Canalside will be the new venue for this year’s Huddersfield Billiards and Snooker Association’s annual finals week.
The two weeks of action get under way on Tuesday with the billiards handicap semi-finals and finals (all evening starting 7.30pm).
Matthew Peaker will take on Roger Singleton, while Denis Lomax takes on Frank Wrathall and the referee will be Philip Brooke.
On Wednesday evening Peaker is in action once again in the Billiards Championship final when he will face Brian Cousen when Steve Whiteley is the referee.
The Team Championship final will be played on Thursday, May 8, with the finalists yet to be decided, and the venue for the final will be changed should Canalside win through and the referee will be Joe Burnand.
On Friday the Junior Championship final will be played with Ryan Bodsworth having booked his place, but he is still waiting to see who he will face. The referee will be Paul Schofield.
The second week of action starts on Monday, May 12, with the Len Oldham Pairs final which sees Robert Armitage and Tony Clegg facing the pairing of Michael Whaley and Chris Thorpe, Steve Whiteley will be the referee.
The Snooker 3-Player Team Knockout final, played over the best of three frames, is on Tuesday, May 13, with Hillhouse and Birkby A taking on Deighton WMC A with Syd Cogger as the referee.
The Snooker Handicap final is on Wednesday and Chris Heywood faces Nathan Walton in a best of five frames contest to be refereed by Haydn Corbett.
The John Needham Plate final on Thursday, May 15, and Derek Frost will be the referee with the two teams in the final yet to be decided.
The big final is to be played on Friday, May 16, when Lindley’s Robert Read, whose six year run of success was ended by Robert Armitage last year, takes on Martyn Beck, who has featured in Huddersfield’s Yorkshire League team this year.
In the Huddersfield Billiards Championship semi-finals Brockholes BC player and 2011 and 2012 champion Matthew Peaker beat reigning champion Rob Armitage from Marsh Lib in the first semi of this year’s competition.
Both players started well with breaks in the 30s and there was never more than 40 points between them.
Armitage then made breaks of 59 and 57 which were followed by 51 and 44 by Peaker and at the halfway stage the scores were 250-248 in favour of Armitage.
After the interval both players again made breaks in the 30s before missing and letting their opponent in.
Then with the scores on 393-365 in Peaker’s favour, the Brockholes player ran out the winner by making a superb 107 break unfinished to run out the winner 500-365 and reach the final.
The other semi-final is between David Peaker, of Brockholes BC, and Lindley Lib player and seven times winner of the event Brian Cousen.
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