BCAPL Day 9 Update

By: Erik Hjorleifson 

Hello again everybody we are back with more updates from the BCAPL National Championships. We are now 9 days into the event and only a few days left of action. Within the next couple of days the team events and CSI pro events will to crown their winners. Since our last report we have seen the completion of all the singles events, here are the final results from some of the divisions we are following:

Men's Grand-Master 8 ball division

Skyler Woodward  $1900
Charlie Bryant        $1400
Oscar Dominguez  $1100
Dennis Hatch           $800

Men's open 8 ball

Greg Romero  $9500
Dan Taylor       $6200
Chris Daly        $4200
Martin Zavala  $3300

Women's Open 8 ball 

Kelly Isaac            $3500
Kris Chamberlain $2400
April Larson          $1800
Faith Thompson   $1400

Men's Master singles

James Davis Sr  $2100
Shane Morrow  $1200
Dustin Gunia      $700
Ace Brown           $500

Men's advanced singles

Alex Olinger           $3100
Kenny Brisbon        $2200
Brett Stottlemeyer $1700
Johnny Kang             $1300

Tuesday also saw the third and final challenge match of the week produced by CSI in association with Tiger products. This match saw Dennis Orcollo from the Phillipines and Chang Jun Lin from Taiwan face of in a  much anticipated race to 21 winner breaks 9 Ball format. Chang took the early lead at 3-0 but there was still a long way to go in the race to 21 match. Orcollo narrowed the gap by rack 23 making the score 12 to 11 in Changs favor. The two champions would go toe to toe in the next 12 racks eventually arriving to an 19-18 scoreline.Chang then went on to win rack 38 and broke and ran out on the hill for a hard fought win.

The second 16 man invitational tournament began on Wednesday with 16 world class players facing off in an 8 ball race to 9 format. Following the same format as the 10 ball invitational the players are placed in groups of 4 and will play round robin format. John Morra was up against Darren Appleton in his first match, Appleton came away with the 9-4 victory. Morra went on to beat Francisco Bustamante  and just lost to Ko Pin Yi ending his chances in this event.  Other notable matches include Mike Dechaine with wins in his first two matches,  Thorsten Hohmann over Corey Deuel 9-3 and Chang Jun Lin over Efren Reyes 9-7. Check in tomorrow for more updates.