Yet another title for Ireland's junior sensation Davy Morris, who will lead Ireland's Junior team in the 2003 Home Internationals.

The full Irish junior team is:

 Davy Morris, David Horgan, Paul McGrane, Gary Bennett, Vincent Muldoon,

W. Johnston, Dion Burns and Gavin Stokes.

Davy Morris 3-0 Vincent Muldoon

Semi Finals

Muldoon 3-0 Phillip McCaffrey

Morris 3-0 Bernard Casey

Quarters

Morris 2-0 Dion Burns

Casey 2-1 Gary Bennett

Muldoon 2-0 Paul McGrane

Bristol's Judd Trump, the phenomenal junior talent became the youngest winner of the prestigious Pontins spring Pro-Am, beating former World Top 8 star Mike Hallett 4-2 in the final.

Thirteen year old Trump beat Manchester's James Leadbetter 4-0 in the semi-final, just hours before Leadbetter himself won through to the final of the challenge tour event.

Trump, a former English Under 13 and 15 champion and junior international has already clocked up more titles than most players achieve in a lifetime and he wasn't content with the Pro-Am title, as he beat Neath fourteen year old Jamie Jones 3-0, with a century break in the final, to take the Pontins Star of the Future title for under 16 players.

The roll of honour of the Spring Pro-Am, first won by Doug Mountjoy in 1974 includes snooker greats such as Ray Reardon, Steve Davis, Terry Griffiths, Ken Doherty, Mark Williams, all world champions! Some Stars of the Future who went on to great things were Jimmy White, John Parrott, Stephen Hendry and Mark Williams.

Ammanford's Anthony Krysa added the Welsh Under 21 crown to the Welsh Under 19 title he won earlier in the season, with a calm and assured performance.

Krysa sailed through to the final without dropping a frame, beating 2001 Under 21 champion, Jonny Vaughan in the semis. His final opponent was Neath's fourteen year old, Jamie Jones, who also had an untroubled path to the final.

Jones looked set to win the opener, but leading by 51 points, he feathered the cue ball attempting frame ball pink and Krysa stepped in with a 48 clearance to snatch the frame. The Under 19 champ also took the second, but Jones kept in the match with 62 in the third. Krysa rounded off victory in style, taking the fourth with a match winning 73 break, the highest of the day.

Neath's Jonny Vaughan beat Llanelli's Frank Ellis in the third place play off, to join the two finalists as the Welsh representatives in the IBSF World Under 21 championship, scheduled to be played in New Zealand in July. It was Frank Ellis' best ever result in a Welsh tournament. Brother Stephen, already a Welsh under 16 international, won the plate event, beating Neath's James Matthewman in the final.

DAVIES CROWNED YOUNGEST ENGLISH AMATEUR CHAMPION

Fifteen year old Alex Davies from Clacton has become the youngest player in the 87 year history of the English Amateur championship to lift the title.

Davies, who won't be sixteen until 27th July, defeated fellow English junior international, fifteen year old Ben Woollaston 8-7 in the final, held at the Matchroom Club, Plympton.

David Gray held the record as the youngest winner in 1995, aged sixteen years and four months, succeeding Jimmy White who was the previous youngest title holder, winning the event in 1979, when he was just sixteen and ten months. Ronnie O'Sullivan still holds the record as the youngest player to make a 147. His first max came when he was just 15 years and 97 days, in the 1991 championship.

On his way to victory Davies knocked out his older brother, nineteen year old Adam and defending champion Martin Gould and he adds his name to an illustrious roll of honour that includes the likes of Ray Reardon, Jimmy White, Terry Griffiths, John Spencer, Stephen Lee and David Gray.

Both finalists were members of England's victorious England Juniors at the 2002 Home Internationals, and just two years ago they met in the English Under 14 final! English Amateur Roll of Honour

Ten year old Gloucester junior Jack Lisowski won the Under 13 title. Predictably the under 15 title went to Bristol's Judd Trump, and English international Gary Wilson beat the new European Under 19 champion, Jamie O'Neill 8-4 to win the Under 18 championships.

The new Welsh Under 16 champion is Craig Davies from Cardiff. Davies defeated Llanelli's Stephen Ellis 3-1 in the final.

But all the drama came prior to the final with players scrapping it out for vital ranking points and a place on the Welsh International team for the 2003 Home Internationals. For Stephen Ellis it meant he had to beat three of last year's team to climb up the rankings and earn a place and he did just that with wins over Cardiff's Allan Williams, team mate Ricky Jones from the Matchroom Llanelli, and the final triumph came across Wales' leading junior Jamie Jones of Neath, where Ellis earned a memorable 2-1 victory.

Victory for Ellis necessitated a play off for the final place in the team between John Williams and Michael white. White earned his place with a 3-1 win over Williams and at the same time earned a rare distinction in becoming qualified for Welsh international status at Under 14, 16 and 18. And for good measure White will appear in his first senior quarter final next weekend, having beaten current Welsh champion Tim English with a top break of 102 on his way through.

Richard Oliver won the U16 plate event, and it was a case of third time lucky as he'd been beaten in the previous two finals.

The final squad for Pontins will be:

Craig Davies, Ricky Jones, Stephen Ellis, Jamie Jones, Stephen Bailey and Michael White.

