Kerry Resch
NWPA Kicks Off New Season FOREST GROVE, ORE – Hsin Huang started out the New Year on track by winning the first stop of the 2004 Northwest Women’s Pool Association tour Jan. 17-18 at Let’s Play Billiards in Forest Grove, Ore. John Campbell and Gary French, owners of Let’s Play, graciously added $750 to the prize fund and were there the entire weekend supporting the 35 women, from around the Northwest and Canada, that competed. The Oregonian was there on Saturday interviewing players and taking pictures for an article that appeared Jan. 19 and is available on their website. Huang, the 2003 NWPA champion and National Regional Tour Champion, was true to form, capturing the hot seat with wins over: Andrena Brown, 7-2; Linda Carter, 7-1; Josie Leroy, 7-3; her road partner, Katherine “The Czar”
Dr Cues CANCELS Two in a Row Matt Jacoby and Jeff Robertson owners of Dr Cue Billiards in Shoreline, Washington north of Seattle, cancelled another pool tournament. We were unaware at press time for the January issue, that the tournament had been cancelled. We at the MCDermott Northwest tour would like to apologize to the pool players for any misinformation on our part. We know that there were players planning on signing up and attending the tournament and to those players we would again like to apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused them. We regret that the owners of Dr Cue Billiards chose to do this. It is not the policy of the McDermott Tour to advertise a tournament for months (Cancellation continued on page 27)
Memorial by: Mary Price
With solid play Impson, of Marysville, WA, knocked down a field of veteran NWPA players, including: Martha Hartsell, 7-1; Jaclyn Fitchner, 7-4; Mary Olson, 72; before losing to Kim Gates, 4-7. After Huang beat Gates for the hot
We started this tournament 3 years ago in memory of our friend, Kerry Resch. Kerry had a deep and abiding love for this game – for the purity, the complexity and the sheer beauty of it. Those are the eyes through which he introduced me to this game. Everyone who played yesterday has been bitten by the love of it. Those of you who are here today have touched the purity and the beauty of the game. Kerry once told me the difference between a good player and a great player is that a good player loves their game; a great player loves THE game. I think you today are all great players. Thank you for participating in this event and for playing the pure and beautiful pool you play.
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(Results on page 13)
Hsin Huang
Czarkowski, 7-5; and Kim Gates, 7-2. Huang, of Vancouver, B.C., then beat former WPBA pro Kerry Impson, who marked her return to pool after a four-year hiatus and two babies, with an admirable second place finish.
Montal Wins at Falls Club McDermott NorthWest Tour Stop #6 By: Nita Saddler, Tournament Director
POST FALLS, ID. On January 24th and 25th we held a 9-Ball Open as part of the McDermott Tour. Due to the uncontrollable weather we did not have a full field, but a great tournament nonetheless. With 49 men and 2 women, things ran a little faster and the matches didn’t run quite so late. Our B-side winner Mike Vidas started out great with a 9-3 win over Marvin Nash, but then lost to our local, Soud Alabdulrazaq 9-6. I think this upset Mike because he tore through the Bside defeating Tony Waters 70, Scott Chandler 7-0, Darin Walding 7-4, Dave Martin 7-2, Marlon Oliveras 7-5, Bernie Mikkelsen 7-4, Randy Camantigue 7-0, Nick Kruger 7-3 and finally Stan Tourangeau 7-2 to go on and play Edwin Montal in the winner’s final.
1st Edwin Montal
Edwin started quite the same as usual. Tony Waters unfortunately didn’t have any luck of the draw. He was Edwin’s first victim and Mike’s
second. Edwin defeated Tony Waters 9-3, P J Massicotte 9-7, David Williams 9-5, Come’ Plourde 9-7, Randy Camantigue 9-5 and Stan Tourangeau 9-2 to face Mike Vidas in the winner’s final. Mike and Edwin both started out fierce with their minds set on winning. The first set went back and forth until Mike broke away to win 9-6 in the first set. Edwin came back with his game face on and would not settle for anything less than first place. Edwin won 9-4 the final set and took yet another tournament. Excellent shooting you guys! This being the first tournament I’ve (Falls Club continued page 20)