Archer Defends Title at Brunswick Professional Players Open

Archer Defends Title at Brunswick Professional Players Open By InsidePOOL StaffJohnny Archer successfully defended his Brunswick Professional Players Open title against Jose Parica in the final match of the event on Sunday, March 28, 2004. The tournament brought 64 of the finest pool players in the world to the 12th Annual Super Billiards Expo in Valley Forge, PA, to vie for the $40,000 purse.With only four players left on Sunday and Parica in the hot seat, the day began with the quarterfinal match between Archer and Jose Garcia. Garcia was one of the final four undefeated players until he lost to Ralf Souquet in a hill-hill match the previous evening. Archer was up 5-0 before Garcia got on the board. “The Scorpion” never really gave his opponent to get anything going, though, and it wasn’t long before Archer won the match 10-5.
Souquet, who suffered his first loss the evening before to Parica in the hot seat match, met Archer in the semifinals. The two players were neck-and-neck until the score reached 6-all in the race to 10. With a couple of errors on Souquet’s part and an excellent break-and-run by Archer, soon the 2003 Player of the Year was the 10-6 winner.The final match between Archer and Parica was a single race to 10. Archer took a strong 4-1 lead over “the leader of the invasion” and then upped it to 7-2. Again, Parica never really got the chance to get in the groove of things, and Archer’s play was so effortless that the outcome seemed apparent. Although Archer missed a long cut on the 5 ball to allow Parica to get to 4, he was soon on the hill. With a smooth stroke and a smile, Archer broke and ran out the last rack to win the final match 10-4.Results:1st Johnny Archer $10,0002nd Jose Parica $5,0003rd Ralf Souquet $3,5004th Jose Garcia $2,5005th Luc Salvas, Chris Szuter $2,0007th Jeremy Jones, Fabio Petroni $1,5009th Tony Robles, Tommy Kennedy, Frankie Hernandez, Troy Frank $1,00013th Hunter Lombardo, John Schmidt, Danny Harriman, Mika Immonen $750Visit InsidePOOL for the latest in the sport of billiards and pool.

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