Snooker/Billairds/Pool: GBSA Team Snooker League – Round 8
The last Team Snooker League night before the Christmas break resulted in a stunning victory for the Astoria A team over St Bernard’s Heineken; success for barentertainment.net over the Astoria Too and points for Team Queensway over a depleted Gibraltar Service Police team.
The game between the Mediterranean Rowing Club and the Cue Ball was postponed, by mutual agreement.
Down on Zoca Flank, in the St Bernard’s Catholic Social Club, home team St Bernard’s Heineken were beaten three frames to two by the Astoria A team.
Andrew Olivero, the saint’s star man, beat Adrian Navarro 78-30 but Guy Olivero lost 29-52 to the Astoria captain, Brian Garcia. This made it one all! The Astoria’s man-of-the-match, Errol Bolaños beat the saint’s captain, Adrian Wink, to make it two frames to one to the Astoria only for Mukesh Bakhru to level the frame score at two all by beating Alaine Navarro 53-23.Pepe Santos gained the win and the extra point for his team beating Harry Ward 47-35 in the final frame.
An excellent four points for the Astoria A team.
Meanwhile back up in the Astoria club the Astoria Too met a rampant barentertainment.net and went down five frames to nil.
Henry Bear, the Astoria’s captain, lost 6-84 to Yewhung Chin, the entertainer’s man-of-the-match and Dave Smith went down 19-68 to Francis Becerra. The Astoria’s star man, ‘Titch’ Olivero, was beaten 35-48 by Laurence Sisarello and Dougie Cooper was overcome, eventually, 29-65 by Julian McGrail. The last frame between Eddie Bear and the entertainer’s captain, Sean Galligan, was taken 64-18 by Sean.
Maximum points to the leaders!
Meanwhile, down in the ‘snook’ Team Queensway played the Gibraltar Service Police team and took maximum points from a curtailed game.
Kevin Dalli beat Leslie Bruzon 57-36 and Merv Padmore won against Alfred Becerra 46-29. The rest of the GSP team didn’t turn up leaving the remaining three Queensway players got a walk over and could not play.
The game between the Mediterranean Rowing Club and the Cue Ball is yet to be arranged.
League Standings 20th December
| Team | P | W | FF | FA | Pts | |
| 1 | Barentertainment.net | 8 | 8 | 33 | 7 | 41 |
| 2 | St Bernards | 8 | 4 | 24 | 16 | 28 |
| 3 | Cue Ball | 7 | 5 | 22 | 13 | 27 |
| 4 | Mediterranean Rowing | 7 | 4 | 20 | 15 | 24 |
| 5 | Team Queensway | 8 | 3 | 20 | 20 | 23 |
| 6 | Astoria Too | 8 | 4 | 18 | 22 | 22 |
| 7 | Astoria A | 8 | 3 | 15 | 25 | 18 |
| 8 | Gibraltar Service Police | 8 | 0 | 3 | 37 | 3 |
The Highest Break
Yewhung Chin’s 40 in the league is still the highest break of the season; in all competitions.
GBSA Ranking List for January 2007
With the addition of the results from the St Bernard’s Famous Grouse Open Snooker Tournament the top twenty ranking players in Gibraltar are as follows.
| Player | Points | Rank | ||||||
| Becerra Francis | 103 | 1 | ||||||
| Chin Yewhung | 103 | 1 | ||||||
| De La Rosa Peter | 97 | 3 | ||||||
| Moore Les | 90 | 4 | ||||||
| Bakhru Mukesh | 89 | 5 | ||||||
| Galligan Sean | 68 | 6 | ||||||
| Olivero Andrew | 46 | 7 | ||||||
| Newton Eddie Snr | 33 | 8 | ||||||
| Newton Eddie Jnr | 32 | 9 | ||||||
| Holmes Adrian | 29 | 10 | ||||||
| Ward Harry | 27 | 11 | ||||||
| McGrail Julian | 24 | 12 | ||||||
| Correa Nicky | 19 | 13 | ||||||
| Bensadon Peter | 18 | 14 | ||||||
| Wilding Larry | 17 | 15 | ||||||
| Cano Gareth | 15 | 16 | ||||||
| Wink A | 15 | 16 | ||||||
| Rooney Tom | 15 | 16 | ||||||
| Valarino Peter | 14 | 19 | ||||||
| Pembroke Kevin | 12 | 20 | ||||||
| Monteverde 'Monty' | 10 | 21 |
Happy Christmas
The committee of the Gibraltar Billiards and Snooker Association wishes all its members and supporters the best of wishes for the holiday season and look forward to seeing everyone back at the tables next year.
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