The Earthquake Hits Chesapeake

The Earthquake Hits Chesapeake By InsidePOOL StaffIn the featured match-up in the 3 p.m. round at the U.S. Open, Keith "Earthquake" McCready met Buddy "The Rifleman" Hall on the Accu-Stats table. Both players started off slowly, with several uncharacteristic errors that may have been due to the slick new Simonis cloth. This match was also played with a red-spotted cue ball, which enables the audience to watch the "spin" on certain shots.Neither player ever gained more than a two-game advantage over the other during the match. In the featured televised matches, if a player makes the 9 ball on the break, he automatically wins $500. Unfortunately, this did not occur this time. The match seesawed to a hill-hill finale after McCready won two games in a row. With Earthquake breaking, he eased in a 3 ball after a pause, causing the audience to gasp, and with a great force-follow shot on the 6 ball for the 7, ran the remaining balls. With a "Yes!!" on the 9 ball, McCready won the match 11-10.
The scores from the completed matches from today are as follows:Troy Frank d. Lee Holt 11-6Fabio Petroni d. Bill Hammack 11-3Robert Hicks d. John Kucikowski 11-9Jarrod Clowery d. Ryan McCreesh 11-6John Moody d. David Baranski 11-7Will Slone d. Shuti Okuda 11-1Stepanov Kostantin d. Peter Ghostine 11-1Niels Feijen d. Nick Schulman 11-3Billy Kirschner d. Larry Pierce 11-10Corey Deuel d. Martin Rimlinger 11-1Johnathan Pinegar d. Chris MacDonald 11-10Max Eberle d. Ben Zimmer 11-5Shane McMinn d. Dennis Coulter 11-8Jimmy Wetch d. Ricky Bingham 11-1Bill Elliott d. Voytek Partika 11-7Ted Guerrieri d. Joe Sorencenski FJohn Newton d. Mike Lebron 11-6Alex Pagulayan d. Nathan Rose 11-8Sparky Ferrel d. Bill Brown 11-2Jose Garcia d. Larry Storey 11-3Ty Laha d. Roberto Valle 11-7Visit InsidePOOL for the latest in the sport of billiards and pool.

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