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Bar & Grill in Salem hosted the APA Northwest Singles Regionals October 3 & 4, 2009.

44 players from Oregon and Washington participated on Saturday generating 4 National winners in the 8-ball brackets and then 44 players also from both states played on Sunday generating another 4 National winners in the 9-ball brackets.

The winners in the 8-ball Purple Tier (s/l 6 & 7) were David Hopfer from Turner, OR and Andrew McMahon from Bremerton, WA (2 boards of 14 players each).

Winner in the 8-ball Red Tier (s/l 5) was Gene Hingsberger of Lakewood, WA.

Winner of the 8-ball Yellow Tier (s/l 4) was Joel Goodman of Sherwood, OR.

In 9-ball the winner of the Black Tier (s/l 6,7,8,9) was Carlos Cadena of Salem.

For the White Tier (which holds both s/l 4 & 5) there were 2 winners: Salem’s Wayne “Red Shoes” Johnson Jr. and Bellevue, WA player Mike Vandermeide.

And finally the Green Tier (s/l 1, 2 & 3) the winner was Randy Shaefer of WA.

These 8 players PLUS those that win National spots at the Spring Singles Regionals that will take place in March in Portland (providing there is enough participation) will advance to the APA Singles Nationals in April of 2010 at the Riviera Hotel and Casino.

If you would still like to try to qualify for Regionals – watch for Singles Qualifier fliers in your weekly team packets. We can run qualifiers for the next Regionals up until November 30th. Let me know if you are interested in running or participating in one.

[pic] Chinook Winds Casino in Lincoln City was the place to be. Those who were there will have many cherished memories from witnessing the WPBA (Women’s Professional Billiards Association) first hand—up close and personal— just like they’ve always seen on TV. All week long the Pro’s intermingled among the amateurs and spectators telling stories and giving autographs, doing challenges, and playing in the mini’s when ever an opportunity came about.

Starting out with a Pro-Am on Wednesday October 14th: 32 amateurs pre-selected from past pool and winner’s circle events at Chinook Winds and OPAL-APA were tripled up with a WPBA pro at the 6:00 PM Pro-Am reception party on Wednesday night. Then, WPBA Tournament Director—Steve Tipton--matched up the sixteen teams with one another (3 Amateurs & 1 Pro) on the 9’ tables in the Pro Room and we got underway with the competition and fun. All the proceeds from the gate all went to the “My Sister’s Place” charity. The room was packed with spectators enjoying the festivities of the Pro-Am event and cheering on their favorite amateur or professional player. Once play began each match had approximately 20 minutes in which to win as many 9-Ball games as possible. Sharking became the fun thing to do and the WPBA pro’s certainly had their fair share of tricks in their possession. They played their opponents to perfection. Don & Nancy Palacios, Michael O’Jones, Jennifer Zea, Casey Hannam, Leonard Duval, Julie James and NormReddekoff from Salem APA were

among the 24 amateurs selected to participate in the event.

On Thursday October 15th the Modified Single elimination “Early Bird” 9-Ball Scotch Doubles started off promptly at 9:00 AM with a board of “75” APA pairs from all over the Northwest. We paid down through the top 24 places or roughly 32% of the field. Making it into the money and listed in ascending order of finish:

Finishing 17-24 and winning $100 “Waaait For It”—Phoenix Vu-Bui & Duane Allen. (Newberg);

Finishing 9-16 and winning $200 “AudBob” - Bob & Audrey Neill (Medford)

Finishing 5-8th and winning $300 “Big & Red”—Tony Romano & Bob George (Dallas).

Finishing 3-4th and winning $450 were the teams of: “Snow Balls”—Garnet & Jean Snow (Seattle); and “We Ta Did”—Cheryl Bednar & Jeff Kimball (Seattle).

Finishing 2nd and winning $700 was the team of: “Double Trouble” Liz Marrs & Ericka Cope (Dallas). [pic][pic]

Finishing 1st and winning $1,000 was the (OPAL) team of: “Deutch-Bahn”—Albert Cook & Eddy Bickle.

