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Daryl Gurney “in the pink”
after toppling local boy Scott Mitchell
Hopes of a
double tops success for the small village of Bransgore in Hampshire were
thwarted by Northern Ireland’s Daryl Gurney who despatched 14th seed
Scott Mitchell in a thrilling five set tie-breaker.
Mitchell,
sporting a natty pink and black shirt emblazoned with Scotty dog motifs endeared
himself to the capacity Lakeside crowd but always faced an uphill task against
the Northern Ireland international.
Last night
(Sunday)Paul Carter, who remarkably lives in the same village (population 5000)
as Mitchell pulled off a surprise victory to gun down 10th seed
Martin “The Assassin” Atkins.
Mitchell had
hoped to emulate his neighbour’s success but he quickly found himself 2-0 down
in sets.
But then the
Hampshire landscape garden started sewing the seeds of a comeback, twice
battling back to level in the third set after hitting a maximum, clinching the
deciding fifth leg with double tops.
Three maximums
and an 81 checkout steered him to the fourth set to level the match.
He fired in
another 180 to blaze into the deciding set, following up with a 101 finished on
double tops, Gurney annexing the third leg and then adding the next to take the
match into a tense tie-break.
The plumber
from Northern Ireland missed four doubles before grabbing the fifth leg on
double 10, hitting a 180 in the next and holding his nerve to fire in double
seven to edge into the last 16.
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