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Seymour Wins Masters Event 3
Tony Seymour from the New Institute in Nenagh won the third RIBSA Masters event of the season in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow. In the final he beat Celbridge player Nigel Power in the wee hours at 12:30am in a dramatic final frame. Tony needed two snookers and the match went to the final black ball game only to see Nigel pot the black but went in off to give the title to Tony 3 frames to 2.
ODriscoll Wins Masters Ranking – Event 2
Tom O Driscoll from Waterford won the second RIBSA Masters Snooker Ranking Tournament of the season on Sunday 9th of November in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow. Tom beat Keith Sheldreck from Q Club Wicklow 3 frames to 2 in a great final. Play commenced at 11am this morning and it was an exciting event with a big turn out of our master players. RIBSA would like to thank all the players for entering and thank the Ivy Rooms for hosting the event.
Gilcreest Wins RIBSA Masters Event 1
The first of this year’s Masters Snooker tournament’s took place this weekend in Letterkenny. There were 14 competitors on the day and the wild card danger man in the first round was the un-seeded Colm Gilcreest who defeated Shane Gorman to continue to the Quarter finals. All the other seeds were successful in their first matches. The first Quarter final match saw Colm Gilcreest again proceed by toppling the number one seed Tom O Driscoll 3/0.
Gilcreest Wins Masters Championship
Colm Gilcreest who only turned 40 earlier this month won the final of the RIBSA Masters Snooker Championships when he beat Frank Sarsfield 5 frames to nil this morning in the Ivy Rooms Snooker in Carlow. Colm dedicated his victory today to his father who passed away last week
Masters Championship – Q Finals – Results
The Q-finals of the Irish Masters Championships are being played in the Ivy Rooms Snooker in Carlow this morning at 10am .
Q-Final line up for Masters Irish Championships
Exciting snooker was played today in the RIBSA Masters Championship which was played in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Sunday. There were 44 entries in the Championship and the standard was very high with 3 centuries on the day with Colm Gilcreest making a 104, Keith Sheldreck 111 and Tom O’Driscoll 119.
Power wins Masters Ranking Event 8
Nigel Power from Celbridge SC won the eight RIBSA Masters Ranking event of the season in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Sunday the 13th of April.
Sheldrick wins Masters Ranking Event 7
Keith Sheldrick from Q Club Wicklow won his maiden RIBSA Masters title today when he won the 7th RIBSA Masters event of the season in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Sunday. In the final he beat event 6 winner Tom Gleeson three frames to one in a superb final.
Gleeson wins Masters Ranking No.6
Tom Gleeson from the New Institute Snooker Club in Nenagh won the 6th RIBSA Masters event of the season when he beat Tom O Driscoll three frames to nil in the final. Dylan Rees had the highest break in the event with a 91 break and Mark Tuite won the plate event.