2009 Schedule
July 18-19
Primetime Sports Bar & Grill
$3000 added
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Pool News
Nice Job Briana!!!
Congratulations to Briana Miller who won the Allen Hopkins Vally Forge Bar Box 8 ball Championships. Final with Kim Smith 5-3.
Briana also took 2nd in the Jrs.
Congratulations to Pam Cimarelli
Pam Cimarelli will be going to the Pacific Coast Classic. She will be representing the JPNEWT and Primetime Bar & Grill. Congratulations!
Kiss of Death wins the 2009 BCA Women's Open Team National 8-Ball Championship
Congratulations to team Kiss of Death for winning the 2009 BCA Women's Open Team National 8-Ball Championship in Las Vegas. All the ladies on team Kiss of Death are current members of the JPNewt Tour and we couldn't be more proud of them for their accomplishement. From left to right, Michele Li, Emily Duddy, Olga Gashkova, Alison Fischer, Team Captain Gail Glazebrook, and Borana Andoni.
Congratulations to Ming Ng!!!
The JPNewt would like to congratulate Ming Ng for winning the 2009 Regional Tour Championship. We would also like to congratulate our own Morgan Steinman, Naomi Fingerhut and Emily Duddy for a great event. Great playing to all!
FULL STORY
Ranola Runner-up
at US Open!!!
The finals saw Fisher taking on Filipino newcomer Iris Ranola. Ranola had already scored wins over #1 ranked Allison Fisher and #2 ranked Ga-Young Kim in this event, but nerves brought her Cinderella story to an end against Fisher. Fisher already led 5-0 before Ranola could get on the board, and the sixth rack would be the only rack Ranola would win as Fisher cruised to a 7-1 win and first place on the points list.
FULL STORY
Nice Work Bob!!!
Bob Maidhof of Drexeline Billiards in Drexeline PA, won the Maryland State 14.1 Championships and the Qualifier for the 2008 Predator World Straight Pool Championship, to be held Aug 25-30 at the Hilton East Brunswick, NJ. He also had highrun of 111 and went undefeated.
FULL STORY
Way to go Briana!!!
Congratulations to Briana Miller, our youngest JPNewt Member, on winning the 2008 Junior Nationals. This is her second JR Nationals win. Briana also took 1st place in the artistic pool competition and 2nd place in the speed pool competetion.
Inspiration!
December 2008 a few friends got together to travel up to Bingington, NY to visit long time friend: Florence Fuller, owner of the Pocket Billiard Lounge (retired). Florence held many WPBA sanctioned events for the women over the years. Many of the pros today got their start in her room. Without the help and support of Florence they would not be where they are today. Dawn Hopkins, Linda Haywood Shea, Billy Billing, Jean Balukas just to name a few.
She’s no longer at the realm of the business but she is still shooting a mean game of nine ball. She gets out a couple times a week to remind the wiper snappers they have a lot to learn…
When Florence bought this business she didn’t play at all. Like so many of us, she started a business and fell in love with a the sport. You get some sort of fever; you can’t stop thinking of it. You play out games in your sleep; we have all dreamt that perfect run.
Thanks to Florence Fuller, many women through the years had an opportunity to fulfill their dream. A special thanks to the "Wanderer" Billy for helping make it happen.
 
   
 
