Tuesday, May 17th at the 35th BCAPL National 8-Ball Championships at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas was all about the semis and finals in both the singles and scotch doubles divisions. The best of the best in each division focused to keep their stroke mechanics and nerves in place as hundreds of spectators watched who would take the top spots in each event.

Runaway Matches

From the 381 ladies, Jennifer Kraber of Austin, Texas (league 621) went undefeated to become the 2011 BCAPL Women’s Open Champion. Her lopsided finals match against Josie Leroy of Newberg, Oregon (league 154 & 432) ended in a score of 4-0. Over the three days of singles play, Kraber only gave up eight games in her ten matches. Kraber, a regular top finisher on the OB Cues regional tour, also had a 7th place finish in the masters scotch doubles with long-time partner James Davis, Sr. of Manor, Texas.

In the BCAPL Men’s Masters finals, Harvey Shognosh of Forrest, Ontario, Canada (league 601) also went undefeated through the 45 player field of top notch players to best Gustavo Correa of Houston, Texas (league 191 & 1073) with a final score of 7-4. Both players delivered strong performances in a near flawless finals match for spectators.

Tuesday, May 17th at the 35th BCAPL National 8-Ball Championships at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas was all about the semis and finals in both the singles and scotch doubles divisions.

Scotch Doubles Madness

It was an all Arizona BCAPL Open Scotch Doubles finale. Of the 338 entries, the Mesa team of Jesse Renteria (league 293 & 526) and Bernie Store (league 293) went undefeated to beat the team of Chris Paradowski and Lois Schmitt from Tucson (both league 24). It was Store and Renteria’s first tournament playing together. “I’ve known this guy for 12 years and never played a game of scotch together,” said Store.

Of the 71 BCAPL Masters Scotch Doubles teams, John Maikke and Dana Aft from Atlanta, Georgia (both league 875) came through the b-side to defeat the Wisconsin team of Robert Hovick (league 348) and Kelly Birmingham (league 807) in a two-set finals score of 5-1, 4-3. It was run-out scotch doubles pool at its finest. Every game in both sets was finished in one inning or less.

Double-Dippers

In the 112 player BCAPL Women’s Senior division, Shawn Modelo from Antioch, California (league 322) came through to redeem herself in the finals. After losing the driver seat match to Lois Schmitt of Tucson, Arizona, Modelo was came back with a vengeance. She took the first set handily, 4-0. Schmitt would put up a bigger fight in the second set. When the match was hill-hill, Modelo hooked herself on the 8-ball and nearly kicked it in. Schmitt missed her opening shot and left a shot and the win for Modelo.

Meanwhile one table over, 18-year-old Danny Olson from Brookings, South Dakota (league 953) was grinding it out. After losing his first match of the new BCAPL Men’s Advanced division, he came through the 100-player field to double-dip local Las Vegas favorite Chris C. Akey (league 769) 6-2, 6-2. Olson won the men’s players member division in 2010.

Of the 283 entries in the popular BCAPL Men’s Senior division, Bill Skinner of Aurora, Colorado (league 671) double rolled through the finals match against Bill McCoy (league 187) from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 5-1, 5-1. After losing 5-3 to McCoy earlier in the tournament, Skinner was on a mission and the mission was accomplished.

Hill-Hill Mania

Veteran 8-ball player Jolene Herum from River Falls, Wisconsin (league 234 & 996) cruised undefeated through the 39-player BCAPL Women’s Advanced division. Meanwhile Tacoma, Washington’s Cindy Sliva (league 154) lost her first match and came back through 10 rounds including a tough hill-hill match with Junior National Champion Liz Lovely to meet Herum in the finals. Sliva was ahead 4-3 but was unable to capitalize. At hill-hill, Herum broke and ran to close out the set 5-4.

