25th March 2007
At the start the Redruth series of West of England Billiards & Snooker Foundation Bronze Waistcoat tournaments the overall winner was still in the balance as the tournament drew to an exciting conclusion. Aiden Johns, who had a slight chance of reaching the regional finals due to be held on the 21st April in Plymouth, started off by beating Alex Wills. Johns was trailing by 26 points before clearing the colours to the black which he fluked to pinch the frame. Johns followed this by easily beating Jamie Edwards in the next match. Johns’ good form took turn for the worst as he lost the next two matches. Jake Stewart needed to win the event and rely on James Freeman finishing third or less to qualify. Stewart won three of his four matches and lost just the one match to Alex Wills. James Freeman, who was leading the tour at the start of play, had two wins and two loses which to kept the pressure up on Jake Stewart. On the day the overall winner with 150 points was Alex Wills, who after losing to Johns in the very first match easily won the next three matches. Stewart finished runner-up by virtue of frame count-back with 130 points. James Freeman on 110 points finished 3rd which was enough to take the overall Redruth Bronze Waistcoat winner. Johns came 4th also with 100 points and Edwards 5th with 90 points.

The final ranking table positions to determine this years qualifiers for the regional finals sees James Freeman 1st (670 points) 2nd Jake Stewart (650) 3rd Alex Wills (600) 4th Jamie Edwards (510).

Report by Vic Wills