FAIR Oak snooker youngster Dan Hildyard has clinched one of the last four promotion spots to the prestigious EASB Junior Premier Tour.
Hildyard earned a place among the top 48 youngsters in the country after reaching the Southern Regional semi-finals in Cambridge.
Now the Wyvern schoolboy, 15, will compete against England's top under-21 stars in the remaining five tournaments.
Consistently knocking in breaks of 30 and 40, he won all six games in the group stages.
Regional Tour players needed a last-four finish in either of the first two events to qualify.
Hildyard missed out on promotion at Keynsham by just one match.
But this time he made short work of Birmingham's Luke Ellis with a 2-0 quarter-final victory to join Chandler's Ford club-mate Alex Dunkley on the Premier Tour.
Full snooker round-up in today's Daily Echo
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