In the BCAPL Women’s Master finals, it was a case of different division déjà vu. Of the 27 entries, Amanda Lampert from Frisco, Texas (league 1034) lost her first match 7-5 to Arizona’s Susan Williams (league 293 & 1094), only to fight her way to the finals against Canadian Jana Montour (league 497). At hill-hill, Montour broke and ran to take the set and the title. Final score was 7-6.

Robert Green from Bellaire, Texas (league 151 & 406) went undefeated to best Bill Dunsmore of Lutz, Florida in the finals of the men’s super seniors (age 65+). At hill-hill, Dunsmore ran down to his key ball and Read more ...]]> http://www.cuesandpool.com/billiard-news/2011-bcapl-singles-and-scotch-doubles-champions.html/feed 0 http://www.cuesandpool.com/billiards/seminole-pro-tour-down-to-final-six.html http://www.cuesandpool.com/billiards/seminole-pro-tour-down-to-final-six.html#comments Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:55:36 +0000 admin http://www.insidepoolmag.com/?p=8863 Seminole Pro Tour Down to Final Six
Seminole Pro Tour / Gem City Open / Marietta, GA

by InsidePOOL Staff

Shane Van Boening is leading the pack at the Seminole Pro Tour / Gem City Open, which has wound down to its final 6 players from the full 64-player field they began with two days ago.

Van Boening’s closest match was in the first round against Darin Brewer, whom he defeated 9-6. Since then he has been demolishing opponents, only giving up eight games in the last four rounds. After his 9-1 trouncing of James Roberts Saturday evening, he went on to knock Donny Mills into the one-loss side 9-2 and then sent Charlie Williams to follow 9-3.

Van Boening is leading the pack at the Seminole Pro Tour / Gem City Open, which has wound down to its final 6 players from the full 64-player field they began with two days ago.

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Smith is still alive, though, and will face off against Corey Deuel in the next round. Deuel recently eliminated Mills 9-5 and James Baraks 9-6. In the other one-loss side match, Williams will play Wilkie, whom narrowly escaped a hill-hill match with Archer in the previous round.

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by Lea Andrews

With the action still going strong on day two of the 34th Annual U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships, which is being held October 18-24 at the Chesapeake Conference Center in Chesapeake, VA, many big names remain undefeated after two rounds of play, while others have become early victims. All 216 players remain in the field, though elimination rounds begin Tuesday morning.

Still on the winners’ side is past champion Ralf Souquet, who notched up an 11-1 win over EJ Glode and an 11-4 win over Thomas Giddens. After shutting out Pat DiBuono, Steve Moore rolled over Stefano Ariavakis 11-1. Spain’s David Alcaide was almost as stingy with the 9 balls in his first two matches—he rode an 11-1 win over Scott Hershman to an 11-3 victory over Kaloyan Rusanov.

Bartram handed Immonen his first loss in his title defense.

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Defending champion Mika Immonen, who held Jerry Fitchett to six games in round one, will have to defend his crown from the left side of the bracket after running into a determined Chris Bartram in round two. Bartram got out ahead 2-0, 3-1, and 7-3, but Immonen managed to tie it up at eight games apiece. Talent and luck were both on Bartram’s side in the final racks, and he took racks seventeen and eighteen with a 2-9 combination and a 1-9 combination, respectively, and though Immonen claimed rack nineteen after Bartram left a safety on the 2 ball open, he couldn’t close rack twenty, which turned into a safety battle after Immonen missed position on the 6 ball. It was Bartram who came out on top, making a difficult shot on the 6 to earn the right to face Alcaide 11-9. Another fallen hero is 2004 U.S. Open champion Gabe Owen, who fell 11-9 to Abdullah Alyousef after being up 4-1. Runner-up that year, Thorsten “The Hitman” Hohmann also suffered a second-round loss to Jason Klatt 11-9. After falling 11-6 to Robb Saez, 2006 U.S. Open champion John Schmidt will face Don Steele on Wednesday, while Oliver Ortman , who fell 11-9 to Keith Bennett, will face Thorsten Hohmann, who managed just nine games himself against Jason Klatt.

