75 break helps Lloyd clinch Plate trophy

GOSPORT teenager Mark Lloyd (pictured left) smacked in a 75 break en route to claiming the Plate trophy at Woking Snooker Centre.

“It only wins one frame,” he shrugged, still disappointed after missing out on qualification from the Gold Tour group stages.

It came three days after his 14th birthday in the quarter-finals against his Stoke clubmate Matt Gillon.

In the final, Lloyd accounted for Ben Tillison (Copnor SC, Portsmouth) who collected his first Cuestars trophy.

BREAKS

Mark Lloyd: 75.

PLATE RESULTS (ONE-FRAME MATCHES)

LAST-16: Jamie Wilson (Copnor SC, Portsmouth) beat Daniel Compton (Copnor SC, Portsmouth), James Budd (Stoke SC, Gosport) beat Ben Hatch (Southampton), Mark Lloyd (Stoke SC, Gosport) beat Adam Cowdroy (Greenbaize SC, Bournemouth), Matt Gillon (Stoke SC, Gosport) beat Bradley Leishman (Stoke SC, Gosport), Joe Kitchen (Stoke SC, Gosport) beat Sam Warren (Chandler’s Ford SC), Ryan Compton (Copnor SC, Portsmouth) beat Cameron Gillon (Stoke SC, Gosport), Thomas Holton (Woking SC) beat Dan Sykes (Chandler’s Ford SC), Ben Tillison (Copnor SC, Portsmouth) beat Keegan Reed (Salisbury SC).

QUARTER-FINALS: Wilson beat Budd, Lloyd beat M Gillon, Kitchen beat R Compton, Tillison beat Holton.

SEMI-FINALS: Lloyd beat Wilson, Tillison beat Kitchen.

FINAL: Lloyd beat Tillison.

Picture by Tim Dunkley