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Hogan wins Senior No. 3 – Double Eliminator
The third senior ranking tournament took place in the Ivy Rooms snooker club in Carlow on Sat 8th/Sun 9th December. This competition was run as a “double eliminator”. This means that players who lose their match, up to the quarter final, would get a second chance. This format threw up some interesting pairings, such as, Michael Judge beat Martin McCrudden 3-0, and a couple of games later, Martin got revenge, beating Michael 2-0 in the loser’s group.
Judge wins Ranking Event No.2
The final line up for the second Ranking Points Tournament (RPT) saw the return of Michael Judge after 20 years on the professional circuit against Brendan O Donoghue who also spent a short time with the professional’s. The first frame saw Michael get off to a flying start with a break of 69 and taking the frame 103 points to 0. Brendan fought back in a close second frame to win 69/58. Although Brendan was playing well he did missed some easy shots and Michael was quick to punish him every time.
Senior Ranking Event No. 1
The first Senior Ranking Tournament took place in the Ivy Rooms, Carlow this weekend 13th & 14th October. This tournament was run in 16 groups with the top 2 qualifying for the last 32 knockout stage, each grooup match was 2 frames.
Muldoon wins his third title
Vincent Muldoon was crowned the 2012 Irish Champion after a convincing 10-5 victory over Martin McCrudden in the Northwest Snooker Club in Letterkenny today. Muldoon reached the final after some very good wins on Saturday over Robert Redmond and Johnny Williams and he brought that form into todays final to win his third Irish title.
Youghal Juniors steal the show
Day One of the championships weekend is now over and it will be McCrudden against Muldoon in the mens senior final tomorrow, and what a match that should be. An action packed day was had here in the Northwest Snooker Club with four newly crowned Irish Champions in the various categories.
And then there were four!
As the temperature hit the high twenty’s in Letterkenny things certainly heated up in the Irish Championships this morning as the breaks started flying in the Northwest Snooker Club. Muldoon started the ball rolling with breaks of 75 and 133 helping him to an early 3-0 lead over Redmond.
Who will win the Championships?
Rodney Goggins has been in superb form this season winning two of the seven ranking events played to date and never being out of the semi finals all season. He is virtually guaranteed the No.1 spot already sitting 130 points above his nearest rival Joe Delaney.
Delaney wins Senior Event No.7
Senior Ranking Tournament no 7 Royal Snooker Club Navan Sat. 14th and Sun. 15th April 2012. Joe Delaney from Celbridge Snooker club won the 7th senior ranking event of the season at the Royal Snooker club in Navan at the weekend. Joe showed great form throughout the tournament and was a very worthy winner.
Goggins Wins Senior Ranking No.6
Rodney Goggins from the 147 Snooker Club in Wexford won the RIBSA Senior ranking event No.6 in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Sunday. In the final Brendan beat Brendan O Donoghue from Nenagh 5 frames to 1 in an exciting final.
O’Donoghue wins Senior Ranking
Brendan O’Donogue from the New Institute Snooker Club in Nenagh came out victorious at the 5th points tournament of the season in Celbridge Snooker Club on Sunday 12 Feb. In his semi-final Brendan overcame Mark Tuite(Q-Club, Killarney) by 4 frames to 1. However, The other semi-final went all the way with local player Joe Delaney beating Rodney Goggins by 4 frames to 3 in a thriller.