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Mike
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2022-23 Season
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SOSSEI
WINS SECOND STRAIGHT JOSS TOUR STOP |
L-R Jeremy Sossei, Billiards
on the Boulevard Owner Andrea Duvall and Bucky Souvanthong
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The Joss NE 9-Ball Tour travelled to Utica,
NY for its 12th stop of the season at Utica Billiards on the
Boulevard on March 11th – 12th, where Jeremy Sossei
scored his second consecutive tour title.
Sossei advanced through a field of 59 players, with an undefeated
run on Saturday. To no one’s surprise, Sossei was joined
in the final four undefeated players by the top 3 players
on the tour points list, Ron Casanzio, Ray McNamara and Bucky
Souvanthong.
Sossei defeated Casanzio in his first Sunday morning match
9-6, while Souvanthong upended McNamara 9-4. Souvanthong then
defeated Sossei for the hot-seat in a hill-hill match.
On the one loss side, the story was Bruce Carroll. Carroll
had lost his first match of the event to Nick Coppola, but
had bounced back with nine straight match wins on the left
side of the board. After a hill-hill win over McNamara, Carroll
was finally stopped by Casanzio 7-1, and had to settle for
4th place.
The semi-final match was a repeat of their match earlier
in the day, and Casanzio still didn’t have an answer
as to how to beat Sossei. The rematch went hill-hill, before
Sossei pocketed the final ball.
While Casanzio had not been able to avenge his loss to Sossei,
Sossei was able to avenge his earlier loss, as he defeated
Souvanthong in the first set of the finals 9-7. The second
set was a 7-0 whitewash, with Sossei scoring the win and earning
his second straight tour title.
Sunday’s second chance tournament saw Mehdi Bahloul
drop his second match of the day to Tito Ortiz, before coming
back for a nine match winning streak of his own. Bahloul defeated
Nate Marshall in the double elimination finals 3-1 and 3-0,
for his first Joss Tour second chance event win.
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Pat Fleming, Snookers room owner Paul Troxell and Jeremy Sossei |
SOSSEI
HOLDS OFF PAT FLEMING AT SNOOKERS IN PROVIDENCE |
When Pat Fleming first announced
that he wanted to step away from the “day to day”
workings of Accu-Stats Video Productions, one of the reasons
that he cited was the desire to spend time working more on
his pool game. Apparently that work is paying off, as Fleming
cruised through day one of last weekends New England Pool
& Billiard Fall of Fame 9-Ball Open at Snookers in Providence,
Rhode Island on March 4th – 5th undefeated.
Fleming made his way through day one of the field of 109
players with convincing wins over Dave Fontaine, Luca Bares,
Steve Tavernier and Jim Prather. Sunday matches were looking
like a repeat of the day one performance, as Fleming defeated
Kevin Bauccio and Pete Genovese to get to the hot-seat match.
The hot-seat match turned out to be a clash of two different
types of “experience”. Fleming used to run 100
balls every day in practice, but that practice was many years
ago. Sossei has “current experience” on the Joss
Tour, with well over 30 tour stop wins under his belt. Sossei
came out on top of the hot-seat match with a 7-2 win to send
Fleming to the one loss side.
On the left side of the board, Fleming ran into another tour
regular, in the form of tour points leader Ron Casanzio. Casanzio
has even more Joss Tour titles than Sossei, and just keeps
winning. Fleming came through in the semi-final match though,
and eliminated Casanzio in 3rd place 7-6.
The rematch between Sossei and Fleming in the finals looked
to be just about complete with Sossei holding a 6-4 lead.
Fleming wasn’t done though, as he came back to win three
straight games, to win the first set 7-6. Sossei took a break
and gave himself a pep talk. “ I took a bathroom break
after the first set and I was thinking to myself if I play
solid I will win” Sossei remembered. Sossei indeed did
play solid and he did win, by the score of 7-4 in the second
set.
Looking back after the event, Sossei had nothing but compliments
for Fleming’s play all weekend. ““Pat was
playing very solid. I don’t really remember him missing
many balls on that tight table” said Sossei. “I
hope when I’m his age, I’m playing half as good
as he is”.
