9-Ball Billiards

Canadian 9-Ball Tour Grows Again The Canadian 9-Ball Tour has been a steady grower during its first two years and has just announced that the growth continues into year three as the 2007-2008 season will see the tour increase from six to eight stops across Canada and the prize monies will leap up to $10,000 added money for each event, a doubling of that amount from previous years. Exciting things are happening in Canada as this tour has just acquired major sponsorships...

John Morra Takes Down Stan James in Toronto The final match in Toronto came down to a face-off between Danny Hewitt and John Morra. Morra came into the final undefeated, having sent his father Mario left in the ‘A’ side final 9-8 after besting Tyler Edey 9-6. Hewitt had a rougher road. He lost his first match of the day to Mario Morra 9-4 and then had to wade through the one-loss side to...

John Morra Takes Down Stan James in Toronto The final match in Toronto came down to a face-off between Danny Hewitt and John Morra. Morra came into the final undefeated, having sent his father Mario left in the ‘A’ side final 9-8 after besting Tyler Edey 9-6. Hewitt had a rougher road. He lost his first match of the day to Mario Morra 9-4 and then had to wade through the one-loss side to...

Stan James Toronto Saturday Completes The first day of play at Shooters Snooker and Sports Club in Toronto found 64 billiard players kick off play at 11 AM. By the end of the day only twelve remained in play to return on Sunday. The biggest surprise of the day was that Edwin Montal, who had appeared to be a lock for the first place position on the year-ending points list, fell victim to a touch...

Stan James Toronto Saturday Completes The first day of play at Shooters Snooker and Sports Club in Toronto found 64 billiard players kick off play at 11 AM. By the end of the day only twelve remained in play to return on Sunday. The biggest surprise of the day was that Edwin Montal, who had appeared to be a lock for the first place position on the year-ending points list, fell victim to a touch...

Montal Captures Stan James Montreal Edwin Montal cemented his position atop the Stan James Tour Points leaderboard by winning his second tour event in a row in Montreal. Montal was rock solid all weekend and never played a close match until Danny Hewitt took him to the hill well out on the right side of the chart. His last three matches were the toughest he had to fade as after Hewitt he had to...

Morra Impresses at Stan James Montreal The young guns and the old guard of billiards are going head to head in Montreal. One of those young guns is seventeen-year-old John Morra who joins Edwin Montal way out on the end of the winners bracket. Morra had an impressive day. He began his trek with a hill-hill win over Tino Barbiere, and then followed that with a 9-7 win over tour-ranked number two player Jeff Kennedy....

No Shortage of Champions at Stan James Kelowna The field at this billiard stop of the Stan James Canadian Nine Ball Tour is perhaps the strongest to date. Former World Champion Alex Pagulayan is here as well as current Canadian National Champion Brady Gollan and an all-star cast of Canadian champions. The total player count here at Breakers Billiards and Bistro when the day began was sixty-eight. Only twenty-four will be left to play on Sunday.

Stan James at Dooly's Billiards, Valleyfieldsee tournament bracket (/images/stories/billiards-news/Valleyfield07.pdf)

Stan James Canadian Billiard Tour at ValleyfieldThe Stan James Canadian Nine Ball Tour has finished day one at Dooly’s in Valleyfield, Quebec, and the field has been reduced to only twelve players remaining. The finest performances of the day were put in by our four remaining undefeated players. Former Canadian snooker champion Alain Robidoux, Roger Colbert, Jeff Kennedy and Erik Hjorliefson all remain unscathed with Hjorliefson’s past experience putting him as the current favorite for Sunday.