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Bure Pairs
Tournament
Tournament
The third Bure Championship finals
night of the week was hosted by Wood-
bastwick where a strong line-up of pairs
promised some entertaining games.
In the quarter-finals Jason Woods
& David Lamb of Halvergate played
Hevingham’s Teresa & Selwyn Gold-
smith.
The two pairs had met in the qual-
ifying rounds where the Hevingham pair
had won and it proved to be the same Mixed 4’s Finalists
Mixed 4’s Finalists
again although this time the score was Keith Cooke, Donna Lamb,
Keith Cooke, Donna Lamb,
closer with the Goldsmiths winning 7-6 David Lamb and Jenny Walker
David Lamb and Jenny Walker
with a single on the final end. Halver-
gate’s Ryan Fox & Keith Cooke stormed to a massive 17-1 win against East Tuddenham’s Billie
& Melvyn Barker with newly crowned Bure Singles champion Ryan Fox drawing superbly to the
jack.
Hevingham’s David Sharpe & Steve Hall
reached the semi-finals with a solid 13-6 win
against East Tuddenham’s Jean Woods &
John Turner while Halvergate’s Jamie Forster
& Robbie Lamb beat East Tuddenham’s
Simon Willies & Melly Woods by 11-4.
In the semi-finals Teresa & Selwyn
Goldsmith faced another Halvergate pair,
Jamie Forster & Robbie Lamb, and Teresa
Goldsmith’s consistency at lead kept the
Halvergate pair under pressure as the Hev-
ingham pairing won 10-3.
In the other semi-final Ryan Fox & Keith
Bure Pairs Champions Cooke maintained their good form as they
Bure Pairs Champions
Selwyn & Teresa Goldsmith beat David Sharpe & Steve Hall by 10-6. The
Selwyn & Teresa Goldsmith
of Hevingham SMBC final saw Ryan Fox hoping to add to his Bure
of Hevingham SMBC
Singles title won on Tuesday night at Win-
dows while Teresa & Selwyn Goldsmith
were also looking for their second title of
the week after winning the Bure Triples
Championships at Horsford BC with Pat
Williamson on Monday night.
With both Teresa Goldsmith & Ryan
Fox drawing well at lead the opening ends
were tight and tactical with the Fox &
Cooke pair leading by just 4-3 after five
ends.
But the sixth end proved crucial as
the Hevingham pair took four shots to lead
Bure Pairs Runners-up
7-4 and adding another three on the sev- Bure Pairs Runners-up
Keith Cooke & Ryan Fox
enth end to move into a commanding 10- Keith Cooke & Ryan Fox
of Halvergate SMBC
4 lead with one end remaining. of Halvergate SMBC