Big Reds BCAPL Update From Vegas

Jason Klatt, Andrew Cleary, Darren Appleton, Raphael Dabreo, Max Eberle

By: Erik Hjorleifson

Our coverage continues today with lots to report about from the 2014 BCAPL National Championships in Las Vegas. All of the singles and doubles divisions are now under way as well as the Men's open 8 ball tournament which is the largest division in terms of participation topping off at close to 1000 players this year. On Saturday the field for the 10 ball challenge was narrowed down to two and play continued in the invitational pro 10 ball event.

Going into Saturday there were 8 players remaining in the prestigious 10 ball challenge, Jason Klatt and Stan Tourangeau carried the hopes of the Canadian contingent, both starting the day on losers side. Both players won their first matches Stan moved on to play Ruben Bautista and Jason moved on to play Oscar Dominguez. Unfortunately neither would advance past the next round both up against formidable opponents, they settled for very respectable 5th/6th place finishes and will be playing in the final Pro/Am tournament, the grandmaster 8 ball division which started this morning. Klatt will be put to the challenge early as he will be up against former World Champion Darren Appleton.

Yesterday there was more strong play from Canadians as Bev Ashton from Calgary won her first three matches in the Women's advanced singles to put herself into the final 8 on the winners side. Larry Wilson from BC also had a great day advancing undefeated into the final 16 on the winners side in the Men's advanced singles division, they will both continue play today. In the Men's open 8 ball division, Ontario hopeful Carlin Sanderson lost his first match but has rebounded today with two wins this morning  .

In the pro 10 ball tournament John Morra was up against Efren Reyes in the race to 9 round robin format, looking to improve his record to 2 and 0  Morra was defeated 9-6. This set the stage for this morning matches. If Morra was to beat Ko Ping Chung (Taiwan) and Ralf Soquet beat Efren Reyes this would leave Morra and Chung with 2 and 1 records at the top of their group. The first tiebreaker is head to head matches and Morra beating Chung would allow him to advance. Morra got the help he needed from Soquet as he defeated Reyes 9 to 4. The young champion from Toronto unfortunately was defeated 9 to 6 but came very close in this superstar packed event. Advancing to the final four in the tournament are Ko Pin Yi who will play Dennis Orcollo and Jayson Shaw who will play Ko Pin Chung, both semi-finals and the final match will be available tonight on PPV at playcsipool.com.