NT juniors to shoot it out for state titles and chance at joining the state side

EIGHTBALL juniors from across the Territory will look to put their hands up for selection into the state side when they compete in the NT Junior Titles at Casuarina Sports Club this weekend.

Jason Yu was the runner-up in the 2020 under-12s Junior National Titles.

EIGHTBALL juniors from across the Territory will look to put their hands up for selection into the state side when they compete in the NT Junior Titles at Casuarina Sports Club this weekend.

The contest will see juniors from seven eightball associations across the Territory shoot it out for a title between January 23 and 25.

OTHER NT SPORT STORIES

Darwin Greyhound Association trainer Steele Bolton wants to repeat premiership success in 2021

Business as usual for St Mary’s despite week off NTFL action for rep footy

Wanderers and Waratah dominate the stats both indivdually and team wise in Round 14 of the NTFL

Then the best juniors in the under-12s, under-15s and under-18s boys and girls could find themselves in NT side travelling to play at the AEBF Junior National Titles in Albury from July 3 to July 10.

Junior training programs in all associations play a key role in developing future eightball champions and the NT is no stranger to seeing its juniors find success at the highest level.

Most notably in 1994 Darwin junior Ben Crawley was crowned the World Junior Champion in England while other NT juniors have gone to play for Australia not just at junior level, but senior level as well.

More recently the standout NT juniors have been Emily Sanders, who placed runner-up in the under 18s in both 2019 and 2020, and Jason Yu who came runner-up in the under 12 boys.

NT juniors found plenty of national success in the 90s with Ben Crawley also winning the 1993 under-18 boys Australian National Junior facing fellow NT junior Mark Warry in the final.

Crawley’s brother Travis finished runner up in 1991 with two senior National Singles titles now to his name.

NT NEWS sizzling new deal: Get all your news for just $5 a month

Chris Beagley, currently playing for Australia, finished runner-up in the same contest in 1996 while Aaron Elmey won the junior championships in 1998.