At 7:30 PM on Thursday evening Oct. 15th we began opening ceremony / players meeting. Then the 3-person team competition began first round-robin-flights with a with a total combined field of 87 teams entered. The field was broken down into 22 flights of 4 teams each with half the flights playing at a time.

By Friday night at 7:30 PM the Round Robin Portion of the 3-person tournament had been completed. And by 8:30 PM the new 32 team modified single elimination board had been drawn, set up, and underway as scheduled, with the winning teams in each of the 22 flights plus 10 teams who by luck of the draw were wild carded from 2nd place in their flights teams to fill up the remaining spaces in the 32 board. Saturday’s play found us resuming with the 3rd round of 3-person play at 9 AM followed by the start of the Weekender Scotch Doubles at 10: AM Followed by countless “On The Wire” hosted mini’s and the 128 person, double elimination, Lincoln City Open singles tournament. By Midnight it all had to be all be over to ready the area for the televised Women’s Pro Classic tournament semi-final and final matches.

The final match concluding the 3 person event was over at approximately 9:30 PM. On Saturday. In the past we have always continued the final rounds on to Sunday morning, but so as not to conflict with the WPBA ESPN televised pro finals it was necessary that we finish up with everything as early Saturday night so that the WPBA production staff could ready the room with stadium seating and develop an arena for television.

Many thanks to Head Referee John Blue who headed our great referee staff of Team Leaders—Larry Hande, and Dan Fendall with Referees: Terry Pinto, Kevin Logan, Julie James, , Morey Marks, Steve & Becky Chandler, and Kristie Hill-Pratt in monitoring the Modified Single Elimination format in phase II of the 3 person team event we managed to get everything done before giving out the door prizes at Midnight. The 3 Person Team results are as follows:

Finishing 25—32 and winning $150 were“Comfortably Numb”—James Moore, Thomas Kokinos, & Kathryn

Jenkins of Yamhill county

Finishing 17-24 and winning $200 were“Get-R-Done 9” —Dwaine Crawford, Dale Crawford, & Ross Travis also of Yamhill county and “Socially Unacceptable ”—Wes & Amanda Gagnier, & Joey Lehman of Portland and Salem

Finishing 13-16 and winning $300 were “BD & S”—Bob Dunn, Dustin Edmiston, & Scott Elliott from Jefferson

Finishing 5-8th and winning $600 were “Heckle, Jeckle, & Jerry” — Bob Ferguson, Joe Mendoza, & Zeke Palomo also from Jefferson/Albany

Finishing 3-4th and winning $900 were “Hot Pockets” —Nick Knudsvig, Arlin Bidwell, & Alfonso “Chano” Hernandez from Dallas

Finishing 2nd and winning $1,200 was the KC’s Midway team: “Smokin’”—Nancy Palacios, Kevin Logan & Julie James from Portland/Salem

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Finishing 1st and winning $1,500 in a down to the last 2-3 balls double hill thriller was the OPAL (Touche’s / Sam’s) team of: “Blind Squirrels”—with Albert Cook, Eddy Bickle and Jeff Willemsen.

The Weekender Scotch Doubles had 63 entries which paid down to the top 24 finishers the top 24 finishers or approximately 38% of the field. The final results a are as follows:

Finishing 17-24 and winning $75 were “Double Trouble”—Liz Marrs & Ericka Cope (Dallas); “Reno Buds”—Randy Wells & Brian Williams (Albany/Salem) and “Big & Red”—Bob George & Tony Romano (Dallas).

Finishing 13-16 and winning $125 were the teams of: “Ride The 9” —Jim Shellenbarger & James

Broyles (Salem)

Finishing 9-12th and winning $200 were the teams of: “H2Cue”—Mike & Greg Harlow (Salem/OPAL); “Too Good”—Richard Ohnstad & Dave Woodall (Salem); and “Do Overs?”—Ron Bereman & Carol Townsend (Yamhill county).

