[<<] [>>] by George Noble at Surbiton
17th June 2000 (AC - Championships)

Robert Fulford retained the Championship of Surrey with consummate ease. Perhaps most notable was the interruption to his run of triples in the event (9 last year and 6 this year prior to the final) by, of all things, an illegally tight hoop! Gale however didn't score a point in the final which Rob finished with a superb sextuple (which included a straight quad - rare even for Rob!)

Graham Gale

Cascading seeds were the main feature of this year's championship of Surrey held at Surbiton 16-18 June.

Most of the seeds had fallen on the newly laser levelled lawns six and seven and were being encouraged to sprout. A lesser number fell from the main event. Mark Avery was an early casualty which was sad because I had got 6-1 on him as overall winner from honest Kev (every decent tournament should have a bookie - I cleaned him out later on England v Germany and the 6-4 he offered against Fulford completing a sextuple in the third game of the final). The seeding committee had planned a Mulliner / Avery semi-final but that was not to be following SM's misfortune during the quarter finals.

Lawns easy, weather hot, brilliant Hazel curry on Saturday and the beer ran out at close of play on the final day.

Distinguished visitors included Toby Garrison and Graeme Roberts.

George Noble

Round One

Patrick Hort beat Peter Thompson -11 +12 + 14
Gary Bennett beat Pauline Healy -5 +8 +11
Edward Dymock beat Samantha Symonds +1(T)+20
Kevin Carter beat Roger White +17 +7
Samir Patel beat Brian Smith +19 +8
Paul Castell beat Christopher Ross +19 +8
Collin Southern beat Eric Solomon -9T +15 +1T

Round Two

Robert Fulford beat Patrick Hort +8TPO +15TP
Chris Farthing beat Gary Bennett +6 +24TP
Jeff Dawson beat Edward Dymock +5TP +16
Kevin Carter beat Ian Plummer -7 +4 +4
Graham Gale beat Samir Patel +23 +13
Paul Castell beat Mark Avery -26TP +4 +26
George Noble beat Tim Wilkins -17 +9TP +13
Stephen Mulliner beat Collin Southern +20 +15

Round Three

Fulford bt Farthing +25TP +9TP
Dawson bt Carter +18 -4 +17TP
Gale bt Castell +15 +12
Noble bt Mulliner -15 +17 +12OTP

Semi-Finals

Fulford bt Dawson +17TP +12TP
Gale bt Noble -16 +26TP +26TP

Final

Fulford bt Gale +26 +26TP +26SxTp

The Plate event was won by Chris Farthing.