Final Under 16 Event Willie Thornes 2007

MANN WINS FINAL UNDER 16 EVENT

FIRST FINAL FOR GARLAND 

125 FROM SERIES WINNER WILSON

Mitchell Mann won the final Under 16’s Event at Willie Thorne’s, Leicester defeating Birmingham colleague Luke Garland in his first final 3-0 to claim his second title in the year long series from six events entered.

The following day the Junior Pot Black winner was honoured at the BBC Midlands Sports Dinner as one of the top three contenders for Midlands Junior Sports Personality of the Year – A boxer took the top award.

Mann who finished the Under 16’s in 3rd place from 84 players in the rankings opened the final with a break of 59 (83-13) to easily win the first frame he just managed to win the second frame on the black (47-42) and completed the whitewash with a run of 33 in the third frame (70-28).

To reach his 3rd final of the series Mann endured three deciding frame finishes firstly
3-0 down to 11 year old Adam Bobat, 2-1 behind to Nic Charalambous and also 3-1 adrift to Mitchell Travis battling to win all the games eventually 4-3.

Better form found with a 3-1 semi final victory over Sam Harvey with breaks of 40 and 75 to go with earlier efforts of 42 and 55.

First final for Garland
Garland, 13 required a good performance languishing in 40th place in the rankings after 7 events to reach the finals he duly obliged by reaching his first final and 17th place.

Defeating Ben Cooper 4-3 breaks of 40 and 47, Thomas Barley 4-3 after leading 3-1, 46 break and the previous months winner James Jelley 3-1.

Top eight players
Wilson five finals, 2nd Mitchell Travis one win, three consecutive finals, 3rd Mann,
4th Jelley one win two finals, 5th Nick Jennings three finals, 6th Danny Douane one win, 7th Joel Walker one win and 8th Sam Craigie also one title the latter three plus Travis and Jelley their first wins.

In total nine different players won one of the events other winners Anthony McGill 17th from two events and Kamran Ashraf 12th once from three events.

Plate winners other than above Grant Miles, Jake Nicholson, Sam Thistlewhite and Daniel Bestford.

Wilson flies in plate
Series Champion Kyren Wilson winner of three events suffered another early main event exit this time to Danny Douane 4-1 but bounced back to fly in the plate beating Tom Maxfield 2-1 in the final with breaks of 125,72 and 43 to go with earlier efforts of 43,45,59,44 and 54.

Grand Finals Saturday December 15th, 11.30 am start, £15 entry fee.

Full dress except for bow tie.

Top 32 only, invites will be extended further down the rankings if players withdraw.

New series commences Saturday January 5th the age limit has been raised to
Under 17, a player must be under 17 by January 5th to play in the whole series.

Malcolm Thorne

Last 32 – 10 points
D.Douane (London) 53 bt K.Wilson (Kettering) 4-1
M.Mann (Birmingham) 42 bt 44 A.Bobat (Fareham) 4-3
N.Charalambous (Newmarket) bt C.Jones (Nottingham) 4-0
J.Rimmer (Birmingham) 46 bt 40 D.Bristow (Bristol) 4-0

Last 16 – 15 points
Douane bt K. Sykes (Newmarket) 4-0
J.Jelley (Leicester) 42 bt 48 I.Hay (Kettering) 4-3
L.Garland (Dudley) 40,47 bt B.Cooper (Stoke0 4-3
T.Barley (Scunthorpe) bt A.Anastasiou (Derby) 4-1
M.Travis (Scunthorpe) 47,60 bt M.Richards (Birmingham) 4-0
M.Mann (Birmingham) bt Charalambous 4-3
S.Harvey (Bedford) bt T.Maxfield (Stafford) 4-3
Rimmer bt N.Lambert (Derby) 4-0

Quarter finals – 30 points
Jelley bt Douane 4-0 & Garland 46 bt Barley 4-3
Mann 55 bt 47 Travis 4-3, Harvey 66 bt Rimmer 4-2

Semi finals £15 – 60 points
Garland bt Jelley 3-1 & Mann 40,75 bt Harvey 3-1

Final £50/£30 – 150/100 points
Mann 59,33 bt Garland 3-0

Plate
Quarter finals – 5 points
Wilson 44 bt Anastasiou 2-0 & Jones bt Cooper 2-0
Maxfield bt Sykes 2-1 & Bobat bt Charamlambous 2-1

Semi finals  £10 – 7 Points
Wilson 54 bt Jones 2-0 & Maxfield bt Bobat 2-1

Final £30/£20 – 15/10 points
Wilson 125,72,43 bt Maxfield 2-1
 

Final Rankings Top 32 for Grand finals – Saturday December 15th
Top 16 seeded for finals

1(1)K.Wilson 797, 2(2) M.Travis 620, 3(5) M.Mann 501, 4(4) J.Jelley 500,
5(3) N.Jennings 477, 6(6) D.Douane 371, 7(7) J.Walker 303,
8(8) S.Craigie 299, 9(9) D.Bestford 248, 10(12) A.Bobat 242,
11(10) R.Clark 237, 12(11) K.Ashraf 230, 13(13) C.Downing 213,
14(14) S.Knight 209, 15(27) S.Harvey 197, 16(15) D,Cook 193.

17(40) L.Garland 191,18(16) M.Green 188, 19(17) A.McGill 182,
20(18) N.Davenport 180, 21(19) S.Peacock 179, 22(22) N.Charalambous 176,
23(26) B.Cooper 161, 24(20) R.Adams 154, 25(21) S.Somerville 153,
26(28) M.Richards 152, 27(23) T.Kerslake 149, 28(34) T.Barley 144,
29(24) G.Miles 144, 30(25) J.Voyce 144, 31(33) A.Anastasiou 136,
32(35) T.Maxfield 133.

Next ranked eight players – Not in finals at present
33(29) S.Thistlewhite 132, 34(30) J.Pritchett 130, 35(31) A.Sidaway 125,
36(32) J.Buglass 123, 37(36) O.Brown 105, 38(37) K.Kinnersley 98,
39(38) F.Laing 97, 40(39) J.Lee 95.