Carolina Cup Open
Kevin Lawter, Herman Parker, Josh Roberts, Tammy Collins and Hunter White
Josh Roberts Goes Undefeated To Win 1st Annual Carolina Cup Open Held under the auspices of the Viking Cues’ Q City 9-Ball Tour, the $2,000-added inaugural Carolina Cup Open, held last weekend (Oct. 17-18), drew 77 entrants to Break & Run Billiards in Chesnee, SC.
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any of them were tour veterans and some of them, cashing for the first time in a long time, thanks, of course, to the pandemic. Josh Roberts, for example, who was runner-up to Randy Jordan at a Q City stop in Georgia in September has remained fairly active this year, cashing in seven events through March (including three Derby City Classic tournaments) and then, taking a break
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until he appeared in that Q City event in Georgia. Hunter White, who’s won two stops on the tour this year (of four in which he’s cashed), hadn’t been heard from since mid-July. They met in the finals of the first Carolina Cup; Roberts, occupying the hot seat and White, winning five on the loss side for the right to face him. Roberts went undefeated to claim the inaugural title.
match against Kelly Farrar. Josh O’Neal, in the meantime, after sending White to the loss side in a winners’ side quarterfinal, met up with BJ Ussery.
Roberts advanced through the field to arrive at a winners’ side semifinal
White, in the meantime, had moved over and met up with Brian White (no
O’Neal sent Ussery to the loss side 9-7, as Roberts was busy dispatching Farrar 9-2. Roberts claimed the hot seat 9-4 over O’Neal and waited on White’s return.
