2025 ARCHIVES
2025 EVENT 1
March 8-9
Racks Billiards & Bar
Vernon CT
8-ball 7 fts
- 35 player field -
1st $750 Ashley Benoit
2nd $625 Briana Miller
3rd $450 Billie Billing
4th $300 Christine Pross
5th $150 Carol V Clark
$150 Emily Smith
7th $ 75 Elise Vaillancourt
$ 75 Kristyn Swanger
Billie Billing, Ashley Benoit, Christine Pross, Briana Miller
Benoit goes undefeated, downs Miller twice to win JPNEWT season opener in Vernon, CT
~ Skip Maloney, AZBilliards, March 10, 2025
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It just keeps getting harder to ignore, this Miller meets Benoit matchup at the tables (or, just to be equitable, the Benoit meets Miller matchup) that’s been the J. Pechauer Northeast Women’s Tour (JPNEWT) back story for a couple of years now. Started slowly, when Ashley Benoit first started cashing on the tour just two years ago, then began to pick up speed as her finish numbers just kept getting smaller and smaller. Briana Miller, in the meantime, had already established herself on two pool ‘fronts;’ tour directing the JPNEWT and becoming its most consistent winner. She was the woman to beat and everybody knew it. Still do. Not invincible, of course, but very formidable.
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Of the five times since January of ’24 that Miller and Benoit have come up against each other in a hot seat match, final, or both, Benoit has won two of the three events in which they played a final match. They opted out of a final match twice, both times with Benoit in the hot seat at the time. Miller’s ‘final included’ victory came at the end of the Bluefelt, CT State Women’s 9-Ball event (Jan. ’24); Benoit claiming the hot seat, Miller coming back from the semifinals to win. Benoit’s two ‘finals included’ wins were recorded at the 2024 season finale and just this past weekend (March 8-9) at the 2025 season opener, a $1,000-added event, which drew 35 entrants to Racks Billiards and Bar in Vernon, CT, playing 8-ball on 7 foot tables.
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Miller downed Benoit to claim the hot seat this past December, but Benoit came back from the semifinals to shut her out in a race-shortened (to 3) final. In Connecticut this past weekend, Benoit began her 2025 campaign by going undefeated, downing Miller in both the hot seat match and final.
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In races to 5 (both sides of the bracket), Benoit’s seven-match trip to the event title began with four matches in which she’d gave up a total of four racks; one to Loreen Belfor, none at all to Kelly Bilodeau, another one to Elise Vaillancourt, and two to Sandy Cheng. This set her up to face Billie Billing in one of the winners’ side semifinals.
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Miller, in the meantime (with an opening-round bye), got through her first three, giving up just three racks.
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She opened with a shutout over Leann D'Ettore, gave up one to Crystal Atkinson, and two to Thea Niemiec, drawing Carol Clark in the other winners’ side semifinal.
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Miller graduated to the hot seat match with a 5-2 win over Clark. Benoit fought a double-hill battle against Billing to join her. Benoit claimed the seat 5-2.
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Moving to the loss side, Clark and Billing picked up two opponents who would both end up as winners of the unofficial ‘most matches played’ award. Emily Smith, who’d been shut out by Clark in the opening round of play, went on to win six straight, that included a 5-2 victory over Niemiec and a 5-1 win versus Vaillancourt, to draw Billing. Christine Pross lost her opening-round match to Malinda Vazquez and also won six straight. She survived two straight, double-hill matches, against Sandy Cheng and Kristyn Swanger just ahead of picking up Clark.
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When Clark withdrew from their match, Pross leapfrogged directly to the quarterfinals, although she’d wait overnight to play against Billing, who’d eliminated Smith 5-3. Billing would survive a double-hill challenge by Pross in those quarterfinals before chalking up just a single rack in a 5-1 semifinal loss to Miller.
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This final match twixt Benoit and Miller was on. FargoRate odds, based on their respective rates (Miller at 675, Benoit at 616), gave Benoit a slightly better than a 1-in-4 (26.5%) chance of winning their race to 5. Miller got a rack closer than she’d gotten when Benoit claimed the hot seat, but Benoit won the match and JPNEWT’s season opener 5-3.
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Miller, in her role as tour director, thanked the ownership and staff at Rack Billiards and Bar for their hospitality, along with title sponsor J. Pechauer Custom Cues, PA ProAM Pool and Get Your Game On. The next stop on the JPNEWT, scheduled for April 26-27, will be a $1,000-added event, hosted by Sticks & Stones Billiards in Brick, NJ.
