Double for Mackie

DEFENDING champion Ben Mackie eased through a 60-strong field to clinch the EPA national 8-ball under-16 singles title at Miscues in Barnsley.

Champion Ben Mackie

The Dorset pool star dropped just three frames in a five-match winning run to the final. In a repeat of last year’s final, Mackie met Theo Morgan in the semis. He won 5-0 and beat England International Phil Parkin 6-3 in the final.

Parkin was taken to a ninth and deciding frame in the last four by Londoner Nigel Clarke. Five-year-old Ryan Davies, from Greater Manchester, took a frame off James Hallett on his competition debut. Ryan’s ten-year-old brother Aaron won through two rounds before coming unstuck against Parkin.

RESULTS: LAST 32: Theo Morgan (W Mids) bt John Bowkett (Leics) 4-1, Nathan Clarke (W Mids) bt Luke Mills (Wark) 4-3, Tyler Tipton (W Mids) bt Joseph Rigby (W Mids) 4-3, Ashley Dobb (Notts) bt Adam Greensill (W Mids) 4-2, Craig Rooker (W Mids) bt Daniel Johnson (S Yorks) 4-0, Ben Mackie (Dorset) bt Lewis Hargreaves (Suffolk) 4-0, Jamie McGauley (Herts) bt Joe O’Connor (Leics) 4-3, Stuart Bray (W Yorks) bt Luke Cowap (Wark) 4-0, Phil Parkin (Wark) bt James Hardy (Lancs) 4-2, Aaron Davies (Gt Man) bt Michael Day (Herts) 4-2, Richard Haney (W Mids) bt James Mallett (Suffolk) 4-1, Nathan Prescott (W Yorks) bt Luke Garman (Surrey) 4-0, Steve Chambers (Surrey) bt Ian Smith (W Mids) 4-3, Nigel Clarke (London) bt Stephen Wroe (S Yorks) 4-1, Harry Irwin (Leics) bt Mark Lunn (W Yorks) 4-0, Ashley Radford (Notts) bt Jack Smithers (Surrey) 4-1.

LAST 16: Morgan bt Nathan Clarke 4-1, Dobb bt Tipton 4-0, Mackie bt Rooker 4-1, McGauley bt Bray 4-1, Parkin bt Davies 4-0, Haney bt Prescott 4-1, Nigel Clarke bt Chambers 4-0, Irwin bt Radford 4-2.

QUARTER FINALS: Morgan bt Dobb 5-0, Mackie bt McGauley 5-1, Parkin bt Haney 5-0, Clarke bt Irwin 5-4.

SEMI FINALS: Mackie bt Morgan 5-0, Parkin bt Clarke 5-4.

FINAL: Mackie bt Parkin 6-3.

Picture courtesy of Amanda Speight