Shane
Castle fact file:
2005
Aug
6:
won all four matches on his Eastleigh & District Under-13 League debut, aged
seven.
Nov
11: helpfully
suggested his soon-to-be coach Dave Mumford may be hitting the ball too hard.
2006
Mar
29: won the Best Newcomer Award at
the Winchester City & District Snooker League’s under-18 Triton Trophy,
aged eight.
Sept
30: cleared
the table for a 40 break in an under-21 tournament.
2007
Jan
27: signed a three-year sponsorship
deal on his ninth birthday with Andover-based insurance consultants Oliver and
Sanders.
Feb
4: won a first tournament, the
under-12 South of England Cuestars at Salisbury.
Feb
16: finalist in the Pontin’s,
Prestatyn, under-12 ‘Star of the Future’.
Apr
18: appeared on Meridian TV.
May
12: posted a 61 in an under-21
tournament.
Oct
10: made the pages of The Sun after
clinching the Chandler’s Ford Under-21 Roll-Up handicap series.
Sept
2: took a frame off world No 75 Ben Woollaston in a
friendly in Leicester.
Nov
19: scored a 101 in a practice match
and appeared on page three of the Echo.
Castle promised his coach a tournament ton by the end of the year.
Dec
8: became the youngest ever Eastleigh
& District Under-18 Premier League champion.
Dec
30: scored a 101 in the under-19’s
Grand Finals at Rushden SC, a month before his tenth birthday.
2008
Feb
15: crowned
Pontin’s, Prestatyn, ‘Star of the Future’ under-12 champion.
Mar
9: lost
to Adam Bobat in the last 16 of the EASB national under-14 championship in
Leeds.
Apr
20: finished sixth on the EASB
Southern Regional Junior Tour.
Aug
14: selected for the England under-14
team.