Tiger West Coast Women’s Tour TWCWT
Tiger West Coast Women’s completed its second stop of this season at Breaktime Billiards in Modesto, Ca. on July 16th and 17th There were a total of 38 players at this stop for a total of 55 between first stop at San Jose and this second stop at Modesto. 17 new players joined in for the competition and fun. TWCWT plays a double elimination format with the final eight players facing off on Sunday and the second chance taking place as well. Mary Rakin secured her spot with victories over Lisa Coronado, Anita Azevedo, Riwan Khalil and Marina Cole. On the other half of the chart the Callado twins were making their way to a showdown Sunday morning. Each of them started with a bye; then Emilyn defeated Rachel Byrket, Dar Domingo and Bonnie Plowman while Eleanor defeated Christy Hawley, Lelani Ching, and Debbie Hagar. On the one-loss side, Rachel Byrket made it through to Sunday with wins over Terry To, Tammy Moreda, Riwan Khalil and Modesto’s hometown favorite, Debbie Hagar. Jessica Skye had a long road too, having to defeat Cocoa Huey, Lelani Ching, Leslie Bernardi and Marina Cole. Bonnie Plowman and Holly Robinson, who went deeper on the winners’ side, had just one match each to win on the one-loss side to make the final 8—Bonnie against Deborah Cullen and Holly against Ginger Bowen. Sunday started with wins by Mary Rakin over Shawn Modelo, Bonnie Plowman over Rachel Byrket, Holly Robinson over Jessica Skye and Eleanor Callado over Emilyn Callado. That set up a hot seat match between second place of last stop Mary Rakin and winner of first stop Eleanor Callado. Reversal of the outcome of the last stop, it was Mary who prevailed over Eleanor in a tight match and claimed the hot seat. Meantime Bonnie Plowman beat Shawn Modelo, and Emilyn Callado defeated Holly Robinson to bring match-up between Bonnie and Emilyn. Emilyn moved pass Bonnie setting another Callado versus Callado match. El finished on top putting her into the final and ending Emilyn’s run in 3rd place. In the final match, Eleanor broke in the first game, but came up dry. After sinking three balls, Mary missed leaving El a tough shot on the four. El made a nice jump shot and went on to take the first game. Mary had been playing strong all tournament and her powerful break was much on display in the finals. In the second game she sank two balls on the
break but couldn’t get to the two. El played safe but Mary sank the two when she got back to the table, running out from there and evening the match at 1-1. El broke in game 3 but nothing fell. Mary made a phenomenal shot on the one then made a 3-9 combo to take the lead 2-1. In the fourth and fifth games the players traded breaks and wins. In the sixth game Mary made another great break but missed the two. She got back to the table and finished the game by caroming the cue ball off her object ball to sink the 9. In the next game Eleanor sank two balls on the break but found herself without a shot. She pushed, Mary miscued, El missed and then Mary ran out to extend her lead to 5-2. But Eleanor didn’t give up. In game 8, Mary broke then missed the two. El ran out from there, broke and ran out in game 9, then took game 10 to even the score at 5 apiece. The 11th was a tight game which Mary eventually won. On the hill, Mary broke but came up dry. After back and forth play, the turning point came when El missed the six. El’s miss left Mary with a shot on the six and she ran out from there. Taking the match 7-5 and first place. Congratulations to all the participants for taking on this challenge on the big tables and showing their drive to excel on the game of 9ball. The final standings and prize money for the main event were: 1 $450 Mary Rakin 2 $300 Eleanor Callado 3 $220 Emilyn Callado 4 $150 Bonnie Plowman 5/6 $110 Shawn Modelo, Holly Robinson 7/8 $75 Rachel Byrket, Jessica Skye 19 other women returned to play in the Second Chance Tournament. In the end, a first-time player on the tour, Tanner Roo, won the event. 1 $85 Tanner Roo 2 $65 Leslie Bernardi Sports Bar - Full Menu 3/4 $50 Tiffany Simonton, APA Leagues A Aiem-sa-ard Weekly Tournaments We were pleased to see a number of returning tour players such as Emilyn Callado, Shawn 10226 Indiana Ave - Riverside, CA
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