Sunday 17th May 2009 saw Event 1 in the Robins Nest Series in Chirnside organised by Ian Blaikie. A relatively poor turnout of 15 was there but in that 15 there were 7 players from Midlothian who all had varying levels of success.

Congratulations goes to Russ Young of the Royal Hotel B team who defeated Sandy Renwick of the Fishers Tryst by 6-3 in the Final.
Midlothian Players in general had a pretty successful day with onlay 1 player dropping out at the last 16.

Here is how the draw panned out

Last 16

Paul Douglas v Bye 6-0
Russ Young v Iain Gibson 6-4
Ian Blaikie v Jason 6-4
Daniel Lunn v Stuart Weeks 6-5
Kim Black v Max 6-4
Tam Peters v Rab Bannerman 6-5
Sandy Renwick v Stephen Brown 6-1
Danny Turner v Gareth Lithgow 6-2

Qtr Finals

Russ Young v Paul Douglas 6-3
Daniel Lunn v Ian Blaikie 6-4
Tam Peters v Kim Black 6-3
Sandy Renwick v Danny Turner 6-3

Semi Finals

Russ Young v Daniel Lunn 6-2
Sandy Renwick v Tam Peters 6-5

Final

Russ Young v Sandy Renwick 6-3

Special congratulations to Russell and general congratulations to all midlothian players who made the effort and had a great day.

Saturday 2nd may saw the Grand Final Of the Midlothian Invitational Series In The Crescent Snooker Club and the Royal Hotel In Penicuik.

Congratulations goes to Gareth Lithgow in defeating Graham Roy 6 - 3 in the Final. Also Congratulations goes to Graham Roy who won the overall points trophy unlucky to lose in 3 out of the 4 finals.

here is how the day went:-

Finally i would like to say thanks to all who assisted in the organising of this event.
Stevie Curran for the original idea and trophies.
Colin Keith for his assistance in running the venues.
Tam Peters for also runnung the venues/draws etc.
Big thanks go to the Crescent and the Royal Hotel for allowing us to have this tournament.

Also main thanks go to -- for Sponsoring this event which was the now the second of its kind and will now become an annual event with the structure set in place.

Saturday 4th April saw event 3 in the Midlothian Invitational Series. It was played between 2 venues The Crescent Snooker Club and The Royal Hotel, both in Penicuik.

Congratulations goes to Nigel kitchen who held his nerve in a great final with Graham Roy to win 5-4.

the draw went as follows:-

Crescent Snooker Club

Prelim

Kevin Rae 4-0 Pauline Selkirk

1st Round

Simon Dixon 5-2 Kevin Rae
Stuart Hunter 5-0 Lynsey Selkirk
Tam Peters 5-2 Sandy Renwick
Graham Roy 5-0 Gareth Lithgow

Qtr Final

Simon Dixon 5-3 Stuart Hunter
Graham Roy 5-4 Tam Peters

Royal Hotel

1st Round

Nigel Kitchen 5-3 Phil Wilson
Scott Hendry 5-3 Colin Keith
Stevie Kerr 5-4 Joe Turnbull
Stevie Curran Bye

Qtr Final

Nigel Kitchen 5-4 Scott Hendry
Stevie Kerr 5-1 Stevie Curran

Semi Final

Graham Roy 5-3 Simon Dixon
Nigel Kitchen 5-4 Stevie Kerr

Final

Nigel Kitchen 5-4 Graham Roy

Again congratulations to Nigel and roll on the final

Seedings for the final are as follows

1 - Nigel Kitchen
2 - Graham Roy
3 - Scott Hendry
4 - Stevie Kerr
5 - Kevin Rae
6 - Colin Keith
7 - Tam Peters
8 - Kevin Selkirk

these names will be placed in the draw and all the rest drawn at random to finalise draw. (again final will be played in 2 venues tbc and timed draw) thanks

Sunday 29th March seen Finals Day for The Penicuik League held in The Crescent Snooker Club.

A day filled with lots of banter and some good pool too.

Under 21 championship turned out to be a bit of a farce with 1 entrant so this years champ undisputed lol was Jamie Craig of the Crescent Snooker Club.

A new tournament was introduced this year to the P.P.L the pairs championship. This was played under a scotch pairs format and had 16 entrants. After lots of the good bad and the ugly finally the final was contested by Birthday boy Brian Bell & Phil Wilson of The Cuiken Inn versus Gemma Clyde and Vandana Helge (apologies if wrong) of New Yorker 2. Victorious on the day were the Cuiken lads.

