After running unbeaten through focal individual competitions, even adding his first Channel Islands crown since 2015, he capped it all off by leading Guernsey to a 16-9 inter-insular victory at the Gremlin Club on Saturday.
For good measure, he included a 101 clearance, his first-ever century break on the inter-insular stage.
‘I’m really chuffed to get it after all those years,’ he said of the latter achievement, which was a long-term goal of his.
However, he was quick to acknowledge how well the whole team had performed in the home inter-insular.
‘I’m delighted to get the win again,’ he said.
‘It was a really good, strong performance from the whole team, which was really pleasing.
‘Everybody played really well.’
Guernsey had been particularly dominant in a morning session where they raced to a 10-4 lead.
‘We started the match really strongly, flying out the traps, and everybody played really, really well in that first session.
‘The guys were scoring well and we had a really good lead at the interval.’
But he gave due credit to Jersey for battling back to within three at one point in the evening session.
After Glenn Le Prevost’s 60-32 victory against the mighty Aaron Canavan to flip the momentum back in Guernsey’s favour, 2025 Island champion Paul Le Sauvage took it home with an assured 91-23 win against debutant Danny Brannan.
‘It was a massive frame against Aaron just when the momentum was looking like it could tilt the other way.
‘Paul played a brilliant frame to get us over the line, which was fantastic.’
But at the end of the day, Shorto has topped them all, not only beating Canavan for CI honours, but taking the Island Championship, Open, Shootout and becoming the most prolific winner of the Norman Wale handicap.
‘There’s so many good players over here, to win the competitions that I’ve done and go unbeaten in individual competitions has been unbelievable, really.
‘I’m shocked, but really, really pleased. It’s something I probably will not do again. I’m really grateful I’ve managed to achieve it.’
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