Joe Thompson and Ger Sheehy won the UCD Scotch Doubles beating Lorcan Kavanagh and Johnny Kelly in the final.
The plate was won by Oliver Mobasser and Ross Metcalfe.



 

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UCD will have to wait until another year to lift the Irish Intervarsity Pool trophy after losing out at the quarter final stage to UL yesterday.

The UCD A team started strongly topping their group with two wins and two draws. They then beat a good DIT A team in the last 16 on Sunday morning, but lost to UL A in a very tight match that just didn't go their way. 

The B team qualified for the knock-out stages by finishing second in their group which but lost out to former champions DkIT i...
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Kevin Meaney made it two in a row last week by winning the UCD Pool Shootout.

The tournament was a double elimination event with each match consisting of one frame only.

Beaten in the earlier stages Kevin battled through the losers bracket to reach the final where he met an unbeaten Lorcan Kavanagh.

Kevin beat Lorcan twice in a row with a stunning performance to take the title.

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Kevin Meaney won the first tournament of 2012 last night.

He gave a strong performance dropping not a single frame until the final where he beat Joe Thompson 4-2.

Semi-finalists were Lorcan Kavanagh who lost to Thompson and Ger Sheehy, no.1 seed.

Ross Metcalfe won the Plate Tournament with Alex Nolan as runner-up.

 

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Welcome back everyone!

Hope you are all well rested after the holidays,

We have a full calendar of events this semester including the UCD One Frame Shoot-Out, 
The 9-ball Tournament at The Palace, Camden Street, Doubles Tournament and a Poker Night.

The events start with the New Year Pool Classic on Wednesday,
a last chance to improve your ranking before the intervarsities.

Hope to see you all there

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UCD were knocked out at the quarter finals stage of the snooker intervarsities on Saturday last.
One of UCD's players failed to attend which was a bad start to the weekend.
Being beaten by IT Tallaght 6 frames to 3 ended a disappointing weekend overall for the UCD team.

In the group stages UCD beat DIT 'B', drew with UUJ and lost out to QUB 'A', leaving us in second place in group C

On the plus side, Joe Thompson reached the quarter finals of the individual event,
losing out eventually to ITT's St...
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UCD had a very strong home win in the student bar on 14th November.

The first CUSAI league match was against NCI 'B' team which UCD won 18 frames to 2.

Teams consist of five players and each player plays four from the opposing team making 20 frames in total.

The next match is away to Dundalk IT 'A', a strong team and former intervarsity champions.
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Michael Curley won the UCD Open II on the 16th Of November. He beat Ger Sheehy 4-2 in the final.

Curley narrowly beat Joe Thompson in his semi-final 3 frames to 2, after a tense decider. 
The other semi-finalist was the number 2 seed, Lorcan Kavanagh.

Congratulations to Tony O'Flynn on winning the Plate 

 

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The fifth and sixth ranking tournaments were won by Michael Curley, again.

In the UCD Challenge Curley beat Lorcan Kavanagh in the final with a 3-0 scoreline. 
Semi-finalists were Kevin Meaney and Shane Flanagan.

In the Grand Prix Curley came up against Joe Thompson in the final. 
Curley won a close match 4-2 with a nice clearance in the last. 
Semi-finalists were Lorcan Kavanagh and David Wu.

 

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