Week Commencing 17th January 2005

The Pickett Trophy

The Pickett Trophy is Swindon's main team handicap event, held as a knock-out tournament over a number of months. Each player is given a rating based on their performance in the league (the lower the rating the better the player). The ratings for the team are added up to give a handicap for the night, and then any points won are added to the handicap to give the final scores.

Sanford Link E 445, St. Saviours A 452

Made up of Division 1 players Sandy Steele-Davies, Ray Hughes and Terry Parkins,  St.Saviours A looked in complete control until the fifth game when Sanford's Jacob Holland of Division 2 gained an impressive 31 points against Sandy (13, 18) in the fifth game. Suddenly it looked like a win for Sanford may be possible after all, but the moment was soon to pass when Terry Parkins beat Division 4's Tim Arbon giving away just 4 points. Sanford's John Lewis did well averaging around 14 points per game, and Arbon got 12 against both Steeele-Davies and Hughes, but this still left a tall order of 30 points for Jacob Holland to get off of Terry Parkins in the last set, which turned out to be just 8 too many.

Other results of Round 1:

Sanford Link E 445, St. Saviours A 452 - win for St. Saviours A
Sanford Link F 647, Ridgeway C 612 - win for Sanford Link F
GWRSA A vs Sanford Link G - w/o for GWRSA A
Ridgeway A 561, GWRSA E 494 - win for Ridgeway A
GWRSA G 541, Sanford Link A 626 - win for Sanford Link A
Northside vs Sanford Link D - w/o for Northside
St.Saviours B vs Swindon County Court - late result
GWRSA C 550, GWRSA H 522 - win for GWRSA C
 

UPDATE: This article was subsequently edited and published by the Evening Advertiser on Tuesday 25th Jan 2005.