Pool Cue News and Review

Well, that doesn’t help too much since the finals pitted Allison Fisher against Kelly Fisher, but you know how I like to be all witty and stuff. Here’s how the last day of the tournament went down.

In the first match, Kelly played Sarah Ellerby in a hotly contested semifinal. It was neck and neck through the 10th rack with the two tied up at 5-5 when Kelly finally broke free to win the match 7-5. On the other side, Allison had a fairly easy time with longtime rival Karen Corr, jumping to a 5-2 lead and winning the match 7-4.

In the finals, it was close through the first nine racks with Kelly and Allison trading the lead. After taking the ninth rack though, it was all Allison Fisher who took down her second win in three tournaments. Damn is she tough!

If you’re looking for more details, I really recommend you hit the WPBA website and check out some of the highlight PDFs from Anne Craig. She does a much better job than I do reporting on this stuff and really has a passion for writing about the game and takes lots of great pictures of the action.

That’s all for now. Congrats to Allison on the win and look for the matches to show up on ESPN in late July or early August.

Lots of action to report on.  After getting shown up in the Gen Pool event earlier this month, it looks like the WPBA vets came out to play.  Our girl Sarah Rousey lost a heartbreaker to Ga Young Kim, coming from behind to tie it up at 7-7 and then dropping the last two racks.  Great tournament for my favorite little pixie though.

In other action, Allison took down Tiffany 9-5 and Brit-Brit eeked out a win against Megan Minerich (great tourney Megan!) 9-8 to set up the rematch from the GP semis.  This time, Allison took Anna K. to the woodshed and just drilled her 9-1 to set up yet another matchup with Karen Corr, who took down J-Thug in the quarters 9-5.

On the bottom half of the bracket, defending champ Xiaoting Pan lost to Kelly Fisher 9-8, putting Fisher 2.0 into the semis.  The big surprise though came in the last bracket cluster.  After squeaking by Sarah, Ga Young Kim was knocked out of the tournament by Monica Webb 9-7, setting up a quarterfinal match of Monica Webb v. Sarah Ellerby, who hasn’t been seen since she showed off her rockin’ new bod in Pool & Billiards Magazine.  Ellerby proceeds to take down Monica 9-7 to put her in the semis and the TV round against Fisher 2.0.  Huge congrats to Sarah Ellerby!  By the way, if you want to know how she dropped the lbs, there’s a great feature article about her at RunnersWorld.com.

So there you have it.  Your Final Four is Allison Fisher v. Karen Corr and Kelly Fisher v. Sarah Ellerby.