2025 EVENT 2
April 26
Sticks & Stones Billiards
Brick Township NJ
- 23 player field -
split $650 Briana Miller
$650 Ashley Benoit
3rd $400 Dawn Hopkins
4th $275 Judie Wilson
5th $ 95 Kaley Sullivan
$ 95 Mindy Maialetti
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Judie Wilson, Ashley Benoit, Briana Miller, Dawn Hopkins
CHASING DAWN, MILLER AND BENOIT SPLIT TOP PRIZES ON JPNEWT STOP AT THE JERSEY SHORE
~ Skip Maloney, AZBilliards, April 28, 2025
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You could see it coming. Like standing on a beach, basking in sunshine, watching storm clouds gathering on a horizon, four hours away.​ It’s midnight Saturday (April 27) on the Jersey shore; Sticks & Stones Billiards in Brick Township. Of the 23 entrants who signed on to the $1,000-added, Stop 2 of the 2025 J. Pechauer Northeast Women’s Tour, there were five competitors left. The top two in the current rankings (after a single stop last month), along with being the WPBA’s #15 and #16-ranked competitors, Ashley Benoit and Tour Director Briana Miller, were waiting to compete for the hot seat. Another competitor, WPBA veteran Dawn Hopkins, was waiting for an opponent in the quarterfinals. The remaining two, Judie Wilson and Mindy Maialetti (wife of event director and ‘streaming’ commentator, Frank Maialetti) are battling to see which of them it will be.
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The winners’ side semifinals, which advanced Benoit and Miller to the hot seat match, had been over for two hours. The delay in getting the hot seat match underway was related to the fact that as the day-to-evening progress of the tournament advanced, the tour released some of the tables it was using to a Saturday night contingent of local players, who swarmed in to more or less take over what’s left of the available tables. The tables in use by the tour, including the main table featured on the live stream, were being occupied by loss-side matches, which had been delayed by a combination of basic slow play (not much), hard-fought battles with a lot of safety play (much more) and double-hill matches (very little; two, and two more that went almost double-hill, 7-5).
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Ashley Benoit, a spirited and generally ‘upbeat’ competitor as you’re ever likely to encounter, had, like her opponent-to-be, Briana Miller, been practicing, both waiting for the hot seat match to be called. Benoit had spent some time sitting in to comment on the live stream with Frank Maialetti for a while. Stepping up to the main tour table, Benoit looked at the brackets and discovered just how far off the hot seat match, semifinal and final were likely to occur. The ‘sunshine’ of her general demeanor spotted the ‘clouds’ of a 4 a.m. tournament finish.​ “Oh, no!” she said a few times, comically overplaying any sense of actual distress. “Oh no! Oh no!”
We report on ‘split the top two prizes’ decisions all the time and in many cases, people (not in the actual ‘arena’) can question the reason, wondering to themselves whether one or the other of the opponents had been intimidated by the possibility of facing the other one in a final. Or, had been called away to an emergency or pressing issue that required them to leave. Or, didn’t care or feel like it. This is generally not the case. The mind doesn’t tend to distinguish between physical exhaustion and mental exhaustion. The body does, because the physical type is something you feel in your bones, after long hours at physical labor of some sort. The latter is more subtle, though not any less and arguably more exhausting.
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At midnight, the five women left in the tournament had been at the tables for 12 hours, virtually (though not exactly) non-stop. In a reverse of the ‘normal’ mind-willing, body-not-so-much phenomenon, these women didn’t need a massage (although they might not have turned one down), they needed to stop thinking for a while; about how to get a target ball into a pocket or put the cue ball in a position to frustrate the aims of an opponent, or any number of other things that one has to think about and then, determine how to respond, at or away from the table. It was, thus, no surprise that by the time Miller (in the hot seat) and Benoit (having won the semifinal) saw the tournament-time ‘writing on the wall,’ they opted out of a final match and split the top two prizes.
​There were quite a few cross-generational matchups at this JPNEWT stop. Not exactly breaking news in this day and age, but compelling to watch, none the less. Both Miller and Benoit (among others) represented a (varying) current generation of players,
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who competed against the likes of veterans like Billie Billing, who activated and was the first President of the WPBA, and Dawn Hopkins, who’s been recording her cash-winning exploits with us here at AZBilliards since (and active before) we first appeared on the Internet scene in 1998. Hopkins appearance was something of a return to the tables, after a short hiatus (no recorded finishes with us here at AZBilliards since 2023).
