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Kevin Tunstall and Gerry Fitzjohn of the Henty A win the World Pairs on Saturday 16th November 2024.

Michael Wilson (Alexandra) is the runner up in the Jersey Singles on Sunday 17th November 2024.

With 6 weeks played the  Stags Head B lead the Premier league and the Alexandra lead the 1st division. Next league games 21st November 2024.

Week 6 31st October 2024 saw wins for the Stags Head B, Stags Head A and Henty B. Prince of Wales v Blue Anchor postponed.


Rearranged game from week 4 played 7th November 2024 saw a win for the Henty B.

Please use either the results page on Whats App, post on the bar billiards forum or result cards to Joe by the Friday following the match being played. Please record high breaks when posting the results. Football cards have been distributed with the starter packs please all try to sell them on league and cup nights as this raises valuable funds for the league.

 Upcoming County and National events.

See below for list of all 2023 events.
National events 2024.

The first Open of the year was the West Sussex Open played on Sunday 11th February at the Emsworth Sports and Social Club. The winner was Kevin Tunstall (Henty A) who Kevin Charlton (Prince of Wales) in the final. Chris Cox (Prince of Wales) lost in the semi-final and Martin Cole (Prince of Wales), Bob Hall (Stags Head A), Barry Holt (Prince of Wales) and Stuart Carruthers (Henty A) all lost in the Quarter Finals. martin Cole recoded the highest break of the day with 24k+. The Plate was won by Gerry Fitzjohn (Henty A) who beat Martin Smith (Stags Head A) in the final.

Saturday 23rd March 2024 the East Anglian 4 Pin Open was played at the Masonic Hall, Sudbury. The competition was won by Jeff Bridges of Sunbury who beat Richard Cox of Surrey in the final. The plate was won by Jeremy Fry of Sudbury who beat Worthing`s Mal Spier (Alexandra) in the final.

Sunday 24th March 2024  the Kent Classic was played at the Six-in-One Club, Tonbridge. The final was won by Paul Sainsbury who beat Matt Knight (Stags Head B) in a very close final. Barry Holt (Prince of Wales) lost in the semi-final.

Sunday 14th April 2024 the Surrey Open was held at the Salfords Club. This was won by Martin Cole (Prince of Wales) who beat Stephen Sheard in the final. The plate was won by Dave Jones who beat fellow Surrey player Gary Powell in the final.

Saturday 4th May 2024 the Guernsey Pairs were played at the King George V Club. Winners were Curt Driver and Gerry Fitzjohn (Henty A) who beat Kevin Tunstall (Henty A) and Chris Tupper (Stags Head B).

Sunday 5th May 2024 the Guernsey Singles were played at the King George V Club. Winner was Martin Cole (Prince of Wales) who beat Guernsey`s Trevor Gallienne in the final. Martin also won the high break award. The Plate was won by Stuart Carruthers (Henty A) who beat Kevin Tunstall (Henty A) in the final. The Ladies Open was won by Michelle Baden who beat Lorraine Hall in the final.

Saturday 25th May 2024 Northants 4 Pin was played at the Cock Inn. The winner was Phil Osborne (Stags Head B) who beat Stephen Coleman of Northants in the final. 

Sunday 26th May 2024 Northants Open was played at the Cock Inn. The winner was Mark James (Stags Head A) who beat Matt Jones of Bucks in the final. The plate was won by Nigel Senior (Stags Head B) who beat Martin Cole (Prince of Wales) in the final.

Sunday 2nd June 2024 The Sussex Open was played at the Roffey Club. The winner was Bob Hall (Stags Head A) who beat Simon Coleman of Northants in the final. The Plate was won by Daniel Wheal (Prince of Wales) who beat Pete Sainsbury of Kent in the final.

Saturday 20th July 2024 the Oxford Open was played at at the Staff Club, Didcot. Well done to Gerry Fitzjohn (Henty A) on winning his first Open beating Bucks Matt Jones in the final. Gerry had beaten Martin Smith (Stags Head A) in the semi-final. Oxfords Melvyn Johnson won the Plate beating Bob Osborne (Stags Head B) in the final.

Sunday 4th August 2024 the Bucks Open was played at the Totteridge Constitutional Club. The winner was Joe Oakley (Prince of Wales) who beat Mark Trafford of Oxford in the final. Joe had beaten Curt Driver (Kent) in the semi-final and Mark had beaten John Slee (Sussex and Redhill) in the other semi-final. The Plate was won by Steven Sheard beating Jean Brackenridge in the final. The mens high break was recorded by Nigel senior and the ladies by Jean Brackenridge.