Second round winners’ matches still to come are Jonathan “Hennessee” Pinegar versus Charlie Bryant, Tony Chohan versus Jose Parica, Darren Appleton versus Zaid Thweib, and Shane Van Boening versus Marvin Davis.

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by Lea Andrews

Eric “Easy E” Charlton took no prisoners on his way to the finals of the Great Southern Billiard Tour’s amateur event, held July 11-12 in Roanoke, VA. The $1,000-added A-B event drew 36 hopefuls to Guys and Dolls, but only Charlton remained undefeated to the end.

Following a strong 7-3 victory over A-ranked Danny Mastermaker, B-ranked Charlton moved on to the hot seat match, where he met Bobby Chamberlain, an A-ranked player on the cusp of being AA. Chamberlain, who’d just knocked B-ranked Tony Williams west 9-4, managed only six games against Charlton, and when Charlton dropped the final 9, Chamberlain’s work was cut out for him.

On the one-loss side, B-ranked Brad Shearer was dominating his matches, finishing off B-players Phil Muller and Stanley Smallwood 7-2 and 7-1, respectively, before coming upon Danny Mastermaker. Though the end score was tied 7-7, it was a win for Shearer in the handicapped format, and it earned him the right to meet Williams in the quarterfinals. Williams had come out on top of their last match-up—the finals of the June 13-14 event—but he managed just three games this time, and Shearer went on to meet Chamberlain, who was more than ready for him.

With a 9-4 victory over Shearer, Chamberlain went on to his rematch with Charlton. Needing both sets of the true double-elimination finals to claim first, Chamberlain started off strong, reaching his hill of eight games while Charlton, at four games, still needed three to win. In the alternate-break format, Chamberlain broke open the thirteenth rack but missed the 1 ball, leaving Charlton out. Charlton took the next with a 1-9 kick combination to put the match at hill-hill. Chamberlain, left without a shot on the 1 ball following his break in the final rack, chose to kick safe, but Charlton nailed a jump/bank shot to get out of it, though it left him without a makeable shot on the 2 ball. Playing safe, he left Chamberlain no choice but to kick, and when the balls stopped rolling, a tournament-winning 2-9 combination was waiting for Charlton.

Eric “Easy E” Charlton took no prisoners on his way to the finals of the Great Southern Billiard Tour’s amateur event, held July 11-12 in Roanoke, VA.

Results:
1st Eric Charlton $1,000
2nd Bobby Chamberlain $500
3rd Brad Shearer $300
4th Tony Williams $200
5th Brent Hensley $125
Danny Mastermaker
7th Chuck Cuneo $85
Stanley Smallwood

by Lea Andrews

Karen “The Irish Invader” Corr, who was undefeated after two days of play at Borderline Billiards in Bristol, TN, came back from a late loss Sunday to capture first in the WPBA Satellite Tour’s inaugural event. The $10,000-added event, held July 10-12, drew 64 talented ladies, pros and amateurs alike, 12 of whom returned for Sunday’s play.

Corr, who had given up only eight games upon reaching the final four on the winners’ side, allowed Monica Webb only five games, moving on to the hot seat match against Gerda “G-Force” Hofstatter, who on her way had knocked aside Line Kjorsvik, Ewa Laurance, and Julie Kelly. Corr turned out to be the last in the string of pros whom Hofstatter would defeat, and Corr joined the one-loss side with a score of 9-7.

On the left side of the bracket, Kelly Fisher, who on Saturday had gotten up 6-1 on Kelly before falling 9-7, was ousted by Allison Fisher 7-4. A. Fisher, though, was next pitted against BCA Hall of Famer Laurance, who was coming off of a hill-hill victory over Val Finnie. On a roll, Laurance held Fisher to five games, but she couldn’t get past Webb, who was trying to push her way to the finals. Meeting Webb in the one-loss quarterfinals was Kelly, who’d gotten past Kim Shaw 7-3. Kelly managed only two games, though, and it was time for Webb to try to exact her revenge on Corr. Taking the first three racks in the race to 7, Webb seemed Hofstatter’s likely opponent in the finals, but when nothing fell on the break for Webb in the fourth rack, Corr began her comeback. In a seven-game streak that included excellent cue-ball control, great safety play, and three break and runs, Corr moved on to the finals.

