> It seen it a couple different ways,either they ran out the whole set from the beginning or started a run during the match at some point and won the set in that inning.
Shannon Daulton-race to 5 9-ball on an 8' Schmidt. Shannon had just won the Legends of One Pocket against Bugs,and the Lexington All-Star,and showed up with his mom,dad,Alvin Lawrence from the SW shop,Buddy Hall's brother Ray,and a couple other players at a 15 dollar entry tournament in Kennett,Mo. Shannon went for 450 in the calcutta,and had to play a guy that went for 5 bucks in the calcutta in the finals,true double-elim. Shannon broke and ran out the whole first set,but caught a horrible roll and lost hill-hill in the second.
Pete Horne-race to 5 at the same tournament a month later. Pete also ran 14 racks on the same table before the tournament in a 2 dollar a man,3 handed ring game.
Dennis Hatch-race to 7 9-ball on 9' GC-I,1993 tournament at Starcher's in Akron.
Very strong upper Kentucky player named Eddie Adams,race to 5 9-ball on 8'
Steepleton at a local tournament once held on Jackson,Tn,multiple times. Eddie destroyed everyone he played there,running out a race to 5 at least once in every monthly tournament for almost a year. Even with players like Ray Schultz and Tony Watson showing up quite often,Eddie won it so much they had it in parentheses "The Eddie Adams Open" on the flyer.
If were talking about running out a set already in progress,I've seen Jim Rempe put an 8 together and close a match.
Earl Strickland-probably 10 times I've seen him close a match with 5 or more,including once against me.
Buddy Hall stole a match from Archer at the U.S. Open once,after trailing 7-1,he got it back to 7-4 with safety play and ran out the set from there.
In the very first tournament match I ever watched other than my dad,Mike Sigel ran out a race to 11 against Rick Garrison after Garrison came up dry on the break at 4-3,so a whole rack plus 7 from the break,and basically had ball-in-hand the whole time,you can't play Virtual Pool any better with the tracking turned on.
In my own game,I've ran out a race to 5 with ball in hand on the 5 in the first rack,and finished a race to 13 gambling from 9-8 after my opponent just ran 6 racks to go up 9-8. I had a 4 rack run in that same set,so a 5 and 4 in a race to 13 on a 8 foot GCIII. Tommy D.