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The Billiards Quarterly Review : July 1990

The B.&S.C.C. British Junior Championships

Cuedos, Bradford

from Albert Hanson

Under 16

Teesside boys were well to the fore in the British Junior Championships, undergraduates of the local Academy of Billiards, better known as the Teesside Boys Billiards League, being successful in both events. Teesside under 15 champion Michael Westthorp was expected to do well but was beaten by Andrew Higginson of Widnes. Lee Lagan also faced opposition from Merseyside and was successful against Peter Sheehan and Tim Bailey. Darren Lewis of Manchester did well to reach the Final but the greater experience of Lagan was a factor in the Teesside boy's comfortable win.

First Round
Tim Bailey
(Cheshire)
198  Matthew Daniels
162 
Lee Lagan
(Ormesby)
279  Peter Sheehan
(Widnes)
178 
Andrew Higginson
(Widnes)
241  Michael Westthorp
(Billingham)
210 
Darren Lewis
(Manchester)
190  Paul Withe
(Merseyside)
142 
Semi-Finals
Lagan
38, 34, 48, 52, 58		376  Bailey
169 
Lewis
186  Higginson
155 
Final
Lee Lagan
49		315  Darren Lewis
140 

(Lee Lagan: £80 and Trophy; Darren Lewis: £40 and Trophy)

Under 19

Roxton Chapman of Peterborough was one of the favourites for the Title but it was Teesside yet again, this time in the person of Sean Golightly, who put him out in the Semi by just 5 points. Mike Dunn (another Mike from Redcar!) beat Fellow "Redcarthusian" Paul Reeve, and Paul Withe from Merseyside to reach the Final and take the Trophy by beating Golightly who did not show such good form this time.
First Round
Roxton Chapman
(Peterborough)
316  Roy Bigg
(Middlesex)
152 
Sean Golightly
(Stockton)
289  Andrew Radford
(Devon)
242 
Mike Dunn
(Redcar)
272  Paul Reeve
195 
Darren Lewis
(Manchester)
166  Paul Withe
(Merseyside)
163 
Semi-Finals
Golightly 255 (71,89,40) Chapman 250 (59,43) Dunn 431 (81) Withe 153
Final
Mike Dunn
40, 86		363  Sean Golightly
131 
(Mike Dunn: £100 and Trophy; Sean Golightly: £50 and Trophy)

Players from the Teesside Boys Billiards League have now won 20 out of the last 26 National Junior Titles. This is a quite remarkable record. The League was originally formed, not as a production line of Title winners, but as an organisation to provide opportunities for young boys to play and learn to love the game. That so many of the boys have turned out to be fine players and National Champions is a tribute to the league, its officials, and coaches.