Press Correspondent:   Peter Thompson      
ETTA Senior Coach
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Pudsey Players in the Money

At the weekend it was the Yorkshire closed held at Halifax. Here juniors and senior’s came from across the county to do battle for a variety of age events for prize money.  Pudsey fast improving 12 year old Nicole Finn made a bright start in the cadet girls event for the under fifteens. In her opening match against the number one seed Alex Lee she took the opening game but narrowly lost the next three ends. Finn then won her next four opponents to finish runner up in this age group. In her own event, the under thirteen’s her class and power took her thru to the winning her first Yorkshire title without dropping a game.

Pudsey top two cadets Daniel Adams and James Atkins both came successfully thru the group stages but then had to meet each other. In a hard fought game Atkins coming home in the fifth end. Progressing to the final Atkins faced James Mason from Halifax. With Mason already having knocked Atkins out in the junior boy’s event a tough final was expected. This proved the case but the tables were turned with Atkins winning 11-9 in the fifth to pick up the money.

Daniel Adams in the older age group of the juniors made steady progression to the semi-final to face Gareth Hey from Halifax. Quickly establishing two games to nil lead a place in the final look assured. Hey fought back to take the next game but Adams slow topspin loop saw him home in the next game. In the final he faced the number one seed James Berry from Halifax. This proved to be one game to far with Adams ending up with the losing finalist money.

In the senior events Linda Sanderson proved to be Pudsey top player lifting both the veteran ladies title and combining with Ruth Purseglove to win the women’s doubles. Last years men’s doubles champions Chris Parker and Bradford’s Stephen Denny could only finish runners up this year.