Malta lost 7-5 to Sweden in an international under 19 snooker friendly yesterday at Apple Snooker Club. Swedish internationals Douglas Appleberg and Christopher Koba played for Sweden. Both players took part in the last World Under 21 Snooker Championship. Duncan Pisani, Thurston Grixti and Kevin Grech made the Malta team, each playing four frames against the two Swedish players.

The best performance came from Duncan Pisani who beat Christopher Koba 2-0 (73-22, 56-10) and drew with Douglas Appleberg 1-1 (71-25, 42-76). Youngest player in the Malta team, Thurston Grixti drew 1-1 with Christopher Koba (54-7, 23-59) and then he drew again with Appleberg 1-1 (38-63, 57-37). The other player Kevin Grech failed to win one single frame and he lost 0-2 to Koba (20-62, 41-87) and another defeat of 0-2 with Appleberg (22-72, 17-75).