Great Plains 8 Ball Results

2011 Great Plains 8-Ball Shootout Results

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Womens Regular 8-Ball Singles
1st - Kelli Finke
2nd - Chris Williams

Open Masters 8-Ball Singles
1st - Pat Wancewicz
2nd - Cole Foster

Womens Masters 8-Ball Singles
1st - Julie Guzman
2nd - Becky Minshall

Open Regular 8-Ball Singles
1st - Kim Elder
2nd - Mark Hunt

Open Team
1st - Gotta Have It
2nd - Skyline Bar And Casino

Womens Team
1st - BCuz We're Here
2nd - Charlie's Angels

Womens 9-Ball Singles
1st - Sara Stevens
2nd - Kelli Finke

Open 9-Ball Singles
1st - Cole Foster
2nd - Rex Yoder

2011 Great Plains 8-Ball Junior Shootout

Open Majors Singles
1st - Matthew Vlcek
2nd - Tanner Schmidt
3rd - Josh Burger

Open Minors Singles
1st - Cody Beltz
2nd - Ismael Zambrano
3rd - Lee Schenaman

Male Youth Singles
1st - Sean Rink
2nd - Taylor Cobb
3rd - Colton Rezabek

Female Youth Singles
1st - Trina Barmore
2nd - Monique Saunsoci
3rd - Eryn McConnell

Great Plains 8 Ball

My wife and I didn't fare well in singles, and my team had a rough go at it this last weekend. We had a tough draw in the first round of team and had our openings...we were down 11 with 2 games left against Rex, Jay, Chris and Sam and couldn't quite pull it out.

I should have opened with a runout, but messed it up...then had a 2nd chance against Sam when this happened. This mistake resulted in a 10 point difference in the end!

Dumb shot on my part...

I then had a nice run against Jay and decided to take a long 8 ball instead of try and weave my way through traffic. This one cost us another 10 balls!

Our team is now prepping up for a good finish at Midwest!

I guess it could have been worse...and I was the guy scratching his noggin on the cover of the Lincoln newspaper!

2009 Great Plains Tournament

Our team played in an open handicapped tournament today at Pershing Auditorium here in Lincoln. We started off really hot, beating up on the first team we played pretty handlely (Rumored to be Iowa team champs). But we played pretty well. Then we lost to the next team we played...but gave them a nice head start, giving them the first 5 8 balls. We had a couple hour wait so we headed to Duggan's for some grub and caught some 3 card monte...this guy is from Omaha and has some pretty good slide of hand! He took a few buck and put on a profitable show for himself.





In the loser bracket, we won our first match easily, then started off horribly with 6 straight losses out of the 16 game format. Then we went on to win 7 straight back to make a good match of it. Our last player played a perfect safety with his 5 ball, blocking him from the stripe.





Then he managed to get a hit with a lucky, but good kick off the titty... er corner of the pocket.



That was the end for us in that tournament...that kick shot cost our team $60 minimum since we missed cashing by one team win. All-in-all it was a fun day though.