21^st February 2009
The forth leg of the Plymouth West of England Billiard & Snooker Foundation Bronze Waistcoat tour was hosted and jointly sponsored by Rileys, Plymouth and Baulk Line Snooker, South West. Three time winner and favourite Haydon Pinhey was made to battle hard in a superb final against the ever improving Dan Legassick. Pinhey had the run of the balls in first frame which went to the final black. Pinhey attempted a safety shot off of three cushions only for the black to drop into pocket to take the lead. Legassick responded well keeping his nerve in front of large crowd to level at 1-1. Pinhey’s experience of finals proved decisive in the decider as the frame went to the final pink and black. Legassick played hastily on the pink leaving Pinhey the chance he needed to clinch the match 2-1. In the semi finals Pinhey played Jonathan Jolly, Pinhey got of to a tremendous start by winning the first frame 90-6 with breaks of 30 & 39. Jolly who had played well all day could not keep up with Pinhey in dominating form and lost 2-0. In the other semi final Chris Coumbe, who always shows great determination and passion in his play, faced Legassick who was unstoppable and took no time at all to win 2-0.

In group A Coumbe got of to flying start with an impressive 25 clearance in the first frame against Corry beating him 73-18 then Coumbe ended the match winning the second 59-27. Corry started of well against Legassick but was unlucky to lose the first frame as Legassick fluked the black to win. Legassick won the next to win 2-0. Adam Lewin laid some tremendous snookers to get back into his first frame against Coumbe before he was unfortunate to go in-off which left Coumbe an easy blue and a superb pink to win the frame. Coumbe showed he means business went on the take the match 2-0. Cody Hall started well against Adam Lewin to take the first frame 74-28. Lewin responded with an excellent 32 break to level the match. Hall's determination was enough to take a close decider to win 2-1. Legassick beat Hall 2-0 aided by a fine 22 break. Hall was taking no prisoners in his defeat of Corry winning 2-1. Legassick showed great potential in his match against seasoned Bronze player Coumbe 2-1. Lewin made breaks of 22 & 24 in his match against Legassick to win 2-0. Hall went into his final match against Coumbe needing to win to qualify in second place. He levelled the match taking the second frame 55-27 before the ever consistent Coumbe took the decider 63-21. Coumbe finished top his group by beating Lewin 2-0. Corry started well in his match against Lewin but Lewin proved too strong wining the match 2-0.

Group B saw a newcomer to the popular waistcoat tour Joe Murray come up against a very consistent Peter Beckwith. Murray potted a tremendous long pink to win the first frame and showed no signs of letting up in the second frame. However, Beckwith rallied to win 2-1. Jolly also put the dampers on Murray’s first victory with breaks of 22 & 24 to win 2-0. Beckwith put in a fine performance against Jolly winning 2-1 with only one point separating them in the second frame 51-50. Pinhey wasted no time in all of his group matches. He won all his matches without dropping a single frame and recorded an excellent break of 44 against birthday boy Beckwith. Murray and Jolly also lost 2-0 to the outstanding Pinhey who is continuing to show promising signs of maturity beyond his years.

Tournament Director Darren Hall and Parent reported "The young snooker players on this tour are very committed and are showing great potential for snooker. It is a delight to watch them play snooker with such a professional manner at such a young age. Everybody involved with West of England Billiard & Snooker Foundation are doing a great job. The reward for their hard work can clearly be seen on days like these. All the players turn out well dressed and show excellent etiquette and sportsmanship around the tables. Well done to everybody." Anybody interested in playing on this tour should log onto www.websf.co.uk

Report by Darren Hall