Le Sauvage rewrites the record books

Paul Le Sauvage rewrote the record books on Saturday night at the North Social Club by lifting the Guernsey Brewery Trophy for a third time, having beaten Roscoe Cloarec 5-0 in the Island Snooker Championship final. Having last been champion in 2001, the 24 year gap between titles is the longest period in the 94 year history, beating the 19 year wait that Glenn Le Prevost had for his two crowns.

The North Social again created superb conditions as the two players nervously took to the well prepared tables in front of a decent sized crowd. An understandably cagey start to the best of nine final ended with Le Sauvage taking what proved to be the closest frame of the night on the pink, after Cloarec had led for most of the way.

That appeared to take its toll on Cloarec, who would have been looking for a fast start, as Le Sauvage’s opening 25 break soon made it 2-0 in conceding just eight points. That was followed by a 30 in the next, but whilst Cloarec was again in contention on the colours, Le Sauvage was at his clinical best in clearing to pink in what would be the overriding trend of the night.

The fourth frame saw Cloarec well placed to get his first foothold into the final by building a slender lead with two reds left on the table. But after Le Sauvage hit back and Cloarec’s escape from a snooker saw him go in off the green, a third perfectly controlled clearance to pink made it 4-0.

The pattern continued as Cloarec’s early 25 helped the score along to 36-35 in his favour until Le Sauvage took the final red with a pink to follow. A long range yellow from Cloarec missed the target and, from the leftovers, Le Sauvage held his nerve from similar range to clear up to pink once more and claim his third title as just reward for a player who has found some scintillating end of season form.

Result

Paul Le Sauvage 5,   Roscoe Cloarec 0

Frame scores : 56-41; 60(25)-8; 66(30)-38; 85-37; 62-37(25)