EABA Plymouth March 17th 2012

Eaba Plymouth 2012 March 17th

Kingsman Cup England Victory

KINGSMAN CUP JUNIOR INTERNATIONAL 2012

Northern Ireland v England

The Reading Rooms

Bangor

Co Down

N.Ireland

England 19-13 N.Ireland

Congratulations to the England side who won this event .

Our team of Jonathon Snee, Adam Stewart and Luke Christain deserve much praise for winning the two day event , which was our first Junior competition truimph in 2 years (since we last won the Kingsman Cup in Belfast in 2010).

Jonathon Snee was unbeaten over the 2 days and acheived an excellant win over Kenny Campbell , who himself has represented his country as a senior international already.

Both Adam Stewart and Luke Christain (who was earning his 4th cap) pulled their weight also in what was a real team effort.

Thanks must go to Simon Snee, John Stewart and Darren Christain who supervised the Junior Team.

The Junior team now will move onto this summers W/G Cup which we excpect now to be held in England, and will be contested on the weekend of 28-29th July.To date the Rep of Ireland , Northern Ireland and England A & England B have entered.

The W/G Cup will prove a harder challenge, however we are sure our teams will rise to this exciting challenge.

The England Junior Billiards Team played in the Kingsman Cup in Northern Ireland over the weekend.

From left to right the Luke Christian (Boston), Clive Scott (Tournament Director), Jonathon Snee (Middlesb'ro), Adam Stewart (Chesterfield).

Latest Rankings Updated

National Junior Tour - Event 5 (Leeds)

Chesterfields Adam Stewart cemented his place at the top of the National Rankings when winning Event 5 of the Junior Tour which was kindly held at Leeds, Northern Snooker Centre.
Middlesboroughs Jonathon Snee was Runner-up and consequently raised his ranking to joint 5th.
Mat Lyons (East Dereham) who reached the Semi-Finals is now ranked no2.

Stewarts 35 was the days highest break.

High Breaks Listed as Follows:

44-Mike Brindley
43-Dan Leggassick
40-Chris Coumbe
38-Haydon Pinhey
36-Jonathon Snee
35-Adam Stewart
31-Ryan Jackson
30-Mat Lyons

Plymouth Championships

Eaba Plymouth 2011 December 3rd

NORFOLK JUNIOR BILLIARDS CHAMPIONSHIP 2011

Norwich's Connor Smith-18 retained this prestigious junior event when defeating a good quality field at Woodside Snooker Centre, Norwich.

Smith defeated Sam Betts (15,Norwich) in the 45 minute final 185-178, while earlier had beaten re-event favourite George Pragnal (Norwich)155-133 in the Semi-Finals (30 mins).

Betts had an even closer win in his Semi defeating Callum Davison (Thorpe) 115-111.

During the Round-robin qualifying Pragnall (16) had proved his pre-event favourite status when recording a huge 270(50.51.41)-46 win over Brandon Parker (11,Norwich) in their 30 minute game.

However Smith who has represented England as a Junior on 3 occasions now showed his experience and kept a level head to claim the Championship which was in its 15th year.

Results

Semi-Finals

S.Betts 115-111 C.Davison

C.Smith 155-133 G.Pragnall

Final

C.Smith 185-178 S.Betts

Highest Breaks

51.50.50-George Pragnall

BILLIARDS NEWS - english billiards.org Examination day and K.O Championships‏

Seven Junior players from Norfolk all acheived pass marks when taking the e.b.org 'basic Billiards' examination.

The results of the exams were thus.....

DISTINCTIONS

Mathew Lyons

James Eyre

Ryan Jackson

Rochelle Woods

Jack Easter

MERIT

Callum Nicholson

Josie Wright

Thanks must go to the 2 EABA Coach's who administrated the day ....

Colin Lewis

Steve Wright

and to the Maltings Q Club who kindly provided the venue.

K.O CHAMPIONSHIPS

In conjunction with the day two K.Os were held in the under 19s and under 14s age groups.

