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First Youth Album taken on 5th May is now online - click on Album on the left hand column - write up to follow soon

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Sussex youth a Away to Hampshire 25th May 2008

The Hampshire Venue is Hill Park Working Mens Club,79,Highlands Road, Fareham, Hampshire.PO15 6JD  Tel 01329-280782

For more information about Sussex youth Contact :- 

Mr Paul Hammond. Tel:- 01273-261748, Mobil :- 07986-681897. E Mail hammondh2000@yahoo.co.uk

BRITISH TEENAGE - WITH prizes valued at £2,000 the 2008 British Teenage Championships are being sponsored by the British Darts Organisation, Elkadart and Darts World magazine.   Players must be 13 years of age but under 20 at July 26, 2008.  Closing date for entries is May 7. County heats will be played during June and July and the national final will be held at Kettering Leisure Village, Northants, on Saturday, July 26.    Apply for entry forms from the BDO, 2 Pages Lane, Muswell Hill, London N10 1PS.Telephone: 020 8883 5544.

THE nineteenth European Youth Cup is to be held on the Singleton Campus of the University of Wales at
Swansea from July 16 to 20.   Teams of four boys and two girls will represent each country competing. Players have to be younger than 18 on July 16, 2008.

Teams will be arriving at Swansea on Wednesday, July 16.  Following a welcome dinner there will be a team managers’meeting and welcome party for youth players in the tournament hall    Tournament sessions will be held on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with presentations and a gala farewell dinner on the Saturday evening.

First country to name their team for the Youth Cup is England.
Managed by Vic Sexton, the team is: Ricky Evans (aged 17) (Northants), James Jennings (17) (Essex), James Hubbard (15) (Norfolk), Shaun Griffiths (16) (Lancs), Zoe Jones (15) (Worcs), Harriet Wolton (17) (Suffolk).

Sussex Youth Blown Away By Dorset by Barry Moody

The Dorset Youth squad braved a snow blizzard to reach the Roffey Club, Horsham on Sunday 6th April where they proceeded to blow away the title hopes of the Sussex team. Winning all three games Dorset took the bonus points by an 11-6 margin, reversing the result earlier in the season at Dorchester and leaving Sussex with the prospect of having to beat Division leaders Hampshire at Portsmouth in the final fixture to gain top place. The Under Eighteens went 5-2 down but fought back to finish up losing 5-4. Winners were Tom Sawyer and David Weir (both Eastbourne), Sam Barnard (Lewes) and man-of-the-match Warren Grantham (Crawley) (pictured) with a 21.78 average. Tom Sawyer was awarded the 'Best performance of the day' award. The Under-21 Girls were missing previous match winner Michaela Dodd and slumped to a 2-1 defeat. Littlehampton’s Lorraine Horne won her second consecutive lady-of-the-match award. With the match score at 7-5 Sussex needed a strong performance from the Under-21s but missed doubles cost the home side dearly and they went down 4-1 with their only winner Gavin Studholme (Ticehurst) keeping his unbeaten record with a 3-0 win and a 19.27 average.

Sussex Youth took the bonus points in hard fought match against Surrey at the Epsom Legion Club on Sunday 16th March. Their 13-7 win puts them just five points behind leaders Hampshire, who they meet in the final fixture at Portsmouth in May.

The under eighteens got off to a shaky start, going 3-0 down but fought back well, with wins for Warren Grantham (Crawley) (pictured), Sam Barnard (Lewes), man-of-the-match David Weir (Eastbourne) with a 23.09 average, Oliver Sopp (Brighton) and match winner Horsham’s Mark Fluck, his first success this season. Sam Barnard was awarded the “Best performance of the day” award.

The under-21 girls are joint top of their league table with Hampshire after gaining their third win of the season. Littlehampton’s Lorraine Horne made a welcome comeback to the squad and took the lady-of-the-match award with a 15.94 average. Michaela Dodd (Brighton) won her game with a 120 checkout to give Sussex the 2-1 win.

 With the match score at 7-5 to Sussex the under-21s needed two wins to take the bonus points. Gavin Studholme (Ticehurst) kept his unbeaten record with a 3-0 win and, in a clash of the Captains, Brighton’s Michael Hammond clinched the match result, beating Surrey star Anthony Hopkins 3-1, with a match award winning average of 25.84. Doug Mason (Horsham) put the icing on the cake when he grabbed his first win of the season to put the under-21s joint top of their league table with Hampshire and make the final score 10-7 to Sussex.

Further good performances from their remaining two fixtures will give Sussex a great chance of claiming the league title.

The third of this season’s “HOLSTEN” Grand Prix playoffs saw Sussex players dominate the day’s play. Billinghurst’s  P.D.C. star Tony Ayres moved to the top of the points table winning both the Mens’ Singles and Pairs events. There was also a double for Sussex team manage Rhonda West making her first appearance at Roffey this season to win the Ladies Singles and Pairs.

Tony collected the £200 first prize when he defeated Kent player Andy Derrick 3-1 in the Singles final. Then, partnered by Crawley’s Danny King, the Sussex duo beat George Mckie, Middlesex and Steve Mead, Surrey by 3-1 in the Pairs final.

Rhonda defeated County team mate Sue Bird 3-2 in the Singles final then paired up with her to take the Doubles beating Surrey’s Jane Lewis and Angela Frewin 3-0 in the final.

The Flying Pairs provide more success for Sussex players with Eastbourne’s Paul Russell partnering Crawley’s Steve Mecrow to a win over Steve Mead and Alan Wyatt in the final.

A second win in the Youth Singles puts Rob Cross, Edenbridge top of the table with eighty points., Crawley’s Warren Grantham was the defeated finalist.

Despite the clash with events at Great Yarmouth and Torremolinos organisers Sussex Super League paid out £750 prize money on the day and anticipate a better turnout for the third in the series on Sunday May 11th

Barry Moody - S.C.S.L. Secretary - 01293-414699 www.bdmoody@msn.com

11th February 2008

Sussex Youth Beat Surrey Youth by Barry Moody and Ian Holman

THE SUSSEX youth team opened this season’s Inter-Counties campaign with a stunning 11-6 win at Dorchester against Dorset.All three teams registered wins against a side who inflicted a 10-7 defeat on Sussex at this venue last season.

The Under 18s won 5-4 thanks to wins for Oliver Sopp (Brighton), Matt Wenham and Michael Smithers (Eastbourne),Tom Sawyer (Hastings), making his debut, and “Man of the Match” Pat West (Uckfield), with a 24.44 average.

The Ladies’ team won 2-1 with Kelly Hammond (Brighton) and “Lady of the Match” Lorraine Horne (Littlehampton) the winners. The Under 21s have one of the strongest sides Sussex have ever fielded, including four players currently featuring in the county Super League. Their 4-1 win proved this with wins for Gavin Studholme (Ticehurst), Rob Metcalfe (Crawley), Sean Brooks (Ticehurst), making his debut, and Michael Hammond (Brighton), who took the “Man of the Match” award with a 27.94 average. 

 Eastbourne’s Michael Smithers was awarded the “Performance of the Day” trophy. After this result Sussex can look forward with confidence to Surrey at the Roffey Club at the end of November

BARRY MOODY - PRESS OFFICER -  SUSSEX DARTS ORGANISATION - 01293-414699   www.bdmoody@msn.com

Congratulations are also due to Gavin Studholme, Michael Hammond and Matt Wenham members of the Southern Youth Under 21 side which defeated the North 5-2 in the overall 18-5 win.