Jordan banks title

Jordan Brown has followed in the footsteps of his club-mate Mark Allen by clinching the Northern Ireland National Championship.

NI champion Jordan Brown

Brown, 20, from the Fountain SC in Antrim, edged out Belfast’s Julian Logue 10-9 on the final black at the Green Baize SC in Armagh.

World No 16 Allen won the title in 2003 and 2005.

Logue chalked up breaks of 69, 55, 56 and 89 in the final in which there were never more than two frames in it, while Brown, NI Under-21 Champion 2008, contributed a 75. 

Brown, who finished fifth in the rankings, will represent NI at the IBSF World Championships in Austria in October/November.

Declan Hughes has been nominated to rejoin the Main Tour after a ten-year absence. The 34-year-old from Craigavon, Co Armagh, went into the last event level with Dermot McGlinchey. But a first-round exit ended McGlinchey’s hopes.

Hughes reached the semi-final to hold off the threat of Logue who finished second.

RESULTS:

LAST 32: Declan Hughes bt Raymond Donnelly 3-1, Mark Nugent bt Barry Hughes 3-0, Colm Kelly bt Paul Lenfestey 3-1, Declan Lavery bt Joe Buttimer 3-1, Michael Quinn bt Raymond Fry 3-2, Richard Comiskey bt Jamie McArdle 3-1, Darren Dornan bt Robert McCullough 3-2, Julian Logue bt Kieran Erwin 3-0, Kieran McMahon bt Peter Gray 3-0, Jonathan Nelson bt Colin Gavin 3-2, David Hawthorne bt Michael McDonald 3-2, Joe Meara bt Michael Smyth 3-1, Jordan Brown bt Sean Arterton 3-0, Michael Kane bt William Eakin 3-0, Ryan McQuillan bt John Currie 3-0, Colin Bingham bt Johnny Kells 3-0.

LAST 16: Hughes bt Nugent 4-3, Lavery bt Kelly 4-1, Comiskey bt Quinn 4-3, Logue bt Dornan 4-2, McMahon bt Nelson 4-2, Meara bt Hawthorne 4-1, Brown bt Kane 4-1, Bingham bt McQuillan 4-2.

QUARTER-FINALS: Hughes bt Lavery 5-1, Logue w/o Comiskey, McMahon bt Meara 5-1, Brown bt Bingham 5-1.

SEMI-FINALS: Logue bt Hughes 6-1, Brown bt McMahon 6-3.

FINAL: Brown bt Logue 10-9.

Picture courtesy of Billy Telford