players tied for the 2 remaining qualifiing spots at position 21, it was Clem Howard from Portrush and 18 year old William Irvine from Larne who came through the play off to secure automatic selection.
Mens 2011 Qualifiers. Final Rankings (Top 32 out of 78) The 21 players highlighted in blue win automatic selection onto one of our International teams travelling to the European Masters at Bridlington in April 2011
52 Sam Newell, Tom McCorry50 Alan Tosh, Dee Irwin
49 Corey Sweeney, Darren Sterrett
48 Marc Hutchinson
47 Terry McDowell
43 Billy Moore
42 Scott Hay
41 Ady Toner, Jonny Thompson
38 Stephen Burns
37 Lee Wright
36 Barry McClements, Trevor Whiteside
35 Colin Montgomery Sr, James McGarrell
34 Chris Jeffrey
32 Keith Hunter,
31 Darren Lowe
30 Willie Houston
28 Anton Arthurs
27 Paul Roberts. Peter Leddy
26 Barry Crossey
25 Paul Gingles
0-24 Others
In the SENIORS SECTION, it was Robert Hawkins from Larne (pictured above right) who came out on top with 21 wins from a possible 29 winning free return flights and £50 spending money at Bridlington in April 2011. In the play off for the 2nd prize off free return flights Lisburn's Stephen Johnston just edged out Bill McIlroy (Larne) and Raymond Stockman (Coleraine)
Seniors 2011 Qualifiers. Final rankings (Top 16 out of 31). The top 4 players highlighted in blue win automatic selection onto one of International teams travelling to the European Masters at Bridlington in April 2011.
21 Robert Hawkins
20 Stephen Johnston, Bill McIlroy, Raymond Stockman
19 Kenny English, Davy McGurn, Darren McColgan, Mark Stockman17 Davy Drysdale, Ivan Christie
16 Stephen Cully, Kenny Geddis
15 Mark Porter
14 Terence Arthurs, Yan Orr, Joe Patton
1-12 others
Thanks to everyone who helped with the organising of the events with a special mention for Trevor Harte, Pauline Lynch and Peter Leddy for running the 2 Competitions, and to the magnificent staff and management at the Park Plaza Hotel.