In Sunday’s second chance event, Jordan Emerson went
undefeated through a field of 21 players to win his first
career second chance title. Emerson defeated Mike Salerno
for the hot-seat 3-1 and then defeated Brian Tierney 3-2,
in the first set of the finals.
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NICK
CHARETTE GOES UNDEFEATED FOR FIRST CAREER JOSS TOUR WIN |
L-R Nick Charette and Ron
Casanzio
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The Joss NE 9-Ball Tour kicked off the second
half of it’s 2022/2023 season with a field of 51 players
competing at the Northeast 9-Ball Open XXXIV at Sharpshooters
Billiards and Sports Pub in Amsterdam, NY on February 18th
– 19th.
The field included four of the top five players on the tour’s
points list, with only 4th place Nate Marshall missing. Even
with that firepower in the event, it was Canada’s Nick
Charette who advanced through the field undefeated to score
his first career Joss NE 9-Ball Tour title.
Charette made it clear that he meant business this weekend
with his first three match wins (Brian Namulik, Aro Majumder
and Ed Culhane) coming with a combined score of 27-3. He was
tested in his next two, but still scored comfortable wins
over Jordan Turner and #3 on the points list, Bucky Souvanthong.
Charette really made a statement on Sunday with a 9-0 whitewash
over Dan Sharlow for the hot-seat.
On the one loss side, Ron Casanzio was showing everyone why
he is the #1 player on the points list this season. After
dropping a hill-hill match against Geoff Montgomery on Saturday,
Casanzio strung together nine straight wins on the left side
of the board to earn his shot at Charette in the finals.
While on paper, most would have considered Casanzio a big
favorite, simply based on his experience in Joss Tour finals,
Charette was not to be denied as the cruised to a 9-6 win
in the first and only set of the finals.
Sunday’s second chance tournament saw Rohit Aggarwal
hold off a charge from Joe Wysocki to win the second set of
the finals 3-1 for first place. Wysocki lost to Mike Renshaw
in the final four on the winners side, but won four straight,
including a 3-2 decision against Aggarwal in the first set
of the finals. It wasn’t enough though, with Aggarwal
following up his hot-seat win over Renshaw with a second set
in against Wysocki and first place.
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JAYSON
SHAW WINS RECORD NINTH TURNING STONE TITLE |
With a much tougher field to battle
with this time, Jayson Shaw still persevered to win a record
9th Turning Stone Classic as the Turning Stone Classic XXXVI
in Verona, NY on January 5th – 8th.
Shaw saw his route to a 9th title getting
a bit tougher, early on the final day, after he dropped a
9-6 match to Skyler Woodward. While this match was going on,
Jeremy Sossei was making quick work of Joss Tour regular Kevin
West. Sossei would find himself on the wrong side of another
quick match in the next round, dropping a 9-1 decision to
Woodward for the hot-seat.
Shaw got to work on the left side of
the board, where he eliminated Japan’s Naoyuki Oi 9-6.
It was in the next round that Shaw truly got into his usual
dominating style at the table. He beat Fedor Gorst for the
second time in the event, this time by a lopsided 9-2 scoreline.
In the semi-final match, he handed Jeremy Sossei an identical
9-2 beating, to secure his rematch with Woodward in the finals.
The finals were one race to thirteen
and Woodward came out of the gate strong, and quickly held
a 3-0 lead. A three rack lead is nothing to players of this
level, and Shaw made up the 3 rack deficit to tie the match
at 3-3. Woodward scratched on the break at 4-4 and Shaw made
him pay for that mistake in a big way as he ran out to a 7-4
lead. Woodward played a great 3-9 combo in the twelfth rack,
only to see the cue ball follow the 9-ball into the pocket.
That mistake cost him two racks as Shaw extended the lead
to 9-4.
Woodward won two racks to claw back
within three racks at 9-6, but a missed 2-ball by Shaw in
the sixteenth rack led to another three racks for Shaw and
he held the lead at 12-6. Woodward got one more opportunity
when Shaw failed to get out in the nineteenth rack. He made
the most of that opportunity as he ran that rack out for a
12-7 scoreline. Woodward then broke and ran the following
rack. And the next. And the next. Before the fans in attendance,
and watching the live stream online, knew it, the score was
tied at 12-12, with Woodward breaking. Woodward would not
be able to complete the comeback though, as he missed a touchy
six-ball, leaving Shaw a relatively simple four balls to run
for his third straight, and ninth overall, Turning Stone Classic
title.
