Teenager Michael Shrubb completed a highly successful campaign at the XL Foundation National Junior Squash Championships yesterday with a straight games victory over a below-par Andrew Robinson in the Boys Under-19 final.

The 16-year-old youngster, who is currently attending Taft school in Connecticut, also prevailed in the Boys Under-17 division with another three-love win over Graham Counsell.

Shrubb annihilated Robinson 9-0, 9-0, 9-2, with the one-sided nature of the scoreline raising a few eyebrows at the Bermuda Squash Racquets Association in Devonshire.

?I played pretty well I have to admit,? Shrubb said.

?He definitely was not playing at his best and so it was down to me to take advantage of that. I started fast and tried to volley a lot in the early part of the game to put him under pressure. This worked perfectly because none of his shots were working and he made a lot of mistakes.?

Shrubb said also that he felt that his game has improved considerably over the last few months at Taft, one of the top squash schools in America, particularly in terms of his fitness and speed around the court.

?At Taft we spend a lot of time working on our physical fitness and since coming home that has helped me a lot and I am now reaping the rewards of all the hard work,? he said.

Elsewhere in the Boy?s Under-15 final, the highly rated Robert Maycock made light work of the challenge of Robert Forbes, beating him 9-2, 9-0, 9-1.

Chris Stout (ten), the younger brother of 19-year-old James Stout, who turned professional earlier this year, underlined what many believe to be his enormous potential with victory in two separate age group divisions.

In the boys Under-11 final, he defeated Noah Brown 10-8, 9-3, 9-0 while in the Under-13 division, he secured another straight games victory over Jeffrey Counsell, 9-8, 9-2, 9-6.

Bermuda squash professional and tournament director Gary Plumstead was clearly impressed with Stout, the youngest of four brothers who have all represented Bermuda at either senior or junior level.

?Chris did very well and has an enormous amount of potential,? he said.

?Talent-wise he and Robert Maycock are the standouts and it is now just a question of how hard they are prepared to work in order to be the best they can be.?

In the Girls Under-19s, Laura Robinson overcame Morgan Lightbourne in the decisive encounter of the round robin draw, 9-0, 9-7, 9-6, only to lose against all expectations to the same opponent in the final of the Under-17s.

Physically spent after competing in three separate divisions, the 14-year-old favourite lacked ruthlessness at the crucial moments to go down 8-10, 8-10, 9-10.

Robinson made no such mistake in the Under-15 final, however, brushing aside Alex Furtado 9-2, 9-0 ,9-0.

Finally, in the Girls Under-13 final, Kelly Barnes overcame her sister Rachel in four games, 9-4, 9-3, 7-9, 9-3.

Shortly after the presentation ceremony, Plumstead said that he was ?extremely happy? with the way the tournament had gone and was clearly excited by the batch of new talent which he hopes will be challenging for national team selection ?in the next couple of years?.

The South African also commented that he was heartened by the performances of Laura Robinson and Morgan Lightbourne, who he hoped would go on to fill the large void which has developed in the womens? game at senior level.

?The standard of play has been excellent and confirmed to me that we have a number of considerably talented individuals coming through,? he said.