Nicole has capped a successful 2009 Nationals with Selection in the 2010 Australian Ladies Eight Ball Team. This is Nicole’s third selection in the national side and comes after captaining the ACT Ladies Team to their best ever result, as well as finishing 5th in the players stats for the Ladies. Nicole was also equal 1st for the Ladies in Master Breaks. In a great result for Nicole and the ACT, she was the third player selected.

Steve, while playing for NSW this year, has now made his 4th national side as the 5th player selected. Steve’s selection comes on the back of shooting 4th best in the stats and 3rd best in Master Breaks. Steve also made it to Round of 16 in the Singles.

Well done Nicole and Steve!

Last night the Open team came agonizingly close to making the finals, losing 13-11 to NSW in their last match after earlier handing the Vics their first defeat of the tournament. It was a great effort by the team and shows promise of what to expect in future years.

The Ladies play Victoria in their semi final at midday today, and if successful they will qualify for the Preliminary final at 4pm. I will post the result of the semi as soon as I know it.

Final Score – ACT 6 – 13 Victoria (race to 13)

Well done to the Ladies Team on a great effort in achieving the highest finish by an ACT side at the Nationals!

Regards

Chris Jones

All three ACT teams have a chance to record their highest finish at the Nationals today, with the Ladies and Open Teams playing to maintain their places in the top 4. Both teams have previously finished 5th but never made the finals.

Yesterday the Masters finished in 5th spot, a great improvement from last place in 2008.

At the time of writing, the Ladies hold a 2 point lead on the ladder over WA, with both teams playing teams lower on the ladder than they are in their final round – I will update when I get a result.

UPDATE: the Ladies won their final round match which guarantees them 3rd place on the ladder! Well done Ladies!

The Open are playing their last two round robin matches this afternoon at 2pm and 4.30pm, and currently hold a 1 point lead over WA and Tassie, who are set to play each other in the last round. ACT have 1st placed Victoria followed by 7th place NSW, which could be the deciding match.

Live scores http://www.aebf.com.au/

But if you work in town, come on down to Rydges to cheer the Open Team on in their last round robin match from 4.30pm

Regards

Chris Jones

Well done to Cindy Blackmore on reaching the Round of 16 in the Ladies Singles! Cindy will be playing at 9am on Saturday, so come down and cheer our last remaining singles player.

Meanwhile, all three teams scored wins yesterday, keeping the Ladies in 3rd spot and the Open in equal 4th, just 2 points behind 2nd place.

Follow the teams and Masters singles today at http://www.aebf.com.au/

Regards, Chris Jones

Day 3 has seen some mixed results for the teams, but the Ladies are going strong after 6 rounds, sitting in 3rd spot.

Top shooters for the Open team are Michael Hazilias and John Pagden, while the Ladies are being led by Gemma Pike and Cindy Blackmore and Jack Dehm leads the Masters.

Meanwhile, the Open and Ladies Singles are up to the round of 32, with 7 ACT players remaining.

Well done to Alessandro Nasca and Rony Sood in the Open Singles, and Cindy Blackmore, Theresa Whitten, Lesieli O’Connor (nee Otuhouma), Ruth Stone and Gemma Pike in the Ladies Singles.

Thursday sees a full day of Singles in both the Open and Ladies, with play starting from 10am, while at 5pm the Masters take on NSW and Tasmania, the Ladies duel with NSW also at 5 and the Open Team are hoping for a win against NSW from 7.30pm.

Check out up to date results at http://www.aebf.com.au/

Regards

Chris Jones

The AEBF website is updated daily with the results, so you can see how our ACT players are faring.

Click on to http://www.aebf.com.au/ and follow the links Nationals > Nationals 2009.

Don’t forget though, it is only a short walk to Rydges from the city to cheer them on in person. The Masters, Open and Ladies teams are in action every day, with all three teams sitting on one win and one loss after day one. In addition, 11 ACT players qualified for Round 2 of the Open Singles, and we have 11 players fighting it out in the Ladies Singles this afternoon from 2pm and into the evening.

Regards

Chris Jones