Yorkshire Snooker Championships Qualifier 2.

Today’s second qualifying event in this year’s Yorkshire Snooker Championship saw 36 hopefuls line up to battle it out for the remaining 8 qualifying spots. The successful players were as follows-

1. Sanderson Lam (Leeds)
First player through at around 13:45, Sanderson defeated Adam Tollerfield 3(55)-0 before recording the days only century break in another 3 (107,76) – 0 win over Daniel Boyes.

2. Jonathan Bagley (Leeds)
Sanderson was closely followed by current title holder Jonathan Bagley, who recorded wins over Mark Ball 3(56)-0 and Andrew Gater 3-1 to keep alive his hopes of retaining the title.

3. Malcolm Bilclough (Leeds)
Third to qualify at around 14:00, Malcolm had wins over Danny Dean 3(61,52)-1 and Mick Jensen 3-0.

4. Gareth Green (Bradford)
Next through without the loss of a frame at around 14:10 was Gareth Green with wins over Dave French 3-0, and Liam Barlow 3(92)-0.

5. Anthony Massey (Leeds)
Tony Massey was next to qualify at 14:30, a 3-0 win over Bradley Andrews was followed by a tight 3-2 victory over Lee Hart.

6. Wayne Cooper (Bradford)
Wayne Cooper was next through at around 14:35, a 3(56,64)-0 win over Dave Boyes was followed by a 3(59)-1 win over Samuel Lee-Stevens.

7. David Birley (Sheffield)
Drawn in the preliminary round, David had to win 3 matches to get through and by 15.20 he had achieved that feat, defeating Vladislav Gradinari 3-0, Chris Hall 3(54)-0 and finally last year’s runner up Lewis Gillen 3-0.

8. Martin Lawrence (Sheffield)
Last player through at 15:30, Martin had wins over Tommy Doherty 3-2 and Andrew Owen 3-0 to gain the last qualification place.

Many thanks to our roaming referees, Andy Kitson, Michael Davenport, and Natalia Gradinari, and as ever thanks to our sponsors the Northern Snooker Centre for use of the excellent facilities.

The Last 16 will be played down to the final 2 players on Sunday 15th May.