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Liggins wins Premier League
Glyn Liggins London-based team Glyn
Liggins/Joe Fawcett -
David Burn/Brian Callaghan have
won the British Premier League with a stellar Sunday performance
that left their opponents, a squad of TGR players led by Lionel
Wright Colin Simpson/Gunnar Hallberg, David Price/Tom Townsend,
Nik Sandqvist, Lionel Wright, forced to concede with 16 of scheduled
160 boards unplayed. The Liggins team outscored Wright 119-12 on
Sunday over 32 boards to take the final score to 366-267 imps.
Following devolution of the BBL
the winners will qualify to represent England in the World
Teams Olympiad to be played at Maastricht
in the Netherlands from 26th August to 9th September. As
the winners are a team of four, a third pair will be selected by
the EBU Selection Committee to complete the team.
The match was close for seven of
the ten stanzas, with Price holding a narrow lead overnight on both
Friday and Saturday. In stanzas 8 and 9, however Burn outscored
Price by 119-12, and Price conceded.
Set scores
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Wright
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Liggins
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Totals:
Wright
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Liggins
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39
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48
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54
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29
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93
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77
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37
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33
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130
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110
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29
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24
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159
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134
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47
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40
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206
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174
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17
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45
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223
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219
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32
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28
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255
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247
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12
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64
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267
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311
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0
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55
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267
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366
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Wright conceded. Liggins Champions.
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