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Saffron Walden Challenge 2010.

Sunday the 21st of February saw the 20th year of the Saffron Walden Challenge, an inter league snooker tournament held at the Saffron Snooker Club and sponsored by Hexagon Consulting. The challenge is a round robin event for teams of 3 players, each playing two frames against their opposite number in all the other teams in the event, players are ranked one to three and must stay in that order throughout the day's play.

This year saw only seven team's taking part, as normal participants Braintree were unable to make it to the event. The teams were Saffron Walden 'A' and 'B', Milton Keynes, South Beds, Cambridge, Chelmsford, and Ipswich. The day saw some excellent play, with 20 breaks over 50 being recorded, the highest of which was a superb break of 99 by Dave Belcher of the Chelmsford League,

As the event reached the final round, there were only two teams left with a chance of winning the event, Saffron Walden 'A', and the Ipswich League, who were both on 19 points, and had to play each other in the final round of matches. This was more tense than normal, as it was the first time the Ipswich League had come to the event, and so the Walden team didn't know how good their players where.

Saffron Walden 'A' were being represented by Adam Ingram /Capt. (Saffron Snooker club), Darren Edmonston (Harlow War Memorial) and Russell Huxter (Saffron Snooker Club).

The final match started well for Saffron Walden, with Ingram and Huxter both winning their first frames, while Edmonston lost on the black. As the players started their second frames, the atmosphere was tense and the spectators were being treated to some wonderful snooker. Ingram won his second frame to increase Walden's lead to 3-1, Edmonston then sealed the win for the home side, recovering to record a 1-1 draw with Mike Eaton, and Huxter lost his second to the eventual player of the tournament, Ipswich captain Shane Williams. With the final score being 4-2, the result kept Ipswich in second place. Dan Lewis, the Saffron Walden League President, presented the trophies and thanked the Snooker Club for the work they had done in preparing the tables for the event.

                                                                 Final League table  
                                                                 Saffron Walden 'A'         23
                                                                 Ipswich                            21
                                                                 Chelmsford                      21
                                                                 Milton Keynes               18
                                                                 Cambridge                       17
                                                                 South Beds                     15
                                                                 Saffron Walden 'b'         11

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