Triple Crown Women's Invitational
First Triple Crown
Women’s Invitational In The Books By MARY KENNISTON / PHOTOS - POOL ACTION TV
This past week, the legendary Q-Masters Billiards of Virginia Beach, VA hosted StraightPoolEye’s Triple Crown Women’s Invitational. The brainstorm of StraightPoolEyes’ founder, Eric Nelson, the $10,000 added event had three divisions – Straight Pool, Ten Ball and One Pocket. Twenty three ladies paid a $450 entry fee for all three divisions.
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players meeting, players auction and draw was held on Sunday night while play in the Straight Pool division started on Monday. All preliminary rounds were fifty point matches while the final match was to one hundred points. Monica Monica Webb and Julie Cone
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Webb defeated Janet Atwell to advance to the finals against the undefeated Joann Mason Parker. Janet finished in third place. Monica took advantage of a couple of Joann’s missed break shots to shoot
out to a big lead. Joann clawed her way back and by the last few racks of the finals, it was neck and neck. The final rack was a nailbiter as both players played cat and mouse but it was Monica who pocketed the last few balls to take the match 100-94. Con-
