Alfredo Aces Inaugural Viking Cue Amateur Tour Event

Brian Alfredo owns the bragging rights of being the first-ever, first-place winner o­n The Viking Cue Amateur 9-Ball Tour.  The tour's inaugural season got underway with a field of 62 players at Fiddlestix Billiard Café in Canton, OH, o­n August 22, 2004. With the tournament's format having all the events as o­ne-day affairs, many players feared that they might be in for a late night finish. That wasn't the case as tournament director Matt Janis moved the tournament along quickly, completing the event in just over 10 hours.

Brian Alfredo took the hot seat with a 5-3 win over Cordell King, who found an 'in-stroke' Don Wells waiting for him o­n the o­ne-loss side.  A third-round defeat by Jim Davis sent Wells to the o­ne-loss side, where he strung together eight matches, rolling over King 5-0 to set up the final match with Alfredo. 

It looked like the 5-0-win over King must have drained the last drop from Wells' gas tank because he was o­n the receiving end of a 5-0 drubbing from Alfredo in the final match.  Alfredo went o­n to make history as the first person to ever win top honors o­n the new Viking Cue Amateur 9-Ball Tour

Results:
1st Brian Alfredo $765
2nd Don Wells $600
3rd Cordell King $270
4th Ben Zimmer $185
5th Kurt England, Steve Helline $100
7th Chris Mitchell, Ralph Chomor $70
9th Aaron Czetli, Trey Miller, Jim Davis, Dan Capestrain $50

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