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Saturday, 12 April 2008 |
Kostanian Deals Fisher First Loss
WPBA San Diego Classic / Alpine, CA
by InsidePOOL Staff
If reigning Women's Professional Billiards Association (WPBA) San Diego Classic champion Kelly Fisher is going to defend her title for her fourth consecutive win, she will have to do it by coming through the west side of the chart. Late Friday evening at host site Viejas Casino, Fisher suffered a 9-7 loss to Anna Kostanian of New Mexico. To redeem herself and make it to the final 16-player elimination round, Fisher will first have to make it past Dawn Hopkins.
Lopsided scores accompanied the last round of winners’-bracket matches. Allison Fisher continues to do well, having won her match against Vivian “The Texas Tornado” Villareal 9-4. California girl Melissa Herndon dealt former ACUI champ Eleanor Callado a 9-3 defeat, Karen Corr bested Caroline Pao 9-3, and Xiaoting Pan also won her match 9-3 against Kim White.
Farther down on the bracket, Monica Webb defeated Jennifer Chen 9-2, Sarah Ellerby won over Julie Kelly 9-6, and Ga Young Kim sent Gerda “G-Force” Hofstatter to the one-loss side 9-7.
The winners’-side bracket has winnowed down to its final 8,...
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
Fisher Goes Fishing for a Four-Peat
WPBA San Diego Classic / Alpine, CA
by InsidePOOL Staff
Sunny San Diego is hosting the latest stop on the Women’s Professional Billiard Tour, beginning Thursday, April 10 and crowning a winner Sunday, April 13. The San Diego Classic is being hosted by the beautiful Viejas Casino in Alpine, CA, and has a full 64-player field.
Reigning champ at Viejas, Kelly Fisher, will be attempting a four-peat at this event, and so far, so good. Her first match against Gail Grecar she won easily 9-2, but in the second round, she was faced with the formidable Jasmin Ouschan of Austria, who won the 2006 EnjoyPool.com Championships. Though this was a tougher match for Fisher, she came through with flying colors, winning 9-7. Her next match will be against Anna Kostanian.
A pair of 9-1 wins has seen top seed Allison Fisher through the opening two rounds, the first over Melissa Morris and the second over Jennifer Barretta. Fisher will next meet Vivian Villareal, who survived a double-hill thriller against Ewa Laurance in the second round to advance.
Other top-ranked players remain untouched as yet. Ranked fourth on the tour, Karen Corr remains undefeated as...
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
Chang Claims Second Consecutive Guinness 9 Ball Tour Billiards Event
With all four representatives going through to the final day, the Chinese-Taipei domination of the Guinness 9 Ball Tour continues as billiard ace Chang Jung-Lin overcame a stern challenge from compatriot and close friend Wang Hung-Hsiang, 11-7, to secure his second title this year as the Penang leg of Asia's premier pool competition concluded at the packed grand ball room of the G Hotel today.
Still riding the momentum from his impressive semi-final victory against Yang Ching-Shun with a hard-fought 9-6 win, it was actually Taipei's number one ranked player Wang who jumped the gun and took an early 3-1 lead, courtesy of a foul by Chang in the opening rack. Not wanting to let up the pressure, he immediately followed up the opening salvo with table routs in the second and fourth.
But as the reigning Tour champion, a confident Chang was visibly unfazed by the early deficit. Calm and collected, he quietly gathered himself and was finally able to stop the bleeding via some well placed approach shots to get back in contention 2-3.
From there on, lady luck completely turned its back on Wang as multiple errors surfaced...
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
Well-Earned Billiards Win for Garner
Viking Cue 9-Ball Tour / Knoxville, TN
by InsidePOOL Staff
Breaker's Sports Bar and Grill in Knoxville, TN, hosted the Viking Cue 9-Ball Tour’s amateurs-only event April 5, with Lawerence Garner winning after going hill-hill in both sets of the finals against Robert Green. This $1,000-added event had 38 participants.
The Tournament was won by Lawerence Garner after going hill-hill in both sets of the finals against Robert Green who had made his way across the bottom half of the brackets undefeated until the finals.
Garner begin his path to the finals defeating Jason Turner 9-6, Roger Hawkins 9-8, Mike Grace 9-2, and Jimmy Weemes 9-8 before being sent to the one-loss side when he faced Green for the first time 9-8. From there he battled it out with Weemes again in the semifinals, defeating him on the hill.
Green rolled through the bottom of the brackets, defeating Jesse Luttrell 9-6, Paul Derringer 9-8, Derrick Baker 9-0, Mark Nanashee 9-5, and Lawerence Garner 9-8 before his loss in the finals.
Results:
1st Lawerence Garner
2nd Robert Green
3rd Jimmy Weemes
4th Mark Nanashee
5th Brandon Inges
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
Ranola Wins WPBA BCA GenerationPool.com Qualifier
Travels from Philippines to play
Jacoby Cues Great Lakes Tour / Galesburg, IL
by David Hanshaw
During the weekend of April 4-5, Billiards on Main in Galesburg, IL, hosted the Jacoby Cues Great Lakes Tour for the 8th and final stop of the 07-08 season. In a small but talented field, one lady emerged as the player to beat, and that player was Iris Ranola, who traveled all the way from Manila, in the Philippines, to compete in the WPBA BCA GenerationPool.com qualifier.
Ranola started her tournament with a decisive victory over tour season points winner Liz Lovely of Dayton, OH, 7-4, only to follow it up by shutting out her next two opponents, Donna Ferguson 7-0 and Tina Hess 7-0, to take her to Sunday to face Iowa’s Rachel Byrkett in the winners’ side final. Byrkett also failed to stop the determined Ranola, losing 7-4, placing Ranola in the finals. Byrkett, who was also having a good weekend, bounced back with a 7-5 win over Tina Hess in the semifinals to earn a rematch with Ranola in the final. This weekend Ranola would not be stopped and played her way to a 9-5 victory to secure the qualifier and first-place money....
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
Kirkwood Snaps Off Joss Tour Event
Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour / West Hempstead, NY
by Skip Maloney
Jason “The Dark Horse” Kirkwood came back from an early loss on the Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour to defeat hot seat occupant Bob Blackmore in a true double-elimination match-up. The tour stopped in West Hempstead, NY, the weekend of April 5-6 and drew in a total of 35 players.
Early Sunday on the winners’ side of the bracket, Blackmore and tour director Mike Zuglan had moved past Tony Robles and Andonis Brastos, respectively. Blackmore scored a 9-4 win, while Zuglan shut out Brastos 9-0 before falling to Blackmore 9-3 in the winners’-side finals.
On the one-loss side of the bracket, Kirkwood had stayed alive to reach a Sunday morning match against Chuck Altomare, who’d sent him to the one-loss bracket on Saturday in the first place with a 9-5 defeat. Tom Walter, in the meantime, defeated Ariel Rivera by the same score.
Kirkwood and Walter then faced recent arrivals from the winners’ side, Robles and Brastos, defeating them by identical 9-5 scores. They then squared off against each other, with Kirkwood winning 9-4 and moving on to face Zuglan in the...
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