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In the opening round of the third day’s play 5
Adam was further stunned as Belgium’s
Jonathan Payne beat him 14 - 9 and in the
last round John Quinn comprehensively beat him 21
- 7.
All this pushed Adam’s into 5th place, well
short of making the semi-finals. Wales’ Luke Had-
don finished as group winner. In his last game Scot-
land’s Lawrence Moffat pushed him all the way but
he still won 13 - 10 and duly took his place in the
semi-finals as the group winner, with John Quinn
second.
The Singles “B” section opened without any surprise results in the first round and this con-
tinued throughout the four rounds played on the first day. Perhaps the most surprising last end
came when Scotland’s Dave Harrigan led 11 - 9 but dropped a three to Sweden’s Joel Hager and
lost 12 - 11.
England’s first defeat came on the opening round of the second day’s play when former
World finalist Steve Proctor, lost 15 - 10 to Ireland’s
Kevin Conroy.
In the next round Steve suffered another de-
feat to double World Singles Champion Wales’
Stephen Williams. At one point Steve led 15 - 12 but
eventually lost 17 - 15. The rest of the day went to
form with no surprises.
The third day’s play opened up with Stephen
Williams himself suffering a huge shock defeat to
Italy’s Antonio Rinaldi who won 17 - 14. Sweden
Joel Hager needed to win to keep alive his hopes of
qualifying but dropped a three on the last end to Bel-
gium’s Dimitri Payne for a 12 all draw, which effectively ended his chances. Although Joel was
disappointed, in the last round he firmly dumped his England opponent by 20 shots to 6, scoring
12 shots over the closing five ends. The crucial battle between Stephen Williams and Kevin Conroy
saw Stephen take 12 - 4 lead after being 4 all. Kevin had a big uphill battle and took the last three
ends but lost 8 - 12. This left alive Stephen’s chances of a third World Singles title.
In the winner plays runner up semi-finals, an all-Wales semi saw Luke Haddon end Williams
title chances with a 19 - 13 victory. It was an all-Ireland clash in the other semi-final, in which Kevin
Conroy beat John Quinn. Kevin kept up his run of good form to take an 8 - 2 lead over Luke Had-
don in the final, eventually winning 15 - 6. In the 3rd and 4th place play off a disappointed Stephen
William was outclassed by John Quinn, who won 16 - 3.
BEATTIES WIN THE PAIRS FOR IRELAND
BEATTIES WIN THE PAIRS FOR IRELAND
In the Pairs “A” event after day one only two teams
were unbeaten, Wales (Paul & Andrew Hudson) and
Ireland (Pauline & Joseph Beattie) who had 8 points
each, with Ireland having a five shot advantage 74
- 32 to 71 - 34.
After the first session on day 2 Wales only
managed a 15 - 15 draw against Scotland after they
scrambled a two on the last end and Ireland won so
they held a single point advantage as well.
At the end of the second day Ireland had 14
points to Wales 13, with Ireland having a big shots
advantage at 141 - 57 to 122 - 63.