The Pool Players of the Brooke (PPB) would like to thank Rincon County West Billiards Club (RCW), Bob McKenna, and RCW’s billiards team for their camaraderie and friendly competition. Another big THANK YOU goes out to Tony “The Snake” Cardillo PPB Travel Team Captain for organizing this event. PPB’s Travel Team ventured over to RCW’s billiard club for an 8-Ball Team challenge on Saturday, December 14, 2024. We were competing on four nine-foot Connelly pool tables for temporary ownership of a Traveling Bronze Plaque. The PPB team was made up of four, two-player teams and RCW also had four, two-player teams. The PPB teams consisted of Dave Parker and Russ “Longshot” Doering, Dick “Pocket Blocker” Dunbar and Jack “Crash” Hoverter, Joe “Ball Breaker” Vidmar and Lowell “8-Ball” Hegg, Tony “The Snake” Cardillo and Bob “O” Ogle.

The format was simple. Each of our teams would play each of their teams three games of 8-ball with each game being worth one point for the winning team. There were a total of 48 points in the match. The PPB has had ownership of the Traveling Bronze Plaque since Saturday, December 9, 2023. So, the PPB only needed to tie RCW with 24 points to retain ownership of the Traveling Bronze Plaque.

The first-round score was 9 to 3 in PPB’s favor. The second round also went to the PPB, with a score of 11 to 1. The score after the first two rounds was the PPB ahead of RCW by a score of 20 to 4. In the third round, the PPB won the round with a score of 9 to 3. Now, after the third round, the PPB was ahead by 29 to 7 over RCW. In the final round, the PPB, again, won the round this time by an 8 to 4 score to put the final score at PPB 37 and RCW 11. A couple things the PPB feels need special mention: In one of Bob Ogle’s matches, his opponent broke dry and Bob proceeded to run out the table for the win while his opponents sat and helplessly watched. Also, congrats goes out to the almost perfect PPB team of Joe Vidmar and Lowell Hegg who won 11 games and only lost one. Nice job Bob, Joe and Lowell!

We again had a chance to play for a Traveling Bronze Plaque. With this win it puts the eighth Bronze Plaque on the PPB’s wall in the CRC. After the match, the teams met at Red Robin for lunch with some fun banter! SaddleBrooke is proud of their team, and they thank RCW for being such gracious hosts.

For more information at Pool Players of the Brooke, email Joe Giammarino at jgpool@outlook.com.

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