NorthWest Pool Players Take Vegas by Storm
1st Place Open Scotch Doubles Harold Prine and Phyllis Fernandez (WA)
1st Place Super Senior Singles Clyde Bowles (WA) 1st Place Women’s Open Team: City Lights Gate Keepers (WA) (l to r) Back: Michelle Barkdoll, Andrea Saenz-Maes, Wendy Sedlacek, Front: Joy Atwell, Sandy Sheaffer
LAS VEGAS, NV - May 22, 2004 BCA Nationals are officially over and the players from the Northwest have run away with the titles. BCA reports that there were 9,010 amateur players competing for $840,000 in prize money and with the Pro 9-Ball event purse
the prize money was over $1 Million. Clyde Bowles who won the Super Senior Singles was avenging his second place finish in 2002. Clyde also finished 2nd in Masters at this year’s Western BCA Championships. Phyllis Fernandez is coming off of the Open Team win at the Western BCA this year. The Ladies from City Lights had an easy win at Nationals (8-2). The match took only about a half an hour. (BCA Nationals continued on page 7)
HOT SHOTS FOR HOT LUNCHES M a r k G r i f f i n T a l k s By: Don “Cheese” Akerlow
(l to r) Mary Langman, Bill Gagnon (3rd), Carl Doerr (1st), Ron Ross (2nd) and Valerie Guyacy (owner Sam’s Billiards)
On Tuesday May 4th Sam’s Hollywood Billiards and Loaves & Fishes MealsOn-Wheels hosted from 6:30 to 9:30PM a Pool Tournament. For everyone enjoying a beverage or dinner, ½ the proceeds benefited the Hollywood Meals-On-Wheels program. It was a great neighborhood-friendly event.The pool tourney was a success, a good time was had by all! Since 1970, Loaves & Fishes has provided a nutritional and social lifeline for seniors through on-site dining at 14 centers in Multnomah and eastern Washington counties and Meals-On-Wheels delivery to homebound seniors. With the help of 350 volunteers the non-profit agency now serves about 4,000 meals each day - that’s nearly 1 million meals a year. Loaves & Fishes Centers will serve even more seniors as Portland’s aging population grows. The Hollywood center @ 1907 NE 45th serves about 160 seniors daily on our Meals-On-Wheels routes, who are at risk of isolation and malnutrition. We also serve about 30 seniors M-F in our dinning hall. All this done by 25 volunteers a day, Mary Langman (Center Manager) and a cook. If anyone would like to volunteer or make a donation to the Hollywood MealsOn-Wheels program you can reach Mary Langman at 503-281-8109. The Hollywood Meals-On-Wheels program would like to extend a special Thanks to Valerie at Sam’s Billiards. You can get more info about Loaves & Fishes at: www.loavesandfishesonline.com. OTB
LAS VEGAS, NV - May 24, 2004 I had the opportunity to speak with Mark Griffin after the BCA Nationals in Las Vegas, so he could give his side of the sale of the BCA leagues and bring us all up to speed with what he plans. D“C”A: The questions that I am giving you have been compiled from feedback that I’ve gotten from players and league operators in my area and other sources, people that I have know throughout the years. They have some valid concerns as a lot of the players do, and I’m sure you have addressed a lot of them this past week. MG: Yes, I did and a lot of times the meetings were on an emotional note. D“C”A: From the meetings that you had in Vegas this past week what did you come away with, the feeling from Mark Griffin the players, from league operators and just basically in general? MG: I think the biggest thing is their feelings are hurt by the way the BCA handled the sale. Nobody can disagree that the BCA handled the sale very poorly. But you have to understand that the BCA hired a professional broker, and at that point it’s the broker’s job to get the word out and chase down the leads, whatever, that’s his job. And that’s where they keep saying, “Well you should have told all …” They didn’t realize that I had nothing to do with it. The BCA should have contacted all the league operators and told them the league was going to be for sale. I don’t know if that’s right or wrong. It’s (Mark Griffin continued on page 4)