Having won seven straight games to get there, it seemed that Corr had adopted the same simple strategy in the single race-to-11 finals: Don’t let an opponent make a 9 ball. And for the first nine racks, she didn’t. In the tenth rack, though, Hofstatter cleared the table with ball in hand on the 1 ball to put herself on the board 9-1. But she’d hit the string for the last time, as Corr, coming out on top of the safety battles that followed in the next two racks, emerged the first-ever winner of a WPBA Satellite Tour event.

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Karen “The Irish Invader” Corr, who was undefeated after two days of play at Borderline Billiards in Bristol, TN, came back from a late loss Sunday to capture first in the WPBA Satellite Tour’s inaugural event.

Results:
1st Karen Corr $3,000
2nd Gerda Hofstatter $2,050
3rd Monica Webb $1,500
4th Julie Kelly $1,250
5th Kim Shaw $1,000
Ewa Laurance
7th Allison Fisher $800
Iris Ranola
9th Kelly Fisher $600
Val Finnie
Line Kjorsvik
Briana Miller
13th Denise Belanger $450
Morgan Steinman
Chelsea Hardwick
Brittany Bryant
17th Megan Smith $300
Tracie Hines
Janet Atwell
Tiffany Nelson-Crain
Stephanie Mitchell
Liz Ford
Liz Lovely
Belinda Calhoun
25th Liz Taylor $200
Lisa Davids
Sueyen Rhee
Julie Mason-Comitini
Mai Scheick
Tina Larsen
Karen Webb
Emily Duddy

by Lea Andrews

Michell Monk topped the points on the Bay Area Amateur Tour before their June 13 event, and after an undefeated day of play that day, Monk remained the points leader. Although local APA championships took several regular ladies from the field, the 12 who gathered for the mixed 8-ball and 9-ball, $240-added event at Stix Billiards in Palm Harbor, FL, were strong and ready for action.

Monk moved through the field and arrived in the winners’ side final four to face Connie Mago, while Helene Caukin faced Sabra MacArthur-Beahn. Monk and Caukin sent Mago and MacArthur-Beahn to the left side of the bracket with scores of 7-2 and 5-2, respectively.

Meanwhile, Nicole Winters was making her way through the one-loss side, taking down with a score of 4-4 powerhouse Leslee Davis-Blaikie, who, as the highest-ranked player in the field, needed eight games in this match. Winters then greeted MacArthur-Beahn as Barbara Ellis met up with Mago, and while Winters went on with a score of 4-2, Ellis fell to Mago 4-3. Winters kept up her streak against Mago, putting her in fourth with a score of 4-2 before meeting up with Caukin, whom Monk had bested in the match for the hot seat 6-3.

With the score at 3-1 in the one-loss semifinal match, Winters was on the hill, while Caukin, who was racing to 6, still needed five games. Caukin won four games in a row, putting the match at hill-hill, and was set to break and run the last 8-ball game, even pocketing the winning 8, but when she scratched, the game and the set went to Winters.

Michell Monk topped the points on the Bay Area Amateur Tour before their June 13 event, and after an undefeated day of play that day, Monk remained the points leader.

Having just come off a tough match, Winters faced another extremely tough competitor. She marked up game one, but it proved to be her only win, as Monk dominated the rest of the match, taking eight in a row to claim first.

Results:
1st Michell Monk $200
2nd Nicole Winters $150
3rd Helene Caukin $90
4th Connie Mago $50

by Skip Maloney

Duane Toney held off a strong bid from the one-loss side by Dianna “Snooky” Rojas to capture first place in the Tri-State Tour stop April 4. The $500-added, B-D handicapped event drew 32 entrants to Master Billiards in Sunnyside, Queens, NY.

