Another trophy heads to the Rangers Club as Ibrox duo Ed McDowell and Kenny English (pictured right) become the 2010/2011 Larne League Doubles Champions.
The Pigeon Club was the venue as the last 4 teams battled it out for a place in the Final and a chance to win the trophy.
Semi Final 1 was an all Ibrox affair. McDowell and English took on team mates and 2009 winners Robert Hawkins and Stephen McWhirter. But apart from a missed opportunity to level in Frame 2, Hawkins and McWhirter were beaten 3-0 in the end by the more consistent McDowell and English.
In Semi Final 2, reigning Champions Trevor Whiteside and Stephen Burns, also from Ibrox, never reached the heights that took them to last seasons success. A clinical display of potting from Jonny Nelson (Larne FC) and Bryan McWhirter (No 1 Club), in a 3-1 victory, seen them progress to the Final where they hoped to make it a hat trick of wins, the previous two coming in 2004 and 2007
The Final (best of 7) was a nailbiter right up to the end and the frames went as follows -
Frame 1 - McDowell/English
Frame 2 - McDowell/English (Break and dish, McDowell)
Frame 3 - Nelson/McWhirter
Frame 4 - McDowell/English
Frame 5 - Nelson/McWhirter (Break and dish, Nelson)
Frame 6 - Nelson McWhirter
Frame 7 - McDowell/English (7 ball clearance, English)