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Miller’s trip to the hot seat began with a 7-2 win over Erika Alban, after which she picked up Billing. That match was reflective of an apparent trend in the tournament, characterized by final scores that did not accurately reflect the back-and-forth of a tight contest. Miller had no sooner broken the first rack before they were engaged in safety battles over who would drop the 1- and 3-ball. Miller prevailed and though Billing broke rack 2 dry, she’d win the game to tie things up. Miller broke rack 3, eventually handing the table over to Billing, who’d get to the 8-ball before she scratched shooting at it. Billing broke the next rack, but when she relinquished control, Miller ran the rest of the table, only to miss the 9-ball, allowing Billing to tie the score again at 2-2. It was ‘all she wrote’ after that. In spite of repeated struggles around safety play, Miller kept gaining the upper hand and winning games until it was over 7-2. She advanced to shut out Ada Lio and draw Kaley Sullivan in one of the winners’ side semifinals.
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Meanwhile, Benoit set out on her trip to the hot seat match, downing Carol Clark (in another of those cross-generational battles) 7-2, and then shut out Akiko Sugiyama (playing in her first for-cash tournament). She drew Dawn Hopkins next in one of those matches the score of which was not reflective of how tough (not to mention time-consuming) it was. Up by a single rack 3-2, Benoit chalked up two more before Hopkins responded with what proved to be her last rack. Benoit drew Mindy Maialetti in the other winners’ side semifinals.
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Two shutouts put Miller and Benoit into the hot seat match; Miller over Sullivan, Benoit over Maialetti. Miller downed Benoit 7-4 to claim the seat. Coming over to the loss side, Sullivan picked up Hopkins, who’d followed her loss to Benoit with victories over Kia Burwell (4) and Susan Kimble (3). Maialetti drew Judie Wilson, who’d lost her opener to Burwell and embarked on a four-match winning streak that had recently sent Nicole Adams (5) and Ada Lio (1) home early (sort of; Wilson/Lio didn’t finish up until after 11).
Hopkins and Sullivan battled to double hill before Hopkins prevailed, advancing to the quarterfinals. Wilson joined her after an almost-double hill battle (7-5) versus Maialetti.
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It was just past 1:30 a.m. when Hopkins and Wilson squared off in the quarterfinal and almost 3 a.m. before it was done. Hopkins advanced 7-3 to what proved to be the last match of the night, the Dawn Hopkins/Ashley Benoit semifinal.
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Benoit gave up just two racks to Hopkins (again, a deceptive score – 7-2 – not necessarily indicative of the battle). The decision to split the top two prizes had already been made and the night/morning was over. Benoit had won the JPNEWT season opener at Racks in Vernon, CT last month and though Miller, as occupant of the hot seat at the time of this split, was Stop 2’s official winner, the outright win for Benoit in the opener should leave her atop the tour’s leaderboard, though not by much.
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In her role as tour director, Briana Miller thanked the ownership and staff at Sticks & Stones for their hospitality, along with title sponsor J. Pechauer Custom Cues, PA ProAm Pool (with Frank Maialetti for his assistance/streaming/commentating services), and Get Your Game On (JPNEWT Apparel). The next stop on the JPNEWT, scheduled for the weekend of May 17-18, will be a $1,000-added event, hosted by Winni Bar & Billiards in Laconia, NH.
2025 EVENT 3
April 26
Winni Bar & Billiards
Laconia NH
handicapped
- 15 player field -
split $550 Ashley Benoit
$550 Briana Miller
3rd $350 Carol Borja Montanez
4th $175 Ying Liang
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Ashley Benoit, Briana Miller, Carol Borja Montanez, Ying Liang
Ashley Benoit and Briana Miller Split Again at JPNEWT Event 3 at Winni in NH
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The competition at Winni Bar & Billiards in Laconia NH was nothing short of spectacular. For the first time ever the JPNEWT ladies played a handicapped event. Ashley Benoit and Briana Miller split to be co-champions. Carol Borja Montanez placed third. And Ying Liang placed fourth of fifteen total players.
