Lilly clinches back-to-back wins

DHARMINDER Singh Lilly has landed back-to-back tournament successes on the Cuestars snooker circuit.

The Fareham-based cueist pocketed the £125 first prize after winning the seventh and final leg of the Championship Tour at Greenbaize Snooker Club, Bournemouth.

Lilly defeated the 2017/18 champion Mike Finn (Eastleigh) 3-2 in the last-four and the newly-crowned rankings winner Marcos Dayao (London) 3-0 in the final.

It was a second Cuestars success in eight days for the former IBSF World Masters champion.

The previous weekend, he won the seventh leg of the Seniors (40+) Tour at Woking Snooker Centre.

Jason Pusser (Bournemouth) knocked in the day’s highest break of 100 in his 2-0 plate semi-final victory over Daniel Hall (Swindon). Buoyed by making his first Cuestars century, Pusser went on to beat Stuart Chapman (Poole) by the same score in the final.

RESULTS (BREAKS)

PRELIM: Liam O’Shea 2-3 Rikki Moore. .

LAST-16: Rikki Moore (67) 3-2 Jason Pusser, Riley Ellis 3-1 Daniel Hall, Adam Stacey 3-1 Steve Nevett, Marcos Dayao (52) 3-1 Sam Storey, James Budd 3-0 Stuart Chapman, Alex Greenham 1-3 (63, 50) Mike Finn, Jack Dady 3-1 Adam Nash, Chris Moulsdale 0-3 (60) Dharminder Lilly.

QUARTER-FINALS: Rikki Moore 3-0 Riley Ellis, Adam Stacey 1-3 Marcos Dayao, James Budd 1-3 Mike Finn, Jack Dady 1-3 (60, 50) Dharminder Lilly.

SEMI-FINALS (£25): Marcos Dayao (57) 3-2 Rikki Moore, Dharminder Lilly 3-2 Mike Finn.

FINAL (£125/£60): Dharminder Lilly 3-0 Marcos Dayao.

PLATE RESULTS (BREAKS)

QUARTER-FINALS: Chris Moulsdale 3-0 Sam Storey, Adam Nash 1-2 Stuart Chapman, Liam O’Shea 0-2 Jason Pusser, Alex Greenham 1-2 Daniel Hall.
SEMI-FINALS: Stuart Chapman 2-1 Chris Moulsdale, Jason Pusser (100) 2-0 Daniel Hall.

FINAL (£20): Jason Pusser (59, 59) 2-0 Stuart Chapman.

Picture: Marcos Dayao (left) and Dharminder Lilly