Gift Shooters have claimed the Stawell Eight Ball Pool Association A grade premiership in a nailbiting affair.
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The premiership decider was played out between Shooters and Brix Bandits, where Shooters finished on top.
Like most weeks in the eight ball competition the team that starts the better of the two ended up winning.
From the six opening singles matches Gift won four of them, giving themselves a handy lead going into the doubles.
Through the doubles Gift Shooters dropped two games, meaning the two teams were evenly poised before the final round.
Jason Lewis was the first to play in the final round, defeating Johnny Canatta before Brix Bandits won the next two thanks to Alan Clark and Shane Sanga.
As the last three games approached both teams knew they had to win two to be crowned.
Chris Pascall from Gift Shooters and Craig Simms from Brix Bandits took to the table for the final match of the year.
With the scores level at seven games apiece, both players would have felt the tension.
Pascall was the player to hold his nerve and take the final game for his team.
Gift Shooters finished premiers over the Brix Bandits 8-7.
In the B Grade Nash Naturals were too strong for A Frew Good Men defeating them 8-7.
The game was very even through the singles matches, but in the doubles Nash claimed the extra game seeing them victorious.
Ben Dougall was impressive winning all three of his games for the winning Nash Naturals.
Results
A Grade
Gift Shooters 8 def Brix Bandits 7
C Pascall def J Canatta, B McDonald def W Simms, G Cooney lost to G Milojevic, A Kilpatrick def C Simms, S Baker def A Clark, J Lewis lost to S Sanga, C Pascall B McDonald lost to C Simms S Sanga, G Cooney J Lewis lost to G Milojevic A Clark, A Kilpatrick S Baker def J Canatta W.Simms, J Lewis def J Canatta, B McDonald lost to A Clark, G Cooney lost to S Sanga, A Kilpatrick def G Milojevic, S Baker lost to W Simms, C Pascall def C Simms.
B Grade
Nash Naturals 8 def A Frew Good Men 7
S Nolte def M Raeburn, M Taylor lost to B Dougall, G Elliott def J Bunn, A Elliott lost to B Parcell, S Hayward def M Percival, J Keilor lost to S Sharma, S Nolte G Elliott def J Bunn J Carrol, A Elliott W Cameron def B Dougall S Sharma, M Taylor S Hayward lost to B Parcell M Percival, S Nolte def M Raeburn, M Taylor lost to B Dougall, G Elliott def J Bunn, A Elliott def B Parcell, S Hayward lost to M Percival, J Keilor lost to S Sharma,