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Garrett Wins Challenge Event 2
Snooker & Billiards Ireland (SBI) held the second challenge event on the SBI Challenge Tour on the Saturday the 12th of November in the Hot Shots Snooker Club in Galway.
Ben Doyle wins Challenge Event 1
Ben Doyle from Enniscorthy in County Wexford won the first SBI challenge Ranking event of the season that took place on Saturday 24th September at the Snooker and Billiards Ireland Academy of Excellence in Carlow. 11 players entered and featured matches of high quality snooker.
O Connor Wins National Challenge Championships
Alan O Connor from Cork won the won the 2022 Snooker and Billiards Ireland National Challenge Snooker Championships in the HQ on Saturday the 21st of May in the SBI HQ in Carlow. In the final Alan beat Tommy O Donoghue from St John’s Limerick 4 frames to 3 in an exciting final which was refereed by Ritchie Toal.
National Challenge Championships
Last Saturday the 7th of May at SBI Headquarters in carlow the first day of the challenge championships took place. 27 players started out and by the end of the day we were down to the final 4. First round results went more or less as expected but that doesn’t mean there weren’t close matches.
SBI Challenge Tour Championships
Snooker & Billiards Ireland (SBI) would like to announce details on the SBI Challenge Tour Championships which will be held this season in the Snooker & Billiards Ireland HQ Academy of Excellence in Carlow on the 7th of May. The final stages of this Championship will be played during finals weekend on 21st-22nd May. The TD will announce this during the event.
Doran wins Challenge Event 3
Adrian Doran from Liam Mellows SC in Wexford won his first National ranking event when he won the third Snooker & Billiards Ireland Challenge Tour event of the season which was played in the Nenagh Snooker & Social Club in Nenagh on the 2nd of April.
O’Connor Wins Challenge Event 2
There were 18 players registered to play in the second Challenge tournament in Hot Shots Galway. In the preliminary matches, Cyril Hogan beat Ben Du Bois and Victor McCormack saw off Mathew Bidwell. In the last 16, James Corbett beat Dave Garrett in the deciding frame.
Flynn Wins Challenge Event 1
Last Sunday the first challenge tour event was held in the Crucible club in Cork. A decent entry of 18 players, some of these new faces which was great to see. The first real shock was the defeat of 4th seed, Robbie Donavan by his Fermoy club mate Liam Hayes by a score line of 3 frames to 2.