EABA Junior Development day - 4

The 4th EABA junior development day of the close season,took place on monday at Kings Lynn's Maltings Q Club.

9 students from throughout Norfolk recieved a days coaching from the 3 'E.A.B.A' Coach's present, which included sessions of 1-1 Coaching, practice sessions and presentations on different aspects of technique such as Correct cue allignment, shot selection and the correct mental approach to the game.

James Eyre - 13 of West Bilney and Jazmin Cainey - 18 of Narborough were selected by the Coach's as the days 2 most improved players.

This was the 4th Junior Development day that the EABA have held during the summer months and the 2nd one that the Maltings has hosted.

In total these events have seen 20 students recieve instruction, with 9 'E.A.B.A' officiating at these events.

Full Press report and photo are availble on

www.lynnnews.co.uk/rightoncue

W/G CUP 2011- European Junior Nations Billiards

The Ivy Rooms, Carlow, Republic of Ireland.

The Northern Ireland team of Willie Lowes, Kenny Campbell and Taylor Smythe retained the annual Welham-Grice cup which is played to commerate the memory, and works of Peter Welham (England) and Andrew Grice (Austria) in the area of Junior Billiards Development in their respective countries.

The Ivy Rooms, Carlow in the Republic Of Ireland played hosts to this years event which is yearly played over the last weekend in July.

Northern Ireland scored an early 6-0 win over the Republic of Ireland in the 1st session, and over England in the 3rd to take a good lead in the event, with this lead not being threatened throughout the weekend.

The Republic of Ireland (Wayne Doyle, Ross Doyle, Ed Keaney & Shane Menton) finished as Runners-up and England were third.

Willie Lowes and Kenny Campbell were both unbeaten for the Champions, while the Republics Wayne Doyle was beaten in only one game.

An individual Championship was also held for the first time this year and this was won by The Republic of Ireland's Wayne Doyle , with Willie Lowes Runner-up, Kenny Campbell third & Grant Miles (England) 4th.

Miles a newcomer to Billiards and to the event was awarded with the W/G Cups 'Best Newcomer' award.

Many thanks to the events organising Committe, and administrators for 2011 Oliver Mcguigam (NIBA), Ger Murray (RIBSA) & Darren Christain (EABA), and offcourse to our hosts Jim and Marion Leacy of the Ivy Rooms.

Next years event will be held in Vienna, Austria on the corresponding weekend.

West Acre Juniors Billiards Rankings

Rankings – after event 7-(top 10)

1.Jack Easter-117

2.James Eyre-70

3.Ryan Jackson-47

4.Jake Loane-42

5.Josie Wright-40

6.Rochy Woods-37

7.Callum Lawlor-33

8.Jack Howling-28

9.Thomas Dewin-5

Sam Carter-5

Highest Breaks

16.15.14.14.13.11.11.11.10.10.10-Jack Easter

14.13.12-Ryan Jackson

13-Callum Lawlor

12.11.11.11.10-Jake Loane

12-Rochy Woods

12-James Eyre

Highest 15 minute scores

60-Jack Easter

51-Jake Loane

48-James Eyre

44-Callum Lawlor

36-Ryan Jackson

34-Rochy Woods

27-Jack Howling

20-Josie Wright

14-Sam Carter

14-Thomas Dewin

West Acre Junior Billiards Ranking Series

The last two events in this 12 event West Norfolk based series have seen 2 different winners.

EVENT 6

James Eyre(13 years) won his 2nd event when defeating Thetford's Josie Wright(10) in the final.

Wright had done very well here to reach what was her first final appearance.

Newcomers Thomas Dewin-10 and Sam Carter-11 (both Mileham) did very well on their first taste of competative Billiards , and suggested that with more experience would challenge for honours quite quickly.

Swaffhams Callum Lawlor-13 won the Plate Event defeating Jack Easter (West Acre).

EVENT 7

This week Ryan Jackson (Narborough) also claimed his 2nd win of the series when beating Jack Easter in a good quality final.

Ryan earleir defeated Josie Wright in the Semis , while Easter defeated teammate Jake Loane (Weasenham) in the other Semi.

Earleir Loane-11 had recorded an excellant score of 51 points in his 15 minute 1st round game , the second highest score of the series to date just behind Jack Easters score of 60 points.

Narboroughs Jack Howling-13 won the Plate Defeating Rochy Woods-12 (Tittleshall).

This event again drew a 'Full-house' entry for the 3rd successive week.

This leaves Easter top of the rankings to date , with James Eyre 2nd and Ryan Jackson 3rd.

New Psersonal Best for Betts

Norwichs 14 year old Sam Betts last night set new personall bests in the 'Classic Summer Billiards league'.

Sam recorded a 90 minute score of 442 which included a great 45 break when defeating Mat Lyons.

Form like this would suggest Betts will be one of the favourites for this coming years National -16s Championship.

 

West Acre Juniors

The 4th event in this summer series was held on Tuesday and saw a 'Full-house' entry with all the spots in the K.O being taken.

Narboroughs Ryan Jackson-14 won the event ( his first of the series) defeating Jack Easter-13 of West Acre in the 15 minute final .

Easter who has reached every final of the 4 events to date , however still tops the rankings by quite a distance.

Jackson defeated another newcomer to the series Thetfords Josie Wright-10 in the semis , while Easter defeated last weeks winner James Eyre in the other Semi-Final.

Weasenhams Jake Loane -11 is now 2nd in the rankings after losing in the Final of the Plate event to Jack Howling-Narborough,13, while Rochy Woods and James Eyre are joint 3rd.

Next weeks event will be on Tuesday 4.30pm start at West Acre Club - entry being £2 per player.