REMINDER: The Ipswich Eight Ball Presentation night is on the 4th of December at  the RSL. More information will be provided closer to the event.

Comgratulations to the Barry Kitchener Jnr, Justin Thursby, Mick Kinman and Anthony Brooker who made the playoffs for the 2010 QLD team. Good luck in Townsville. A special congratulations goes to Barry Kitchener Jnr who made the final of the QLD Open singles being narrowly defeated by an in form Dane Beeton 5-4. people that got to watch said there were not too many balls missed during the match.

 Just a qiuck message to welcome Barry Kitchener Jr back from the World Championships where he represented Australia admirably in his first ever World Championships and congratulate him for winning South East QLD Zone Singles Championship last weekend. Also a big well played to Mick Kinman and Justin Thursby who both played well and were in the mix as well.

Congratulations to our OUTSTANDING A Grade team for City Country this year - What a magnificent effort defeating Norths 10-5 in the Grand Final.  For all other results please refer to the QEBF website www.qpool.com.au. 

Just a quick message to congratulate Jeff Taylor and Steve Lincoln for winning the Ipswich Blind Doubles on Saturday defeating Stephen Wall and Amy Livingstone in the final. They were unbeatable on the day only losing 1 frame for the entire day. The ultimate birthday present for Jeff as it was his birthday as well.

A reminder to all City v Country players that you must be at the venue by 8am on the Saturday 12th June for the morning meeting and players that have not received their shirts will be able to collect them then.

The third round for the Ipswich Open Singles has been drawn and put on the website.

Just a reminder to all players that have ordered jackets: Please put your money in your team envelope this week and write on the back of your game sheet whose money it it.  Thanks

We wish to advise all members we will be holding a Special General Meeting on Sunday the 30^th May 2010 at 2pm at the One Mile Hotel.  Articles for discussion will be as follows:

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3.         General Business.

All members of the Ipswich association are invited to attend, but you will not be penalised if you do not attend.  We require a minimum of 13 financial members to attend to make the meeting legal (This does not include committee members).  We will ensure the meeting runs smoothly so we do not take up too much of your time. So if you have the afternoon available we would greatly appreciate your time.

The second round for the Ipswich Open Singles has been drawn and put on the website.  

Just a quick message to congratulate the people that qualified on the weekend for the Ipswich City V Country Ladies team. They are in qualifying order as follows:

Jodie Keidge(C), Lisa Smith(VC), Kayli Sue, Cheryl Marsh, Jade Martin and Olivia Kitchener.

Just a quick message to congratulate the people that qualified on the weekend for the Ipswich City V Country A Grade team. They are in qualifying order as follows:

Barry Kitchener Jr(vc), Justin Thursby(c), Daniel Marshall, Brad Jaenke, Bill Pares, Mick Kinman and Anthony Brooker.

Just a quick message to congratulate the people that qualified on the weekend for the Ipswich City V Country B Grade team. They are in qualifying order as follows:

Tom Vlasak, Luke Manttan (c), Scott Freeman, Steve Jacobsen, Keith Birkett, Renee Madson and Mark Stone.

Also a quick reminder that the A Grade City v Country trials are on this Saturday at RSL 11am start.

Just letting all members know that the draw for the Ipswich Open Singles for 2010 has been completed and has been added in on the main menu under Drawsheets. Once we have got the round results as rounds progress you will be able to acees the results from the main menu under Results as well. A great showing for the Singles this year with a total of 45 players to kick off. So good luck to all members that are competing this year, well done.

We have a new poll up and running on the home page as well.

Just a quick message to congratulate the people that qualified on the weekend for the Ipswich City V Country C Grade team. They are in qualifying order as follows:

Jods Sheppard (VC), Simon Reid, Bette Berlin, Matt Heilbronn (C), Steve Lincoln, Sharon Moore and the reserve is Michael Mahoney.

Just a quick message to remind people that teams that have not paid all of their registration fees, that they must all be paid in full on the first night of play, otherwise your team members will not be registered and therefore their frames will not count!!! Registration fees are set at $25 per player if wanting to register with Q.E.B.F  for their events as well, or just $17 for those only wishing to register for I.E.B.A. Team weekly fees are also set at $45 per team in Open League and $30 per team in both B Grade and C Grade.

Welcome to a new year in Ipswich 8 Ball.  I have outlined all motions that were passed at our General Meeting that will re-shape our year this year.

We only sponser Ipswich players that have represented us at City Country level or have tried out.

We leave Tuesday night B & C Grade and we have open competition on Wednesday night.

Once registered in one team you must stay in that team.

Any C Grade player can only play in B Grade three times then they stay in B Grade

Players under the age of 18 can play in the association.

Membership fees should be increased to $25.

Game fees to increase by $5 per night in each Division.

We record all master shots and breaks in each grade.

Players are responsible for their own transportation to City Country.

All division city country trials are to be played before the ladies.

The association will enter the following proposed events onto the draw sheet of each grade at the time that the draw is made.  The events shall include date and time and cannot be amended. - AGM 2011, Trophy night 2010, Club Championships, City Country trials, Grand Finals.

We need team nominations in on the 16th February 7pm at the RSL - the committee will then do the draw on Sunday the 21st Feb.  We will then meet team captains on the 23rd February at 7pm ath the RSL to hand out score sheets, draw etc.  We will commence our season on Tuesday the 2nd March.

We also have a few new additions to the commitee being Jodie Keidge as President and Brad Jaenke as Vice President.  We also have a new Assistant Secretary being Jodi Sheppard and Assistant Treasurer - Kathy Beckett.  Our new contact details will be posted on our website if you need to give us a call.

The final player percentages have been posted alongside the ranking for next year as well. You will locate these under the Player % tab in Results on the Main Menu.

We have uploaded a copy of the article on Barry Kitchener Jr in the QT. Just click on the following link to view the article, and congrats to Barry as well.    Barry Kitchenr Junior in QT

The Summer Comp draw can be found in the Division 1 Draw sheet site.