Connie Gough ladies national championship

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WOMEN’S snooker star Maria Catalano heads to Luton on Saturday keen to complete a hat-trick of Connie Gough National Championship titles.

Ronnie O’Sullivan’s 26-year-old cousin lines up with three-time world champion Reanne Evans at Rileys SC for the fifth ranking event of the World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association season.

Mother-of-one Evans, whose 35-match unbeaten run was ended by Emma Bonney at the South Coast Classic in Eastbourne earlier this month, hopes to return to winning ways before the World Championship in May.

Bonney (Portsmouth) became the fourth different ranking event winner this season when she gained her first ever title at Eastbourne. Evans (Dudley, West Midlands) won the UK Championships in Derbyshire, Katie ‘Hooray’ Henrick (Bickley, Kent) triumphed at the East Anglian in Cambridge and Catalano (also from Dudley) potted her way to victory at the British Open in Rushden.

Youngsters Hannah Jones, 11, Joanne Davies, 15, and sisters Georgina, 15, and Charlotte Holloway, 14, travel down from Derbyshire.


2008 Connie Gough National Championship
Ranking event
Saturday, 1 March, 2008
Rileys Snooker Club
Leagrave Road
Luton
LU3 1RJ
Tel: 01582 731315

Draw will take place at 9.50am with play commencing at 10.00am

List of 20 confirmed entries:

Reanne Evans - Dudley, West Midlands
Katie Henrick - Bickley, Kent
June Banks - Orpington, Kent
Jenny Poulter - Maidstone, Kent
Maria Catalano - Dudley, West Midlands
Suzie Opacic - Brambridge, Hants
Eva Palmius - Isleham, Ely
Chris Sharpe - Chelmsford, Essex
Emma Bonney - Portsmouth, Hants
Martina Lumsden - Eastbourne, East Sussex
Pam Wood - Newcastle
Hannah Jones - Derby
Joanne Davies - Derby
Vicky Ashby - Hemel Hempstead, Herts
Marianne Williams - Smallfield, Surrey
Mary Hawkes - Eaton Bray, Beds
Charlotte Holloway - Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Georgina Holloway - Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Maureen Logan - Wallsend, Tyne & Wear
Tina Owen-Sevilton - Taunton, Somerset

Tim Dunkley (WLBSA press office)


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MARIA Catalano clawed back a two-frame deficit against world number one Reanne Evans to clinch a hat-trick of Connie Gough National Championships in Luton on Saturday.

RESULTS (breaks in brackets):
LAST 32: Marianne Williams (Smallfield, Surrey) bt Joanne Davies (Derby) 3-0, Tina Owen-Sevilton (Taunton) bt Mary Hawkes (Eaton Bray, Beds) 3-0, Charlotte Holloway (Ashbourne, Derbyshire) bt Georgina Holloway (Ashbourne, Derbyshire) 3-2, Vicky Ashby (Hemel Hempstead) bt Gaye Jones (Melksham, Wilts) 3-1, Martina Lumsden (45) (Eastbourne) bt Pam Wood (Newcastle) 3-1.

LAST 16: Maria Catalano (Dudley) bt Williams 3-2, Jenny Poulter (Maidstone) bt Owen-Sevilton 3-2, June Banks (Orpington) bt C Holloway 3-0, Katie Henrick (Bickley, Kent) bt Ashby 3-0, Chris Sharpe (Chelmsford) bt Maureen Logan (Wallsend) 3-0, Hannah Jones (Derby) bt Eva Palmius (Isleham, Ely) 3-2, Reanne Evans (Dudley) bt Lumsden 3-1, Emma Bonney (Portsmouth) w/o Suzie Opacic (Brambridge, Hants).

QUARTER-FINALS: Catalano (31, 32, 36) bt Poulter 3-1, Banks bt Bonney 3-2, Henrick bt Sharpe 3-2, Evans (74) bt H Jones 3-0.

SEMI-FINALS: Catalano (60) bt Banks 3-2, Evans bt Henrick 3-0.

FINAL (£240/£120): Catalano (47) bt Evans (51) 3-2.

PLATE RESULTS:

LAST-16: Palmius bt G Jones 2-1, Owen-Sevilton bt Lumsden 2-1, Wood bt Hawkes 2-0, Davies bt Logan 2-1.

QUARTER-FINALS: Williams bt G Holloway 2-0, Ashby bt C Holloway 2-0, Palmius bt Owen-Sevilton 2-0, Wood bt Davies 2-1.

SEMI-FINALS: Palmius bt Wood 2-1, Ashby bt Williams 2-0.

FINAL: Palmius bt Ashby 2-1.

SENIORS FINAL: Sharpe bt G Jones 1-0.

Tim Dunkley (WLBSA press office)