On Saturday 31st August 2024 the Chris Cass 4 x 4 4 pin team event was played at the Masonic Hall in Sudbury and the winning team was the Harf N harfs consisting Alan Mee, Sav, Brendan Hoare and Dave Lillie who beat the Surrey team in the final.

Friday 15th November 2024 Jersey Pairs were held at the Merton Hotel. The winners were Kevin Tunstall and Gerry Fitzjohn of the Henty A who beat Sussrey`s Gary Powell and Colin Robins in the final.

Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th November 2024 Jersey Singles were held at the Merton Hotel. Guernsey`s Trevor Gallienne was the winner beating Michael Wilson (Alexandra) in the final, see full results on the Jersey Web Site.

Sussex Events and  Competitions 2024. (Full details can be found on the Sussex web site).

The first Sussex Event was the the Sussex Doubles on Saturday 20th January 2024 at the Burgess Hill Constitutional Club. The winners were Martin Cole/Barry Holt who defeated Chris Cox/Daniel Wheal in the final. The Plate was won by Phil Osborne/Bob Hall who beat Mark James/Jim Millward in the final.

This was followed by the Sussex Singles (Men and Ladies) on Sunday 21st January 2024 at the Burgess Hill Constitutional Club. The Men`s winner was Kevin Tunstall who defeated Martin Cole in the final. The Plate was won by Nigel Senior who beat Bob Osborne in the final. The Ladies was won by Jean Brackenridge who defeated Michelle Baden in the final. The Ladies Plate was won by Lorraine Hall who beat Melissa Beach in the final.

The B Team One Day Inter-League was played on Saturday 24th February 2024  at the Burgess Hill Constitutional Club. This was a closely fought affair and going into the last series of games it was anyone of Worthing B, Brighton B and Redhill B that could win. Despite due to circumstances where they only had 6 players therefore had to concede two legs in each series of games Worthing B prevailed with 34 points,  Redhill B were 2nd on 33 points and Brighton B third on 32 points. The other team involved on the day where Billingshurst B. The Worthing team was Tony Jenner, Dave Ingram, Rick Cunningham, Roger Taylor, Dave Jones and James Whittle. Leading the way for Worthing were Dave Ingram and Rick Cunningham who both won 6 out of 6. There were two other undefeated players on the day, Rick Dewdney, Billingshurst (who averaged 11000+ plus on the day) and Clive Thompson, Redhill B.

The Sussex Over 50s was played in the evening of Saturday 24th February 2024. There were 12 entrants for this and they were split into groups of 3 to play a round robin with the winner of each group to proceed to the semi-finals. Group A was Steve Burns, Stuart Mepham and Brian Muggeridge. Group B was Alan Brackenridge, Jean Brackenridge and Rick Cunningham. Group C was Dave Ingram, Roger Taylor and Tony Jenner. Group D was Matt Knight, Moppy Scott and Dave Jones. The group winners were Stuart Mepham, Alan Brackenridge, Dave Ingram and Matt Knight. In the semi finals Stuart Mepham beat Alan Brackenridge and Matt Knight beat Dave Ingram. In the final Stuart was put in to break and opened with 10k+, Matt had a good break to close the gap to around 5.5k. In the 2nd leg Matt went off with 11k+, Stuart first to get the balls abck and ran the table out to win by about 2k, well done to Stuart Mepham on winning the Sussex Over 50s.

Division 2 One Day Inter-League was played on Sunday 25th February 2024 at the Burgess Hill Constitutional Club. The winners were Billingshurst A, Runners Up Tunbridge Wells, Lewes were third and Mid Sussex brought up the rear.

The Ladies One Day Inter-League was played on Saturday 2nd March 2024 at the Burgess Hill Constitutional Club. This was followed in the evening by the Sussex Mixed Doubles. The Ladies inter-league was won by Brighton, Redhill were 2nd, Mid Sussex 3rd, West Sussex 4th and Worthing Ladies (Chris Richards, Nikki Aylmore, Hannah Cole, Krystal Beck and Jaki Cornford) were 5th but had an enjoyable day.

Division 1 One Day Inter-League was played on Sunday 3rd March 2024 at the Burgess Hill Constitutional Club. The winners were Brighton A, with Worthing A runners-up. Redhill A were 3rd, West Sussex 4th and Littlehampton bottom.

