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The following teams were selected by the SCBBA selection committee to play in the County Championship. A Team (captain Kevin Tunstall) Dave Ingram Joe Oakley Kevin Tunstall Martin Cole Matthew Knight Nigel Senior Phil Osborne (Jim Millward was selected but was unavailable) B Team (captain Tony Jenner) Chris Cox Kevin Hall Martin Smith Mike Daw…

Below are the Sussex Inter-League fixtures for the coming season. If you notice any errors please let me know, not all information was confirmed at time of publishing.  Please try to keep to the scheduled dates and if you can’t, please give your opponents plenty of notice if you wish to rearrange. Fixtures will commence on Sunday…

The Prince of Wales won the Watney Mann beating Stags Head C in a very close Final. The Final was played over two legs on consecutive Thursday nights and a very quality match went to a play-off leg after both teams won their home games 3-2. The first leg was played at the Stags Head…

Mark James reached the Final of the Bucks Open which was played on Sunday 7th August at the Totteridge Club in High Wycombe. The tournament was won by Matt Jones, who retained the title having also won it last time it was held in 2019. In the Final Matt ran the table out in the…

The SCBBA AGM 2022 was held on Tuesday 2nd August at the Burgess Hill Constitutional Club. There were no changes to the committee or the rules proposed or made at the AGM. The minutes are included below.

The Sussex representation struggled to make an impact as Matt Jones from Bucks won the Oxford Open on Saturday 9th July. Unusually Sussex failed to have anyone in the last eight as the players struggled on some difficult tables and Nigel Senior and Phil Osborne were the furthest progressors reaching the Last 16. In the…

Martin Cole beat Joe Oakley in an all Sussex Final to the National Off The Spot which was played at the Roffey Sports and Social Club on Sunday 26th June. With the first stage played in groups Martin made a slow with two low scoring win before losing his next two meaning he had to…

Joe Oakley became only the third Sussex player to record a 20k break Off The Spot when he scored 20,480 in the Sussex Off The Spot on Saturday 25th June. Joe joins Steve Mariner and Nigel Senior in this exclusive club. He recorded the break during a group stage win against Chris Tupper. PLAYER: SCORE…

Joe Oakley added another title to his growing collection when he won the Sussex Off The Spot which was played at the Roffey Club on Saturday 25th June. The event was being played for the first time since 2019 and saw the 28 players split into four groups of seven; with the winners qualifying for…

World Number One Mark Trafford from Oxford was in superb form as he took the Sussex Open title at the Roffey Sports and Social Club on Sunday 12th June. Mark beat Sussex’s Kevin Tunstall in the Final after KT faultered on just under 9k chasing Mark’s table play-out in the first leg of 22,220. That…