Jersey cueists miss out on the rub of the green

Wednesday 30th April 2008, 12:00AM BST.

JERSEY were beaten in the team snooker inter-insular in Guernsey on Saturday night in a sudden-death one-frame decider following a 5-5 draw at the Gremlin Club.

Guernsey champion Adam Shorto was his side’s hero as he beat Jersey’s Gary Britton 79-8 in the play-off, helping Guernsey to regain the Lt-Col RW Randell Challenge Cup.

Shorto opened with a risk-free break of 24 before following it up with a 32. Britton knew the frame was slipping away quickly, but he hardly got a chance to save it. When one did crop up, he missed a long red as he tried to force position on a colour.

Shorto did not let him back in and the gracious visitor offered his hand in congratulation at 1.08 am.

*Picture: The Jersey team of Karl Softly, Aaron Canavan, Chris Alexander, Gary Britton and Ray Kilmartin

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