Shaw celebrated with the $10,000 first
place price, while Woodward settled for $6,500 in second place
prize money, as well as a nice bump on the Nineball Rankings
list.
Sunday also included the second chance
tournament, that saw Landon Hollingsworth defeat Dave Fernandez
in the finals for first place.
The Joss NE 9-Ball Tour will kick off
the second half of the 2022/2023 with the Northeast 9-Ball
Open at Sharpshooters Billiards in Amsterdam, NY on March
4th – 5th. The next Turning Stone Classic event is scheduled
for August 31st – September 3rd, once again at the Turning
Stone Resort and Casino in Verona, NY.
Here is the complete order of finish
for Mike Zuglan's Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour's, "Turning
Stone Classic XXXVI 9-Ball Open", which was held January
5 - 8, 2023. The event was $25,000 added with a total prize
fund of $47,000. There was a full field of 128 players. All
players were paid in cash immediately upon their elimination
from the event!
Complete
Player List
1st $10,000 Jayson Shaw
2nd $6,500 Skyler Woodward
3rd $4,000 Jeremy Sossei
4th $2,700 Fedor Gorst (Rus)
5/6th $2,000 each - Kevin West, Naoyuki Oi (Japan)
7/8th $1,600 each - Mika Immonen, Vitaliy Patsura (Ukraine)
9/12th $1,200 each - Thorsten Hohmann, Billy Thorpe, Dan Hewitt
(Can), Johnny Morra (Can)
13/16th $950 each - Hunter Lombardo, Mieszko Fortunski (Pol),
Shane Wolford, Dylan Spohr,
17/24th $599 each - Carlin Sanderson (Can), Jesse Engel, Johnny
Archer, Nick Charette (Can), Donny Mills, Frank Hernandez,
Bart Czapla (Pol), Erik Hjorleifson (Can)
25/32nd $400 each - Matt Krah, Earl Herring, Bucky Souvanthong,
Oscar Dominguez, Lukas Fracasso-Verner, Nick Antonakos, Ron
Casanzio, Demetrius Jelatis
33/48th - Tony Antone,
Jimmy Rivera, Holden Chin, Landon Hollingsworth, Jonathan
Smith, Yesid Garibello, Alain Gelinas (Can), Dominic Byrne
(Can), Josh Thiele,
Kevin Guimond, Kristina Tkach (Rus), Troy Deocharran, Dave
Dreidel, Greg Antonakos, Suad Kantarevic, Tom Zippler
49/64th - Kyle Akaloo (S.A), Kerry McAuliffe,
Tom McGonagle, Ray McNamara, Len Gianfrate, Alvin Thomas,
Rich Britt, Barry Hetherington (Can), Brian Vu, Caroline Pao,
Shawn Wilkie, Drew Herbert, Brent Boemmels, Nick Copploa,
Mike Yednak, Randy Labonte
65/96th - Dave Fernandez, Joey Cicero (Can),
Willy Oney, Pat Fleming, Ed Culhane, Larry Phlegar, Derek
Cunningham, Jerome Rockwell, Paul Rozonewski, Henry Cha, Sean
Santoro, Tom Acciavatti, Dave Shlemperis, Del Sim, Gene Hunt,
Dave Callaghan, Shawn Jackson, Jed Jecen, Jesse Docalavich,
Marko Kam, Fred Gokey, Alan Gordon, Garrett Vaughan, John
Vitale, Eric Cloutier (Can), Nate Marshall, Aaron Greenwood,
Brad Guthrie (Can), Matt Harricharan, Dave Mills, Paul Dryden,
Greg Bombard
97/128th - Andrea
Duvall, Brandon Shuff, Tom Brinton, Tom Gildea, Steven W Smith,
Jim Kearney, Mike Giurleo, Bobby Hilton, Dave Copperwheat,
Ray Carey, Bruce Gordon. Don Polo, Brian Tierney, George Poltorak,
Mike Toohig, Jordan Turner, Jim Udischas, Connor Vandreason,
Dave Powis, Grayson Vaughan, Jim Prather, Marc Dionne, Shawn
Wescott, Rick Bentley, Bob Cunningham, Frank Wolak, Linda
Cheung, Suzzie Wong, Glen Van Court, Jacques Bouchard (Can),
Rick Miller, Jay Chiu
Our Second Chance event had a field of 21 players
with a total prize fund of $1,100.
