I won a good tournament, lol

Thanks Johnnyt, Myron and Mack. Mack, you got da skillz!

Mike, if you can give me more info on that tourney, maybe Mike and I can both fly down there. I could go if it is finished in a weekend. Let me know what the added $ is.

Mike's family lives near there and I have some as well. If it is the 24th/25th, then that would be great as there is a family thing I told them I wasn't coming to, but might because of the tournament, lol. (Estranged from most of my adoptive family.)

I won a qualifier at the Sacramento Hard Times. I got a beautiful blue hand-blown milk glass bowl trophy. That promptly fell off my mantle during an earthquake. That was just irreplaceable. :mad: :(
 
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Wow!! Close match over Ellen VB. Man that women travels around a lot. She came to my Q two weeks ago.

So how come you did not get a Qualifier?

EDIT: Duh, I just read the prior commitment thing. That sucks.

Barbara

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It took a month for the article to come out, but here it is.

I actually won 9 on the B side, but where it states that I hold the record for longest Sunday comeback at this tournament, that is wrong. I still hold the record when I lost my first match a couple years ago and won every match and then it wasn't a single race in the finals, but I had to beat Mary Hopkin twice for the win. :D

NWPA KICKS OFF 2006 SEASON
On March 18-19, the Northwest Women's Pool Association held its first tour stop for 2006 at the Parlor Billiards and Spirits in Bellevue, WA. Keeping with its goal to be the top pool room on the West Coast, the Parlor, in addition to adding $750.00 cash, also purchased not one (1), but two (2) Qualifying spots to the Women's Pro Tour. One for the BCA Championships in Las Vegas and one for the San Diego Classic. This news had spread across the country bringing players from not just the Northwest, but places like Calgary, Edmonton and even Florida.

....But the big news was our full schedule of seven events. Five of which are WPBA Qualifiers. Please visit our website: www.nwpatour.com for more info or Billiard Paper for schedule.

The tournament itself, which started at 10am Saturday morning, had a deep field of 46 players and it would take till late evening just to bring the field down to the 16 players who would battle it out on Sunday.

On the A side, Martha Hartsell defeated Liz Cole 7-5 and Cathy Metzinger got Kim Jones 7-4. In the point match it was back and forth to 4-4 before Cathy won 3 in a row to take it. On the B side, Kim then played Mona Remedios from Edmonton with Mona winning 7-3. Conversely, Linda Carter, who having lost to Kerry Impson early Saturday, had to fight through the B side, starting at 9am Sunday. Linda started off 7-0 against Mary Ellen Homenchuk from Surrey, BC, then got Ellen Van Buren from Florida in what may have been the match of the day, 7-6. Mary Hopkin then fell 7-3 and Liz Cole fell 7-4. Mona and Linda now played and Carter was now on a roll winning 7-3 and then getting Martha 7-2 for the B side point.

Cathy had waited hours to play while Linda was in stroke and it showed with Linda in front early at 4-2 in a final race to 9. They traded games the rest of the way with each player holding break and the early lead paid off with Linda's 9-6 victory. She pulled off the biggest and longest Sunday comeback in NWPA history, congrats Linda.

Due to Linda and Mona having prior commitments and Cathy already a WPBA player for 2006 and not eligible for qualifying spots, the BCA Championship entry went to Martha Hartsell and the San Diego Classic went to Liz Cole. Good luck at these events, we'll all be cheering for you.

I would like to thank all the volunteers who helped organize and run such a big and exciting event, especially Ford, Roger Arndt, Chuck Mellors and Dave Lauer. Also to all the players, who make my job so easy and enjoyable. See you in Salem.

Chris Rogers
Tournament Director

1st Linda Carter (WA) $560
2nd Cathy Metzinger (Calgary, CN) $356
3rd Martha Hartsell (OR) $256 WPBA Spot/BCA Championships/Las Vegas
4th Mona Remedios (Edmonton, CN) $198
5/6 Elizabeth Cole (OR) $126 WPBA Spot/San Diego Classic/San Diego
Kim Jones (WA) $126
7/8 Junko Araki (WA) $96
Mary Hopkin (WA) $96
9/12 Kerry Impson (WA) $86
Cindy Doty (WA) $86
Stephanie Mitchell (FL) $86
Ellen Van Buren (FL) $86


Second Chance Tournament

1st Brenda Willis $64
2nd Linda Dick $48
3rd Karla Bagley-Tias $32
4th Tamre' Geene'-Rogers $16

© Copyright 2003-6, Northwest Women’s Pool Association
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Barbara,

I chose not to take the Q, as my commitments for the IPT have already stretched my company's vacation and time off policy. :rolleyes:

Adding another WPBA tournament onto the schedule would not have been good. I did already have the time off for BCA and I would have loved it, but my team would have just killed me. I am the only master on the open team and I couldn't leave them. I didn't even consider it.

Hopefully, I will come in first or 2nd in the standings for the year and receive a spot to all the WPBA tour stops for 07, so that I can test my company's time off policy again, lol. It may be hard to do, as I will be missing a stop due to a conflicting IPT date. Second will work if Cathy gets first and she has accrued enough points with the WPBA to be invited to every tournament anyway. I feel I am at a better place with my game and over the intimidation factor than where I was when I first played on the WPBA tour. I lost my sponsor, so I had to quit the tour.

I thought Mona was heartbroken when I beat her, flying all the way from Edmonton, but then she gave up her spot to the next one on the list. Probably because she got the one that was left over and she had conflicts too.
 
rackmsuckr said:
lost focus.
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I had the same kind of night, and I related to your post and had laughed so loud that I woke my wife up. I ment no disrespect, and my apology if it was interpreted the wrong way because I was so vague.

/bow
/salute
 
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