Mulhollen and Minerich Upset Tiger Tour

Mulhollen and Minerich Upset Tiger Tour

Tiger Pool Tour/Hagerstown, MD
by Rick Davis
Billiard News - The seventh event of the Tiger Pool Tour took place June 16-17 at Hagerstown Billiards & Café in Hagerstown, MD, where Danny Mulhollen and Megan Minerich upset the favorites and made astounding comebacks to take the titles.
{mosimage}In the open division a full 64-player field started the event, and with Matt Clatterbuck and Jerry Slivka, who have numerous top finishes and wins between them, there were certainly favorites in the field. Mulhollen made a strong showing early on as he sent Shaun Wilkie west 9-7 in the third round; however, he fell in the next round to another tour regular, Billy McCollim, who drilled him 9-4. In that same round Slivka fell to yet another tour regular, Kevin West, who managed to fight his way to the hot seat match after pounding Slivka 9-3. Clatterbuck appeared the favorite as he played in the hot seat match against West, although the surprises did not end as West defeated Clatterbuck 9-6 to become king of the hill.
On the one-loss side it was anyone’s guess early on, but as the matches progressed, more of the favorites took control back from the masses. Slivka and Mulhollen appeared at the same point on the left chart, but Slivka was cut short there as Eric Moore eliminated him double-hill. Mulhollen avenged Slivka when he knocked out three players, including Moore, to reach the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals Mulhollen bested McCollim 7-4 then continued his reign against Clatterbuck by drilling him 7-2. This set up the finals between Mulhollen and West, where again Mulhollen was on fire, destroying West 11-4 to take his first tour win.
In the ladies’ division the usual suspect were all present, including My-Hanh Lac, who has won four of the seven tour stops. Lac looked golden again as she made her way to the hot seat match and defeated Colorado resident Minerich 7-4. On the one-loss side, tour regular Ellen Yu was building up steam, taking four matches to reach the semifinals, including a big win over yet another heavy hitter on tour, Cheryl Squire. Minerich was eager for a rematch and eliminated Yu 5-2 in short order. With the finals a single race to 9, Lac seemed to be all but unbeatable until the score started to even out then tip towards Minerich. Before long Minerich had a commanding lead and swooped in to take the win 9-7 for her first win of the season.
Open Results:
1st Danny Mulhollen
2nd Kevin West
3rd Matt Clatterbuck
4th Billy McCollim
5th Alan Duty
Richard Barney
Ladies’ Results:
1st Megan Minerich
2nd My-Hanh Lac
3rd Ellen Yu
4th Cheryl Squire
5th Sharon O’Hanlon
Nicole Vincent

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