Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 12-13 March 2011
Report by Malcolm Beehre : Five competitive women vied for the title of the APA Regional Women’s 8-Ball and there were some close encounters. Continue reading »
Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 13 February 2011
Report by Malcolm Beehre : Good to see a few new faces at the start of the year. There were three women in the field who all played well, but failed to qualify for Post-section. We definitely could do with some more female players so that we may be able to have a section for the women in next year’s B-Grade. Continue reading »
Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 12 December 2010
Report by Malcolm Beehre :
The last tournament of the year. It’s amazing how, when players play in a pairs tournament they think they need to discuss shots that don’t need discussing, all on the pretext that they somehow need to play for their partner instead of playing their own game. A simple way to get out of this train of thought is to imagine you are playing a game of singles with the player following you. A couple of very long matches threw the timetable out. Both went to five frames, taking one hour and ten minutes, and one hour respectively. Continue reading »
Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 27 June 2010
Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 12-13 June 2010
Report by Malcolm Beehre : Both days started the same way, with a lot of 6/0 wins to the number 1 and 2 seeds in each Section.
Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 29 May 2010
Report by Malcolm Beehre : This tournament was a trial at using a random draw and only first match losers going through to the other side of the draw, with the winner from that side playing the winner from the last two-lifer in the Final. Continue reading »
Hosted by the Auckland Pool Assn and held at the ACBS Clubroom : 08-09 May 2010
Report by Malcolm Beehre :
Women’s Event: Molrudee Vujanic top-qualified with three wins and a +11 aggregte, and played Aimee Black in one of the Semi-finals. Black put up a good fight and could have won the match but for a couple of unlikely fouls. The final score of this match was 6/3 to Vujanic. The other Semi between Denise Wilkinson and Lorna Frost was a one-sided match with Wilkinson winning 6/0.
Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 20-21 March 2010
Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 13 December 2009
Seven pairs contested the title this year and with three of those pairs having a female players, hopefully we are in for better numbers in the Women’s tournaments in 2010. Continue reading »
Hosted by the Auckland Pool Association at the ACBS Clubrooms : 08-10 May 2009
“This year held the smallest field I can ever recall”, said Malcom Beehre, “But never the less, it was a strong field in the men’s event.