Pool Players of The Brooke vs Quail Creek Billiards Club June 19, 2021

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   The Pool Players of The Brooke (PPB) would like to thank Quail Creek (QC) Billiards Club, Travel Team Director Dennis Desmond and their members for the friendly competition and camaraderie.  Another big THANK YOU goes out to Dominic Borland Captain of the PPB Travel Team, Ron Ridge for organizing this event, Mike Meredith for keeping score and making sure it was a success, and they did a great job.  On Saturday June 19, 2021 at 9:30 AM the PPB hosted the Quail Creek Billiards Club at the beautiful Catalina Recreation Center’s (CRC) Billiard Room for an 8-Ball Team Challenge.  We were competing on four 8 foot Connelly pool tables for temporary ownership of a Bronze Traveling Plaque.  The 4 PPB teams consisted of  Dominic “The Doctor” Borland/Tony “The Snake” Cardillo, Gary “One Rail” Barlow/Jack “Crash” Hoverter, Steve Searl/Phelps “Frenchfye” L’Hommediue, and Joe “Fast Eddie” Giammarino/Ron “Dblo7” Ridge.  Our opponents from Quail Creek were Dave Kidwell/Kay Mertes, Jimmy Di Martino/Dennis Desmond, Mike Ohrel/Terry Haggart, and John Andersen/Jerry Sameshima.

 

   The format was simple and interesting.  Each of our teams would play each of their teams 3 games of 8-ball with each game won being 1 point for the winning team.  There were a total of 48 points in the match.  The PPB was on fire in the first round and came away with a 9 – 3 lead.  In the second round QC won 5 games and the PPB won 7 games.  After the second round the score was the PPB ahead 16 – 8.  The third round also went to the PPB by them winning 9 games to QC’s 3 wins.   Going in to the fourth round the PPB was up by the score of 25 to 11 which meant that we have enough points to keep the Bronze Traveling Trophy on our wall.  In the fourth round the PPB kept up their winning ways by winning 8 games to QC’s 4 wins.  Final Score is 33 – 15 in favor of the PPB and retaining the ownership of the Bronze Traveling Plaque.  Special mention goes to PPB’s Steve Searl and Phelps “Frenchfye” L’Hommediue who demolished QC with a 11 -1 winning record!  The fifth Bronze Traveling Plaque went right back up on the wall in the CRC.  Good job PPB!  Congratulations to the PPB Traveling Team for another victory over a Robson community and to all the participants!  Until next time, we enjoyed the competition and the luncheon at the RoadRunner Grill at HOA1 following the 8-Ball match with the Quail Creek.  RACK’EM UP!

 

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Joe Giammarino
jgpool@outlook.com

Dominic Borland receiving the Bronze Traveling plaque from Quail Creek's Dennis Desmond

Quail Creek's Traveling Team

Pool Players of The Brooke's Traveling Team

 

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