Corr Roars Back to Win New Jersey Billiard Championship
July 13, 2008
Corr Roars Back to Win New Jersey Billiard Championship
J. Pechauer New Jersey State Ladies 9-Ball Championship / South Amboy, NJ
by Skip Maloney
Karen Corr came from way behind in the finals of the J. Pechauer New Jersey State Ladies’ Championship the weekend of July 12-13 to defeat Iris Ranola and capture the first-place prize. The $3,000-added event, sponsored in part by Heineken, drew 28 players to Prime Time Sports Bar and Grill in South Amboy.
Corr and Ranola met first in the hot seat match, which Corr had reached by defeating Tiffany Nelson 7-2. Ranola had sent My Han Lac west with a 7-5 victory. Corr prevailed as the last woman standing and awaited Ranola’s eventual return.
On the one-loss side, it was Julie Kelly, having just defeated Romana Dokovic, who was waiting for there for Nelson. Monica Webb, on the heels of a 7-3 victory over Megan Minerich, faced Lac. Nelson and Webb dropped Lac and Kelly into a fifth-place tie and then battled each other to hill-hill before Nelson prevailed in the quarterfinal match.
Ranola and Nelson, who’d played in the finals of the JPNEWT Tour stop in New Jersey last month, won by Ranola, battled back and forth in the semifinals. Ranola prevailed 7-5 in the end and turned back for a rematch with Corr.
Ranola entered the finals with a great deal of confidence and jumped out to a quick 7-1 lead. Corr, however, known for her deliberate and determined style of play, took what followed one game at a time and won the next eight games in a row to reach the hill first. Ranola battled back to win the next game and reach double-hill, but Corr won the deciding game.
Results:
1st Karen Corr
2nd Iris Ranola
3rd Tiffany Nelson
4th Monica Webb
5th Julie Kelly
My Han Lac
7th Romana Dokovic
Megan Minerich
9th Sharon O’Hanlon
Asia Cycak
Liz Ford
Bonnie Saritelli
Ranola Victorious at Comet Billiards
June 22, 2008
Ranola Victorious at Comet Billiards
J. Pechauer NorthEast Women’s Tour / Parsippany, NJ
by Skip Maloney
Though pushed to the brink of elimination in an extended finals format, Iris Ranola came from behind and won the J. Pechauer Northeast Women’s Tour stop the weekend of June 21-22. The $1,500-added event, plus qualification to an upcoming Women’s Professional Billiard Association (WPBA) event, was hosted by Comet Billiards in Parsippany, NJ, and drew 32 entrants.
Ranola and Linda Shea sent Asia Cycak and Brenda Heras to the one-loss side of the bracket and turned to face each other in the hot seat match. This ended when Ranola surged past Shea, then leading 5-4, and won the next three racks, sending Shea to the semifinals.
On the one-loss side, Nelson and Emily Duddy advanced into the tournament’s final six slots with identical 7-2 victories over Zinnie Panju and Briana Miller. Duddy’s victory sent Miller home from the tournament, possibly to complete any sixth-grade homework that the 12-year-old might have shelved to allow her to compete. Miller will be going to the Junior Nationals next month in Tucson, AZ.
Nelson and Duddy then faced Heras and Cycak, just over from the winners’ side. Nelson advanced, but Duddy fell to Cycak. Nelson dropped Cycak into fourth place with a 7-5 victory and faced Shea in the semifinals, whom she defeated by the same score.
In the extended finals format, which extended the match to 9 games if Nelson reached 7 wins before Ranola, the two struggled back and forth to a 4-4 tie before Nelson surged ahead to 7, forcing the extension. Ranola fought back to tie it at 7. Though Nelson won the following game to reach hill first, Ranola closed it out by winning the final two racks.
Results:
1st Iris Ranola
2nd Tiffany Nelson
3rd Linda Shea
4th Asia Cycak
5th Emily Duddy
Brenda Heras
7th Briana Miller
Zinnie Panju
9th Morgan Steinman
Gina Lipsky
Erica Tester
Supadra Boonpasok
Ranola Captures JPNEWT Billiards Stop
April 20, 2008
Ranola Captures JPNEWT Billiards Stop
J. Pechauer NorthEast Women’s Tour / South Amboy, NJ
Fresh from the Philippines, Iris Ranola faced off against My-Hanh Lac twice in a row in the finals of the J. Pechauer Northeast Women’s Tour stop the weekend of April 19-20, defeating her both times. A total of 28 women billiard players were on hand for the $1,000-added event at Prime Time Sports Bar and Café in South Amboy, NJ.
Ranola and Lac met for the first time in the hot seat match Sunday, in which Ranola bested her 7-4. On the one-loss side, Morgan Steinman and Supadra Boonpasook squared off in the event’s quarterfinal match, with Steinman winning 7-5. Steinman then faced Lac in the semifinals but was ousted 7-3, setting up the rematch between Lac and Ranola. In the modified race-to-9 final, Ranola reached the necessary wins first, allowing Lac to win only one rack before sweeping across the finish line.
Results:
1st Iris Ranola
2nd My-Hanh Lac
3rd Morgan Steinman
4th Supadra Boonpasook
5th Candi Rego
Emily Duddy
7th Sharon O’Hanlon
Cha Caliskur
9th Naomi Fingerhut
Gail Glazebrook
Deena Bryson
Cheryl Squire