The singles was narrowed down to 8 for finals day and early rounds saw Martin Rogan defeat Gareth Lithgow. Davey Kinnear defeat Glen Faichney. Joe Turnbull defeat Jamie Craig and Tam Peters Defeated Craig Nicoll. Semi Finals Saw Davey beat Martin and Tam Beat Joe. After a long wait Tam and Davey got the final under way. Tam missed the first chance from the break in the first missing his last ball and Davey took away an 8 baller to get infront. After an in off early in second frame Davey again made short work of the table. Davey then finished in style with another table clearance after a dry break to seal a very comfortable 3 - 0 victory.

This years player of the year in the P.P.L was Scott Kinnear of the Navaar Hotel.

Final congratulations and the main tournament award goes to this years League Champions Navaar Hotel.

Congratulations to all concerned.

Midlothian entered 2 teams in this years Super 11's in Haven Holiday camp 'Craig Tara' in ayr this past weekend 13th - 15th march and turned out generally well. A team progressed the furthest reaching the quarter finals narrowly losing 6-4 to Glasgow A and B team progressing to last 16 where they narrowly lost 6-4 to Livingston A.
There was a bit of the good the bad and the damn right ugly not forgetting moments of pure humour and madness to boot! Also lots of controversy and lots of tantrums as per usual!
A team were in Group 4 results as follows:-

Midlothian A 6 Falkirk A 5
Midlothian A 6 Clydesdale 5
Midlothian A 6 Whitburn B 5
Midlothian A 9 Ayr & District A 2
Midlothian A 9 Whitburn A 2

B Team were in Group 7 results as follows:-

Midlothian B 5 Livingston B 6
Midlothian B 7 Ayr & District B 4 (4-1 down at one stage)
Midlothian B 6 Central Ayrshire B 5
Midlothian B 2 East Kilbride 9
Midlothian B 7 East Fife 4

Last 32

Midlothian A 6 Dunfermline A 5
Midlothian B 6 Paisley A 1 (Reigning champs)

Last 16

Midlothian A 6 Kilsyth 4 (3-0 down as players didnt turn up on time)
Midlothian B 4 Livingston A 6

Quarter Final

Midlothian A 4 Glasgow A 6

All in all a good tournament

A team stats (either danny or ronnie will have to fill in)
B team stats

6/7 James Main
5/7 Calum Bain & Robert Ferrier
4/7 Russell Young & Tam Peters
3/5 Ronnie Ferrier
3/6 Gary Corrigan
3/7 Scott kinnear & Craig Nicoll
1/4 Davey Kay
0/2 Andy Anderson
0/6 Paul Bryson (Weekend to forget for the big man)

Congratulations goes to Danny Turner on winning the grand Final of the Midlothian Pool Series sponsored by Kim's Cars.

Here's what happened;

Round 1

Kenny Lawrie 2 v 5 Ronnie Marshall
Steven Brown 2 v 5 Pauline Selkirk
Gary Hibbard 5 v 3 Kim Black
Tam Peters 0 v 5 Rab Bannerman

Round 2

Danny Lunn 5 v 0 Ronnie Marshall
Pauline Selkirk 0 v 5 Mark Leaske
Gary Hibbard 1 v 5 Kev Selkirk
Rab Bannerman 1 v 5 Russell young
Danny Turner 5 v 4 Kev Rae
Mark McGregor 2 v 5 Mick Panzica
Gary Gracey 5 v 1 Gareth Lithgow
Scott Hendry 1 v 5 Davie Kinnear

Q/Finals

Danny Lunn 5 v 3 Mark Leaske 2
Kev Selkirk 5 v 1 Russell Young
Danny Turner 5 v 0 Mick Panzica
Gary Gracey 2 v 5 Davie Kinnear

Semi Finals

Danny Lunn 5 v 2 Kev Selkirk
Danny Turner 5 v 4 Davie Kinnear

Final

Danny Lunn 3 v 5 Danny Turner

I would like to thank Kim Black of Kim's Cars for her sponsorship of the Midlothian Pool Series, and hope this continues for a long time to come. Thanks Kim!

Thanks also to Riley's for their sponsorship of free table time for all the series events.

And Thankyou to all the player that attended the event over the past year.

The new Midlothian Pool Series will begin on Sunday 14th June 2009. See you all there.

Midlothian Pool League had players playing up and down the length of th uk from Liverpool in 4 man competition to Berwick in the 1st of the Berwick Blackball Series to Airdrie in the MJ Hire tour with varying successes.

On saturady 21st The Hainsworth 4 man tournament was held in Liverpool and the Midlothian qualifying team of Danny Turner, Davey Kinnear, Gary Gracey & Mick Panzica went all the way to the final and unfortunately lost 7-4 but sterling effort all the same boys well done in reaching a final of a national event with a very nice prize pot to boot!! again congratulations......