West Bilneys James Eyre won the u19s event defeating Mathew Lyons (East Dereham), while Rochy Woods (Tittleshall) won the -14s defeating Josie Wright (Thetford).

Well done to both these players on their victories.

Pictures of the Days Events

National Junior Billiards Tour event-5

Sunday Jan 8th - 10.30am

Northern Snooker Centre. Leeds

Full national Ranking points apply

(same day and venue as the senior ABC event)

Latest Results

Mat Lyons and Adam Stewart jointly top the national rankings after the latest Regional Ranking events.

Stewart (15,Chestefield) was victoroius in Kings Lynn where he defeated James Eyre (13, Kings Lynn) in the final , while Dan Leggassick (Plymouth) won the Plymouth event when defeating Chris Coumbe (Plymouth) in a good quality final .

Dan is now ranked 4th in the English rankings, Coumbe is now up to 7th.

Plymouth

Regional event - Rileys, PLYMOUTH. Saturday October 1st 2011
	GROUP (50 MINUTES)		C.Coumbe	D.Legassick	A.Lewin	C.Hall	Wins	For	Against	Diff	Position
1	Chris Coumbe			189	162	186	3	537	364	173	1st
2	Dan Legassick		174		193	227	2	594	458	136	2nd
3	Adam Lewin		76	155		131	1	362	467	-105	3rd
4	Cody Hall		114	114	112		0	340	544	-204	4th
Breaks:
Chris Coumbe			32, 30unf
Dan Legassick			37, 26, 22, 22
Adam Lewin			25, 25
Final - (1 hour)
Dan Legassick		305 (29, 25, 25, 24, 22)		v	228 (40, 30, 28, 26)		Chris Coumbe

Plymouth Event

Rileys Plymouth Saturday 1st October


Dan Legassick defeated Chris Coumbe in the Plymouth event held at Rileys please click the document below for full details of the event including all breaks.

Plymouth Event

Eaba Plymouth 2011 October 1st

National Junior Event Swinton

The first event held at Swinton Leisure Club, Manchester took place today 1st October.

The event was new on the EABA calender and marks one of the first and hopefully not the last event held at Swinton. Reg Davis currently coaches 25 under 16 players at Snooker and has only given his players 3 or 4 hours coaching at Billiards. Despite this his players gave a great show of potting and most demonstrated a good knowledge of the half ball shots.

Nearly all these players have now made 100 breaks at Snooker and are actively playing in local leagues. Despite a lack of billiards in the area they acquitted themselves well and made several decent breaks along the way.

We normally only record breaks over 30 but as the players were new to the game all breaks over 20 were recorded. Adam Stewart from Chesterfield being the most experienced player in the group went on to win the event as could be expected. But he did not have it all his own way and very nearly came unstuck in his semi final against Joshua Thomand who was leading most of the game with a great display of cannons and long potting.

In the Final again Adam struggled to find his form and after 35 minutes the scores were level when Adam ran in three consecutive breaks od 20,21,and 25 to put him 70 points clear. Jake Heyworth never recovered from this and began to miss some long pots which let Adam run to an easy victory.

In the plate final Sam Thomand defeated Dre Dean 172 to 128.

Several mid 20 breaks were recorded and the high break went to Mike Brindley in the plate of 44.

Pictures from the event and results below.

