Australia - AC Men's Singles
Semi Finals by Tim Murphy
I'm playing plate so commentary will be sparse.
11 Mar 2024 12:55PM (Tournament); 1 Readers
Game 3.
Pearce Peg and 4b
Forster 1 and going around
Robert 1b and tpoing
Jeff 1 and being tpoed
11 Mar 2024 12:57PM (Tournament); 1 Readers
Good death roll by Robert. 3b pioneer 2yd south of peg.
11 Mar 2024 1:01PM (Tournament); 1 Readers
Forster for 1b. Pioneer on north boundary but gets rush. Has good load at 2b.
11 Mar 2024 1:03PM (Tournament); 1 Readers
Robert does excellent rush to 3b. Rover peel will be straight but no worries he will be taking 2 balls off I expect.
11 Mar 2024 1:04PM (Tournament); 1 Readers
Rover peelee is in position before 4b.
Forster for 3b.
11 Mar 2024 1:06PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Robert's heading to rover.
11 Mar 2024 1:09PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Crossing fingers my opponent misses 2b
11 Mar 2024 1:09PM (Tournament); 1 Readers
No he made it.
11 Mar 2024 1:09PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Robert has peeled rover.
11 Mar 2024 1:11PM (Tournament); 1 Readers
Forster is setting OSL
11 Mar 2024 1:12PM (Tournament); 1 Readers
I need Oppo to break down soon if I'm to have time to win my game.
11 Mar 2024 1:13PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Pearce hit. My guess would be with 4b ball.
11 Mar 2024 1:14PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Pearce has made 4b
11 Mar 2024 1:17PM (Tournament); 1 Readers
Robert has pegged 2 off
11 Mar 2024 1:18PM (Tournament); 1 Readers
Pearce pioneer for rover is north on penult
11 Mar 2024 1:20PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Pearce has a 2 yd rover
11 Mar 2024 1:24PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Copes with rush to peg
11 Mar 2024 1:24PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
2 - 3 yd peg out
11 Mar 2024 1:25PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Pearce beats Forster 2 - 1.
11 Mar 2024 1:26PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Correction. Format changed to bo5 last night.
11 Mar 2024 1:31PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Robert's for rover, Jeff's for 5.
11 Mar 2024 1:59PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Forster going 6 all other clips on 1.
11 Mar 2024 2:00PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Jeff hit Robert in c4
11 Mar 2024 2:02PM (Tournament); 3 Readers
Robert is considering running rover from just north of penult
11 Mar 2024 2:05PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Hits right leg and bounces towards 3b. Lucky man as Jeff was near 2b.
11 Mar 2024 2:06PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Jeff is taking on 18 yarder
11 Mar 2024 2:08PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Just misses. Robert has 6.5 yarder
11 Mar 2024 2:08PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Surprisingly Robert is sending Jeff towrd c2 and trying to get in front of rover.
11 Mar 2024 2:10PM (Tournament); 1 Readers
Angle rover and runs it easily.
11 Mar 2024 2:10PM (Tournament); 1 Readers
Forster finishes 9 with poor leave. Pearce has 7 yarder. Hits.
11 Mar 2024 2:11PM (Tournament); 1 Readers
Robert to west boundary level with h5
11 Mar 2024 2:12PM (Tournament); 1 Readers
Robert's first shot at peg was not his best.
11 Mar 2024 2:16PM (Tournament); 1 Readers
Pearce has made h1 with h2 loaded.
11 Mar 2024 2:16PM (Tournament); 1 Readers
Jeff has made 1b. Robert is east boundary.
11 Mar 2024 2:17PM (Tournament); 1 Readers
Robert won game 3. He leads Jeff 2-1 up.
Forster won game 4. Forster v Pearce 2 all.
11 Mar 2024 3:07PM (Tournament); 1 Readers
Forster has failed straight rover peel leaving Pearce all 4 balls. Pretty sure Pearce is 1 and 4b.
11 Mar 2024 4:34PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Forster missed a 4 to 5 yarder after rover. He is peg and peg.
11 Mar 2024 4:51PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Pearce is 1 and 4b
11 Mar 2024 4:52PM (Tournament); 3 Readers
Robert and Jeff are 2 all.
11 Mar 2024 4:58PM (Tournament); 3 Readers
Pearce failed h6. Forster hit a good 8 yarder.
11 Mar 2024 5:06PM (Tournament); 3 Readers
Robert made first 9 in game 5.
11 Mar 2024 5:37PM (Tournament); 3 Readers
Jeff made a double with ball at 3b and Robert's yellow. Spilt the gap perfectly.
11 Mar 2024 5:38PM (Tournament); 3 Readers
Robert played a perfect promotion on partner not h1.
11 Mar 2024 5:39PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Pioneer at h2 is a bit short but otherwise all the balls are in position for on-time triple.
11 Mar 2024 5:40PM (Tournament); 2 Readers
Robert has jawed 4b after 3.
11 Mar 2024 5:51PM (Tournament); 3 Readers
Robert has 2 peels done. Is now for penult. Trouble is peelee is behind rover on the leg.
11 Mar 2024 6:14PM (Tournament); 7 Readers
Take off to peelee seems a bit wide but he copes.
11 Mar 2024 6:15PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Good take off back to penult
11 Mar 2024 6:16PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Peelee is 1 yd east and 1 ft south of rover.
11 Mar 2024 6:17PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
He's made penult. Needs a good croquet shot to rush Oppo to peelee. Gets it.
11 Mar 2024 6:18PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Good rush.
11 Mar 2024 6:18PM (Tournament); 4 Readers
Good Croquet shot to get rush on peelee.
11 Mar 2024 6:19PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Rush to perfect peeling position.
11 Mar 2024 6:20PM (Tournament); 5 Readers
Peelee through. Ref called to confirm striker not through.
11 Mar 2024 6:22PM (Tournament); 6 Readers
Dolly rush to peg.
11 Mar 2024 6:22PM (Tournament); 6 Readers
3 yd peg out.
Done.
11 Mar 2024 6:23PM (Tournament); 6 Readers
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