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Dolphins Harbourside Hotel17-21 WHARF STREET.TWEED HEADS.07 5599 1909
The Northern Rivers Masters and under 21 titles were played at The Dolphins Hotel, Tweed heads on Sunday 28th August, both titles were poorly attended, which was disappointing but some good matches were contested throughout the day.
Winner of the under 21 title was Daniel Woods who came from behind to upstage Callum Wade with Ryan Cretan 3rd (I have to say these 3 lads played their hearts out over the playoffs and have all improved out of sight, and can only improve again) after looking the favourite early doors.
The masters title went to Dennis Watt after a marathon final with Steve Chapman, after leading 5-1 in a race to 6 Dennis started to feel the pressure and next minute it was 5 all, then it was Captain Courageous` turn to feel the heat and Dennis got the money 6-5. Congratulations to both title winners and best of luck in their playoffs (if needed) with their city counterparts. Special mention to Chris Blampton and Kristey Wise who did all the behind scenes work on the day, thanks to you both from everyone.
The NSW team playoffs were played off in super conditions at the Coolangatta Hotel, the tables were reclothed and nice and quick and our thanks go to the hotel management and Geoff Atkinson for allowing the use of the room for the Saturday and Sunday. The best of 15 double elimination format was a tad much for some of the combatants, Spiderman J. Latta had to be helped onto his pushbike on Sunday by yours truly after 50 odd frames took it`s toll (hope it was a tailwind on the trip back to Lismore JL). Most games went according to plan until top seed Damien Smith played Terry Stevens, at 7-3 the ex Tasmanian rep was cruising but a couple of ordinary shots saw Tezza roar back and qualify for the NSW team with a great 8-7 victory. (2-1 to Terry) forcing the Byron Bay “right hander” to head for the losers side. Good stuff Terry.
Dec
24th Australian National Eight Ball Championships 2007 Open Teams Leading Players NSW Open Pos Name Played Won % 1 Peter Watt 42 24 57.14% 1 Travis Crawley 42 24 57.14% 3 Peter North 42 23 54.76% 4 Dene Heremaia 42 19 45.23% 4 Tony Ivanov 42 […]
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Melanie Malone Ladies Singles Champ
The NSW8BALL open doubles were held at Coolangatta Hotel on Sunday 2nd September 2007. Some pretty handy doubles teams were on hand with top seeds John "Rusty" Wheeler and Joe Seovic leading the way. My partner willie and I copped them in the first round and we couldn`t handle Rustys brilliance and it was into the losers side for the good guys. The top half saw no upsets with Northy/Credo, Higgo/Richo, and Dene/Dax all going through, the bottom half was different with Fisho/Sticks nailing Mel/Geoff ,
NSW8BALL Masters champion 2007 Dennis Watt 2nd Steve Chapman. 3rd Dave Smallwood. 4th Al Kane.
Congratulations to the guys who made the 2007 NSW team. I think we can cause a few headaches in Melbourne this year.
Here is my take on the guys;
All done and dusted. Two days of hard yakka after 5 play offs and we have the mens open team sorted. We have ended up with a good team out of it all. So without going into the pro’s and con’s , who was stiff and who wasn’t the NSW open team is as follows.
NSW 8 Ball 32 Draw Double Elimination Pool Comp Draw