Toney was among the winners’ side final four and got into the hot seat match with a 6-3 victory over Wilfred Albay. Alberto Estevez, in the meantime, survived a hill-hill battle against Arturo Reyes to join Toney. Toney was in command from the start of the hot seat match that followed and defeated Estevez 7-1 to wait for Rojas.

Rojas, in the meantime, was busy from among the event’s final 12, defeating Raphael DaBreo in a double-hill contest and Juan Guzman 8-6 for the right to meet Albay, who she then defeated 6-4 to move into the quarterfinals. Dave Jadus, in the meantime, was carving out his own path to the quarterfinals, moving past Brian Hunter, Ron Mason and Reyes in three hill-hill struggles. Rojas dropped Jadus into fourth place 8-6 and squeaked by Estevez in the semifinals 8-7.

Had Rojas reached 6 racks before Toney, the finals would have extended to eight games. Toney, though, made that point moot, defeating Rojas 6-2 to capture the first-place prize.

Duane Toney held off a strong bid from the one-loss side by Dianna “Snooky” Rojas to capture first place in the Tri-State Tour stop April 4.

Results:
1st Duane Toney $650
2nd Dianna Rojas $330
3rd Alberto Estevez $210
4th Dave Jadus $120
5th Wilfred Albay $70
Arturo Reyes
7th Juan Guzman
Ron Mason
9th Raphael DaBreo
Mark Mallari
Andrew Kane
Brian Hunter

by Skip Maloney

Pinegar sent Rousey to the one-loss at the Great Southern Billiard Tour Players Championship.

All four of the matches that determined the final four on the winners’ side of the Players Championship 10-ball event at King St. Billiards in Fayetteville, NC, on Thursday night were nail-biters. Three out of the four were tied about midway through, while the last featured a come-from-behind bid that almost worked. Emerging from the pack of eight were Shane Van Boening, Shannon Daulton, Beau Runningen, and Jonathan Pinegar. At 7 p.m. on Friday night, Van Boening will square off against “The Cannon” as Runningen faces “Hennessee from Tennesee.”

In the match that streamed live over the Internet, courtesy of Spheragon.com, Van Boening and John Morra battled back and forth through multiple ties until it was knotted at five apiece. At that point, Boening edged ahead by two racks, and though Morra managed one more, Van Boening prevailed 9-6. At a table immediately next to theirs, Daulton got a slow start against Marc Vidal, falling behind 3-0. He caught up right away, though, winning five in a row to go up 5-3. It was a lead he never relinquished, though Vidal kept poking away at it. Daulton won four of the final eight games and finished it at 9-7.

Pinegar advanced at the expense of Tony Chohan. They, too, battled back and forth a game at a time until the score reached 5-5. Pinegar then made his move and advanced to 7-5. Chohan won another rack, but Pinegar won two of them and finished it at 9-6.

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At one point in the match between Runningen and Scott Lewis, Runningen had what appeared to be an overwhelming lead of 5-0. But Lewis traded racks through the next four games to make it 7-2 and then embarked on an impressive run that brought him within two at 7-5. Runningen reached the hill at that point, and Lewis answered to make it 8-6. A successful three-rail kick on the 1 and a 3-10 combo saw Runningen join the winners’-side final four.

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Nevel ousted defending champion Van Boening in a tight match at the U.S. Open Championship.

The evening rounds have wound down at the 33rd Annual U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships in Chesapeake, VA, leaving eight players in the winners’-side bracket and eight in the one-loss bracket.

Defending champion Shane Van Boening was eliminated early in the 11 p.m. round by Larry “The Truth” Nevel. Nevel reached the hill but scratched on the 6 ball to give Van Boening another chance at it. “The South Dakota Kid” collected the next two racks to make it 10-9, but he had to jack up on the 7 ball to miss the scratch in the side pocket. Instead, he scratched off the 9 in the corner, and Nevel took the 11-9 victory.

