Putnam and Petroni battled it out in the hot seat match, but “it all came down to the lag,” as Putnam put it.  At hill-hill, Petroni played a great if rather unconventional out to win 10-9.  The semifinals seesawed to 4 each before Putnam pulled ahead to an 8-5 lead.  Jones put a couple more games under his belt, but it was Putnam who won 10-7 after Jones fouled o­n the 6 ball in the last rack.

Petroni took an early two-game lead in the final match and kept it until Putnam knotted the score at 4.  He then turned the tables o­n the Italian and created a lead of his own, moving up to 8-5.  A missed 6 ball by “The Love Sponge” gave Petroni another rack, but an excellent long-rail kick shot o­n the 1 ball as a retort to a Petroni safety put Putnam o­n the hill.  Petroni broke the last rack and came up dry, and when Putnam ran out to the 8 ball, he conceded the match, making Putnam the 10-6 victor.

Results:

1st Shawn Putnam $10,000

2nd Fabio Petroni $5,600

3rd Jeremy Jones $4,000

4th Charlie Bryant $2,800

5th Joey Korsiak, Gabe Owen $2,200

7th Robb Saez, Charlie Williams $1,800

9th Dennis Hatch, Tony Robles, Johnny Archer, Santos Sambajon Jr. $1,600

13th Thorsten Hohmann, Brandon Ashcraft, Larry Nevel, Shannon Daulton $1,400

17th Troy Frank, Danny Basavich, John Binion, Bill Ferguson, Al Lapena, Corey Deuel, Tony Crosby, Jose Garcia $1,200

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