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Ranola Wins WPBA BCA GenerationPool.com Qualifier Travels from Philippines to play Jacoby Cues Great Lakes Tour / Galesburg, IL by David Hanshaw During the weekend of April 4-5, Billiards on Main in Galesburg, IL, hosted the Jacoby Cues Great Lakes Tour for the 8th and final stop of the 07-08 season. In a small but talented field, one lady emerged as the player to beat, and that player was Iris Ranola, who traveled all the way from Manila, in the Philippines, to compete in...

Kirkwood Snaps Off Joss Tour Event
Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour / West Hempstead, NY
by Skip Maloney
Jason “The Dark Horse” Kirkwood came back from an early loss on the Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour to defeat hot seat occupant Bob Blackmore in a true double-elimination match-up. The tour stopped in West Hempstead, NY, the weekend of April 5-6 and drew in a total of 35 players.
Early Sunday on the winners’ side of the bracket, Blackmore and tour director Mike Zuglan had moved past…

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Strickland Salvages World Pool Championship Hopes Earl Strickland put on a dazzling display of pocket billiards as he won nine racks back-to-back to salvage his 2007 World Pool Championship hopes at the expense of China’s Li He-wen. Strickland had earlier rolled over against Malaysia’s Alan Tan, 9-2, in his opening game but followed that up with a lackluster 9-6 win...

Junior Billiards Champions Take Aim at World Title The Billiard Education Foundation (BEF) is excited to announce the junior players who have earned their right to represent the United States in the 2007 World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) Junior World 9-Ball Championships, November 26– 30, 2007, in Willingen, Germany. The Billiard Congress of America (BCA), as the North American member to the...

Pinoy Billiards Pair Commands the Day There was double joy for Pinoy billiard hopefuls Marlon Manalo and Jeff De Luna as they both battled their way through to the last 64 of the 2007 Philippines World Pool Championship with two wins from two matches. With four more groups playing double elimination qualifying games today...

German Billiard Duo Stumbles Philippines World Pool Championship Thorsten Hohmann, the 2003 Champion, has hit early trouble in the group stages of the 2007 Philippines World Pool Championship as he dropped his opening game 9-3 to 18-year-old Ko Pin-yi of Taiwan. Ko, who was a runner-up at last year's WPA World Junior Championship, battled through the ultra-tough qualifying school last week at...

Abernathy and Turner Snare Viking Billiards Events Abernathy Double Dips Nevel The Viking Cue 9-Ball Tour stopped in Greensville, SC this weekend and drew in 81 billiard players for the $1500 added event at Sporty's Bar and Grill. Spectators lined the rail to watch...

Hatch Unstoppable in UticaJoss Northeast 9-Ball Tour / Utica, NY by Rick Davis Dennis “The Hatchet Man” Hatch soared through his first Joss Tour stop of the season taking the event undefeated and adding yet another title to his list of tour wins. Taking place at Hippo’s House of Billiards in Utica, NY,...

Billiard Education Foundation Visits Dallas High Schools The first night of the 2007 high school billiard season was a special one for the students and teachers in October. Four Dallas-area high schools—the Sachse H.S. Mustangs, Naaman Forest H.S. Rangers, North Garland H.S. Raiders, and the Garland H.S. Owls—started their season practice session off with...