Auckland’s Wayne Carey continued on in ominous form with 3 convincing wins and 3 more century breaks on day 2 of the CLS Mitchell Cloth On The Level North Island Billiards Championships being played at the Auckland Confederation of Billiard Sports Clubrooms in Royal Oak. At the conclusion of section play, Carey and Grant Hayward, both from Auckland, look the more likely players to be contesting the final come Sunday afternoon. Both players going through section play unbeaten and putting together 41 breaks over 40 between them.

Section 1:

J Ifa (WK)(66, 60, 52) 540 bt C Allport (AK) 185, B Good (AK) 357 bt K Bracken (CC) 269, D Taylor (WK)(56) 478 bt B Littlechild (AK) 292, Taylor 508 bt Allport 303, W Carey (AK)(61, 40, 102, 47, 42)(633 bt Bracken (53, 50) 208, Good (43, 48) 417 bt Ifa (57) 309, Bracken 506 bt Littlechild 218, Carey (100, 43, 42, 62) 558 bt Ifa (46, 62) 301, Good (45, 45) 571 bt Allport 144, Taylor (40) 563 bt Bracken 473, Ifa (77, 58, 49) 592 bt Littlechild 113, Carey (107) 538 bt Good (46) 350.

Section 2:

G Hayward (AK)(81, 41) 483 bt R Habgood (NH) 280, D Gibb (CC)(70, 87) 504 bt R Exley (AK) 171, P Hammington (WK) 380 bt R Milicich (AK) 357, Hayward (70, 44, 81) 491 bt Gibb (59, 49) 288, Habgood 389 bt Hammington 286, Milicich (60) 384 bt Exley 253, Habgood (49) 471 bt Milicich 284.

The draw for the Quarter finals is as follows:

Wayne Carey (AK) v Peter Hammington (WK), Bryce Good (AK) v Ray Habgood (NH), Joe Ifa (WK) v Derek Gibb (CC), Darren Taylor (WK) v Grant Hayward (AK).

All matches commence at 9:00am Sunday, followed by the Semi-finals at 11:30am with the Final due to start around 2:00pm.

Warren Burke