Steinman Scores JPNEWT Billiards Finale

Steinman Scores JPNEWT Billiards FinaleJ. Pechauer NorthEast Women’s Tour / Clifton, NJby InsidePOOL StaffMorgan Steinman (pictured second from left) had a stellar year with the Regional Tours, to say the least. She started with a 5th/6th place finish at the January Regional Tour Championships that featured 55 of the top Semi-Pro players in the country. Then Morgan proceeded to win back-to-back events in JPNEWT to secure her POY status. But that wasn’t all. Morgan was also the McDermott New England Women’s Tour POY as well. In the history of the Regional Tours, this is the first time one player captured two tours at one time.
As it was at the November event, Morgan Steinman went undefeated at the J. Pechauer NorthEast Women’s Tour December 2-3 event. Hosted by Clifton Billiards in Clifton, NJ, this event attracted 55 of the top semi-pro players and also crowned the tour’s Player of the Year, who just happened to be Steinman.With a first-round bye, Steinman then scored wins over Pam Ogarek, Sandra Pereira before successfully defending a hot seat win over Caroline Pao 7-4. Pao had taken wins over Barbara Stock, Carol Clark, and Supadra Boonpasook before being sent to the left side of the chart to meet up with JPNEWT rookie Erica Testa.Testa lost her first match to Noell Rima but surged through the left side of the chart with wins over Melissa Jenkins, Clark, Naomi Fingerhut, Boonpasook, and Pereira before succumbing to Pao. In the finals, Steinman ran up a 4-1 lead over Pao, who then answered back with 5 games to go up 5-4. After trading the next two racks, Pao reached the hill first at 6-5. If Pao would have reached 7 games first, they would have had to play it out to 9; however, Steinman regrouped and won the next two racks to make the finals 7-6.Results:1st Morgan Steinman2nd Caroline Pao3rd Erica Testa4th Sandra Pereira5th Pam OgarekSupadra Boonpasook

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