Warwickshire Open U21’s/ U16’s 2006
In Memory of Jack Macleod
Saturday & Sunday 18th /19th November
This event took place at Rileys, Hertford Place, Coventry where all the Warwickshire County teams play their county matches during the year.
The competition was sponsored by Rileys (U21’s) and Fibrecase UK (U16’s) who bought the shields. Raffles & Phil Parkin, who played pool for 6 hours at the Tiltyard in Kenilworth, helped to raise the money towards the trophies.
The event organisers Terry & Hazel Parkin and the Warwickshire Youth teams felt this competition needed to happen in the memory of Jack who we all continue to miss. Jack was a quiet, friendly, polite and a very valuable member of county pool.
The weekend started on Saturday November 18th with Warwickshire’s County Secretary, Gaz Calcott doing the opening ceremony including a minute silence.
Speeches from Ewan Macleod on behalf of himself and wife, Sheena & Wark’s ‘A’ Youth team manager, Terry Parkin took place before the start of play.
The event had 40 entries for the U21’s, some of them travelling many miles to get here. The counties involved were Suffolk, Dorset, Somerset, West Midlands, Worcestershire, Buckinghamshire, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire & of course Warwickshire.
The competition was run on the ‘Swiss System’ (each person having 3 lives). On Saturday we got down to the last 8 players.
The quarter finalists started play on Sunday morning.
These were : Karl Sutton (Suffolk) 5
Shawn Smith (West Midlands) 0
Phil Parkin (Warwickshire) 4
Ryan Hewitt (Nottinghamshire) 5
Jeff Owen (West Midlands) 5
Aaron Easson (Warwickshire) 3
Howard Bailie (Warwickshire) 1
Richard Twomey (Suffolk) 5
The Semi: Karl Sutton 6 – 1 Ryan Hewitt
Jeff Owen 2 – 6 Richard Twomey
The Final was a classic as both players came from Suffolk & they also play for the England Youth Team. Level after the first 4 frames. Karl took the next 3 frames to lead 5-2. Richard then took the next 3 frames to level the score again 5-5. Karl took the next & yet again Richard levelled to take it into a deciding frame. In previous competitions Karl has reached 2 semis & at least 2 quarter finals & we thought here we go again, but it was Karl who won the deciding frame to win this first Warwickshire U21’s Open. Karl will be back to defend his title next year.
The U21's Presentation - Sheena Macleod, Bob Burrows (Rileys Manager), Richard Twomey, Karl Sutton & Ewan Macleod.
Also on Sunday we ran the U16’s competition, in which we had 20 entries. This was played on a Round Robin System.
The last 8 players were:
Ben Mackie (Dorset) 0
Ashley Radford (Notts) 3
Jamie McGauley (Bucks) 3
Luke Barnes (Wark’s) 0
Ian Smith (West Mids) 3
Luke Mills (Wark’s) 2
Greg Brown (Northampton) 2
Aiden Hodge (Somerset) 3
Semi-finalists Ashley Radford beat Jamie McGauley 4 - 3
Ian Smith beat Aiden Hodge 4 - 3
In the final, Ashley Radford beat Ian Smith 5 - 0
The U16's Presentation - Sheena Macleod, Tony Mills (Fibrecase UK), Ashley Radford, Ian Smith & Ewan Macleod.
During the competition Terry was looking for a player that could pick up the ‘Jack Macleod Award’. He had to be a good sport even when he lost & to keep on smiling. There was also an award for the person who got the most ‘Break & Dishes’.
PRESENTATION
The trophies were presented by Ewan Macleod.
Break & Dish Award went to Phil Parkin (he had 6 break & dishes)
The ‘Jack Macleod Award’ went to James Mallett from Suffolk. He was a star on both days.
Flowers were presented to Jack’s mum, Sheena & Auntie, Siobhan. Thanks to Riley’s & all the staff and to Mike Collins (from Suffolk), Dave Easson, Mick Payne & Tony Mills for all their help & support over the weekend.
The event was very successful and everybody thoroughly enjoyed themselves. We have had phone calls & e-mails since the event commenting on the success.
