 Shawn Putnam |
The Tiger Pool Tour was back at Hagerstown Billiards in Hagerstown, Maryland on December 1st and 2nd for event thirteen. A special thank you goes out to the room owners Tammie and Roger Munson for organizing this event on such short notice. A tough field of forty-eight players entered the open division with eleven ladies on Sunday shooting at the $2000 added money.
The 2007 season is winding down and the point's race is heating up. Current leader Shaun Wilkie started Saturday out right with a strong win over Matt Clatterbuck. This was followed up by a loss to long time tour sponsor Tommy Kay 9-7. Larry Kressel was not impressed and stopped Kay 9-1 for his fourth win of the day. Shawn Putnam was in fine form outscoring his opponents 36-9 on Saturday. Joining these two in the final four winner side were steady competitor Manuel Chau and tour founder Danny Green.
Sunday played out with Kressel coming out on top of Putnam 9-7 and Chau advancing past Green 9-5. Chau continued to play well winning the hot seat 9-5. The elimination bracket saw an important points race match with #2 Brandon Shuff defeating #1 Wilkie. Shuff's day was abruptly cut short by Patrick Painter 7-3. Painter showed this was no fluke as he played a fine match with Putnam. A late mistake by Painter let Putnam off the hook 7-6. This served as a wake up call for Putnam as he placed Carl “Punky” Jones into the fourth spot and gained his revenge over Kressel to set up a final with Chau. The single race to eleven final started out with Chau playing very well and taking a 6-2 lead. One missed shot by Chau turned out to be a huge turning point as Putnam rattled off nine unanswered games leaving Chau no opportunities to win 11-6. 1st was worth $1100 with $700 for 2nd.
A small but tough field of eleven ladies came out Sunday to compete. The final four winner side came down to points leader My-Hanh Lac taking on Cheryl Squire and another matchup with recent rivals Linda Shea and Ming Ng. A pair of hard fought 7-5 wins put Lac and Ng into the hot seat match. Ng advanced with another 7-5 win.
In the elimination bracket, Shea quickly put out Squire and Lac 5-1 and 5-2 to earn another matchup with Ng. These two ladies have won the last 3 events between them. Shea continued her winning ways and cruised to a 9-1 score in the single set final. 1st was worth $350 with $240 for 2nd.