1st $500 Landon Hollingsworth
2nd $300 Dave Fernandez
3/4th $150 each - Drew Herbert, Tom Zippler
$1,900 Joss Cue raffle winner,
Suzzie Wong
$1,900 Joss Cue raffle winner, Tim Spohr
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Carlo Biado, Holden Chin and Mika Immonen |
FRACASSO-VERNER
STOPS LOSS-SIDE CHALLENGE BY SOUTO TO CLAIM OCEAN STATE 9-BALL
CHAMPIONSHIP |
Lukas Fracasso-Verner’s
victory at the 34th Annual Ocean State 9-Ball Championships,
held under the auspices of the Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour
at Snooker’s in Providence, RI this past weekend (Nov.
12-13), put him over the top, making 2022 his best earnings
year since his recorded earnings began seven years ago. Though
he didn’t have to face the event’s defending champion
and winner of the previous stop (#8) on the Joss Tour, Bucky
Souvanthong, he did have to contend with Spain’s Jonas
Souto, who was defeated by Souvanthong in a winners’
side quarterfinal and came back to challenge Fracasso-Verner
in the finals. Souto was looking for his first reported (to
us) win, anywhere, even though entering the tournament, he’d
already earned (primarily in Europe) over three times the
amount that Fracasso-Verner has earned in 2022. The $5,000-added
event ($500 to a Second Chance Tournament) drew a full field
of 128 entrants to Snooker’s.
Fracasso-Verner’s seven-match trip to the winners’
circle got him by Ashley Benoit, Derek Cunningham, Ray McNamara
(double hill), Barry Hetherington and Mhet Vergara, before
coming up against Bob Forchilli in one of the winners’
side semifinals. Jared Demalia, in the meantime, defeated
Mike Zhu, Mike Crema, Chad Bazinet, Moritz Neuhausen and Matt
Jarrell to arrive at his winners’ side semifinal versus
defending champ, Souvanthong, who had just sent the eventual
runner-up, Souto, to the loss side 7-4.
Fracasso-Verner gave up just one rack to Forchilli in advancing
to the hot seat match. Demalia gave up four to Souvanthong
and joined him. In the first of two straight double hill matches
that he faced to claim the title, Fracasso-Verner first claimed
the hot seat over Demalia.
On the loss side, Souvanthong ran into Germany’s Neuhausen,
who, earlier in the month, had finished 9th in both the American
14:1 Straight Pool Championships and the following week’s
International Open, before packing his bags and heading north
to New England. Neuhausen had followed his loss to Demalia
with victories over four opponents by an aggregate score of
20-4; Beau Powers (5-2), Frank Hernandez (1), Mhet Vergara
(1) and Suad Kantarevic (1).
Jonas Souto had followed his loss to Souvanthong with victories
over Jaydev Zaveri (1) and Tom Zippler (2) to pick up Forchilli.
He downed Forchilli 5-1 to draw Neuhausen, who’d battled
Souvanthong to double hill before spoiling the potential Souto/Souvanthong
rematch. .
There was a bit of an exclamation point to the two matches
that eventually put Souto into the finals against Fracasso-Verner.
He arrived at the final match having not given up a single
rack to either of his previous two opponents, shutting out
Neuhausen in the quarterfinals and Jared Demalia in the semifinals.
He battled to double hill in the finals but Fracasso-Verner
dropped the last 9-ball and claimed the event title, his second
of the Joss NE Tour’s 2022 season.
Tour director Mike Zuglan thanked Regina and Steve Goulding,
along with their Snooker’s staff for their hospitality,
ongoing support of the tour and the live stream that was provided
for this event. He also noted the continuing support of title
sponsor Joss Cues, Turning Stone Resort Casino, Simonis Cloth,
Poolonthenet.com, AZBilliards, Aramith, Billiards Press, and
World Class Cue Care.
