Souquet, who suffered his first loss the evening before to Parica in the hot seat match, met Archer in the semifinals.  The two players were neck-and-neck until the score reached 6-all in the race to 10.  With a couple of errors o­n Souquet’s part and an excellent break-and-run by Archer, soon the 2003 Player of the Year was the 10-6 winner.

The final match between Archer and Parica was a single race to 10.  Archer took a strong 4-1 lead over “the leader of the invasion” and then upped it to 7-2.  Again, Parica never really got the chance to get in the groove of things, and Archer’s play was so effortless that the outcome seemed apparent.  Although Archer missed a long cut o­n the 5 ball to allow Parica to get to 4, he was soon o­n the hill.  With a smooth stroke and a smile, Archer broke and ran out the last rack to win the final match 10-4.

Results:

1st Johnny Archer $10,000

2nd Jose Parica $5,000

3rd Ralf Souquet $3,500

4th Jose Garcia $2,500

5th Luc Salvas, Chris Szuter $2,000

7th Jeremy Jones, Fabio Petroni $1,500

9th Tony Robles, Tommy Kennedy, Frankie Hernandez, Troy Frank $1,000

13th Hunter Lombardo, John Schmidt, Danny Harriman, Mika Immonen $750

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