The Musk's Cup (CA GC Top Eight event)
Final - game 3 by Tobi Savage
I'm back from sponging the lawn. Stephen has taken hoop 1. Harry is playing a hampered shot. Succeeds
31 Aug 2015 5:12PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Stephen played a great clearance from the north boundary, Harry missed his return clearance and Stephen scored a trivial 2
31 Aug 2015 5:12PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Harry played red well, Stephen missed with black
31 Aug 2015 5:13PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Mulliner attempts another clearance, which he just sticks. Harry fails a jaws attempt
31 Aug 2015 5:14PM (Tournament); 3 Readers
Mulliner clears yellow from corner 3
31 Aug 2015 5:15PM (Tournament); 3 Readers
Yellow to die angled position
31 Aug 2015 5:15PM (Tournament); 3 Readers
Deep rather than die. This is bad...
31 Aug 2015 5:15PM (Tournament); 3 Readers
Stephen powerful clearance on red has cut it in lawn, and him toward hoop 2
31 Aug 2015 5:16PM (Tournament); 3 Readers
Red and yellow now runnable. Stephen shoots from hoop 2 and hits red with blue. Gets great control
31 Aug 2015 5:16PM (Tournament); 3 Readers
Red clearing blue... Bad cut. Red to hoop 2, Mulliner's blue to boundary in front of 3
31 Aug 2015 5:17PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Mulliner clears yelling w, which just comes bacl
31 Aug 2015 5:18PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Yellow. Dammit.
31 Aug 2015 5:18PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Blue knocks black toward the hoop
31 Aug 2015 5:18PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Red missed black...
31 Aug 2015 5:18PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Black tacking on 3... Straight down the lawn. Southeast of hoop 4
31 Aug 2015 5:19PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Taking.
31 Aug 2015 5:19PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Yellow plays deep, blue plays in. Red hides from black
31 Aug 2015 5:20PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Black is shooting at yellow. Cuts it to a few yards north of East penalty point
31 Aug 2015 5:20PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Harry clearing blue with yellow.
31 Aug 2015 5:20PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Succeeds
31 Aug 2015 5:21PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Harry in control, but Stephen is shooting at Red.
31 Aug 2015 5:21PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Stephen hits, and controls well. Blue is in a dangerous spot to clear anything Harry puts near the hoop
31 Aug 2015 5:22PM (Tournament); 3 Readers
Harry plays red very deep
31 Aug 2015 5:22PM (Tournament); 3 Readers
Black is over hit, in line with hoop 4
31 Aug 2015 5:22PM (Tournament); 3 Readers
Harry shoots, but cuts it up the lawn
31 Aug 2015 5:22PM (Tournament); 3 Readers
Blue to trivial position
31 Aug 2015 5:22PM (Tournament); 3 Readers
Red to trivial position
31 Aug 2015 5:23PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Yellow can clear blue quote easily. Stephen again over shoots black
31 Aug 2015 5:23PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Yellow aiming at Blue... Missed
31 Aug 2015 5:24PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Stephen hoops for a four nil lead
31 Aug 2015 5:24PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Red plays toward 5,but it's too short, and will be cleared
31 Aug 2015 5:25PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Nope,, Stephen opts to cut blue in front with black. It is well played
31 Aug 2015 5:25PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Harry misses from the penalty point
31 Aug 2015 5:25PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Blue shooting for 5 nil...
31 Aug 2015 5:26PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Inside wire dead on. Not good.
31 Aug 2015 5:26PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Harry hoops from some daft angle. 4-1
31 Aug 2015 5:26PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Mulliner plays black well
31 Aug 2015 5:27PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Yellow is hit too long
31 Aug 2015 5:27PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Blue hits red to behind 6
31 Aug 2015 5:27PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Red missed. Black shooting for 5-1
31 Aug 2015 5:28PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Very clean this time. Mulliner leads 5-1
31 Aug 2015 5:28PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Harry plays to the boundary. Stephen plays blue to angled close position
31 Aug 2015 5:28PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Harry plays red halfway. Erm... I'd assume hampered by the peg
31 Aug 2015 5:29PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Harry jumping from the boundary. Mulliner black was a great block.
31 Aug 2015 5:29PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Harry clips black with yellow. Not the end of the world, but some work to do now
31 Aug 2015 5:30PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Mulliner hides blue from red.
31 Aug 2015 5:30PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Harry contemplates a few things, the plays red toward north boundary
31 Aug 2015 5:31PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Then
31 Aug 2015 5:31PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Stephen attempts to block blue from yellow
31 Aug 2015 5:32PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Judging by Harry's lineup, it wasn't a success
31 Aug 2015 5:32PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Harry missed with yellow. Mulliner shooting from trivial position for 6-1
31 Aug 2015 5:33PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Tonks to southeast of 8
31 Aug 2015 5:33PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Harry plays red deep, but it looks like blue can see it
31 Aug 2015 5:34PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Stephen plays black in very close, but it could have blocked blue at yellow
31 Aug 2015 5:34PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Red rather.
31 Aug 2015 5:34PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
And no. No it didn't.
31 Aug 2015 5:34PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Harry could have a double target from between 11 and 13
31 Aug 2015 5:35PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Clears black
31 Aug 2015 5:35PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Then
31 Aug 2015 5:35PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
low is at a nice distance for Harry.
31 Aug 2015 5:35PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Yellow rather. Note to self. Get a keyboard
31 Aug 2015 5:36PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Mulliner misses with black. Yellow to shoot for 6-2, then it's Bamford o'clock for Harry!
31 Aug 2015 5:36PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Shot. 6-2
31 Aug 2015 5:36PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Blue in at angled position, Harry plays deep
31 Aug 2015 5:37PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Anyone else could struggle, with blues hoop, but it seems to be one of Stephen's strengths
31 Aug 2015 5:38PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Black to the same angle, Bit a little further out
31 Aug 2015 5:38PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Yellow shooting at blue
31 Aug 2015 5:38PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Missed.
31 Aug 2015 5:38PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Mulliner shooting for the Musk's Cup
31 Aug 2015 5:38PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Drifts through. Mulliner wins 7-2 to take the match and the trophy. Bye all, time to make a managerial speech.
31 Aug 2015 5:40PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
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