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Dean, my friend,
This one's for you!
It's Volume 1, Number 6, of Accu-Stats: Efren Reyes Cops Coors Tar Heel Open!
It is 16 pages of awesome history! And I kid you not!
I have posted this at my Facebook site, The AnitoKid on Billiards,
but will copy-paste the entire post I did in case you do not have a Facebook account.
I hope you like it, my friend.
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Efren Reyes Cops Coors Tar Heel Open
Friends, here is Volume 1, Number 6, of Accu-Stats: Efren Reyes Cops Coors
Tar Heel Open! It is 16 pages of awesome history! And I kid you not!
The August 6-September 12, 1985 edition of Accu-Stats contains amazing
information on the tournament and on The Magician himself.
Remember, Accu-Stats first featured Efren in its January 1985 issue
(Volume 1, Number 1) when Reyes won his very first tournament in the US.
Fast forward a few months, here he is again on another cover.
The penned thoughts give us a very good glimpse on the greatness
of the Greatest of All Time (GOAT) - then only 28 years old.
Their words described how well they regard and hold our very own hero
on the green felt.
Efren's playing skills made him unstoppable.
The only thing he did not display during the tournament was emotion.
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To quote:
ROCKYMOUNT - Filipino Efren Reyes emerged victorious
at The 2nd Annual Coors Tar Heel Open posting a 10-1 record
and an .886 TPA. After suffering an early round loss to Mike Cone, 8-11,
Reyes won the next nine sessions for the $4,650 first prize.
In races to eleven Reyes displayed his prowess by defeating Hopkins (8),
Crane (5), Pergerson (2), Root (3), Williams (5), Davenport (4), Mathews (5),
Sigel (9), and Strickland twice (9) and (9).
Efren Reyes, the twenty-eight year old Philippine phenom,
won his second major 9-ball tournament of the year as pooldom's
finest succumbed to a foreign style.
Without question, Reyes' talent is at least equal to America's finest pocket billiard stars and may even be better.
After a second round loss to local talent Mike Cone, 8-11,
Reyes held his next six opponents to five games or less, winning a total of nine
sessions in a row for a 10-1 record. His talents were surly tested
as he displayed extraordinary shot making, position, kick, and safety skills
while defeating Hopkins, Crane, Sigel, and Strickland twice.
In fact, the only thing that he did not display was emotion.
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Interesting Stats
The tournament drew a very strong field supported by its statistical results.
The average TPA was .842, twenty-five points higher than normal.
The highest single TPA of the tournament was .952 posted
by Efren Reyes in his routing of Joe Root.
Reyes also racked up the highest TPA tournament average of .888.
He was extremely consistent with ten of his eleven matches having TPA's
between .855 and .905.
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Finals
Reyes defeated Strickland twice 11-9 in the finals for the $4,650 first prize
and trophy.
In both final matches, Strickland lost while posting higher TPA's than Reyes.
What caused this the first set was that although both players made
about the same number of errors, Earl pocketed 95 balls while Efren pocketed only
79. Also, both players missed three balls apiece, two of Earl's costing him
two racks. None of Efren's misses cost him a rack, in fact, after Reyes' three misses,
Strickland was kicking.
In the final set, Reyes missed nine shots, the most missed in any of his sets,
while Earl only missed four. How could Earl lose? Simply, after five of Efrens' misses,
he eventually won the rack anyway and as we all know, good breaks, bad breaks,
and stats don't win matches, nine balls do!
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And for friends wishing for more:
Efren Reyes (.871) defeated Wade Crane (.810) 11-5 by making the nine ball
on the break to win the set. Crane didn't notice what happened,
approached the table and proceeded to shoot the one ball.
After missing the combination, it didn't take long for reality to set in.
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Dave Bollman (.889) ran out from the break six times en route to his 11-6 win
over Bobby Johnson (•815). In response to the 11-3 thrashing he received
from Efren Reyes (.952), Joe Root (.787) said, "If he's making balls,
you know he's out!" Reyes' .952 was the highest single TPA of the tournament.
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In the race to eleven match, Efren Reyes (.903) outpointed Kin Davenport (.775)
by the score of 9-4! With the score 7-4, Davenport's poor position resulted
in a missed bank shot snd a new score, 8-4.
The next rack, Davenport missed a shot badly and decided he had had enough.
He raked in the balls conceding that rack, then shook Reyes' hand to concede
the rest of the session.
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For pool geeks out there, I have four words for you: YOU WILL LOVE THIS!
The 16-page issue includes stats on the Final Standings, Scores
and Accu-Stats Averages, Total Performance Average (TPA),
Tournament Rankings, and more! So much more!
And oh! It also contains a report on one of my favorite pool players of all time,
Keith McCready aka Earthquake, and his awesome win
in the 1st Annual B.C. Open 9-Ball Championship (67-player field).
This, I will post very soon as a tribute to our Hall of Famer. INCOMING!!!
AnitoKid
P.S.
The rest of the scanned images (16 pages) are on the Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/theanitokid/posts/1768406756527202
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