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Coronation Cup 2011

2011 Coronation Cup winner Mike Dunlop

Sunday 10th July saw another good entry of 27 players taking part in the Club’s latest competition, The Coronation Cup.
Following some close games in the early rounds, the semi-finals brought together Alan Bond v Mike Dunlop and Jim Finnimore v. 2010 winner, Margaret Langley.
Alan Bond, in his first season at the Hesketh Arms, had goods wins in the early rounds against Pat Jones (21-19) and John McGurk (21-14) before meeting Brian Jones in the quarter-final. This proved to be one of games of the day with Alan scoring two at the final end to win through to the semi-final 21-20. In the semi-final Alan came up against Mike Dunlop who had been in fine form all day, recording wins against Harry Brown (21-18), Beryl Jackson (21-18) and George Hitchmough (21-11). Mike continued his good form in the semi-final to record a comfortable 21-8 win.

In the bottom half of the draw, Jim Finnimore had progressed to the semi-final with wins against Norman Parry (21-20) and Bill Nowell (21-10) to face Margaret Langley who did well to overcome the disadvantage of playing off scratch to overcome Shirley Kelly (21-20) and Richard Rawcliffe (21-14). Margaret continued to play well in the semi-final against Jim and reached the final with a 21-10 success.
The final saw Margaret, playing off scratch after several competition victories in recent seasons, playing Mike Dunlop, in his first Hesketh Arms singles final. Starting on +4, Mike got got off to a flying start which was to prove decisive. Despite Margaret bowling well, Mike continued to play as he had been doing throughout the competition and eventually won the final 21-5 to take the 2011 Coronation Cup