The Jersey Island Snooker Team recently played the Inter Insular against Guernsey at the Jersey Mechanics.
After a hefty defeat last year, Jersey managed to field a strong team this year in the hope to regain the trophy from our CI counterparts. However, after a long hard fought day, Guernsey eventually ran out 14 – 11 winners
In the first session of the day, Jamie Cheminant got Guernsey off to a flyer by beating Aaron Canavan 57 – 47 to put Guernsey off on the front foot. On table 3, Adam Shorto increased Guernseys lead with a 77 – 27 win against Matt Cox. However, Karl Le Fevre beat John Skillet and Jeremy Gogan beat Darren Hughes to put the tie at 2 each. In the final match of round 1, Brett Campbell lost to Jamie Le Cheminant to give Guernsey a 3 – 2 lead.
In the 2nd session, Matt , Aaron and Brett won their matches against Paul Le Sauvage, Darren and John respectively, whilst Karl lost to Adam and Jeremy lost to Paul Le Sauvage, meaning the overall score was 5 – 5.
Session 3 Guernsey started strong again with Darren beating Matt and Jamie winning his 3rd match in a row against Karl. However Aaron beat John to close the gap to 7 – 6 in Guernsey favour. In the last match of the session, Jeremy played Adam. In a very tense match, Jeremy had the chance to win the frame on the black. However after trying a very hard cut back into the middle pocket, he left an eay black for Adam to take the frame and give Guernsey an 8 – 6 lead after the afternoon session.
At the start of the evening session, it was time for Brett and Karl to try and close the overall score. Unfortunately for Brett, Darren played some excellent snooker, and with Brett replacing his tip at halftime, Darren ran out winner. However on the other table, Karl compiled a nice 47 break to beat Paul 77-14. Next up was Jeremy who inflicted Jamie’s first loss of the day. But, Guernsey responded again with John beating Matt Cox 90-24.
In the final 2 frames of the 2 table format, Aaron beat Paul by making a fine 64 break, whilst Adam won his 4th frame out of 4 by beating Brett, giving Guernsey an overall lead of 11 frames to 9.
With the match now going to the one table scenario, first up was Karl versus Darren. After an early Darren miss, Karl compiled the top break of the night with a 66 to win the frame 73-11. Next up was Coxy and he drew Jersey level overall at 11 each with a fine win over Jamie by 70-61.
Jeremy then played John who had now found better form from earlier on in the day and he ran out winner by 83 – 23, giving Guernsey a 21-11 lead and only needing 1 out of the last 2 frames to retain the title.
And Guernsey duly won it with a fine performance by the Guernsey Snooker Champion Paul beating Brett by 72-15.
The last frame between Adam and Aaron unfortunately was a meaningless one with regards the overall match score. However Adam ran out winner by 70 – 56 to make sure he had won all of his 5 frames in the match.
JBSA president Byron Le Cornu congratulated the Guernsey Team and gave commiserations to Jersey. He also thanks Howard Smith, Robbie Kilpatrick, Malcolm Malzard and Clayton Coates for refereeing, as well as Lee Travers who did all the in match scoring.
Matches won
Jersey: A. Canavan 3, K. Le Fevre 3, J. Gogan 2, M. Cox 2, B. Campbell 1
Guernsey: A. Shorto 5, J. Le Cheminant 3, D. Hughes 2, J. Skillett 2, P. Le Sauvage 2
Breaks: K. Le Fevre 66, 47; A. Canavan 64, 51, 47; A. Shorto 49; J. Skillett 42; P. Le Sauvage 42
Overall match scores were as follows:
| Match 1 | Aaron Canavan | 47 | v | 57 | Jamie Le Cheminant | |
| Match 2 | Matt Cox | 28 | v | 77 | Adam Shorto | |
| Match 3 | Jeremy Gogan | 75 | v | 23 | Darren Hughes | |
| Match 4 | Karl Le Fevre | 61 | v | 47 | John Skillett | |
| Match 5 | Brett Campbell | 21 | v | 56 | Jamie Le Cheminant | |
| Match 6 | Matt Cox | 66 | v | 42 | Paul Le Sauvage | |
| Match 7 | Aaron Canavan | 98 | v | 7 | Darren Hughes | |
| Match 8 | Karl Le Fevre | 47 | v | 67 | Adam Shorto | |
| Match 9 | Brett Campbell | 69 | v | 24 | John Skillett | |
| Match 10 | Jeremy Gogan | 30 | v | 65 | Paul Le Sauvage | |
| Match 11 | Matt Cox | 28 | v | 60 | Darren Hughes | |
| Match 12 | Karl Le Fevre | 35 | v | 62 | Jamie Le Cheminant | |
| Match 13 | Aaron Canavan | 68 | v | 54 | John Skillett | |
| Match 14 | Jeremy Gogan | 53 | v | 55 | Adam Shorto | |
| Match 15 | Brett Campbell | 20 | v | 63 | Darren Hughes | |
| Match 16 | Karl Le Fevre | 77 | v | 14 | Paul Le Sauvage | |
| Match 17 | Jeremy Gogan | 66 | v | 38 | Jamie Le Cheminant | |
| Match 18 | Matt Cox | 26 | v | 90 | John Skillett | |
| Match 19 | Aaron Canavan | 105 | v | 24 | Paul Le Sauvage | |
| Match 20 | Brett Campbell | 16 | v | 100 | Adam Shorto | |
| Match 21 | Karl Le Fevre | 73 | v | 11 | Darren Hughes | |
| Match 22 | Matt Cox | 70 | v | 61 | Jamie Le Cheminant | |
| Match 23 | Jeremy Gogan | 23 | v | 83 | John Skillett | |
| Match 24 | Brett Campbell | 15 | v | 72 | Paul Le Sauvage | |
| Match 25 | Aaron Canavan | 56 | v | 70 | Adam Shorto |