Castle Billiards
East Rutherford, NJ
May 23rd & 24th
1st Pam Cimarelli $750
2nd Megan Smith $475
3rd My-Hanh Lac $350
4th Rhio Anne Flores $250
5th Holly Sholes $150
5th Borana Andoni $150
7th Katie Cown $115
7th Briana Miller $115
9th Supadra Boonpasook $75
9th Erica Testa $75
9th Linda Shea $75
9th Leslie Furr $75
  Pamela Cimarelli Sweeps a Strong Field on Memorial Day Weekend! Rhio Anne Flores takes the Qualifier.
On Saturday, May 23rd, a beautiful Memorial Day weekend in East Rutherford, NJ, the ladies of the J. Pechauer Northeast Women's Tour could be found heating up Castle Billiards with what is no doubt some of the best women's pool in the Northeast.
While many people were out enjoying the holiday, 39 of the toughest players from across the region showed their dedication to the game, and turned out to vie for a WPBA qualifier, including Megan Smith (formerly Minerich), Holly Sholes, Pamela Cimarelli (formerly Treadway) My-Hanh Lac, and 13-year-old phenom Briana Miller.
To follow up her 2nd place performance at the Primetime Billiards stop, Pamela Cimarelli, who is sponsored by Hot Shot Billiards in Deptford, NJ, dominated this very strong field of players, running undefeated through the weekend, to claim the title.
There were numerous hard-fought battles throughout this event, and nearly as many upsets from some young breakthrough players. For one, Rhio Anne Flores (Jersey City, NJ) had a standout performance, defeating Maryann Giambanis (7-1), Sharon O'Hanlon (7-1), and taking a strong 7-3 victory over My-Hanh Lac.
In the following round, Rhio would fall to Megan Smith (7-4), only to come back to beat Holly Sholes (7-5) on the one-loss side, which landed her the WPBA entry. However, Rhio was then ousted by My-Hanh Lac in a one-sided 7-2 match. Ms. Flores, who is currently ranked #8 on the tour, is not only making her mark in the ladies' arena, but also holds the #5 spot in the C+ class on the Tri-State Tour.
On the other side of the bracket, up-and-comer Borana Andoni ran through Janice Larocca (7-2), Sherry Pouncey (7-4), Liz Persiano (7-3), to then upset Erica Testa in a hill-hill trial by fire. However, on day 2, Borana fought tooth-and-nail against the firepower of Pamela Cimarelli, who closed out the set 7-5.
However, outside of the upstarts, some of the JPNEWT's strongholds were making their mark as well. Megan Smith came through the winner's bracket in true grinding fashion, with wins over Melissa Jenkins (7-5), Holly Sholes (7-6), Linda Shea (7-6), and Rhio Anne Flores (7-4).
This run would land her in the finals of the winner's bracket against Pamela Cimarelli. In this match, Pamela would keep an edge over Megan, who stayed hot on her trail. With the score 6-5, Megan lost the chance to go hil-hill after a fatal miscue, and Pamela took the game along with the match.
One the one-loss side, a number of other strong players battled it out to see who would come back to compete on Sunday, Day 2 of this rigorous event.
Sunday Morning's Matchups:
My-Hanh Lac over Leslie Furr (7-3)
Briana Miller over Linda Shea (7-5)
Holly Sholes over Erica Testa (7-1)
Katie Cowan over Supadra Boonparsook (7-4)
Following that round, My-Hanh Lac then went on to defeat 13-year-old Briana Miller, in a match that swung back and forth, with the match staying locked at 2-2, 3-3, and 4-4, but My-Hanh pulled away to win 7-5. Holly Sholes also dominated over Katie Cowan of Charlotte, NC with a 7-2 win. However Katie had a strong performance in this event, winning 5 matches on the one-loss side after a 2nd round loss to Erica Testa.
In the next round, coming off a winner's side loss, Rhio Flores knocked out Holly in a match that Holly came out leading 2-0. However, Rhio would capitalize on Holly's mistakes in this hard-fought match, to win 7-5, and claim the qualifier. My-Hanh Lac would also eliminate Borana Andoni (7-1) after her loss to Pamela Cimarelli.
After a one-sided 7-2 win over Rhio, My-Hanh would match up with Megan Smith for the semi-final. Both ladies had been playing strong throughout the event, but Megan stormed ahead 5-2 in this match, and with My-Hanh ending up hooked, a few times, Megan kept control of the match to win 7-5.
The final was a rematch between the undefeated Pamela Cimarelli & Megan Smith. The format was a race to 7/9--since Pam was undefeated, if she got to 7 first, she would win the match, but if Megan got to 7 first, they would go to 9 games.
When the score was tied at 2-2, Pamela pulled away to lead the match 4-2, and was looking confident. This was a defining point in the match, as after the players exchanged safeties, Megan made a thin-cut 3 ball while leaning over the 5-ball. This slightly moved the 5, and the cue ball came around 2 rails to pocket it, meaning the shot was interfered with, giving Pamela ball-in-hand, to lead 5-2.
But Smith was not going down without a fight, breaking and running out twice and making the most of Cimarelli's errors, to tie at 6-6. In the following game, Megan starts out with a safe on the 1 ball and gets ball in hand, but can't get a shot at the 2. They exchange safeties, but after Pamela makes the 2, the 3 ball is still tied up. Pam misses the safe, and Megan comes back with a lock-up safe on the 4, forcing her to foul. While it looks like smooth sailing for Smith, she ends up with a long shot on the 8 and misses, to turn the match over to Cimarelli.
Both of these top players had an impressive weekend, and although Pamela commented that felt like she did not play her best, it was clear that she was the force to be reckoned with at this event.
Congratulations to all the ladies who came out to Castle to compete!
The next stop on the JPNEWT will be held at Primetime Sports Bar & Grill, in Sayreville, NJ, July 18-19, so make sure to come out to support these talented players.
   