Adam Showing Top of the Table

 The Teams

 Reg Davis receiving his Coaching Award

 Jake Heyworth Runner Up

 Adam Stewart receiving his Winners Trophy

Swinton

	National Junior Billards Tour Event 2 - Swinton Leisure Club
	Round 1
	Dre Dean		111		Jake Lucas		153
			18				15,21
	Mike Brindley		110		Adam Stewart		182
	Liam Monagham		134		Joshua Thomond		234
	Sam Thomond		141		Jake Heyworth		189
			24				23
	Semi Finals
	Joshua Thomond		176		Adam Stewart		189
	Jake Heyworth		132		Jake Lucas		106
	Final
	Adam Stewart		178		Jake Heyworth		129
			20,21,25
	Plate Semi
	Liam Monagham		122		Dre Dean		124
	Mike Brindley		132		Sam Thomond		137
			26,44
	Plate Final
	Sam Thomond		172		Dre Dean		128

Junior Rankings 2011-2012

Northern Regional Event

EABA[1][1]

Swinton Leisure

Swinton

Gt Manchester

M27 4BR

Sat 1st October

Registration 10am

10.30am Start

£5 per player

all players guaranteed 2 hours play

Billiards Tour 1 Leeds

E.A.B.A English Junior Billiards Tour 1

Northern Snooker Centre-Leeds

 

Stockton on Tees Jonathon Snee won the first event of the season which was hosted by Leeds Northern Snooker Centre.

Snee was unbeaten in the Round-robin event and also claimed the days high break .

Chesterfields Adam Stewart was Runner-up, while Luke Christain the current English -16s Champion(Boston) and Mathew Lyons (East Dereham) were the losing Semi-finalists.

 

This leaves Snee top of the first national rankings for the season, with Stewart 2nd, Christain and Lyons joint 3rd and Jason Macnamee (Middlesborough) 5th.

Junior Billiards Ranking Series-Event 11

Thetford Conservative Club, Thetford, Norfolk kindly hosted Event 11 in this summer series of Tournaments West Bilneys James Eyre-13 won the event defeting Rochelle Woods-12 of Tittleshall in the deciding game.

Both Eyre and Woods played consistently well during the days play, recording good scores and breaks in all their games. Jack Easter-13 (West Acre) was a losing semi-finalist and still leads the series rankings from Eyre who is now 2nd, while Jake Loane-11 (Weasenham) is third.

Swaffhams Callum Lawlor-13 was also a losing semi-finalsit and this raises his ranking up to 6th.

Rochelle Woods(Runner-up) and James Eyre(Champion)

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.

West Acre Junior Billiards Ranking Series

Jack Easter (13.West Acre) won his 2nd successive event when defeating Jake Loane (11.Weasenham) into 2nd place, at the West Acre Clubs 2nd event of the summer.This leaves Easter top of the rankings with Rochy Woods(12.Tittleshall) and Loane joint 2nd.

 

The events are held every tuesday afternoon (3.45-6.45pm) at West Acre Club .

Entry is £2 per player.

Norfolk Challenge Cup 2011

Three of our Juniors were in competition in this event , which was played at Bury St Edmund's Pot Black Club this last weekend.
National U16s Champion Luke Christain ( Boston ) was representing Lincolnshire and gained 1 win against Essex's Ivor Hay , but suffered defeats against his opponents from Norfolk , Suffolk and Cambs.

Reigning and 6 times successive Champions Norfolk fielded 2 juniors in their side .

George Pragnell (16) won 2 of his 4 games and recorded a 56 & 40 break in his close loss to Suffolks Graham Pettit , while Grant Miles(19) won 3 of his 4 games and knocked in a nice 48 break during a strong win over Suffolks Steve Standere.

Miles & Christain will be representing England this summer in the Rep of Ireland in this years W/G Cup, while Pragnell who acheived his first 147 when he was only 15 is expected to enter this coming years National u19s Championship were he is forcast to be one of the favourites to take the title.

EASTERN COUNTIES JUNIOR BILLIARDS CHAMPIONSHIP 2011

This years event was hosted by Kings Lynns Maltings Q Club and was won by West Lynns Chris Drew (17) who defeated Jack Easter (West Acre-13) in the final.

This was the biggest win of Drew's career to date, and this event has a great pedigree with some of the events previous winners including current English Champion Matt Sutton ( 4 times Champion ) and England No1 Rob Hall.

Rochy Woods-12 (Tittleshall) won the Plate Final defeating Dan Drew (West Lynn).