Brothers, Lac Post Comeback Billiard Wins

Brothers, Lac Post Comeback Billiard WinsTiger 9-Ball Tour / Hagerstown, MDby Andy LincolnRight after the Thanksgiving holiday, the Tiger 9-Ball Tour returned to Hagerstown, MD, November 25-26 at Hagerstown Billiards & Café. A strong field of 47 players, including most of the top 20 on the year-long points list, showed up to take a shot at the $1,500-added money.
Current points leader Josh Brothers cruised through the top of the bracket and was joined in the final four by Brandon Shuff, who was also playing well. The bottom half of the bracket saw Jerry Slivka defeat Mike Davis 9-4. Veteran Don Steele joined these three players in the final four winners’ side by Saturday night. Eight players remained on the one-loss side.Brothers and Slivka easily advanced over Shuff and Steele on Sunday 9-1 and 9-5, respectively. These two stars have played each other several times this year; this time, Slivka looked unstoppable and cruised into the hot seat 9-4.Some strong players were fighting it out in the elimination bracket. Shaun “Get Some” Wilkie put together a string of five wins before meeting up with Shuff, who had just defeated Mike Davis 7-6. A quick 7-3 match sent Wilkie home in fourth place. Brothers focused on the year-end points list, where he holds a slim lead over Slivka. He placed Shuff into third place with a close 7-5 win to earn a rematch with Slivka. The single-set, race-to-11 final match was much different than the hot seat match. Brothers established an early lead and never looked back, winning 11-4.A small field of ten determined ladies played Sunday. An early match between Kathleen Lawless and My-Hanh Lac went to Lawless 7-3, but soon afterward, points leader Pamela Treadway stopped Lawless 7-3 to take the hot seat. Lac recovered from her loss to post wins over tournament director Ceci Strain and Cheryl Squire. This set up a rematch with Lawless, with Lac coming out on top this time 7-3. The single race-to-9 final went to the confident Lac 9-5, who won her first Tiger Tour event.Open Results:1st Josh Brothers2nd Jerry Slivka3rd Brandon Shuff4th Shaun Wilkie5th Mike DavisDon Steele7th Richard BarneyCary Dunn9th Shawn JacksonShawn ToniFreddy ScottKevin WestLadies’ Results:1st My-Hanh Lac2nd Pamela Treadway3rd Kathleen Lawless4th Cheryl Squire5th Ceci StrainMalea Haacke

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