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Tuite Wins 2013 Masters Final
Mark Tuite from the Cue Club Killarney won the 2013 RIBSA Masters National Snooker Championship. Mark beat Marty Hayden from the 147 Club in Wexford 6 frames to 1 in a great Final in the Ivy Rooms Snooker club in Carlow. Mark ended the season as Irish Number 1 and National Champion.
Masters Snooker Championship 2013
The Masters Snooker Championship was held on Sunday the 28th of May in the Ivy Rooms Snooker in Carlow with an entry of 32 players, the event was played down to the semi final stage. The Semi Final and final will be played on the Saturday the 25th of May during the Championship weekend.
Mark Tuite wins 7th Masters Event
Mark Tuite wins the 7th Masters Ranking event held in the Ivy Rooms Carlow to-day Sunday 10th March. The top four on the ranking made it to the semi-finals The No. 2 Nigel Power saw off the No. 3 Frank Sarsfield 3-2 and Mark beat the No. 2 Anthony Bonnar 3-1 in the other semi-final. So it was the No. 1 versus the No. 2 in the final.
Masters Ranking Series Event 6
The 6th round of the Masters Ranking Series took place at the Ivy Rooms yesterday 24th February. Just 19 players participated in this event which usually commands up to 32 players. The number one seed, Mark Tuite made an early exit when he was defeated by Thurles man Ger Delaney 3-0 in the quarter-final. Nigel Power emerged the overall winner in a very close and exciting final against Anthony Bonnar. Anthony went 2-0 ahead. Nigel battled back and levelled the match 2-2.
Masters Ranking Series Event No. 4
Frank Sarsfield wins the 4th Master’s Event played in Carlow to-day Sunday 16th December. Frank beat Mark Tuite 3-1 in the final making it his second win of the season and goes into the new year top of the ranking with 460 points, Mark coming a close second on 43opts.
Masters Ranking Series Event No. 7
The Masters 7th Event was played to-day 22nd April at the Ivy Rooms. The entries was down on previous events but none the less a fantastic tournament was played. The final eventually was contested between Mark Tuite and Brendan Cooney.
Mark Tuite wins Series 5 of the Masters
Twenty Six players started of the series five Masters Ranking event at the Ivy Rooms on Sunday Feb 26th and as ever the games were very competitive and very tight.
Gleeson wins again in Carlow
It was an all Tipperary affair in Carlow for the final of the 3rd Masters event with Nenagh’s Tommy Gleeson just edging out Thurles player Ger Delaney by three frames to two in a superb final on Sunday. No.1 seed Gleeson had played some great snooker all day with 3-0 wins over Cork’s Derek O’Neill and Edenderry’s Shea Brereton before just getting over the line in the semi finals 3-2 against Limerick’s Albert Hogan.
Gleeson wins Masters Event No.1
Tom Glesson picked up where he left off last season and won the first ranking event of the season to retain his Irish Masters No.1 spot.
Mark Tuite is the new Masters Champion
Killarney’s Mark Tuite was crowned the 2011 National Masters Champion on Sunday the 22nd of May after a long weekends play which saw him have to overcome some of the countries best players to take the title. Mark had to over come two ex-Irish Champions in Tom Gleeson and Joe Delaney to reach the final where he would meet Limerick’s Frank Sarsfield.
Sarsfield defeats Farrell for Title
The 7th event in the Masters Series was played at the weekend and it was Frank Sarsfield who captured his second title of the season with a solid 3-0 victory over Mick Farrell in the final.
Delaney notches up his first of the season
It took Joe longer than usual but the ex-European Masters Champion finally notched up his first win of the season in the series when he defeated Tom Glesson 3-2 in the final this weekend. Joe had to fight hard even to reach the final seeing off some stiff opposition in Brendan Cooney, Ernie McMullen and John Connolly along the way.