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A huge thanks to Eric Walsh and Joe Martel at Winni Bar & Billiards for all your hospitality and to our fantastic sponsors for making this event possible. Thanks to our tour sponsors J. Pechauer Custom Cues, PA Pro-Am Pool, Billiards Sports Network, and Game on Gear.​
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We're looking forward to our next event at Snookers the weekend of June 28-29th, which is a WPBA Qualifier to the Colorado Classic in August.
2025 EVENT 4
June 28-29
Snookers
Providence RI
- 38 player field -
1st $825 Ashley Benoit
2nd $625 Ada Lio
3rd $475 Kaley Sullivan
4th $315 Julia Bright
5th $175 Jane Im
$175 Liz Taylor
7th $ 90 Amanda Laverriere
$ 90 Erica Testa
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Julia Bright, Ada Lio,, Ashley Benoit, Kaley Sullivan
BENOIT GOES UNDEFEATED TO CLAIM SECOND 2025 ‘UNSPLIT’ JPNEWT TITLE
~ Skip Maloney, AZBilliards, June 30, 2025
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Benoit battles Ada Lio twice to complete six-match run to the finish line.
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In their six meetups in the finals of stops on the J. Pechauer Northeast Women’s Tour (JPNEWT) since March of 2024, Briana Miller and Ashley Benoit have split the top two prizes four times. Benoit won the last final match of the 2024 season between them and the first one of this year. This past weekend (June 28-29), in the absence of Miller, Benoit went undefeated to claim her second title of this year’s four stops, thus far. In addition to Benoit sliding into the top spot in the tour standings ahead of Miller, Ada Lio, who finished as runner-up and Kaley Sullivan, who finished third, jumped up in the rankings list to take third and fourth place, respectively. The $1,000-added event drew 38 entrants to Snooker’s in Providence, RI.
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For entertainment purposes only, we did a little figuring on how certain assumptions about players that were favored in this tournament worked out in the tournament results. Using FargoRates and recent events on the JPNEWT as a measuring tool in an imaginary tote board of odds at the start of the tournament, Benoit would have been the favorite with 3-2 odds. Lio would have started with the second-highest odds of 3-1. Bright would have had 4-1 odds while Sullivan began with 7-1 odds. Sullivan’s finish in third place would have made a trifecta bet (picking the top three, in order) a good investment, netting $96. With Bright in the mix as the third pick, the same bet would have netted $60.
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Benoit almost had her run to the win side-tracked twice. She was forced to fight off a double-hill challenge from Katie Bischoff in her opening round. She advanced to chalk up two straight 7-2 wins over Carla Borja Montanez and Amanda Laverriere and picked up Jane Im in one of the winners’ side semifinals.
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Lio, in the meantime, was looking pretty good in the early going, though the racks-against started piling up as she advanced. She opened with a shutout over Karissa Jackson, followed with a 7-2 win over Rebecca Hilton and downed Erica Testa 7-4 to draw Kaley Sullivan in the other winners’ side semifinal.
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​Sullivan west 7-1. Benoit claimed the seat 7-2 over Lio.
On the loss side, Im picked up Julia Bright, who’d lost her opening match to Bischoff 1-7, before getting to work on a six-match, loss-side winning streak, which​
started with a shutout against Tera Williams, and advanced through three straight 7-3 wins (Karissa Jackson, Bonnie Saritelli, and Jennifer Clement). She returned ‘pedal to the metal’ again, allowing Leann Dettore only a single rack in their match, just ahead of saying ‘hello’ to Jane Im. Sullivan drew Liz Taylor, who’d lost a winners’ side quarterfinal to Im, then defeated Bischoff in a double-hill battle and Laverriere 7-3.
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Sullivan advanced to the quarterfinals, 7-5 over Taylor. Bright extended her loss-side streak to seven, giving up just a single rack to Im and joining Sullivan in those quarterfinals. Sullivan ended Bright’s streak 7-4.
FargoRate calculations gave Sullivan only a 30.1% chance of winning her race to 7 against Lio and she got as close as she could get to beating those odds without defying them completely. She lost the semifinal, double hill, that sent Lio to the final versus Benoit.
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FargoRate calculations on odds-to-win were even longer for Lio versus Benoit in the final than they were for Sullivan against Lio in the semifinal. They suggested, by inference with the numbers, that if Lio were to play 100 matches against Benoit, Lio would normally win just a fraction lower than 12 of the matches. Lio chalked up one more rack against her than she had in the hot seat match, but Benoit completed her undefeated run with a 7-3 win in the final.
