The 23rd Australian Junior Darts Champions at the Altona Sports Club in Melbourne concluded today with the Australian Youth Masters and Mystery Mixed Doubles being played. The results from the Australian Youth Masters saw a new Champion in the Girls Masters and back-to-back titles in the boy’s. Both players topped of a great week for themselves personally, after winning their respective Australian Singles titles on Thursday, they have backed up to win one of junior darts most prestigious events.

The Australian Youth Masters commenced in 1992 and pits the best boy’s player and girl’s player from each state against each other in a round robin competition.

Girls Youth Masters 2004
She may be small, but she’s big on talent. In the Girl’s Youth Masters, Queensland’s Brie Peters (pictured right with second place Cindy Parrott) became the first Queenslander to win this event.

This is Peters 2nd year representing Queensland and has made a big impression on these Championships. The 13 year old from Toowoomba had a great event today, losing just one match in round four to South Australia’s Simone Keogh 3-2. She lost just one other leg of darts for the day and that was in her 3-1 win over Kathleen Logue. She also finished the event with the highest average of 18.466.

Cindy Parrott, the 17 year old from New South Wales completes her final Australian Junior Darts Championship with a second place in the Australian Youth Masters. She has had a very good week.

Place, Average & Wins
Winner: Brie Peters (QLD) (18.466) 5 wins – 17 legs

Second: Cindy Parrott (NSW) (17.302) 4 – 14

Third: Simone Keogh (SA) (16.194) 4 – 14

Fourth: Jackie Upston (TAS) (15.302) 4 – 12

Fifth: Kathleen Logue (NT) (16.702) 3 – 14

Sixth: Kirsten Nunn (WA) (14.347) 1 – 9

Seventh: Niki King (VIC) (13.690) 0 – 3

Australia’s Boy’s Youth representative at the recent World Cup in Epinal France was in blistering form today. He showed why he is rated the best junior boy’s player in the country. He marched through today’s competition undefeated blitzing everyone. He lost just one leg of darts in the whole event and that was to Queensland’s Matt Mullen.

The 16 year old completed the competition with an overall average 24.457, way in front of his nearest rival. He had a high average of 30.673 in his second round match against Tassies Rhys Mathewson.

Matt Mullen finished off his first Australian Darts Championships with a second place in the Youth Masters. The 17 year old lost only the one match to Kyle Anderson.

Place, Average & Wins

Winner: Kyle Anderson (WA) (24.457) 6 wins – 18 legs

Second: Matt Mullen (QLD) (20.546) 5 – 16

Third: Shannon Patterson (SA) (22.025) 3 – 12

Fourth: Adrian Spain (NT) (19.068) 3 – 12

Fifth: Rhys Mathewson (TAS) (19.844) 3 – 11

Sixth: Andrew Wilson (NSW) (18.588) 1 – 6

Seventh: Chris Gritty (VIC) (17.141) 0 – 4

The great thing about the performance of both Brie Peters and Kyle Anderson is that they both have the opportunity to build on the number of Australian Youth Masters titles as I am sure both will be back at next year’s championships in Tasmania. These two players are also great role models for the sport of darts.
Congratulations to you both.

This tournament is open to all players of the current year’s Junior Representative teams except those players selected to compete in the Australian Youth Masters. Performances in the Australian “Host Drawn” Mixed Doubles do not count towards the Australian Junior Championship Champion State. The host, State may be required to supply additional players which was the case today, so that no representative player is excluded from the event. Bianca Ring from Altona was a late inclusion into the event today.

Players are divided into four pools and play a round robin preliminary series, within each pool. No player may be drawn to pair with a player from the same State, unless, it is a fill-in player from the host State.

This is a fun event for everyone involved and after the Pools rounds were completed the top pair from each pool made up the semi finalists. From Pool A Trenton Phillips (WA) and Jenna Griffiths (SA) defeated Pool B winners Tristan Angel (SA) and Tara Vellanff (NSW) to make the final. From Pool C came Chris Woods (QLD) and Tameka Enniss (TAS) but Pool D winners Shaun Brackin (QLD) and local Altona player Bianca Ring defeated them.

Trenton Phillips and Jenna Griffiths went on to win the final from Shaun Brackin and Bianca Ring 3-2.