15 Hours of Pool and Just out of the Money
Saturday was a LOOOOOOOOOONG day of pool.
There was a $1,000 added Colorado Team 8 Ball Championship tournament at the Colorado Cue Club. Nine teams showed up for this event. Since players did not have to play league or qualify in anyway to compete in this tournament, you could imagine the caliber of the teams that were formed.
They decided to do a round-robin format. We arrived by noon but didn’t get started until about 1 o’clock. 15 hours and 8 matches later, around 4a.m. we left finishing just out of the money. They paid down to third place and I didn’t see the final game count to tell you exactly where we ended up, but if we would’ve won our last match, I think we would’ve had another one to play off for third.
It was definitely a long day but a great one for pool! I played with my vegas BCA women’s masters team of Bonnie Plowman and Julie Schultz (from last year’s team), Deb Winter (who I’m also playing with for VNEA), and Caela Henley (one of my favorite players and former teammate). This team just sort of formed at the last minute so we hadn’t been playing league together. This was a great opportunity for us to play together.
We were the only women in the tournament and we were all on one team, with one mission, to kick some stinkin’ boy booty.
If it weren’t such a long day, and if I were a little more organized, I could give you the play-by-play of matches in the order they happened, but I can’t remember all the details and I was enjoying the day with my teammates too much to log anything.
The bottom line was, Danny Medina showed up with a stacked team that included Colorado’s own “Black Rattlesnake,” Melvin Sharp and three other very strong players. We ended up losing to them but only by 13-12 and we finished further than them in the overall.
There were nine VERY strong teams and we gave them all a run for their money. We all collectively played great and I felt very proud to be a part of it all.
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