Finishing 5-8th and winning $250 were the teams of “Pool Hall Junkies”—Chris Peterson & Mandee

Briles (Salem); and “S & J Enterprises”—James Long & Steve Roberts (Salem).

The “Lincoln City Open” directed by the “On The Wire” staff, received 82 paid entries and paid the field all the way down through 24th place. The top 8 place finishers were: Mark Haddan of Denver who took the “bragging rights” and the $450 1st Prize, Randy Petz from Salem got $300 for 2nd, Randy Baker of Coos Bay, got $200 for 3rd, Mike Grimm of Portland, got $160 for 4th, Iris Ranola, WPBA Pro, & Michael Deictchman, of Portland each received $100 for 5/6th, and Steve Lingelbach, & Mike Jensen, both from Portland, each got $80 for 7/8th.

THE GRAND PRIZE $1,200 TRIP DRAWING: was the last thing to be held and it was only fitting that since we had the honor of her presence that it would be APA President Renee’ Lyle to be given the task of drawing out the winning ticket. Every person who had entered and played in either of the two Scotch doubles or 3-person team events had a ticket entered for them in the drawing. To win the trip you had to be (1) present in the drawing room and (2) have in your possession a valid Chinook Winds winner’s circle card which incidentally is free and all one needs do is go to the winner’s circle booth and ask for one. Being present without a valid Winner’s Circle card rendered you ineligible to receive the prize. So...unlike a couple of years ago where we went through about 12 different drawings of names who lost out winning the $1200 trip for 2 to Hawaii for a variety of reasons—not present, didn’t have a winner’s circle card, etc. etc. This year though the very first name out of the bucket that was drawn was Chris Durant from Jefferson. Guess What? He wasn’t present—So back in the bucket went Renee’s Hand and the next name called and he was present, and he indeed had a “Valid” winner’s circle card with his name on it and with a “Cheesy Cat” grin on his face, he ambled his way to the control table to claim the grand prize! The winner—an OPAL-APA member Dan Rodriguez!

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SINGLES QUALIFIER WINNERS for the Spring Regionals:

Qualified so far this qualifying window which ends Nov. 30th

are Aaron Probst, Glenn Shoup, Richard Ohnstad and Johnny Brown in 8-ball and Steve Oliver and Dana Sharman in 9-ball.

If you are interested in getting qualified this month before the qualifying period is over – contact Howard Allen @ 541-981-1186 for Salem to play on Saturday November 14th at Jake’s starting at Noon or contact Tim Koch in Newberg @ 503-330-1052 to set up a day and time to play. In Bend contact Brenda Risch 541-306-8996 or David Finnell 541-588-0350 to show your interest and to play.

We need more representation from our area.

Any one who has at least 10 scores on their record of weekly league play in one format or the other and is currently on an active team is eligible to play in these singles qualifiers. Lower skill players are urged to try because you have even better odds than higher skill players at the Regional and National levels of play. You only play players within your own skill level ranges at those tournaments.

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The Cue Ball in Salem owned by Jim Lebold, hosted the Western Regional US Amateur Preliminary on Saturday September 19th, with Merle Humphreys as director along with able bodied assistant: Rod Bair. There were 48 entries representing the states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. (12 women & 36 men) Participation was open to any amateur poolplayer - regardless of Skill Level or league affiliation—–who sent in their entry to APA Headquarters in St.Louis, MO prior to the sign up window closing in June of 2009. The format was double elimination—–race to 7 for the men and a race to 5 for the women. The races require a combination of both 8-Ball and 9-Ball games.

Lucas Thomas of Salem, Richard Fearr from Yakima Wa., Frank Rocha from Tacoma, Wa. and Donna Kingsbury from Silverton will be traveling to compete in the US Amateur in Tampa, Florida November 6-8, 2009.

We wish them all the best of success and a fun trip.

APA Northwest 9-Ball Challenge

At Chinook Winds Casino

October 14-17, 2009

EARLY BIRD

SCOTCH DOUBLES

3 PERSON

TEAM EVENT

WEEKENDER

SCOTCH DOUBLES

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