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Pitt Meadows snooker team on target

The pool sharks of the Pitt Meadows Seniors Centre have won their second straight snooker championship.
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Paul Scanlon

The pool sharks of the Pitt Meadows Seniors Centre have won their second straight snooker championship.

The team put together a sterling regular-season record of 21-1-1 during their weekly games. That makes it three years in a row the team has won the league. Then they beat the tough Kennedy Seniors Recreation Centre team out of Delta in the playoffs to repeat as champions.

They play a season that runs from September through the end of February, and the league involves 11 seniors centres that have 17 teams. There are A and B divisions.

The best players in the league are those capable of producing 100 points at a turn – which generally involves sinking between 16 and 22 shots in a row.

In Pitt Meadows, everyone on the team can shoot.

“Every team has some top-flight players, but the key for us is that our weaker players don’t okay that weak,” said Gary Spence, one of the organizers of the team and the president of the league. “Even our weakest players are still fairly good.”

Their only reward is prestige, a trophy and the friendships they get. And there will be a May banquet.

Spence knows a lot of pool players, and that the Pitt team will have a challenge racking up another winning season.

“There are some really good players about to be old enough (55 years old), who will be playing for the other centres.”

League play has wrapped up for the season, but there are open drop-in sessions Monday to Friday, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. now through the summer at the Pitt Meadows Senior Centre.  All levels of players are welcome to join in, and basic through advanced instruction can be arranged with club members.



Neil Corbett

About the Author: Neil Corbett

I have been a journalist for more than 30 years, the past decade with the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News.
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