Pool Players of The Brooke (PPB) vs Rincon County West Billiards Club (RCW)

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The PPB would like to thank Rincon County West Billiards Club (RCW), Bob McKenna, and RCW’s billiards team for their camaraderie, and friendly competition. Another big THANK YOU goes out to Tony “The Snake” Cardillo PPB Travel Team Captain for organizing this event. On Saturday December 13, 2025 the RCW’s Travel Team ventured up to SaddleBrooke’s Catalina Recreation Center’s pool room for an 8-Ball Team challenge. We were competing on four 9-foot Diamond Pro-Am pool tables for temporary ownership of a Traveling Bronze Plaque. The PPB team was made up of 4, 2 player teams and RCW also had 4, 2 player teams. The PPB teams consisted of Fred “The Baker” Dianda and Jack “Crash” Hoverter, Phelps “Montana” L’Hommedieu and Mike Collins, Dominic “The Doctor” Borland and Joe “Ball Breaker” Vidmar, and Tony “The Snake” Cardillo partnered with both Dick “Pocket Blocker” Dunbar and Jim Langseth for 6 games each. The format was simple. Each of our teams would play each of their teams 3 games of 8-ball with each game being worth 1 point for the winning team. There were a total of 48 points in the match. The PPB has had ownership of the Traveling Bronze Plaque since 12/09/2023. So the PPB only needs to tie RCW with 24 points to retain ownership of the Traveling Bronze Plaque. The first round score was 8 to 4 in PPB’s favor. The second round also went to the PPB with a score of 8 to 4. The score after the first 2 rounds was the PPB ahead of RCW by a score of 16 to 8. In the third round the PPB won the round with a score of 9 to 3. Now after the third round the PPB was ahead by 25 to 11 over RCW. In the final round the PPB again won the round this time by an 8 to 4 score to put the final score at PPB 33 and RCW 15. We again had a chance to play for a Traveling Bronze Plaque. With this win it puts the seventh Bronze Traveling Plaque back on the PPB’s wall in the CRC. After the match the teams met at the RoadRunner Grill for lunch and some fun banter! SaddleBrooke is proud of their team and they thank RCW for being such gracious opponents.
Joe Giammarino jgpool@outlook.com

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