3-Cushion
The beautiful serie of matches Martin Horn played in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium, is not infinite. The German shines above all in the Netherlands this year, where he only lost by suprise to Wesley Jaeger, but where had an overall average until last week far above Dick Jaspers, Frédéric Caudron and Torbjörn Blomdahl.
In the Belgian league Horn lost with De Ploeg in one of the first playing rounds his match against Steven van Acker. And last night, in the meeting between KBC Zanzibar and BC De Ploeg, the German had to bow to Roland Forthomme. The match had a thrilling denouement, which the Belgian by two points emerged as the winner (50-48 in 30 innings).
In the team of Zanzibar the Dutchman Dave Christiani played at his highest level. Two weeks ago he sighed after a victory over Jean Paul de Bruijn: ,,I finally played with an average over two.'' Against Allan Jensen he was even beter last night. Christiani won 50-23 in 20 innings.
KBC Zanzibar remained at the top of the rankings, together with BC Deurne. The Antwerp team defeated KC Eeklo 8-0 with Eddy Merckx as the best man (2.380) against Steven van Acker.
BC Geox Herentals recovered from a bad week thanks to a 6-2 victory over BC Lugo. BC Kasteeldreef returned without any point from the away match against Kon. Kortrijk, because Frédéric Caudron lost by one point against Ronny Brants (43 innings). Eddy Leppens was the only player who won for Kasteeldreef, with 50-48 against Henk Blauwblomme.
The highest break of the evening was made by Roland Forthomme: twelve.
Tonight are the matches between Op de Meir and Mister 100 BC Lier and Quality Zele against BC Biljart Express.