TIM HART won York and District Snooker Association's monthly handicap competition for May, beating Richard Stroughair in the final at the Cueball Club.

As well as the £20 first prize he picked up another £5 for the highest break in the competition for his break of 40 in the final.

The early rounds were played in two groups of seven players each and Hart won all six of his group matches. In his sixth match if Jordan Worobec had won on the black against Hart then there would have been a three-way play-off between these two and Kevin Hopper.

In the other group Steve Gregson and Richard Stroughair won five of their six frames and in the play-off Gregson missed the first ball in a colours on the spot shoot-out, leaving Stroughair to pot his first colour to qualify for the final.

The next monthly competition will be at the Cueball Club on Wednesday, June 26. The monthly competitions are sponsored by Heworth Minibuses.

Updated: 10:33 Thursday, June 05, 2003