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This event was a ‘qualifier,’ with the winner receiving an invitation to the WPBA’s Felt Colorado Classic in August. Since the winner and runner-up have already received invitations to the event, Kaley Sullivan picked up the qualifier spot.
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Tour director Briana Miller, in absentia, thanked the ownership and staff at Snooker’s for their hospitality, along with title sponsor J. Pechauer Custom Cues, Billiard Sports Network, and Get Your Game On (JPNEWT apparel). The JPNEWT is headed into something of a summer hiatus (though not the players, necessarily). The next scheduled stop on the tour (#5) is scheduled for the weekend of Sept. 13-14; a $1,000-added event, hosted by Shooters Family Billiards in Wayne, NJ.
2025 EVENT 5
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2025 EVENT 6
-with Billiard Sports Network-
PA State Women's 9-ball Championship
October 25-26
Bluegrass Billiards
Philadelphia PA
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- 70 player field -
1st $2100 Sofia Mast
2nd $1500 Ashley Benoit
3rd $1050 Briana Miller
4th $ 825 Rachel Walters
5th $ 600 Tina Malm
$ 600 Joann Mason Parker
7th $ 425 Jane Im
$ 425 Billie Billing
9th $ 240 Kaley Sullivan
$ 240 Michelle Jiang
$ 240 Dani Casper
$ 240 Christy Norris
13th $ 120 Giovanna Napolitano
$ 120 Melissa Jenkins
$ 120 Thea Niemiec
$ 120 Reagan Wallace
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Sofia Mast
l-r: Michelle Jiang, Thea Niemiec, Tina Malm, Briana Miller, Dani Casper, Ashley Benoit, Christy Norris, Melissa Jenkins, Reagan Wallace, Rachel Walters, Kaley Sullivan, Giovanna Napolitano, Sofia Mast, Jane Im, Joann Mason Parker, Billie Billing
THE 'PINK DAGGER' GOES UNDEFEATED TO WIN 3RD ANNUAL PA STATE/JPNEWT 9-BALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
~ Skip Maloney, AZBilliards, October 30, 2025
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Chances are that if you were to have looked at the field that signed on to compete in the $5,000-added, 3rd Annual PA State Women’s 9-Ball Championships that drew 70 entrants to Bluegrass Billiards in Philadelphia this past weekend (Oct. 25-26), you might have paid particular attention to an ongoing, somewhat regional rivalry between a pair of WPBA competitors, Ashley Benoit and Briana Miller, who’ve been squaring off against each other at various times on the J. Pechauer Northeast Women’s Tour and elsewhere over the past two years. The event was held under the combined auspices of the JPNEWT and Billiards Sports Network.
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Not counting the number of times they’ve been scheduled to meet and opted out of a JPNEWT event final to split the top two prizes (4) during that time, Benoit is ahead 2-1 in claiming a tour stop title when they haveplayed a final match. Hard to tell how many times, in total, they’ve competed in hot seat matches, finals and elsewhere in a bracket, including on the WPBA circuit, because searchable tournament archives are not as comprehensive as they arguably could be, though we’ve recorded at least 11 meetings.
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All of which is to say that one might have expected the two of them to show up in the finals in Philadelphia this past weekend. They did not. The bracket draw had set them on a course for a potential meetup in a winners’ side semifinal, but Benoit was shut out by Rachel Walters in a winners’ side quarterfinal and instead, it was Walters who advanced to meet Miller, who’d eventually battle for the hot seat.
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The young woman they (and everybody else) needed to be watching out for, who would eventually claim the event title, was Florida’s 17-year-old Sofia Mast, known as the Pink Dagger, who, thanks to the bracket draw, would not have been scheduled to meet either of them on the winners’ side until the hot seat match. That’s where Mast ran into Miller, sending her to a matchup versus Benoit in the semifinals, from which Benoit advanced to face and lose to Mast in the finals.
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So, the 3rd Annual PA State Women’s 9-Ball Championships came down to, in order, the #9 (Mast), #19 (Benoit) and #30 (Miller) women on the WPBA’s current ranking list. There were four more of the WPBA’s Top 50-ranked competitors at the event; Joann Mason Parker (#49, 5th/6th) and the soon-to-be-inducted-into-the-WPBA-Hall-of-Fame Billie Billing (#50, 7th/8th), along with Ada Lio (#43) and Janet Atwell (#14), both of whom fell short of the first money round by a single match, finishing in the tie for 17th/24th.
