Pool Players of The Brooke (PPB) vs Sun City Oro Valley (SCOV)

The PPB would like to thank Sun City Oro Valley’s Billiard Club, Robert Dufur and SCOV’s billiard team for their pool table prowess, camaraderie, and friendly competition. Another big THANK YOU goes out to Tony Cardillo PPB’s Travel Team Captain for organizing this event. On Saturday November 09, 2024 the SCOV’s Travel Team ventured up to HOA1’s Catalina Recreation Center for an 8-Ball Team Challenge sponsored by Stone Canyon Painting (Thank you Alex). Tony “The Snake” Cardillo was the tournament director. We were competing on four beautiful 9 foot Diamond Pro-Am pool tables for temporary ownership of a traveling bronze plaque that has been in the PPB’s possession since November 2021. Our team was made up of 4, 2 player teams and SCOV also had 4, 2 player teams. Our 2 player teams were drawn from the following list of PPB cueists: Fred “The Baker” Dianda, Dominic “The Doctor” Borland, Tony “The Snake” Cardillo, Lowell “8-Ball” Hegg, Dick “The Visor” Titus, Rich “Hide the Salami” Adinolfi, Joe “Ball Breaker” Vidmar, Phelps “Montana” L’Hommedieu, Dave Parker, Dan “Rambo” Sollin, and Randy “Nice Try” Smith. Three of the PPB’s players were new to the Travel Team experience and they performed exceptionally well at this level of competition, thanks Dan Sollin, Rich Adinolfi, and Dick Titus. The format was simple. Each of our teams would play each of their teams 3 games of 8-ball with each game worth 1 point for the winning team. There were a total of 48 points in the match. PPB won the first round 7 to 5. The second round was also won by the PPB by a score of 9 to 3. After the second round the PPB was ahead 16 to 8. In the third round SCOV reversed the momentum and won the round 8 to 4. The PPB went into the fourth and final round up by a score of 20 to 16. This meant that the PPB only needed to win 4 games to secure the right to keep the traveling bronze plaque in SaddleBrooke for another year. SaddleBrooke’s PPB exceeded it with a score of 6 to 6. The final score was 26 to 22 and the PPB mounted the traveling bronze plaque back up on our wall! This event was a continuation of a friendly but fierce rivalry with SCOV. SaddleBrooke is proud of their team and they thank SCOV for competing in this Travel Team Match. After the match the billiard clubs met at the RoadRunner Grill for lunch and some friendly banter. Stone Canyon sponsor’s gift – Lowell “8-Ball” Hegg, again! Joe Giammarino jgpool@outlook.com Visit the Pool Players of The Brooke at https://poolplayersofthebrooke.blogspot.com/.