Saturday 1st June 2024 is the Sussex Masters was played at the Roffey Club. The winner was Stuart Carruthers (Henty A) who beat Kev Hall (Stags Head A) in the final. The Plate was won by Bob Hall (Stags Head A) who beat Chris Cox (Prince of Wales) in the final.

Saturday 22nd June 2024 the Sussex Off the Spot was played at the Roffey Club. The winner was Chris Cox (Prince of Wales) who beat Dave Ingram (Alexandra) in the final. The Plate was won by Ian Lelliott (Stags Head A) who beat Alan Brackenridge (Stags Head B) in the final.

Sussex events resumed  with the home and away inter-league first matches played on  Sunday 26th September 2023.

There are 2 divisions this season with Division 1 consisting of :-  Brighton A, Brighton B,  Redhill A, West Sussex, Worthing A and Tunbridge Wells. 
Division 2 :-  Lewes, Littlehampton, Mid Sussex, Redhill B and Worthing B.

Division One was won by Brighton A and Division two was won by Worthing B.

Full results for current and previous Sussex Events can be found on the SCBBA web site.

 AEBBA events 2024 (see AEBBA website for full details).

The first AEBBA event is the National Pairs was played over the weekend of Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th March 2024 at the Suncliffe Hotel, Bournemouth. The main competition winners were Mark Trafford and Matt Jones who beat Curt Driver and Gerry Fitzjohn (Henty A) in he final. Stuart Carruthers (Henty A) and Steve Hopkins won the pale beating Dave and Caroline Jones in the final. Phil Collins won the high break award with over 22k.

Sunday 23rd June 2024 AEBBA Off the Spot was played at the Roffey Club, Horsham. This was won by Bob Hall (Stags Head A) who beat Oxfords mark Trafford in the final. The Plate was won by Michael Wilson (Alexandra) who beat Chris Cox (Prince of Wales) in the final.

Sunday 8th September 2024 County Championships Division 1 were played at Totteridge Community Centre, and Sussex were be represented by an A and a B side. Sussex A team won the event and the Bs ended up 5th so survive for another season in Division 1.

Sunday 15th September 2024 the County Championships Division 2 were played at Totteridge Community Centre. 4 teams took part and the winners were Surrey B, Sussex Ladies were represented but unfortunately finished 4th.

Sunday 13th October 2024 the AEBBA Mixed Doubles, was won by Martin Cole and Melissa Beach (Prince of Wales) were he winners. The  Team Championships were won by the Tunbridge Wells Con Club and Special Ladies was won by Pauline Withey, played at Totteridge Community Centre.

Sunday 27th October 2024 the AEBBA Singles were played and the Mens competition was won by Curt Driver of Kent and the Ruuner Up was Mark Trafford of Oxford. The Ladies was won by Jean Brackenridge (Stags Head B) and the runner up was Janet Burns of Reading. The was won by Jason Neal of Northants who beat Terry Molloy (Henty A) in the final Over 50s and the Over 60s was won by Alan Oliver of Oxford who beat Dave Ingram (Alexandra) in the final, all these events were played at Totteridge Community Centre.

Sunday 1st December 2024 AEBBA Men`s and Ladies Grand Prix and the Under 30s at Totteridge Community Centre.

Sunday 8th December 2024 AEBBA AGM at Totteridge Community Centre.

WBBA Competitions.


The inaugural World Bar Billiards Alliance event took place on the weekend of the 4th and 5th of February 2023 at the Aviator Hotel, Northampton. The event split players into 4 categories :- Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze according to the players standards. Each player was able to enter 2 categories and the format was decided by the number of entries. Trophies and prize monies were up for grabs and the event was a success and further events are being planned (see below for next dates). It was good to see players of all standards being given a chance to win an event and great to see names on the trophies that we would not normally see. The idea of grading players so as to encourage more people to participate is certainly and great one and maybe a way to help our wonderful game to progress going forward. A huge thank you to Lorin Clough for coming up with the idea and getting the events off the ground.


The Platinum event was won by Curt Driver who beat Matt Jones. The Gold event saw a reversal with Matt Jones beating Curt Driver in the final. There was a Plate competition in the Gold event and this was won by Kevin Tunstall (The Henty) who beat Dave Ingram (Stags Head A) in the final.


The Silver event was won by Kyle Ingram who beat Aiden Cole in the final. The Silver Plate was won by Joe Foxon who beat Keith Thomson in the final.


The Bronze event was won by Keith Thomson who beat Abbey Balchin in the final.


The next event has been booked in for the weekend 27th and 28th May 2023 at the Aviator Hotel, Northampton.


Updated 20th November 2024
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