Pool Club fall league begins

The Monday pool league opened the fall season on Sept. 11 with six teams playing in Clubhouse 2. The season will consist of ten rounds. Each team will play every other team twice, and then there will be playoffs.

Every match is 13 points, which means there’s always a winner and never a tie. There are three players on each team, who are rated A, B and C. Each player plays his or her corresponding opponent in one game of eight ball and a game of nine ball. Every player also plays with each partner in doubles matches of eight ball and nine ball. In the 13th and final match of the night all three players on each team play one game of eight ball. Except for singles matches, shots are alternated between partners.

Joker’s Wild beat The Rustlers 9-4. Joker’s Wild dominated the singles play winning 5-1. They also won all three doubles matches but lost all three nine ball doubles games. Gary Snow and Steve Mitchell of Joker’s Wild won five games.

In a close match, the Cue Commandos edged the Cue Crew 7-6. The match was tied at six games apiece going into the final eight ball game. The game came down to each team shooting at the eight ball. Gary Monahan made the eight ball on a long bank into the corner pocket. Monahan was the first player this season to win all seven of his games.

The Renegades beat the Sharp Shooters 9-4. The Sharp Shooters won five of their six singles matches and won the final eight ball game. Ken Harpham and Guta Basner led the Sharp Shooters with five wins each.

The Wednesday league began its fall season on Sept. 13. Right on Cue beat The Favorites 8-5. Ray Friedrichsen had the hot stick for Right on Cue, winning five of his seven games.

In a close contest Hot Sticks edged Vader’s Raiders. Barry Brideau and George Gordon each won four games for Hot Sticks. The players on Vader’s Raiders all wear t-shirts that say, “I beat people with a stick!”—meaning, of course, with a cue stick.

Team X beat the Stevenators 8-5. After a close contest Team X won the last four games. Shery Wells, Team X’s “C” player won six games and only lost one.

The LW Pool Club dues for the year, which runs from October 2023 to October 2024, are $10. The league entry fee for the season is $20. For more information, contact Steve Edrich at 714-980-3665. — Dave Silva