The 34th Annual Ocean State 9-Ball Championships were the
last 2022 event of the ‘22/’23 season. The next
stop on the tour, scheduled for the weekend of January 5-8,
2023 will be Turning Stone Classic XXXVI, as always, hosted
by the Turning Stone Resort & Casino in Verona, NY. The
field for this event is full, but Mike Zuglan is taking names
on the waiting list, for players interested in competing in
this Matchroom Pool Nineball Ranking event. Zuglan can be
reached at 518-356-7163.
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SOUVANTHONG
WINS FIRST JOSS TOUR STOP OF NEW SEASON |
L-R Nate Marshall, Diamond
Billiards Owner Fran Imburgia and Bucky Souvanthong
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Bucky Souvanthong returned to the Joss NE
9-Ball Tour’s winners circle with an undefeated run
through a field of thirty five players at Diamond Billiards
in Rochester, New York on November 5th – 6th.
Souvanthong’s path on Saturday included wins Frank
Wolak, Nabil Lazouzi and Sean Zeng. Souvanthong had three
matches again on Sunday, with two of them against Nate Marshall.
The first match against Marshall was a 9-6 win for the hot-seat,
and after Marshall eliminated Ron Casanzio in the semi-final
match 7-4, the second match against Marshall was a 9-5 win
in the final match.
In the second chance tournament on Sunday, Rohit Aggarwal
won two out of three matches against Tito Ortiz, once in the
hot-seat match and two more times in the finals where they
split two 3-1 matches.
The Joss NE 9-Ball Tour will be at Snookers in Providence,
RI for the 34th Ocean State 9-Ball Championship.
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Stop #5
L-R Ron Casanzio with room owner Andrea Duvall and Alex
Bausch |
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Stop #6
L-R Ron Casanzio, Brickhouse Billiards Manager Chloe Romanyk
and Kyle Akaloo |
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Stop #7
L-R Dave Hall, American Pool & Billiards Owner Jerry
Giutard and Ray McNamara |
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BAUSCH,
AKALOO AND MCNAMARA WIN JOSS TOUR TITLES |
The Joss NE 9-Ball Tour is on a roll with a new winner each
week. Different than previous seasons where one or two players
dominated the season with multiple title wins, the 2022 /
2023 Joss NE 9-Ball Tour has seen a different winner at each
stop. That record continued through October with Alex Bausch
winning his first career tour stop at Utica Billiards on the
Boulevard on October 15th – 16th, Kyle Akaloo earning
his first career tour stop win at Brickhouse Billiards in
N. Syracuse on October 22nd – 23rd, and then Ray McNamara
winning his first title of the year at American Pool &
Billiards on October 29th – 30.
Alex Bausch’s win on October 15th – 16th kicked
off with an undefeated run to the hot-seat match, where he
beat Dan Sharlow 9-5. Sharlow would not make it back to face
Bausch in the finals, as Ron Casanzio was tearing through
the one loss side and defeated Sharlow 7-5 in the semi-final
match.
Casanzio had lost to Bausch early in the day on Saturday,
but won seven straight matches to get to the double elimination
finals. Casanzio quickly extended that run of wins to eight,
with a 9-2 win over Bausch in the first set of the finals,
but Bausch took control in the second set and scored a 7-2
win for his first career Joss Tour Stop.
The October 22nd – 23rd tour stop at Brickhouse Billiards
looked a lot like the event a week before. This time, it was
South Africa’s Kyle Akaloo who defeated Casanzio on
Saturday as part of his run to the hot-seat match. Akaloo
defeated Qays Kolee for the hot-seat 9-6, and Kolee found
Casanzio on another winning streak on the left side of the
board. This time, Casanzio’s run was only five consecutive
wins, including a 7-2 win over Kolee, to put Casanzio in his
second final match in as many weeks.
Casanzio won the first set of the finals 9-7, but faltered
again in the second set, dropping that match 7-3 for Akaloo’s
first career Joss Tour win.
The October 29th – 30th tour stop at American Pool
& Billiards in Portland Maine saw Dave Hall run through
the right side of the brackets and score a 9-3 win over Shane
Cote to take the hot-seat.
