Turning Stone Classic Update Day 3: Dechaine Continues Losers Side Charge

By: Markus Noé

Saturday at the Turning Stone Classic in Verona, New York was "moving day". Meaning it was time for the cream of the crop to surface as matches were played until there was only eight left. Mike Dechaine who lost his first match of the tournament had another impressive day. To put things briefly this was Dechaine's day.

 M .Dechaine (9) vs J.Dupuis (2)

M. Dechaine (9) vs Mika Immonen (2)

M.Dechaine (9) vs S. Wilkie (2)

M. Dechaine (9) vs D. Orcollo (2)

Mike Dechaine vs Dennis Orcollo 

As you can see by these scorelines he was living up to his nickname "Fireball." I was fortunate to catch his match live against Orcollo tonight. Orcollo had just suffered a close loss 9-7 to fellow Filipino Roberto Gomez in the 8:00 PM time slot and was forced to play on the losers side immediately after. Dechaine as he did all day never let his opponent into this match breaking and running the first five racks I believe, and missed a sixth one due to what could be called a careless positional mistake which resulted in a foul. In the end Dechaine offence was just too much for Orcollo. This win sets up an intriguing match-up between Corey Deuel and Dechaine Sunday Morning.

Shane VanBoening continued his machine like ways winning all his matches again today. He had a very tight match with Dennis Hatch which carried some drama which I filmed and can be seen on the Cue Sport Nation Facebook page. After missing a 6 ball in the side Hatch gave SVB the chance he needed at 8-7 down. The frustration for Hatch was evident as he was fully aware that SVB could very well go on to break and run the final rack.

As is so often the case he breaks the balls nearly perfect and proceeds to run out to the 8 ball.  He overran the cue ball and nearly froze it to the object ball, which began the discussion. Here Hatch called for a ref and to be fair caused a bit of a stir, people have their own opinions on this however I found it all very entertaining. Eventually SVB shot the 8 under the supervision of the ref and tournament director Mike Zuglan, and ran out for the win. Hatch was never able to recover going on to lose his next match 9-0 to Darren Appleton.

Corey Deuel vs Shane VanBoening

Jayson Shaw also continued on his impressive run here at Turning Stone. He started of the day beating R. Young 9-1 then Tom D'Alfonso 9-5 to keep his three peat hopes alive. On Sunday he plays a very game Justin Hall.

John Morra vs Alain Parent 

In conclusion all the the remaining Canadians were eliminated. The last man standing was Sylvain Grenier who had another impressive tournament follow his 9th place finish at the last event in January. Alain Parent had a very notable win today 9-8 vs John Morra before losing to Oscar Dominguez.

I will be updating our Facebook page throughout the day tomorrow and will have a final report on Monday. In conclusion it has been another great weekend here at Turning Stone, I would like to thank Mike Zuglan for hosting a amazing event and to Upstate Al for providing a great stream. For live score updates and a link to the stream for tomorrow go to www.azbilliards.com