Third Straight Billiards Win for Nevel

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Third Straight Billiards Win for Nevel
Great Southern Billiard Tour / Hickory, NC
by Skip Maloney
Larry “The Truth” Nevel picked up his third straight and eighth overall win on the Great Southern Billiard Tour the weekend of June 28-29 by defeating J. R. Rossman twice. The $1,500-added event drew 45 total entrants to Randolph’s Billiards in Hickory, NC.
Earlier Sunday, Nevel had sent Eddie Little to the one-loss side with a commanding 9-1 victory before facing Rossman in the hot seat. Rossman, who’d sent Peaches Fuller west with a 9-6 victory in his previous match, fell to Nevel 9-3 to face Mike Davis in the semifinals.
On the one-loss side, Davis and Mark Parlier had worked their way through Darrel Caldwell and Brian Capps, respectively, before dropping Fuller and Little into a fifth-place tie and facing each other in the quarterfinals. Davis advanced with a narrow 9-7 win before ending up in third place in a semifinal match that went to hill-hill before Rossman advanced for a second try at Nevel.
Rossman had hopes of bettering his 9-3 hot seat defeat, but Nevel wasn’t interested. “The Truth” went from the final four on the winners’ side to first place having lost only 5 games of the 32 he played, including his final 9-1 defeat of Rossman.
Results:
1st Larry Nevel
2nd J. R. Rossman
3rd Mike Davis
4th Mark Parlier
5th Eddie Little
Peaches Fuller
7th Brian Capps
Darrell Caldwell

Nevel Notches Another Billiards Win

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Nevel Notches Another Billiards Win
Great Southern Billiard Tour / Rock Hill, SC
by Skip Maloney
Larry Nevel chalked up his fourth straight victory and his seventh overall on the Great Southern Billiard Tour the weekend of June 14-15. Sent to the one-loss side by Mike Davis in the hot seat match, Nevel returned and bested Davis twice in the finals. The $1,500-added main event was hosted by Breakers Sports Bar in Rock Hill and drew 40 entrants.
Earlier Sunday, Nevel, who’d opened his tournament bid with a commanding 9-0 defeat of tour director Shannon Daulton, did the same to Roy Payton in the final eight winners’-side match-ups. Davis, in the meantime, sent Billy Holmes westward with a 9-2 victory. Matt Reed and Eddie Little sent Josh Roberts and Sparky Ferrell left and then followed them there on the heels of defeats at the hands of Nevel and Davis, respectively, setting up the hill-hill hot seat match that sent Nevel to the semifinals.
On the left side, Daulton was positioned among the final eight and struggled back through Ferrell, Reed, Holmes and finally Josh Roberts in the quarterfinal match to play in the semifinals against Nevel, who’d sent him to the one-loss side in the opening round. The two struggled back and forth in an error-prone match that went hill-hill before Nevel prevailed and turned back to face Davis in the finals.
While it was the second time that Davis and Nevel had met in a GSBT hot seat match this year, it was the first time on the tour that they’d met in the finals. Before, it was Nevel who’d sent Davis to the semifinals, where he’d been defeated by Daulton. This time around, it was Nevel on the one-loss side looking to redeem his hot seat defeat at Davis’ hands and doing so at the expense of Daulton. The Davis/Nevel final was a struggle for both, with Nevel winning the opening set 9-7 and struggling to a hill-hill victory in the second set.
Results
1st Larry Nevel
2nd Mike Davis
3rd Shannon Daulton
4th Josh Roberts
5th Eddie Little
Matt Reed
7th Norris Brady
Billy Holmes
Second Chance
1st Adam Pendley
2nd Mike Basha
3rd Antonio Tovar
4th Brian Snipes

