Drumaness Masters title for Raymond

Drumaness Masters title for Raymond

22 December 2020

RAYMOND Fry has been crowned the 2020 Drumaness Snooker Masters champion following a comprehensive win in last Wednesday’s final at the Dan Rice Memorial Hall.

Fry had a 5-1 victory over Patrick Wallace after coming from behind.

Wallace won the opening frame 68-9, but Fry quickly clicked into gear, levelling up at 1-1. He added the next two frames to open up a 3-1 lead. Then a break of 72 in the fifth took him to within one frame of the title.

He duly delivered the next frame to close out an impressive success. It brought to an end a highly-successful tournament. 

En route to the last four, Fry saw off Simon Cooke by three frames to nil before he accounted for his Antrim counterpart Ryan McQuillan 4-2 in the quarter-finals.

Wilson had a 3-1 success against Darren Oldroyd, before then edging out Dermot McGlinchey 4-3 in a repeat of the 2019 final.

Wallace claimed a comfortable 3-0 success over Paul Currie, before surviving a great comeback from Brian Milne in their quarter-final.

Milne trailed 3-0 only to fight back and take it to a deciding frame. Wallace took that frame in nail-biting fashion to seal a 4-3 win.

Sixteen year old McGuigan soared through to the semi-finals without so much as a ped frame. He collected a 3-0 win over Peter Doherty before going on to exact revenge on Northern Ireland champion Declan Lavery. He took just 40 minutes to despatch his opponent 4-0 in the last eight.

It was a sweet win for McGuigan who had lost the pair’s last match in September 10-9.

The success of the tournament will have been of great satisfaction to Darren Oldroyd, the tournament director, who helped deliver a superb product in these most trying of times for any sporting organisation.