Ashton Cup Final Report

Wrockwardine Wood C ended Newport Ds 3 year winning streak in the Ashton Cup with a comfortable victory tonight by 18.

They flew out the traps, Rowan Fuller starring at number one, going 9-3 and 13-8 up in front of vociferous support against Dave Oldcorn. But Dave did get back to 17-14 down but Rowan ran out. Steve Weston was 10-7 down to Chris Gill but went 17-10 up and won 15. Chris Jones from 12 across went 16-12 ahead and won 17 against Simon Trotman, and a clean sweep was complete when Sam Price held off a fightback by Jeff Badderley who from 16-3 down got back to 16 across, but Sam won 18.

After four Wrockwardine were 23 up.

This extended to 35 when Keith Millington, who was voted player of the match, went from 7-0 down to 17-7 up and won 9 against Gerald Atkin. Newport then did stage a fightback with the next three winners. Steve Anyon was 15-6 up on Liam Bremner and won 15, Patrick Evans was 11-4 down to Tony Farr but from 14-11 down ran out, and Glyn Lawrence from 12-7 ahead of Jack Morgan won 15.

This meant Wrockwardine were only 16 up now.

However Sean Keeshan from 5-4 down went 13-6 up on Neil Smallman and won 15 to get Wrockwardine over the line. This left Newport captain Mick Jones on with Timothy Trehearne, with Mick winning 17.

Overall Wrockwardine Wood C won by 18.

Well done to Wrockwardine on their success.

Pictures will follow.

NoWrock Wood CScoreScoreNewport D
1Rowan Fuller2114Dave Oldcorn
2Steven Weston2115Chris Gill
3Chris Jones2116Simon Trotman
4Sam Price2117Jeffrey Baddeley
5Keith Millington219Gerald Atkin
6Liam Bremner1521Steve Anyon
7Tony Farr1421Patrick Evans
8Jack Morgan1521Glyn Lawrence ****
9Sean Keeshan2115Neil Smallman ****
10Timothy Treharne1721Mick Jones
 Games64Games
 Aggregate187170Aggregate
 Handicap10Handicap
 Total Points188170Total Points