The Mosconi Cup teammates and good friends fought a great battle, with neither giving much away until Hohmann tied the match at 5 with a break and run.  From there, it was all Hohmann as he speared shots left and right to run out from everywhere.  A missed 8 ball by Hohmann gave Feijen another rack to add to his score at 9-6, but two mistakes o­n the part of Feijen and some excellent play by Hohmann gave the German the two racks he needed to register an 11-6 victory.

After former champion Jeremy “Double J” Jones wished both players good luck, the finals began.  It started out badly for Hohmann when he won the lag, broke, ran out, and dogged the 9 ball badly.  From there the situation did not improve much, as Owen’s break was stronger than his opponent’s and Hohmann didn’t get much to shoot at.  Owen, a two-time winner of the Corpus Christi Classic, as well as a frequent winner o­n the Midwest 9-Ball Tour, put a two-pack o­n Hohmann to reach an 8-2 lead.  He scratched o­n his next break, and when Hohmann played safe o­n the 3 ball, Owen jumped and banked it in to the screams of the crowd.  He broke and ran the following rack to reach the hill but came up dry o­n his next break, giving Hohmann o­nly o­ne more rack.  The last game saw Hohmann scratch o­n a very difficult 2 ball, and Owen ran out the remaining balls for the 11-3 victory, winning his first major title of his young career.

Results:

1st Gabe Owen $30,000

2nd Thorsten Hohmann $15,000

3rd Niels Feijen $10,000

4th Corey Deuel $5,000

5th Mika Immonen, Francisco Bustamante $4,000

7th Dave Bollman, Ronnie Wiseman $3,500

9th Earl Strickland, Tony Robles, Ralf Souquet, Erik Hjorliefson $3,000

13th Efren Reyes, Chris Orme, Larry Nevel, Tyler Edey $2,500

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