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By: Erik Hjorleifson
Play continued today at the Turning Stone Casino as the field has been narrowed down to 64 players from the original 128 that entered. There now remains 16 players on the winners side and 48 on the losers side. Of the 16 remaining on the winners side 12 are American 2 are Canadian and two are international players. To my knowledge 11 of the 16 would be considered full time touring professionals.
The Canadians had a decent day today as Alain Parent posted a very respectable 9-3 win against highly regarded player Jayson Shaw from Scotland. Parent who I am told returned to competitive pool recently after a lengthy hiatus has pulled off big wins before, recently beating John Morra in a $5000 first prize tournament in Quebec called the Classique des Appalaches this May.
Parent went down to Michael Yednak in his round of 32 match and will be back tomorrow on the losers side. Quebec's biggest hope Dany Hewitt has moved along undefeated into the final 16 on the winners side and will play Mika Immonen . John Morra has been relatively untested advancing with wins of 9-1, 9-5 and 9-1, he is also now in the final sixteen on the winners side and will play Mike Dechaine at 2pm eastern time on Saturday.
I was able to catch the live streamed match between Earl Strickland and Karen Corr and Earl played nearly flawless. He is a big favorite in his final 16 match as well so look for him to go deep in this tournament. Mika Immonen escaped a second round hill-hill match with Donnie Mills in which apparently there was a big racking disagreement in the hill-hill game.
Personally I don't blame either of them and think there are so many negatives that arise from players racking the balls for each other. I would compare it to having to let you opponent tee your ball for you in golf or your opponent tossing the ball for you on the serve in tennis. I think that overall players are tolerant but rack your own or magic racks are definitely the way to go in my opinion ,all World Championships now use the magic rack.
Dennis Hatch had to suffer through the day as he broke his left shooting wrist last night. He was in so much pain that he had to break opposite handed, I give him a lot if credit for not withdrawing from the tournament and he still managed a respectable score against Thorsten Hohmann playing with a cast.
Most of the American pro's have advanced as well, here are the highlights from those matches:
Mika Immonen 9 vs. Donnie Mills 8
Mika Immonen 9 vs. Robb Saez 4
Earl Strickland 9 vs. Karen Corr 4
Shane Van Boening 9 vs. Jeremy Sossei 5
Thorsten Hohmann 9 vs Dennis Hatch 5
Warren Kiamco 9 vs Hudjie See 8
Marquee match-ups for today include:
Morris vs. Kiamco
Van Boening vs. Hohmann
Hewitt vs. Immonen
Morra vs. Dechaine
Today will be a full day of pool at the Turning Stone Casino as the field will be narrowed down to six players that will advance for a shot at the title on Sunday. Matches will begin again at 11 am and will be streamed for free at http://www.azbilliards.com/tours_and_events/1-joss-northeast-9-ball-tour/5848-turning-stone-casino-classic-xxii/live/
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