Cote, then dropped a heart-breaking 7-6 match against tour
regular Ray McNamara, who had lost his Saturday match against
Hall 9-8. McNamara strung together five straight wins on the
left side of the board and got the finals underway with a
9-4 win over hot-seat holder Hall. While two players had been
unable to complete the double dip the previous two events,
McNamara was successful in his attempt this time, with a 7-5
win over Hall in the second set of the finals for McNamara’s
first win on the tour since June of last year.
The Joss NE 9-Ball Tour will be at Diamond Billiards in Rochester,
NY this weekend for tour stop number 8, with another $1500
added main event and $500 added second chance tournament.
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KOLEE
WINS SECOND CAREER JOSS TOUR STOP AT SHARPSHOOTERS IN NEW YORK |
L-R Qais Kolee and Bucky
Souvanthong
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Four events into last season on the Joss
NE 9-Ball Tour, Bucky Souvanthong had played in all four final
matches and won half of the stops. This season is a different
story though, as the tour crowned a fourth different champion
at Sharpshooters Billiards & Sports Pub in Amsterdam,
NY on October 8th – 9th.
Souvanthong did go through Saturday without a loss, joining
Ron Casanzio, Qais Kolee and Nate Marshall on the winners
side on Sunday morning. Souvanthong sent Casanzio to the left
side of the board 9-6 on Sunday morning, while Kolee did the
same to Marshall 9-4. The hot-seat match went to Souvanthong
9-6 and it looked like he might notch his first tour stop
of the season.
Nate Marshall was waiting for Kolee on the one loss side
after wins over Barry Hetherington (who had been riding a
four match winning streak) and Casanzio, but Kolee made quick
work of him 7-2 to book the rematch with Souvanthong in the
finals.
The final match was not just a rematch from the hot-seat
match, but it was also a rematch from the final match of the
Northeast 9-Ball Open XXXII at Sharpshooters back in February
of 2020, when Kolee beat Souvanthong in the first set of the
finals 9-4 for his first Joss Tour win. The first set of the
finals this time was also a 9-4 scoreline with Kolee winning
again. That left one race to seven to determine the winner,
and it was Kolee with a hill-hill win for his second tour
stop win and first of the new 2022/2023 season.
Sundays second chance event saw Tom Acciavatti get off to
a slow start with a 3-0 loss to Aaron Greenwood in the first
round, but Acciavatti quickly got things under control and
rattled off eight straight wins, including back to back wins
over Mark Creamer in the finals, for the tournament win.
The Joss NE 9-Ball Tour will be at Utica Billiards on the
Boulevard in Utica, NY this weekend for another $1500/$500
added event.
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IMMONEN
OVER BIADO AT ALL STAR JOSS TOUR STOP |
Mika Immonen won an all-star
Joss NE 9-Ball Tour stop over the October 1st/2nd weekend
at Raxx Pool Room & Grill in West Hempstead, NY.
With the US Open and International 9-Ball events coming up
later in the month, some of the best players in the world
are making their way to the east coast, and this event saw
it’s fair share of them. Immonen was joined by World
Champion Carlo Biado, recent Michigan Open runner-up Robbie
Capito and Predator Canada Open Champion Chia Hua Chen (Amber)
just to name a few.
Capito won his first match, a 9-6 decision over room owner
Holden Chen, but then dropped a hill-hill match against Nick
Torraca. Torraca would then lose his next one to tour regular
Mhet Vergara 9-2. The win over Torraca moved Vergara into
Sunday’s matches undefeated, where he joined Immonen,
Biado and Chen.
Immonen had scored four comfortable wins on Saturday, with
the most games he allowed to any one opponent being the five
racks that South Africa’s Kyle Akaloo won in the last
match of the day. Sunday proved to be a bit more challenging
for Immonen as Vergara took him to hill-hill on Sunday morning
before Immonen could pocket the case 9-ball. In the other
winner’s side match on Sunday morning, Biado scored
a one-sided 9-4 win over Chen. The clash between Immonen and
Biado for the hot-seat was another close one, with Immonen
prevailing 9-7.
On the one loss side, Chen defeated reigning Under 23 World
Champion Moritz Neuhausen from Germany, 7-3 and then defeated
another tour regular, Alex Osipov, 7-5. Her next match, against
Biado in the semi-final, didn’t go any better than their
first meeting, with Biado winning 7-3.
