Tascarella Wins First Predator Amateur Billiard Event

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Tascarella Wins First Predator Amateur Billiard Event
Predator 9-Ball Tour / West Hempstead, NY

by InsidePOOL Staff

Pete Tascarella Jr.

The Predator 9-Ball Tour held its first A-B-C-D tournament the weekend of September 27-28 at Raxx Pool Room Bar and Grill in West Hempstead, NY.  Forty-seven of the region’s top amateur players came out to vie for their piece of the $1,000-added event, with Pete Tascarella Jr. coming out on top. 

The event’s structure required A and B players to compete against one another on the top half of the chart, while the C and D players battled it out at the bottom, only to meet one another in the quarterfinals.  

Leading the A/B players was tournament veteran Tascarella Jr.—son of famous cue maker Pete Tascarella Sr.—who had the unfortunate luck of drawing his father in the first round.  After a nail-biting hill-hill match, Junior defeated his father and went on to defeat Ariel Rivera 7-4, Chris Laz 7-3, Thomas Wan 7-4, and Eric Toledo 7-6.

The bottom of the chart had its share of close calls amongst the C/D players.  After narrowly defeating John MacArthur 7-6, William Finnegan went on to defeat Emily Harrison 7-2, Mike Schloven 7-1, and Marco Dy 7-2.  This set up the hot seat match between Finnegan and Tascarella Jr.

Day two action on the left side saw Wan defeat Mark Pantovic 7-3 before being defeated by Toledo 7-4. Toledo met up with Marco Dy next and fought hard to best the dangerous C player 7-5 to face Finnegan in the semifinals, who lost a tough match to Tascarella for the hot seat 7-4. The underdog, Finnegan pulled out all the stops to close the door on Toledo’s tournament, defeating him 7-5 and leaving him to settle for third place. In the finals, Finnegan showed a lot of heart but simply couldn’t keep up with the more experienced Tascarella and fell short 7-3. 

Results:
1st Pete Tascarella Jr.                            
2nd William Finnegan                           
3rd Eric Toledo                                     
4th Marco Dy                                        
5/6th Thomas Wan                                   
5/6th Jose Soto                                         
7/8th Mike Schloven                                
7/8th Mark Pantovic                                
9/12th Anthony Pizaro                          
9/12th Stew Warnock                         
9/12th Borana Andoni                        
9/12th Aron Rovner

Chavez Cashes First Predator Tour Win

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Chavez Cashes First Predator Tour Win
Predator 9-Ball Tour / Parsippany, NJ

by InsidePOOL Staff

Ignacio Chavez continued his reign of terror on the Predator 9-Ball Tour at Comet Billiards in Parsippany, NJ.

Ignacio Chavez tore through the Predator 9-Ball Tour’s August 30-31 to trounce Mike Davis in the final match. The stop boasted a full field of 64 players and was hosted by Comet Billiards in Parsippany, NJ.

Battling through the one-loss side after losing their second-round matches, Mike Dechaine and Mike Davis won five matches in a row to make it to day two. Davis bested Paul Raval, Jonathan Castillo, Jay Plonski, and Vidal before knocking out Ralf Souquet 7-5. Dechaine posted wins over Steve Reynolds, McCreesh, Tamiko Kumaturi, Dan Heidrich, and Yesid Geribello.

The format for day two was a race to nine. Chavez started out the day defeating Allen Hopkins 9-3, while Joey Kong defeated Earl Herring 9-5 to set up the hot seat match. Chavez easily bested Kong 9-2 to become the sole undefeated player in the event.

On the one loss side, Davis defeated Jonni Fulcher 9-3 and advanced to meet Hopkins, who gave Davis a tough battle but fell short 9-8. Dechaine bested Manny Chau 9-3 and an impressive Herring 9-6 to earn a chance to play Davis. “Iron Man” triumphed again, eliminating Mike Dechaine 9-6 to earn a spot in the semifinals.

Davis and Kong battled as Chavez awaited the winner. Davis put up yet another strong performance, overpowering Kong 9-5 to face Chavez. The final match was nothing but Chavez, as he dominated Davis 11-4 to earn his first Predator 9-Ball Tour victory.

This coming weekend, September 6-7, will be the final open stop before the finale, which will be the First Annual Empire State Championship. The Predator 9-Ball Tour still will have an A/B/C/D stop on September 27-28 at Raxx in Long Island before the finale.

Please keep in mind that the only way to pay the normal entry in the finale is to play in three or more regular tour stops. Otherwise, you will have to pay double the entry.  All new registrations will also owe the $20 registration fee.

This weekend’s event will be a charity event to benefit the Michael Magro foundation. Michael Magro was a 13-year-old boy who died from leukemia, and it’s the Predator Tour’s honor to do this special event for these wonderful children who deserve an opportunity at life.

Please tell everyone about this event as Allison Fisher, Gerda Hofstatter, Jeanette Lee, Jasmin Ouschan, and Mika Immonen will be attending this special tournament to help raise money for kids with leukemia.

For tournament payouts and standings, please visit www.predator9balltour.com.