Many thanks to Jennifer Barretta, who took time from her busy schedule to travel to the local poolhall here in Peoria with some of the AZB'ers. We appreciated it all the more because late last night she lost a HEARTBREAKER to Julie Kelly to just miss the television rounds. Suffice it to say that Julie should consider herself VERY lucky to survive that match.
The local hall is a fair distance away; its somewhere between scuzzy and faintly disreputable. Equipment only fair. Jennifer played race to 5, 9-ball with several of us. Present were Zeeder/Zach, ChefJeff, Wally in Cincy, SJM, and myself. We only played for a couple of hours because we had to rush back for the start of the Saturday matches.
Jennifer handled Chef and Zeeder. I'm not telling how I did, but I did spot JB the breaks (since Zeeder, cue fanatic extraordinaire, FORGOT TO BRING HIS CUES and had to borrow my break cue to play with). Jennifer offered to let me use her break cue (how generous is that?), but I had visions of accidentally shattering or disfiguring her cue in some way so I passed. SJM gave a little demonstration of some really nice full masse' shots. All in all a very enjoyable afternoon, we may go back tonight.
The first match today was Allison Fisher/Sarah Ellerby, and Allison just rolled to a 6-2 quick victory. No one could have beaten Allison - she played great.
Melissa Herndon lost a heartbreaker as well last night. Missing an extremely tough cut on the 9 ball in the hill-hill game. I felt terribly bad for Melissa, I hope she bounces back. I think there were 4 hill-hill matches in the last 8 matches (the 8 matches to determine who is on television); quite a night. Well, back to the action.
P.S. - How lame is it to forget your cue, get the great opportunity to play an up and coming WPBA star like JB, and have to use a borrowed break cue? Dang, maybe we need to have a fundraiser for Zeeder so he can have a real cue with which to play while travelling.
The local hall is a fair distance away; its somewhere between scuzzy and faintly disreputable. Equipment only fair. Jennifer played race to 5, 9-ball with several of us. Present were Zeeder/Zach, ChefJeff, Wally in Cincy, SJM, and myself. We only played for a couple of hours because we had to rush back for the start of the Saturday matches.
Jennifer handled Chef and Zeeder. I'm not telling how I did, but I did spot JB the breaks (since Zeeder, cue fanatic extraordinaire, FORGOT TO BRING HIS CUES and had to borrow my break cue to play with). Jennifer offered to let me use her break cue (how generous is that?), but I had visions of accidentally shattering or disfiguring her cue in some way so I passed. SJM gave a little demonstration of some really nice full masse' shots. All in all a very enjoyable afternoon, we may go back tonight.
The first match today was Allison Fisher/Sarah Ellerby, and Allison just rolled to a 6-2 quick victory. No one could have beaten Allison - she played great.
Melissa Herndon lost a heartbreaker as well last night. Missing an extremely tough cut on the 9 ball in the hill-hill game. I felt terribly bad for Melissa, I hope she bounces back. I think there were 4 hill-hill matches in the last 8 matches (the 8 matches to determine who is on television); quite a night. Well, back to the action.
P.S. - How lame is it to forget your cue, get the great opportunity to play an up and coming WPBA star like JB, and have to use a borrowed break cue? Dang, maybe we need to have a fundraiser for Zeeder so he can have a real cue with which to play while travelling.
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One of the guys playing explained to her that she didn't need to be down there walking inbetween the tables, that if they needed something, they would get it or have someone get it for them. That kept her off the floor for about 30 min & then she was right back at it. 
