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Article: Kirkup on cue for individual title honours.(News)
- Article from:
- Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
- Article date:
- April 12, 2006
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A nightmare start ended in a dream finish for Ian Kirkup in a quarter-final shoot-out in the National ClU Individual Snooker Championship.
Playing Popular SC's former England captain Colin Morton, the Coxlodge and Gosforth SC cueman quickly found himself having to play catch up after Morton ran away with the opener 72-8.
Things did not go much better in the next and it was Morton who raced 2-0 ahead after taking the second 62-17.
After being outplayed and out- scored in the first two frames, Kirkup showed his fighting spirit by taking a ...