[POOL] Last night's results

[William (Bill) E. Allcock]

The captain of the league (Kevin?) came around and said they wanted to  
try and finish the night early because of weather and we were the only  
teams that had extra people there.

Bill
On Feb 6, 2008, at 11:02 AM, Craig Stacey wrote:

> Wow, great!
>
> I notice all of the matchups were short -- is there a reason you  
> played a simultaneous match so early?
>
> On Feb 6, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Roger Sersted wrote:
>
>>
>> It was a fun time at Q last night.  We played the Bushwackers.
>>
>> First up was Brian in a 3:4 against Wayne Jr.  Brian won 3-2.
>>
>> At about the same time, I was playing Wayne Sr. in a 2:3.  This was  
>> interesting.  I was slaughtered the first game.  Game 2, I rocked  
>> and won game 2.  Then the break for game 3.  I tried an 8-ball  
>> break, major draw on the cue.  The cueball hits the rack pops in  
>> the air, bounces, lands ON the rail (far end), rides along the rail  
>> for about 18 inches and rolls back on the table.  Meanwhile, the 8- 
>> ball is making its way towards the side pocket and stops less than  
>> 2 inches from the side pocket.  So close, yet so far.  The  
>> remainder of the game went pretty bad for me.  But, Wayne got  
>> nervous on his 8ball shot and just poked the cueball (no follow- 
>> through).  The cueball chased the 8 in to the side pocket and I won  
>> the match 2-1.
>>
>> Bill A. played Mike in a 3:4, I saw almost none of this match.   
>> Bill lost 0-4.
>>
>> John played Adam in a 2:4.  John played well and it was interesting  
>> at times.  Adam would get these over-complicated coaches (from his  
>> Dad) and then miss the shot.  John won 2-2.
>>
>> Our other Brian played Tim in a 2:4.  Brian played pretty well at  
>> times, but Tim snookered Brian numerous times.  Brian won a game  
>> when Tim scratched on his 8-ball shot.  But alas, it was not meant  
>> to be, Brian lost 1-4.
>>
>> The bottom line:  We won 3 of 5 matches.  Way to go team.
>>
>> Roger S.
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> Craig
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