Sunday the 11th of October saw the Victor O’Gorman memorial been played for the 5th year and once again Wayne Doyle who used to practice a lot with Victor won the event for the 5th time in a row.
First round matches seen Wayne Doyle beating Joe doheny with some timely breaks, next up was a welcome return of John Kehoe who was in great form beating Robert mc Crum.
Next to get his name into the next round was 6 times Irish billiards champion Larry drennan having a good win over Anthony o’flaherty.
Tommy Murphy played solid billiards in beating Brendan devlin and John Downey got past Irelands youngest player Ciaran Doyle.
Into the quarter finals and first match was two players that usually face off in most finals a bit today it was a last 8 clash between 7 times Irish champion and current all Ireland champion Wayne Doyle and 7 times Irish champion also Aidan Murray. Aidan started the stronger but two timely breaks from Wayne saw him break away from Aidan.
John Kehoe kept up his good form in beating Larry drennan to reach the last 4 .
The number 3 seed for the event Ross doyle had a comfortable win over Tommy Murphy and the final last 8 match up seen Number 2 seed Lloyd myers take the win over John Downey.
The first semi final turned out to be a interesting match where John Kehoe scoring steady sailed into a 120 lead over Wayne Doyle and kept that lead for 75 minutes of the 90 minute duration and was looking like he was comfortably going on to the final until Wayne getting the balls to the top of the table kept the table for most part of the remaining 15 minutes and scrape over the line.
The other semi final was a nip and tuck match for most of the 90 minutes with Ross taking and lead then Lloyd coming back before Lloyd scoring the more consistent got his lead up and kept it till time was called .
Into the final Wayne was first to show with a 137 break which put Lloyd on the back foot from the start. After the long days play Lloyd’s game started to struggle and Wayne scoring the more consistent took the title for the 5th year in a row. Congratulations to Lloyd reaching a ranking event final. And well done to Wayne .
