Willie Thorne's Under 21's - Event 11 (November 2007)

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FIRST UNDER 21 FOR MANN PLUS A 135 BREAK

DEBUT FINAL HARRISON

Burns wins plate on debut

Mitchell Mann racked up his first Under 21 title the 7th different winner in the year long Ranking Series, Willie Thorne?s, Leicester (ex Potters) defeating Ben Harrison on his debut 4-3 after trailing 3-1 in the final.

Mann jumps back up to 6th place from 14th after missing a few events, Harrison straight into the top 32 in at 32nd place a Grand Finals spot beckoning for the winner of the first two EASB Regional Junior Tour - South Events

Harrison dominated the opening frames of the final breaks of 33,34 and a 85 in the 4th
frame saw the Wiltshire 16 year old lead 3-1, Mann a 53 break for 1-1.
Mann drew level at 3-3 winning the 5th and 6th frames on the latter colours and he clinched victory on the final red after Harrison lost out 5 times in succession on the miss rule.

The winner recorded three 4-1 wins in his opening three matches beating James Jelley the previous days Under 16 winner James Jelley, Rob McCeune, L.Shanker, 53 break and twice finalist Kevin Yates 4-0, 52 and 135 breaks.

Harrison impressive on his first appearance defeated Sameer Knight 4-2, 78 break, Darren Burns 4-0, Scott Mcgaw 4-1 and last years double rankings winner in the semi finals Stephen Craigie 4-2 from 2-0 down.

Century and plate final again

Sam Craigie made another losing century break a 103 down and out 4-2 to Yates and then went onto reach the plate final losing 2-1 to Darren Burns on the Liverpool players debut.

Next event Sunday 2nd December ? Grand Finals top 32 Sun December 16th.

Next years Under 21?s is to be replaced with an Open Series with a guaranteed ?500 first prize, Grand Finals Dec 2008.

Malcolm Thorne

Last 32 ? 10 points
D.Burns (Liverpool) bt M.Jelley (Nottingham) 4-2
B.Harrison (Bath) bt S.Knight (Leicester) 4-2
L.Garland (Birmingham) bt T.Kerslake (Derby) 4-2
S.McGaw (Derby) bt T.Brown (Chesterfield) 4-0
Byes ; L.Ashbolt (Southampton), O.Brown (Chesterfield),
Stephen Craigie (Newcastle),
N.Jennings (Winchester) 68 bt R.Mears (Aldershot) 4-1
A.Anastasiou (Derby) bt S.Harvey 71 (Bedford) 4-3
Byes ; A.Jeffers (Liverpool), Sam Craigie (Newcastle),
K.Yates (Derby),
M.Mann (Birmingham) bt J.Jelley (Leicester) 4-1
R.McCeune (Liverpool) bt A .Harris (Coalville) 4-2
P.Jones (Liverpool) bt J.Fountain (Nottingham) 4-3
Bye L.Shanker (Derby)

Last 16 ? 15 points
Harrison bt Burns 4-0 & McGaw bt Garland 4-0
Ashbolt 87,76 bt Brown 4-1 & Craigie 88,52 bt Jennings 4-0
Jeffers bt Anastasiou 4-0 & Yates bt 103 Sam Craigie 4-2   
Mann bt McCeune 4-1 & Shanker 66,57 bt Jones 4-2

Quarter finals ?20 ? 30 points
Harrison bt McGaw 4-1 & Craigie 74,90 bt Ashbolt 4-0
Yates 57 bt Jeffers 4-0 & Mann 53 bt Shanker 4-1

Semi finals ?30 ? 60 points
Harrison bt Craigie 4-2 & Mann 52,135 bt Yates 4-0

Final ?80/?50 ? 150/100 points
Mann 53 bt 33,34,85 Harrison 4-3

Plate
Semi finals ?15 ? 7 points
Sam Craigie bt Jennings 2-0 & Burns bt Fountain 2-1

Final ?40/?25 -15/10 points
Burns bt Craigie 2-1

Rankings after 11th Event ? Top 32
1(1) A.Dunkley 881, 2(2) K.Wilson 577, 3(3) N.Jennings 380, 4(4) K.Yates 380,
5(5) L.Shanker 341, 6(14) M.Mann 326, 7(7) Stephen Craigie 325,
8(6) R.Mears 307, 9( J.Fountain 271, 10(9) S.Knight 247, 11(10) N.Jones 213,
12(16) S.McGaw 200, 13(13) J.Jelley 196, 14(11) R.Binns 193,
15(15) M.Jelley 187, 16(12) D.Douane 182, 17(17) J.Stone 163,
18(22) A.Anastasiou 161, 19(18) J.Lisowski 150, 20(19) L.Page 150,
21(20) L.Highfield 150, 22(21) A.McGill 147, 23(26) O.Brown 141,
24(23) K.Callaghan 140, 25(24) J.Pritchett 138, 26(25) C.Downing 135,
27(34) Sam Craigie 125, 28(29) T.Kerslake 122, 29(30) A.Harris 121,
30(27) S.Mooney 116, 31(28) A.McIntyre 108, 32(-) B.Harrison 103.