Snooker: New kid on block breaks Wood’s tenth tilt (From York Press)

Snooker: New kid on block breaks Wood’s tenth tilt

10:46am Wednesday 8th February 2012 in Sport

HOPES of a tenth title have been dashed for Heworth’s Neil Wood in the York Conservative Clubs’ Scruton Cup Snooker Knockout.

Wood was beaten 2-1 by Malton’s Lee Taylor, a new kid on the block who has made the highest break in the Carlsberg UK Snooker League this season with 67.

Wood won a scrappy first frame and then Taylor took charge of the second with a run of 53, only for Wood to battle back with a 46 break.

Wood then missed a critical black and Taylor levelled before taking the deciding frame.

Heworth’s Clive Whyte, a four-time winner who last lifted the trophy in 2008, is the only previous winner left in the semi-final line-up.

In the last four, Whyte meets competition sponsor Adrian Barraclough, owner of Renaissance Windows.

Taylor meets Fulford’s Mike Walsh in the semis.