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Anecdotally, from the mouths of varied female competitors who’ve encountered the Pink Dagger in a tournament, it’s been said, often, that she just “doesn’t miss.” Of course, she does, on occasion. She doesn’t make every shot, win every game, match and tournament, but her performance seems to leave a lot of her opponents with the perception that she doesn’t, which says a lot.
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In straight-up races to 6 on the winners’ side of the bracket, Mast got into the hot seat match by sending five opponents to the loss side, by an average score of 6-2. Only one of those five opponents came to the event with a FargoRate higher than Mast’s 653 (Joann Mason Parker, 659). Mast gave up just a single rack to her in one of the winners’ side semifinals. Her two strongest (in terms of score) opponents among the first five were Ada Lio (526) and Sophia Balter (347), who, in the second and third round, chalked up three racks against her. Getting close to the hot seat match, she gave up one each to Kaley Sullivan in a winners’ side quarterfinal and Joann Mason Parker in the winners’ side semifinal. ​
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Miller, in the meantime, on her way to the hot seat match, sent five opponents to the loss side by an average score of 6-3. Her toughest opponent (again, by score alone) proved to be Rachel Walters with whom she battled to double hill and defeated in the other winners’ side semifinal. She’d won the three matches before that, against Giovanna Napolitano, Mindy Maialetti and Dani Casper by her average score of 6-3. Mast claimed the hot seat over Miller 6-4.
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It was Parker in her first loss-side match that drew Benoit, who‘d followed her loss to Miller with racing-to-5 victories over Christy Norris(3) and shut-out the soon to be inducted into the WPBA Hall of Fame competitor, Billie Billing. Walters came over to the loss side and picked up a rematch versus Tina Malm, whom she’d defeated in the third round 6-1. Malm had faced four, loss-side opponents and beat them by an aggregate game score of 20-4, shutting out two and defeating the other two 5-2.
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Benoit defeated Parker 5-3, as Walters was busy winning her rematch versus Malm 5-2. This set up another rematch in the quarterfinal; Walters vs. Benoit. Benoit had been shut out in their winners’ side quarterfinal, and she didn’t let that happen again, defeating her 5-3.
This set up the East Coast rivalry match between Benoit and Miller in the semifinal. Benoit won it 5-3 to earn her shot against Mast, waiting for her in the hot seat.
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It wasn’t really a multi-generational final. Benoit is the elder of the two, though not-quite elder enough to qualify as another generation. The younger Mast has been recording her exploits at the table with us since 2021, while Benoit, who ‘officially’ turned Pro just last year, joined our database a year later. Mast recorded her best earnings year in 2024. Benoit’s best has been this year and she’s ahead of Mast in (reported) 2025 earnings, though not by much. Together, they’ve cashed in 60 (reported) events over the past two years. They’ve won a combined total of 18 events in those two years; Benoit with the edge over Mast in that department (11-7). Among Mast’s seven wins was her acquisition of a gold medal in September 2024 at the Predator World Junior Championships in New Zealand, where she defeated fellow American Savannah Easton in the final to become the first American female gold medalist since Mary (Rakin) Tam earned one twice in a row in ’06 and ’07.
So, immediate visual access to two of the country’s best female pool players, both evidence of a bright future for women’s pool in general, doing battle in the finals of a major event. Thanks to Billiard Sports Network’s stream of the final match, it can now be viewed by clicking the video link above. The recording will begin with earlier matches, and work their way up to the final. You’ll also get to see Miller and Benoit in the semifinal.
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If you’ve gotten this far, the headline for this report has already been a spoiler, which in no way interferes with the joy of watching that final match. Neither does this: In the extended race-to-9 final, Mast got out to an early lead, though at 6-2, Benoit started narrowing the gap by winning two in a row. Mast came back with two of her own to reach the hill. Shooting and making the 5-ball in rack #13, Benoit scratched. Mast picked up the cue ball, placed it appropriately and ran out to claim the event title.
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Frank Mailetti of Billiards Sports Network thanked the ownership and staff at Bluegrass Billiards, as well as sponsors Marty McGee’s Irish Pub, Classic Billiards, Get Your Game On, Integrity Cues, Black Blade Carbon, Trophy Smack, and the Billiards Sports Network.
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