Fans in attendance might have been expecting another epic
battle between Immonen and Biado in the finals, but Immonen
had other ideas. He took complete control of the match early
and ran away to a 9-3 win in one set.
Sunday’s second chance tournament saw Holden Chin with
an undefeated run to first place. Chin had wins over Mikhail
Kim, Pat Byrne, John Francisco, America’s #1 WPBA player
Caroline Pao and Mike Renshaw by a combined scoreline of 15-3.
The Joss NE 9-Ball Tour will be back in action this weekend
at Sharp Shooters Billiards & Sports Pub in Amsterdam,
NY for another $1500/$500 added main event and second chance
tournament.
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KEVIN
GUIMOND SCORES FIRST CAREER JOSS TOUR WIN |
Kevin Guimond
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With two events in the books for the 2022/2023
Joss NE 9-Ball Tour season, the tour has now crowned two first
time event winners. Kevin Guimond avenged a hot-seat match
loss to local young gun Lukas Fracasso-Verner to set him up
for the double dip win in the finals of the September 24-25
tour stop at Yale Billiards.
Guimond went undefeated on Saturday with comfortable wins
over Joe Raccio, Mike Toohig, Marc Dionne and Rick Matarazzo.
Coming back on the winners side on Sunday were Guimond, Ray
McNamara, Aaron Greenwood and Fracasso-Verner. Guimond scored
a 9-5 win over McNamara and Fracasso-Verner scored a 9-2 win
over Greenwood. The hot-seat match went to Fracasso-Verner
by the score of 9-4.
Alex Bausch was waiting for Guimond on the left side of the
board. Bausch had lost to Fracasso-Verner in the last round
of matches on Saturday, but put together a three match winning
streak to get to the semi-final matchup with Guimond. This
match would be the end of the run for Bausch, with Guimond
scoring a 7-3 win.
Guimond won the first set of the double elimination finals
by the same 9-4 scores from his earlier match with Fracasso-Verner
and then finished off the double dip with a 7-5 win in the
second set to earn his first career Joss NE 9-Ball Tour win.
Sundays second chance tournament also saw a double dip in
the finals, with Steve Mack coming back from a second round
loss to Mike Renshaw to score a total of seven straight wins,
including back to back 3-2 wins over Steve Sutton in the finals.
The Joss NE 9-Ball Tour is back this coming October 1 –
2 weekend at Raxx Pool Room in West Hempstead, New York.
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TJ’s Classic Billiards owner Steve Reynolds, Alex Osipov,
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DAVE HALL
WINS FIRST JOSS TOUR TITLE AT MAINE EVENT XIV |
The Joss NE 9-Ball Tour kicked
off their 2022/2023 season with The Maine Event XIV at TJ’s
Classic Billiards in Waterville, Maine on September 17th –
18th, and crowned a first time tour stop winner in local favorite
Dave Hall.
Hall, from nearby Portland Maine, is one of the top players
in the area and always does well when the Joss Tour comes
to town. With all of that success though, he still had yet
to win a tour stop. Hall kicked the weekend off with a hill-hill
win over Doug Brown, and then got comfortable with wins over
Mike Perry (9-1), Cody Porter (9-4) and Ray McNamara (9-5)
to finish undefeated for the day.
Sunday kicked off with Hall taking on Alex Osipov for the
hot-seat. In another hill-hill thriller, Osipov sent Hall
to the left side of the board 9-8.
Ray McNamara was waiting for Hall on the one the loss side
but was still unable to win more than five racks in their
rematch, and lost the semi-final match to Hall 7-5. That set
up Hall and Osipov for a rematch in the finals.
Being a true double elimination tournament, Hall would have
to beat Osipov twice if he wanted to win his first Joss Tour
title, and he did just that. Hall won the first set 9-7 and
then the second set 7-5 for the tournament win.
Sunday’s second chance event saw Jeff Mosimann hold
off an attempt by Doug Brown to duplicate Hall’s double
dip. Mosimann took the hot-seat with a 3-0 win over John Francis.
Brown won the first set of the final match 3-1, but dropped
the second set 3-2 for Mosimann’s victory.
The Joss NE 9-Ball Tour will be back in action this weekend
with stop 2 of the 2022/2023 season at Yale Billiards in Wallingford,
Ct.
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