Last Friday night in the Coach Inn venue (Friday 31st July 2009) seen the new 2009 Coach Inn & Corona Super 5’s 8Ball Pool League come to a close when the Grand-Finals of this fantastic competition took centre stage with the two semi-finals and final taking place on the night which seen the New Street Inn team from Ederney Co. Fermanagh crowned 2009 Super League Champions receiving the winners cheque for £1,000 and the tournament cup for there efforts……….

The Corona Promotion girls and Connor Quinn (Coach Inn manager) is pictured
with the New Street Inn pool team before the semi-finals

In the semi-finals the Fermanagh men put in a superb performance against the much fancied Dee’s Army team recording a fantastic 15-7 result with Eamon Lynch being the star performer in this fixture winning all his individual matches as well as his doubles matches where he partnered Kevin Lavelle to victory with the other New Street Inn team players playing there part in this superb result Brian Curtis (cap), Niall Mc Menamin, Liam Mc Cusker and Kevin Lavelle………

The Corona Promotion girls and Connor Quinn (Coach Inn manager) is pictured
with the Pocket Rockets pool team before the semi-finals

The team of Dee’s Army consisted of the following top players who joined together for this Super 5’s event Damien Corrigan (Fintona, cap), Paul Heaney (Sixmilecross), Tiffy Quinn (Ballygawley), Paul Corrigan (Fintona), Brian McGirr (Ballygawley), Denis Mc Kenna (Dromore) ………….Final Score: New Street Inn 15-7 Dee’s Army

The Corona Promotion girls and Connor Quinn (Coach Inn manager) is pictured
with Dee’s Army pool team before the semi-finals

The second semi-final seen the Pocket Rockets come from 9-3 down to record a brilliant 15-10 victory over the league winners O’Connor’s Bar with young Adam Mc Mackin being the top performer in this match fixture winning all his individual games defeating Colin Mc Mackin, Ben Mc Moran, Peader Teague, Ronnie Boyle and Brendan Mc Donagh with the Pocket Rockets other team members also playing there part in progressing to the final Ciaran O’ Reilly (Dungannon), Raymond Todd (Seskinore), Chris Beattie (Aughnacloy), Emmet Maguire (Dregish), Nathan Todd (Seskinore) and Adam Mackin (Beragh)………Final Score: Pocket Rockets 15-10 O’Connor’s Bar

The Corona Promotion girls and Connor Quinn (Coach Inn manager) is pictured
with O’Connor’s Bar pool team before the semi-finals

FINAL:
The following two teams of the New Street Inn and the Pocket Rockets got ready to contest the 2009 Grand-Final of the first ever 2009 Coach Inn & Corona Super 5’s 8Ball Pool League with the large turnout of spectators that turned up on the night staying onto watch this grand-final shoot-out and by no means weren’t disappointed with the very high standard of play produced by both teams………..

The Corona Promotion girls and Connor Quinn (Coach Inn manager) presents
the New Street Inn Pool Team captain Brian Curtis with the £1,000 winners cheque and the tournament cup.......

The Fermanagh men had to show all there fighting qualities right from the start and throughout the match which seen the Pocket Rockets in fine form racing into the following leads of 3-2, 6-4, 7-5, 10-7 and then 14-12 only needing one game for victory but this wasn’t to be as the New Street Inn clawed there back to 14-14 with fantastic victories coming from Liam Mc Cusker and Eamon Lynch to set-up a final game shoot-out with Kevin Lavelle (New Street Inn) and Chris Beattie (Pocket Rockets) going head to head which seen Kevin holding his nerve to take out a brilliant clearance to secure victory for the Fermanagh men to be crowned 2009 Coach Inn & Corona Super 5’s 8Ball Pool League Champions in this great and prestigious event…………Final-Score: New Street Inn 15-14 Pocket Rockets

Nicola Kelly (Coach Inn) presents Brian Curtis (cap) and the other New Street Inn
pool team members with the tournament cup after there grand-final victory
over the Pocket Rockets

Semi-Finals:
New Street Inn 15-7 Dee’s Army
Pocket Rockets 15-10 O’Connor’s Bar

Final:
New Street Inn 15-14 Pocket Rockets


PRIZE-MONEY:
Group League Winners: O’ Connor’s Bar £300
Outright Champions: New Street Inn £1,000
Outright Runner-up: Pocket Rockets £300


THANKS:
The organisers of this new and prestigious event which will now become a annual tournament would like to thank the tournament sponsors Corona and the Coach Inn for there generous sponsorship making this tournament a huge success and also to Connor Quinn and Nicola Kelly managers of the Coach Inn for all there help and support throughout the weeks and also to the Corona Promotion girls who was present on the night offering a drinks promotion to everyone who was in the grand-final venue throughout the evening……

Other photos from Grand-Finals night