LW Pool Club keeps players active at end of season
The Leisure World Pool Club has been very active lately. On March 29, 18 players traveled to Laguna Woods to compete in an eight-ball match. This has become a twice-a-year competition, with Laguna Woods coming here in the fall.
Laguna Woods has a beautiful new pool room that has seven pool tables and a snooker table. All games were eight-ball singles matches. There were 36 A, B and C player matches, for a total of 108 points. Everyone played six games. At the end of the day, Seal Beach won 66 games and Laguna Woods 42. Seal Beach never trailed in the match, but the games were close and competitive. The winner’s trophy returned home to remain on display in Clubhouse 2.
The leading players for Seal Beach were Linda Patton—who was the only undefeated player, with a record of six wins and no losses—and Rusty Aquino, Ray Friedrichsen and Jennifer Spindler, each with five wins and one loss.
In the April 2 pool league playoffs, the Wednesday night Sharks, with Rusty Aquino, Brian Burke and Debbie Casper, beat Monday night league champions The Snipers with Gary Snow, Steve Mitchell and Guta Basner, in the best of seven games to win the 2025 spring league championship. Both The Snipers and The Sharks finished the season with 76 wins and 54 losses.
In the match for third place, Wednesday night league The Favorites overcame a three-game deficit to beat Dead Eye in a race to seven.
The season’s best singles performers for A players was Dave Silva, with 12 wins and four losses. For B players, Dave Mackinder had 12 wins and six losses. For C players, Phuoc Tran had 14 wins—the most of any player—and four losses.
In the pool league sweepstakes, every team from Monday night played every Wednesday night team one game. Since every team played only six games, the number of balls left on the table at the finish of the game was used as a tie breaking mechanism.
After five games there were two undefeated teams. From Monday night there was Anywhere But There, with Barry Brideau, Phuoc Tran and Cory Navarette pitted against The Favorites from Wednesday night, with Dave Silva, Cornel Sneekes and Connie Terry. Late in the game Anywhere But There scratched the cue ball, leaving The Favorites an easy shot on the eight ball to win the sweepstakes.
There is still a lot of pool activity going on after the league, including a monthly tournament—which will be nine-ball—and a straight pool tournament on Tuesday mornings in Clubhouse 1.
—Dave Silva
