Earlier in the evening in the o­ne-loss side, Johnny "The Scorpion" Archer played out a difficult and lengthy match with defending champion Ralf Souquet and ultimately triumphed 11-9, which eliminated "The Surgeon."  Niels Feijen defeated straight pool player and New Jersey room owner Jose Garcia 11-9.  Italian superstar Fabio Petroni triumphed over Nick Varner 11-7, sending the o­nly player to win back-to-back titles at the U.S. Open home.  And Efren "The Magician" Reyes defeated George "Ginky" SanSouci by the score of 11-3.

In the later o­ne-loss rounds, Petroni went o­n to stage an amazing victory over Reyes in a tremendous hill-hill match that he won after Reyes pushed out and then was forced to shoot himself.  Left with a shot in the side, Petroni ran out the rack, hesitating o­n the 9 ball before making it cleanly.  In the match between Johnny Archer and Niels Feijen, it was a lengthy and hard-fought battle, but the die-hard fans stayed around to root o­n their favorite player.  However, early in the morning hours, it was Feijen who went o­n to play Rodney Morris after vanquishing Archer by the score of 11-10.

In the match for 5th/6th place between Fabio Petroni and Jose Parica, they were tied the entire match until it reached 8-all.  Parica won the next two to reach the hill, and then when Petroni scratched o­n the 6 ball in the last rack, he conceded the game and match to Parica.  In the last match of the evening, Morris dominated Feijen for the first half of the match until the score was 10-5.  Feijen then initiated a thrilling comeback to make the match 10-9, Morris.  The ill-fated comeback ended when Feijen missed a o­ne ball that set up Morris with an easy o­ne-nine combination.  Parica will play Morris o­n Sunday afternoon at 12 p.m to decide the fourth place finisher.

Sunday's matches will begin at 12 p.m.  The hot seat match is between Keith McCready and Jeremy Jones, who was responsible for knocking Rodney Morris into the o­ne-loss side earlier by the score of 11-7. 

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