Across the way, Cliff Joyner, a great player of all games o­n the tab le, and Johnny Archer battled it out.  The game was a tight o­ne at first, but ultimately Joyner began pulling away.  Archer missed a delicate cut o­n the 2 ball in the side, and Joyner ran the rest of the balls out to tie at 9-all.  After that, he made a 3-9 combo to get o­n the hill and ran the next rack easily for the win.  And the last to finish, Marcus Chamat of Sweden was engaged in a lengthy battle with Jimmy Reid (pictured to the right), a player local to Nashville, and lost by a surprising 11-5. 

The winners' bracket matches will resume tomorrow evening at 8:30 PM and will include o­nly 8 players.  Those two matches will be Cliff Joyner versus Bryce Avila and Shannon Daulton versus Scott Hafley.  At 10 PM will be Shawn Putnam versus Jimmy Reid and Rafael Martinez versus Gabe Owen.  The o­ne-loss side still has 32 players.