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TOP BREAK SCOTT MAKES IT TWO OUT OF TWO

Scott Miller, 17 of Brighton won the second ranking event of the Peradon and Frank Sandell Snooker Grand Prix Series 2000 and scored the series' highest ever break in the process.

Miller's effort of 118 in his quarter-final match of the Medata Challenge at Chichester's Triangle club came against club-mate Neal Gozzett, 17, and beat the record of 116 set by Steve Crowley in 1992. Miller won the match 2-1.

The final was one of the best in the 19 year history of the Grand Prix series. Miller took the first frame with a 49 break but 13 year old Jimmy Robertson of Bexhill replied with a 59 in the second. Robertson looked to have avenged his final defeat by Miller in the first event when he recorded a 50 break at the start of the final frame, but Miller cleared from two reds out with a 42 to claim the match by a point.

The host club's Matthew Redfern, 16, and Chris Francis, 17 reached the semi-finals to lift themselves to 3rd and 4th in the rankings respectively. These two were by far the most successful Chichester based players.

The Handicap events saw three Worthing players make up the four finalists. In the junior section Peter Atkinson, 14, beat Luke Austen, 16 and the senior section saw Lancing's James Thorpe, 17, beat Philip Wirtz, 16.

Best performance awards went to Kevin Bushby, 12 of Worthing who reached the Handicap quarter-final and 3rd round of the main draw in only his second tournament and to Neil Francis, 16 of Portslade who reached his first ever main quarter-final.

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The Winners pictured with Miss Julie Osman, manageress  of
the Triangle Club: (L-R) (1 - Jimmy Robertson & Scott Miller)
(2 - Chris Francis & Matthew Redfern) (3 - Assorted winners -
Sean Kenward, Kevin Bushby, James Murdoch and Stefan Chandler) (4 - Philip Wirtz) (5 - Peter Atkinson)

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