Sharav winds up first win

ALLOA’S Eden Sharav clinched a first ever national tournament win in the Scottish under-16 event-four at the Shandon SC, Edinburgh.

A 2-0 victory over Scott Donaldson, from Perth, took the 15-year-old to top spot in the rankings.

Sharav, the fourth different winner this season, progressed though his nine-man round-robin group ahead of event-three finalist Axl Menlove. Donaldson, 13, finished ahead of Jamie Stewart in his group.

Scottish under-19 champion Anthony McGill beat fellow Glaswegian Austin Smith in the first under-21 ranking event final at Rileys, Meadowbank.

McGill, 16, fired in a 94 to take a 3-0 lead and ran out a 4-1 winner after under-19 runner-up Smith went in off the final black. Breaks of 76 and 55 took McGill safely past Michael Polley in the semis.

Top junior Anthony McGill

Number one seed Michael Collumb was knocked out in the last-eight 3-2 by 16-year-old Polley, from Alloa.

RESULTS: LAST 32: Campbell Dunlop (Kilmarnock) bt Eden Sharav (Alloa) 3-1, Scott Donaldson (Perth) bt Michael Townsley (Kirkintilloch) 3-1, James Stewart (Stirling) bt James Young (Bellshill) 3-0, Paul Murphy (Glasgow) bt Shaun McDermott (Bo’ness) 3-2, David Greig (Edinburgh) bt Richard Harris (Glasgow) 3-0, Ross Fernie (Rosewell) bt David Paterson (Kilwinning) 3-1.

LAST 16: Austin Smith (Glasgow) bt Dunlop 3-1, Donaldson bt William Young (Stirling) 3-1, Stewart bt Martin Hamilton (Kilmarnock) 3-0, Ross Higgins (Cumbernauld) bt Paul Murphy 3-1, Michael Collumb (Motherwell) bt Greig 3-0, Michael Polley (Alloa) bt Craig Williams (Irvine) 3-2, Daniel Caplan (Glasgow) w/o Andy Naysmith (Bonnyrigg), Anthony McGill (Glasgow) bt Fernie 3-0.

QUARTER-FINALS: Smith bt Donaldson 3-1, Higgins bt Stewart 3-2, Polley bt Collumb 3-2, McGill bt Caplan 3-0.

SEMI-FINALS (£13.75): Smith bt Higgins 3-1, McGill bt Polley 3-0.

FINAL (£55/£27.50): McGill bt Smith 4-1.

Picture by Stevie Baillie