RESULTS:

Final: Craig Davies 3-1 Stephen Ellis

Semis: Stephen Ellis 2-1 Jamie Jones, Craig Davies 2-0 Stephen Bailey

Quarters: Stephen Ellis 2-1 Ricky Jones, Jamie Jones 2-0 Michael White,

Stephen Bailey 2-1 John Williams, Craig Davies 2-1 Daniel Wells.

The qualifying stages for the 2003 Junior event was held at Pontardawe Arts centre under the watchful eye of Welsh Coach Jack Carney. The event has become established as an annual "must win" on the Junior Calendar and Juniors congregated from all over South Wales.

Red hot favourite Jamie Jones duly obliged, reaching the semi finals without dropping a frame. Jones notched up wins over fellow Under 16 internationals Stephen Bailey and Ricky Jones, notching breaks of 52 and 47 along the way. Llanelli's Ricky Jones took some consolation by compiling the day's best break of 79 during a last 16 win over Tim Piper.

The Empire Club Neath produced three out of the four qualifiers with James Matthewman and Michael White joining Jamie Jones. Eleven year old Michael White was the youngest qualifier and came through via wins over Michael Davies, Jon Bushnell and Thomas Carney.

Nathan Biggs was the final qualifier, narrowly beating John Williams to get through. A fluked yellow helped Biggs and sent the ever-improving Williams home disappointed.

The final stages of the seniors and juniors events produced a thrilling 3-2 win in the seniors final for Gavin Lewis of Neath, who narrowly defeated Jason Tucker.

Northern Ireland's leading junior Mark Allen (pictured) caused the shock of the last 32 with a 4-0 win over Michael Holt. Allen's reward is a dream match against Ken Doherty. Nigel Bond and Ryan Day have laid down the bench mark for the high break target, with superb 142 breaks, taking the century break count to 26. Tournament director Connie O'Sullivan has placed a 300 Euro bet at 12 to 1 with Paddy Power bookmakers, against there being a 147 in the event. A shrewd move which could net a maximum man a 4000 Euro bonus.

Former Pontins champion Sean O'Neill shocked Dave Harold with a 4-2 win to book his last 16 place against fellow giant-killer Mario Fernandez, who sneaked the decider against Jimmy Michie.

Ian McCulloch 4-0 Patrick Wallace

Dominic Dale 4-2 Garry Hardiman

Joe Meara 4-1 Lee Richardson

George O'Hara 1-4 Steve Mifsud

Ryan Day 4-2 Michael Judge

Tony Drago 4-2 Leo Fernandez

Rob Murphy 2-4 Nigel bond

Fergal O'Brien 4-1 T J Dowling

Robert Redmond 1-4 Mark King

Mario Fernandez 4-3 Jimmy Michie

Sean O'Neill 4-2 Dave Harold

An 128 strong field led by Ronnie O'Sullivan, Jimmy White, Ken Doherty and a host of the leading Main Tour pros assembled at the Gleneagle Hotel for one of the largest pro-ams organised for years.

And the event looks set to be a hit with the players as they queued up to heap praise on both the venue and the organisers.

Jimmy White led the plaudits, saying "This should definitely be part of the World Ranking calendar, the players are going to write a letter to the WSA to push this venue to be included as a ranking venue."

Paul Hunter added his enthusiasm "It's the first time I've been here and it's a lovely venue, the arena is magnificent and the tables are in good shape."

Nigel Bond conceded that the pockets are generous but pointed out "you've still got to pot them and as the week goes on the tension will build up."

Mark King, who, as a junior played more than his fair share of pro-ams commented "It's the best pro-am venue I have even seen. The WSA should make it a ranking venue and give it to Connie O'Sullivan (the event organiser) to run it."

The players were divided into four man round robin groups, ensuring at least three matches for every competitor and, for some of the amateurs, a rare chance to play a match against the world's best.

And a couple of the underdogs claimed scalps during the round robin faze. Fifteen year old Irish junior David Morris (pictured) beat Phil Williams 3-2, with a magnificent 127 clearance in the decider. Lee Richardson from the Challenge Tour recovered from 2-0 down to beat Joe Swail and George O'Hara claimed the most notable scalp, with a 3-2 win over Jimmy White.

Otherwise it was business as usual for the big guns, with Ronnie O'Sullivan smacking in three of the event's sixteen centuries as he breezed through his groups matches. Ken Doherty won his three matches without dropping a frame and joins O'Sullivan in the last sixteen.

Alex Higgins made his first appearance in a competitive event since he bowed out of the World snooker events in 1997, but his first round loss in the unofficial Irish Pro Championship suggests that perhaps it really is time the former World Champion hung up his cue.

Higgins was drawn against sixteen year old Darren Dornan, an up and coming Northern Ireland junior international player from Ballynahinch.

Despite what must have been a daunting occasion for the teenager he proved too strong for Higgins, who mustered a high break of just 23 during his 5-1 loss to Dornan.

There were one or two brief glimpses of past Higgins magic and glimpses also of the Higgins temperament as he turned on a press photographer during the match.

The event, which is an attempt to resurrect the defunct Irish Professional Championship, failed to attract Ireland's leading star Ken Doherty, In his absence world no. 16 Joe Swail assumes the mantle of favourite to win an event which features 8 Irish professionals and 8 amateurs.

Ross Valence beat Steven Kirkpatrick in the final of the third Scottish Under 16 ranking event.

2002-3 Welsh Under 16 Event 1

2002 IBSF World Under 21 Championship

2002 Pontins Autumn Festival & Home Internationals

2002 Welsh Under 21 Championship