{"id":13892,"date":"2023-09-24T21:28:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T20:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=13892"},"modified":"2023-09-24T22:30:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T21:30:47","slug":"dennis-lewis-open-2023-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=13892","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Lewis Open 2023 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pete Farmer finally got his hands on the Dennis Lewis Open trophy after beating Darren Wellings in the final 14. He was always ahead after being 2-0 down, leading 8-4 and then 13-9. Darren got back to be 13-12 behind but Pete had a break of 7 to be on the verge of victory but got out two ends later to be third time lucky at winning the final in this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Semi Finals Pete beat previous winner Kiah Roberts 17, coming back from 9-6 down in a very close game throughout. Darren had it even closer against former Bayley player Pete Grimston. He was 13-7 up before Pete came back to lead 15-13. Darren got the block back in the corners and led 19-16 but Pete got it back to 20 across before Darren won. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Quarter Finals, Kiah had beat former homester Steve Burroughs 11 after a good run at the end from 10-9 up. Pete went from 7 across to lead Josh Cotton 16-7 and won 9. Pete was 13-7 down on Jamie King but pulled out a great bowl and then went onto win 17. Darren was 7-3 down on Elliot McGuinness and then 14-12, but ran out in the corners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scores are here<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The winner Pete Farmer with sponsor and wife of Dennis Lewis, June. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The four semi finalist with sponsor June Lewis and organiser Michael Cooper. From left: Pete Grimston, Darren Wellings, Pete Farmer & Kiah Roberts. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pete Farmer finally got his hands on the Dennis Lewis Open trophy after beating Darren Wellings in the final 14. He was always ahead after being 2-0 down, leading 8-4 and then 13-9. Darren got back to be 13-12 behind but Pete had a break of 7 to be on the verge of victory but …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[113,136,38],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5VaGi-3C4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13899,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13892\/revisions\/13899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}