Junior Championships 2003

History made at Junior Darts Singles Championships

Day four of the 22nd Puma Australian Darts Championships at the Inala Darts Club in Brisbane ended with history being created when Queensland representative Josh Kime (pictured left) won the Singles Crown.

This is the first time a father and son have been Australian Darts Champions in the same year. Father Jeff Kime (right) won the singles at the Australian Senior Darts Championships in Gosford in July 2002 and his son Josh has won the Australian Junior Darts Singles in 2002/3.

Josh defeated fellow teammate and Boy's Doubles partner Chris Wood in the final. Josh averaged 18.859 per dart in his 3-1 victory over Chris (18.135).
It was a closely contested final, which the crowd really enjoyed. Both players were scoring brilliantly keeping the match really close.

A brilliant career lies ahead for these two players will Josh and Chris both being only 16 years of age, they have another year of junior darts still in front of them.

Both their averages were down in the final from their semifinal matches, but an Australian title was on the line. J
osh (22.272) defeated Dwayne Seaborne (TAS) (21.698) while Chris (18.57) accounted for Kyle Anderson (WA) who finished with a 20.126 average.

Lauren West, (left) representing Western Australia for the 4th time became the new Australian Junior Girl's Singles Darts Champion, making it back-to-back titles for her.

She won the title in Adelaide for the first at the last junior championships.

This year she defeated Kathleen Logue from the Northern Territory in the final who came close to winning this title in Adelaide when she placed third being defeated then by Lauren as well. Lauren averaged 17.714 per dart in the final with Kathleen averaging 16.621.

Both girls had impressive wins in their semi finals to make the final.

Aged 17 years, Lauren's average in that semi final of 18.691 against Simone Zeromski (VIC) showed she was in great form, and she continued that form to win her second Australian Singles title. It won't be long before this young talented player makes it into the Western Australian Senior Ladies State Team.

Similar story for Kathleen who would be pushing for senior selection. Kathleen (right)who received the Girl's Encouragement award in Adelaide defeated her fellow teammate and Girl's Doubles partner Melissa Mundy in the other semi final.

70 of Australia's best junior players contested the Girl's and Boy's Singles event.

Boy's Competition	Girl's Competition
Winner Josh Kime (QLD)	Winner Lauren West (WA)
Finalist Chris Wood (QLD)	Finalist Kathleen Logue (NT)
Equal 3rd Kyle Anderson (WA)	Equal 3rd Simone Zeromski (VIC)
Dwayne Seaborne (TAS)	Melissa Mundy (NT)
Equal 5th Damon Heta (WA)	Equal 5th Cindy Parrott (NSW)
Mitchell Gardiner (WA)	Simone Keogh (SA)
Andrew Meiselbach (VIC)	Kylie Langmair (SA)
Jack Simpson (WA)	Felicity Allen (QLD)

Friday sees the Mixed Doubles Championship, while Saturday sees the best girl and boy from each state participate in the Australian Youth Masters to complete a wonderful six days of junior darts.