Newport Open Weekend
NOW22 Final by Andrew Gregory
Mark Avery v David Maugham
Single game, SuperAdvanced.
29 May 2022 12:14PM (Tournament); 9 Readers
Maugham made the first hoop, but Avery has had the first break.
Maugham is now on a TPO.
29 May 2022 12:16PM (Tournament); 9 Readers
Maugham has done all 3 peels of his TPO.
Thanks to Alison for loan of laptop. Easier than my phone!
29 May 2022 12:24PM (Tournament); 9 Readers
Apparently I've landed Mark in it for telling you it's superAdvanced.
The Manager wanted a best-of-3 Normal final, but Mark's wrist hurts.
So single game SuperAdvanced was the agreed compromise.
29 May 2022 12:26PM (Tournament); 11 Readers
The TPO is complete.
Maugham: Red peg, Yellow 1.
Avery: Blue 1, Black box.
29 May 2022 12:29PM (Tournament); 11 Readers
Maugham leaves Yellow on East bdry, level-ish with hoop 4. Red goes to 2nd corner.
29 May 2022 12:31PM (Tournament); 15 Readers
Avery Blue wanders over to Red to have a look.
Now he's by Yellow. Rolling up to 1. Good shot! 5' hoop...
29 May 2022 12:34PM (Tournament); 12 Readers
...rejected!
29 May 2022 12:34PM (Tournament); 12 Readers
Maugham Yellow shooting at Red (20 yards)...
29 May 2022 12:35PM (Tournament); 13 Readers
...hits!
29 May 2022 12:35PM (Tournament); 14 Readers
Maugham Yellow plays big pass-roll out of 2nd corner. Red misses hoop 2, ends up 3y N of peg. Yellow is nicely on Blue.
29 May 2022 12:37PM (Tournament); 15 Readers
Yellow is thru 1 but no rush. One good croquet stroke here and it's almost all over.
29 May 2022 12:38PM (Tournament); 13 Readers
Maugham has established a 3-ball break.
29 May 2022 12:39PM (Tournament); 12 Readers
Just 7 players here this weekend, so it's an all-play-all block. Maugham and Avery are both on 5/5, with 5 TPs each!
29 May 2022 12:40PM (Tournament); 11 Readers
Avery has won the last four Newport Opens, but he needs to find a stopping bisque pretty soon.
Maugham has reached hoop 6 on his potentially winning turn.
29 May 2022 12:45PM (Tournament); 12 Readers
Slight falter at 1-back means Maugham has to pull out another big croquet stroke. Which he does.
29 May 2022 12:47PM (Tournament); 11 Readers
Maugham did ever so well at the start of the TPO, doing the first peel after 3 even though Avery had cornered on the previous turn.
29 May 2022 12:50PM (Tournament); 12 Readers
Maugham is 4 yards from his rover pioneer. Copes.
29 May 2022 12:52PM (Tournament); 10 Readers
Three-yard peg-out...
29 May 2022 12:54PM (Tournament); 10 Readers
David Maugham wins the Donald Cornelius trophy.
29 May 2022 12:54PM (Tournament); 10 Readers
Please consider Newport for next year. It'll be the weekend before the Counties as usual. The fiddling with the Bank Holidays this year has led to a few regulars away at Bowdon or Nottingham, but we should be near full strength next year.
Still, having only 7 players has meant no double-banking!
29 May 2022 12:58PM (Tournament); 10 Readers
That's all folks.
See you at the Counties.
Cheers, Andrew
29 May 2022 12:59PM (Tournament); 10 Readers
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