U.S. Open Bar Table Championship Update

By Mark Whiteside

            We are down to three players left in the 9-ball division, which will be ending later this evening. In the 8 PM matches, Edwin Montal of British Columbia defeated Glenn Atwell, recently relocated from Portland, OR, to Vancouver, BC, by the score of 9-5 to finish in a 5^th/6^th tie. Jose Parica beat Tyler Edy of Calgary, Alberta, 9-8 when Edy did not contact his object ball o­n a jump shot. The resulting ball-in-hand gave Parica a simple 2-9 combo for the game and match. Edy finished with a 5^th/6^th tie, also.

            With four players left, the matches were between Jeff Heath of Reno and Scott Tollefson of Colorado for the king seat and Parica against his countryman Montal o­n the o­ne-loss side. Tollefson never could seem to get anything going, while Heath played solid, unspectacular pool, missing very few shots en route to a 9-2 victory and o­ne seat in the finals. Meanwhile, Jose Parica was giving Montal the same kind of treatment, coming out o­n top of a 9-4 score and eliminating Montal, who finished fourth.