Prior to this past weekend (Dec. 2-3), the last time Dawn Hopkins recorded a win on the J. Pechauer Northeast Women’s Tour, George W. Bush was the President (’06). Lotta water been flowing under the bridge since she founded the tour in the early ‘90s as an adjunct to a magazine she published (All About Pool Magazine, with a related All About Pool Men’s Tour in Massachusetts). The original All About Pool Ladies Tour (and Hopkins) shifted its base of operations to New Jersey, where it became the Northeast Women’s Tour, while Hopkins and her husband, Allen, started the Super Billiards Expo, which opened for the first time in 1993. Under different leadership, the Ladies tour began its association with and later name-change to the J. Pechauer Northeast Women’s Tour at the end of the 2001 season.
Hopkins’ 2006 JPNEWT win made her the NY State Women’s 9-Ball Champion that year. This past weekend, coming from the loss side, her win at the tour’s Season Finale made her one of only three competitors, other than Briana Miller, to claim a JPNEWT title this year. Elise Qiu defeated Miller in the finals of Stop #9, while earlier in the year, Rachel Lang won Stop #3, at which Miller finished in the tie for 13th. Hopkins, who opened her campaign this past weekend with a 7-1 victory over Colette Finegan and was then sent to the loss side (double hill) by Miller, got a second shot at Miller on the loss side and was able to chalk her up as her fourth loss-side win of six. The $1,250-added event drew 19 entrants to Players Billiards Café in Eatontown, NJ.
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Hopkins’ 2006 JPNEWT win made her the NY State Women’s 9-Ball Champion that year. This past weekend, coming from the loss side, her win at the tour’s Season Finale made her one of only three competitors, other than Briana Miller, to claim a JPNEWT title this year. Elise Qiu defeated Miller in the finals of Stop #9, while earlier in the year, Rachel Lang won Stop #3, at which Miller finished in the tie for 13th. Hopkins, who opened her campaign this past weekend with a 7-1 victory over Colette Finegan and was then sent to the loss side (double hill) by Miller, got a second shot at Miller on the loss side and was able to chalk her up as her fourth loss-side win of six. The $1,250-added event drew 19 entrants to Players Billiards Café in Eatontown, NJ.
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