16 year old Josh Boileau from Newbridge CYMS won the National Under 19 Snooker Championship in the Douglas Snooker Club in Cork City on Saturday. In the final he beat the Irish number 1 Ryan Cronin from Cork 3 frames to 1 in a superb final.
The standard was very high with a number of great matches and high breaks with Josh Boileau winning the highest break trophy with a superb 123 break in the semi final against David Cassidy. Other high breaks were 93, 88 by Ryan Cronin, 79 by Chris Cooney and 75 by David Cassidy.
The Douglas Snooker Club was looking fantastic with superb table conditions in helping Josh become the Under 19 National Champion for 2012.
RIBSA would like to thank Karl and Martin Busteed from Douglas Snooker Club in Cork for all the fantastic conditions on the day.
Break Board
Josh Boileau 123, 61, 60, 59, 52, 47, 44, 41, 40.
Ryan Cronin 93, 88, 74, 61.
Chris Cooney 79
David Cassidy 75, 43
Q-Final
Ryan Cronin 3-0 Aaron Moyles
Chris Cooney 3-0 Cathal Dunne
Josh Boileau 3-0 Daniel Dempsey
David Cassidy 3-1 Lee Walsh
Semi Final
Ryan Cronin 3-0 Chris Cooney
Josh Boileau 3-1 David Cassidy
The Final
Ryan Cronin 1-3 Josh Boileau
O’ Regan Wins Under Plate Event
Daniel O Regan from Crucible SC beat fellow clubmate Sean Burns from Crucible 2 frames to 0 to win the plate event.