Another elimination match featured Northeastern player Brandon Shuff versus Tyler Edey of Canada. The players traded racks through the first eight games, and then Edey went up to 7-4. Shuff took a quick break and came back to string three racks together. Dry breaks or scratches on the break plagued both of them, bringing the score to 9-all. Edey reached the hill first, and in the final rack, both players traded jump shots on the 4 ball, but Edey prevailed to win 11-9.

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Adam “GQ” Smith went head to head with Warren Kiamco in another one-loss side match. A dispute about Kiamco’s “soft break” marred the beginning, but the score was soon tied at 4-all. Then Smith missed a combo shot, leaving Kiamco an out, which he took advantage of to win the next five racks. Smith collected one more game before Kiamco ran out the set 11-5.

On the Accu-Stats table, Raj Hundal and Donnie Mills matched up. Mills took a commanding 9-4 lead, never leaving Hundal a shot. Mills broke and ran out to reach the hill and then played safe on the 1 ball after his next break. Hundal pocketed the 1 and 2 balls but missed a 3-9 combination and scratched. Mills had little trouble clearing the table to win 11-4.

Tony Chohan went up against former champion Ralf Souquet in the winners’ side, with Souquet taking a strong 6-2 lead. However, Chohan fought back to bring the score to 10-9 Souquet. Chohan pocketed a 2-9 combo to make it hill-hill. He almost scratched on the 1 ball in the final game but pulled it off with a 11-10 win.

Friday’s matches on the winners’ side will feature Filipinos Ronnie Alcano versus Francisco Bustamante, Thorsten Hohmann versus Rodney Morris, Daryl Peach versus Johnny Archer, and Mika Immonen versus Jose Parica. In the one-loss side, Corey Deuel will play Larry Nevel, Donnie Mills plays Tyler Edey, Tony Chohan plays Warren Kiamco, and Ralf Souquet plays Oscar Dominguez.

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J. Pechauer New Jersey State Ladies 9-Ball Championship / South Amboy, NJ
by Skip Maloney

Karen Corr

Karen Corr came from way behind in the finals of the J. Pechauer New Jersey State Ladies’ Championship the weekend of July 12-13 to defeat Iris Ranola and capture the first-place prize. The $3,000-added event, sponsored in part by Heineken, drew 28 players to Prime Time Sports Bar and Grill in South Amboy.
Corr and Ranola met first in the hot seat match, which Corr had reached by defeating Tiffany Nelson 7-2. Ranola had sent My Han Lac west with a 7-5 victory. Corr prevailed as the last woman standing and awaited Ranola’s eventual return.

On the one-loss side, it was Julie Kelly, having just defeated Romana Dokovic, who was waiting for there for Nelson. Monica Webb, on the heels of a 7-3 victory over Megan Minerich, faced Lac. Nelson and Webb dropped Lac and Kelly into a fifth-place tie and then battled each other to hill-hill before Nelson prevailed in the quarterfinal match.

Ranola and Nelson, who’d played in the finals of the JPNEWT Tour stop in New Jersey last month, won by Ranola, battled back and forth in the semifinals. Ranola prevailed 7-5 in the end and turned back for a rematch with Corr.

Ranola entered the finals with a great deal of confidence and jumped out to a quick 7-1 lead. Corr, however, known for her deliberate and determined style of play, took what followed one game at a time and won the next eight games in a row to reach the hill first. Ranola battled back to win the next game and reach double-hill, but Corr won the deciding game.

Results:
1st Karen Corr
2nd Iris Ranola
3rd Tiffany Nelson
4th Monica Webb
5th Julie Kelly
My Han Lac
7th Romana Dokovic
Megan Minerich
9th Sharon O’Hanlon
Asia Cycak
Liz Ford
Bonnie Saritelli