2025 Junior Gold Championships U12 boys stepladder finalists, left to right: top seed Nehemiah Keefer, No. 2 seed Jaxon Withers, and No. 3 seed Noah Ausderau. Photo by USBC.
The 2025 Junior Gold Championships are down to their final day Saturday in Wisconsin after a long day of competition Friday set the U12 stepladder finalists and cut the U15 and U18 divisions down to 12 boys and 12 girls each, USBC detailed in this news release.
The end of the 16 games of qualifying on Thursday meant the first cuts were made in the competition that started Monday with 3,176 players: 1,341 U18 boys, 552 U18 girls, 645 U15 boys, 303 U15 girls, 228 U12 boys, and 107 U12 girls.
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