   
 
Raxx Pool Room, Bar & Grill
May 2nd & 3rd
1st My-Hahn Lac $700
2nd Megan Smith $480
3rd Briana Miller $340 + US Open Qualifier
4th - Emily Duddy $240
5th Erin McManus $130
6th Linda Shea $130
7th Holly Sholes $80
7th Gail Glazebrook $80
  My-Hahn Lac is the 2009 NY State Champion!
Raxx Bar & Grill was the host for the J.Pechauer NorthEast Women’s tour with 25 women coming from as far as Turkey to compete for the NY State 9-ball Championship title on May 2nd & 3rd.
Holden Chen, the proprietor of Raxx, was a very gracious host. His room features great food with a full menu and full bar. The fantastic food, the equipment, and the friendly wait staff and room management really made this event enjoyable. Raxx added $1500 toward the prize fund, which included a paid qualifier spot for the 2009 United States 9-Ball Open being held in Oklahoma.
The competition proved to be challenging right from the start, in which some of the round one the match ups included My-Hanh Lac and Emily Duddy with My-Hanh losing on the hill 7-6, sending her to the one loss side earlier than she is used to. Emily had a great tournament and posted wins over Pam Ogarek, Caroline Pao and Erin McManus. Another round one upset was completed by Mindy Rodriguez (manager at Raxx) who sent Gail Glazebrook to the one loss side 7-6. This was Mindy’s first competition and she finished 9-12th. Congratulations Mindy for a great event. I’m sure we will be seeing more of Mindy Rodriguez. There were many great matches throughout the two day event including Briana Miller with a victory over Linda Shea sending her to the 1-loss side.
The hot seat match saw Briana Miller taking on her friend and training partner Megan Smith. Megan took an early lead and Briana started to chip away at that as she learned that she earned the qualifying spot for the US Open when My-Hanh Lac defeated Emily Duddy on the adjoining table. Megan was able to hold off the challenge and won the set 7-4.
My-Hanh continued her winning streak on the B side of the chart by finishing off Briana 7-2. The final battled back and forth to 5-5 with both pros determined to become the NY State Champ. My-Hahn fought to extend the race and actually won the battle 9-6.
We also had a raffle with prizes awarded to Naomi Fingerhut, Colleen Shoop and Tony!
Our next stop will be Castle Billiards May 23th & 24st, but we will hope to return to Raxx Bar & Grill.
Come out and join us…See you there!!!!
Click here to view photos from the NY State Championship
   
   
 
Primetime Sports Bar & Grill
April 18th & 19th
1st Karen Corr $700
2nd Pamela Cimarelli $475
3rd Julie Kelly $300
4th Annie Flores $200
5th Candi Rego $150
5th Supadra Boonpasook $150
7th Liz Ford $100
7th Linda Haywood Shea $100
9th My-Hanh Lac $75
9th Cheryl Squire $75
9th Briana Miller $75
9th Kim Meyer $75
  Karen Corr wins at Primetime Sports Bar & Grill
Pam Cimarelli wins qualifier spot for WPBA event 2009!
full field of 35 participated in the JPNEWT event on the weekend of April 18 - 19 at Primetime Sports Bar & Grill, Sayreville, NJ. This room houses a full resturant, bar and a new comedy club, including 20 Gold Crown's pocket billiard tables.
The level of competition was very impressive with Karen Corr, Pam Cimarelli, Julie Kelly. Pam Cimarelli went undefeated into Sunday after sending Karen Corr to the 1-loss side Saturday evening. On the one loss side, Karen worked her way back to Pam Cimarelli playing Cheryl Squire, Liz Ford,, Supadra Boonpasook, Nnew member Rhio Flores, and finally Julie Kelly to go back over and get another shot at the title.
Pamela Cimarelli stayed very confident and extremely strong through the entire event. The final round with Karen Corr coming from the one loss side showed some amazing abilities from both players. The final score was 9-2 Karen Corr. Pamela Cimarelli takes the Qualifier spot for the WPBA Classic Tour 2009.
Top 8 were Karen Corr, 2nd Pam Cimarelli, 3rd Julie Kelly, 4th Rhio Flores, 5/6th Supadra Boonpasook & Candi Rego, 7/8th Liz Ford and Linda Shea.
We want to thank J.Pechauer Cues www.pechauer.com and Primetime Sports Bar & Grill www.primetimecomedyonline.com for all their continued support of women in billiards.
JPNEWT's next event will be the New New York State Championships on May 2nd & 3rd at Raxx's poolroom Bar & Grill www.raxxpoolroom.com.
   
   
 
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