ANTWERP - At the World Championships for national teams, they played together last week and won the silver medal last week. In the Belgian league they met each other last night: Dick Jaspers defeated Barry van Beers in an excellent match: 50-33 in 20 innings.
BC Deurne, the only team chasing for the leader De Goeie Queue, won its match against Op de Meir 2 8-0, without even having been in danger at one table. De Goeie Queue had a walk-over as well on the 19th match day. Mister 100 Lier returned home without any chance (8-0).
The only exciting match last night in the three remaining games was the bump in Sint Niklaas, where the home team, De Witte Molen, won 6-2 against De Ploeg 1, which therefore is even further behind the two leaders.
Jean van Erp was the man of the match in this second part of the round. The Dutchman made a very strong impression in his match against Ad Broeders and finished in 14 innings include two runs of seven and one of eight: 42-24 (3.000 average).
Glenn Hoffman was the best in a close finish against Martin Horn and left the German at a two points backlog: 50-48 in 28. Jef Philipoom and Wesley Jaeger lost for De Ploeg to Francis Forton and Ronny Brants.
Dick Jaspers, Eddy Merckx, Jean Paul de Bruijn and Davy van Havere led their team (Deurne) to an 8-0 victory in matches of 20, 31, 33 and 29 innings. Barry van Beers and Dick Jaspers, who last week formed the Orange team in Viersen, now faced each other in a mutual match, both ran a ten, but Jaspers scored more regularly in the entire match.
Eddy Merckx finished with a big margin against Rolald Uytdewillegen (50-22), Davy van Havere beat Koen van Camp (42-20) and Jean Paul de Bruijn defeated Ivan Stitschinsky 42-29. Peter Ceulemans, who bested his grandpa Raymond 42-31 in 31 and Johan Claessen took a 4-0 lead for
De Goeie Queue before the break with victories in 31 and 37 innings. Eddy Leppens was the best winner of the evening against Bart Ceulemans (50-24 in 23). Frédéric Caudron dealed on Salpho's center court with Mr 100's frontman Kurt Ceulemans: 50-30 in 27.