Daulton Tallies First Great Southern Billiard Win

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Daulton Tallies First Great Southern Billiard Win
Great Southern Billiard Tour / Greenville, SC
by Skip Maloney
In his eighth attempt, tour director Shannon “The Cannon” Daulton picked up his first win on his own Great Southern Billiard Tour the weekend of May 31-June 1. In so doing, he snapped a three-week winning streak by Larry “The Truth” Nevel, defeating him in the hill-hill finals. The $1,500-added event drew 34 entrants to Palace Billiards in Greenville, SC.
Earlier Sunday, Daulton sent Brad Black westward with a 9-5 victory, while Steve Moore was ending Helena Thornfeldt’s day on the winners’ side with a commanding 9-1 victory. In the hot seat match that followed, Daulton jumped out to an early 4-1 lead, before missing a 9 ball and watching Moore win five in a row. Daulton regained the lead and hung on to win 9-6.
Nevel, already on the one-loss side, faced off against Mike Laney in the quarterfinal match, defeating him 9-3, to move into the semifinal against Moore. The final two matches of the event were close from start to finish. In the semifinals, Nevel and Moore battled their way one game at a time to a 7-7 tie, at which point Moore scratched on the break. Nevel ran the rack and repeated that performance for the 9-7 win and a chance to pick up his fourth event victory in a row.
In the double-elimination finals, Daulton moved out to a slim 6-4 lead. Nevel fought back to go ahead 7-6 before Daulton surged to the hill. Nevel followed suit before Daulton closed it out.
“You kind of get your stroke back a little,” Daulton said, “and it gets you playing again.”
Results:
1st Shannon Daulton
2nd Larry Nevel
3rd Steve Moore
4th Mike Laney
5th Brad Black
Helena Thornfeldt
7th James Bearden
Josh Roberts
9th Monica Webb
Jeff Tibet
Jonathan Pinegar
Boyd Bouknight

Nevel Captures Third Straight Great Southern Billiard Tour Win

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Nevel Captures Third Straight Great Southern Billiard Tour Win
Southern Billiard Tour / Knoxville, TN
by Skip Maloney
“The Truth” Nevel picked up his third straight victory on the Great Southern Billiard Tour the weekend of May 17-18 in Knoxville, TN. He defeated Jonathan “Hennessee From Tennessee” Pinegar in the final match, adding to a string of six victories on the tour dating back to the finale of last year’s tour in January. He’s defeated six different opponents in the finals on the tour and has been defeated only twice. The $1,500-added event drew 40 entrants to Breakers Sports Bar Grille.
The hot seat match that followed between Nevel and Daulton was the second time in a week that the two had squared off in a critical Great Southern Tour match. Once again Nevel prevailed, defeating Daulton.
On the one-loss side, bank champion John Brumback faced off with Pinegar in the quarterfinal match. Brumback put up a fight, forcing the match to hill-hill before Pinegar closed it out and turned to face Daulton, who’d sent him to the one-loss side earlier in the day.
In the semifinals, “Hennessee” jumped out to a 4-0 lead before Daulton came back to tie it. They fought back and forth beyond the tie to a 6-5 Hennessee lead. They traded the next two racks before Pinegar won two to drop Daulton into third place.
Pinegar brought some of his semifinal momentum with him to the true double-elimination finals against Nevel. He took a 5-0 lead, but Nevel was not to be denied. He took the next five to tie it, and after a seesaw round of six games that took the match to hill-hill, Nevel won the seventh and last game.
Results:
1st Larry Nevel
2nd Jonathan Pinegar
3rd Shannon Daulton
4th John Brumback
5th Randy Vaughn
Robert Green
7th Tony Smith
Curtis Blevins
9th Janet Atwell
Scott Eller
Ricky Patterson
Wes Covington

Nevel Chalks up Fifth Billiards Tour Win

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Nevel Chalks up Fifth Billiards Tour Win

Great Southern Billiard Tour / Sanford, NC
by Skip Maloney
Larry “The Truth” Nevel picked up his fifth victory on the Great Southern Billiard Tour the weekend of May 10-11, his second straight victory on the tour. The $1,500-added event drew 38 players to Speak Eazy Billiards in Sanford, NC.
Earlier in the day, Nevel and Mike Davis advanced on the winners’ side with victories over Jeff Pruitt and Ron Park, respectively. In the hot seat match that followed, Nevel took a commanding 6-1 lead over Davis, running five racks and allowing Davis only two more wins in the 9-3 victory.
Tony Morrison handled Jeff Park 9-2 before turning his attention to tournament director Shannon Daulton and a grueling quarterfinal match that was tied initially at 3-3. Daulton took the next five to reach the hill. Morrison won the next game before Daulton closed it out at 9-4.
In the semifinals, Davis jumped out to an early 5-1 lead before Daulton surged back with seven straight to reach the hill. Once again, Daulton allowed his opponent one more victory before closing out the semifinal at 9-6.
Daulton once again fell behind in the finals against Nevel before knotting the match at 4 apiece. Nevel took the next four to reach the hill, and this time, he was the one who prevailed in a “one each” final two games that completed his undefeated weekend with a 9-5 victory.
Results:
1st Larry Nevel
2nd Shannon Daulton
3rd Mike Davis
4th Tony Morrison
5th Ron Park
Jeff Pruitt
7th Mike Fuller
Nathan Pulkingham
9th Younger Chapman
Eddie Little
Jackson Jeffreys
Shawn Ray