LAST season’s Foster’s Golden Cue Small Table champion Wayne Cotterill crashed out in the first round.

In one of the shocks of the tournament Cotterill, who also reached the 2014 Grand Final, lost two frames to nil against Peter Doyle.

Ex-champion, Paul Averill, also tasted defeat at the first hurdle, losing 2-1 at home Clitheroe’s Mark Riley.

And another well known name to bite the dust early on was seasoned campaigner Eric Catlow.

Eric, a popular steward at the Paradise Club, crashed 2-0 to Craig McKavett from Old Band.

Dad and son, Jamie and Brad Southern, marched into the next round, though.

Jamie clocked up victory over Dean Walmsley, Clitheroe Royal British Legion, while Brad also cruised to a 2-0 win.

Jamie Lingard, meanwhile, leads the pack in the race for the highest break prize.

Lingard racked up a break of 102 during his win over Marc Holmes (Low Moor) There were a couple of shocks in the Large Table tournament also, with former semi finalist Mark Salmon (Colne Legion) going out to Mick Ashton (British Rail) Ajaib Farakh, entering the competition after a gap of a couple of years, produced an impressive performance to defeat seasoned campaigner Trevor Sutcliffe 2-0.

There was also a fine win for Ighten Leigh Social Club favourite, Neil McGovern, who gained revenge over Ryan Moore.

The Lowerhouse player had knocked McGovern out of the Golden Cue competition a couple of years earlier, but this time McGovern edged it. Two fine amateur talents were drawn together, and it was Colne’s Chris Ashton who took the honours, defeating town rival Tony Arnott (Colne Legion) 2-0.

Andy Dibb is through too, beating Dave Howe.

The scheduled Large Table ties between Alexandra Townson and Josh Sanderson (Lowerhouse) and Neil Payton and N Danson were both walkovers.

  • Selected results - Small Table, round one: D Cregg (St Andrews) 2-0 J Shiels (Lamb Club), R Nelson (Loveclough) 0-2 K Ormerod Jnr (Alex), T Greenwood (Worsthorne) 2-0 T Kelson (Paradise), D Meeks (Nelson Dressers ) 1-2 J Moorhead (Miners), C Hayton (Low Moor) 0-2 K Hodkinson (Old Band), C McKavett (Old Band) 2-0 E Catlow (Paradise), P Averill (St Andrews) 1-2 M Riley (Clitheroe RBL), L Sutcliffe (Green Street) 1-2 A Harris (ILSC), B Hyatt (ILSC) 1-2 K Catlow (ILSC), C White (St Andrews) 0-2 B Southern (Love clough), M Holmes (Low Moor) 0-2 J Lingard (ILSC), J Waddngton (Lamb CLub) 2-0 S Almond (Clitheroe RBL), P Doyle (Shorthomers) 2-0 W Cotterill (St Andrews), B Collinge (Briercliffe) 0-2 C Catlow (St Andrews), A Bates (Lamb) 2-0 R Backhouse (Molly Rigbys), D Walmsley (Clitheroe RBL) 0-2 J Southern (Lamb).