Mike Porter takes back the AC Advanced Singles title

Following his stellar performance in the Mary Rose final on Saturday, David Cotton was hopeful of claiming another scalp in the shape of Mike Porter in the final of the club’s level advanced AC tournament (EV1). Things were looking ominous, however, as Mike took the yellow ball round in fifth turn and had embarked on a triple peel with red in the seventh. But when Mike unfortunately (or carelessly!) rushed blue into black and lost position, David got back in and clawed his way back into the match. Both players made breaks and both spurned several opportunities, but eventually each had taken a ball to the peg, with Mike’s yellow for penult and David’s blue for 4-back.  At this point David took the unwise decision to join up near rover with yellow in position to run penult; Mike ran the hoop down to David’s balls, made rover and pegged out both yellow and black to leave himself peg vs 4-back. While David played an excellent shot with blue to take position at 4-back, Mike pegged out red from the North boundary to win 26-22.

​Mike Porter