Legend's Billiards and Grill

Legend's Billiards and Grill in Brenham, TX hosted the 6th stop of 2004 for the ladies of the Hunter Classics Amateur Women's Tour.  Legend's Billiards and Grill is located in the historic section of downtown Brenham - with 14 eight foot tables, two nine foot tables and excellent food, this poolroom was an excellent setting for the ladies.  Thanks goes to the owners Ted Dean and Georgia who hosted this event for us.  

A lot of good matches occurred on Saturday, including one particular match entitled 'the battle of the ages.'  Ashley Taylor, only 12 years old, played Lucille Donahue, 64 years old, early in the day.  To Lucille's surprise, Ashley Taylor tied the score at 5-5 and then defeated Lucille 7-6 for the win!
Lucille handled the loss professionally and Ashley Taylor won her first match in her first big tournament.  Ashley wasn't the only youngster in the tournament - Chelsea Dean also played well and we will be seeing her in the future.

On Sunday, only 8 players were left out of 36.  On the winner's side, Rachel Hurst from Austin Tara McCracken from Dallas were having a tight match with Rachel winning 7-5.  The other match on the winner's side saw Kelly Fisher from North Carolina sending travel mate Miyuki Sakai from Florida to the one-loss side with a score of 7-2.  Kelly and Rachel then squared off for the winner's bracket final with Kelly winning 7-2.  
 
Melinda Bailey, one of the Board Members, was defeated by Tara 7-4 while Miyuki defeated Heather Pulford from Austin 7-3.  Melinda and Heather placed 5th/6th and earned $150 each.  Tara and Miyuki then played each other for the 4th place spot  With the match tied at 5-5, Miyuki pulled ahead to win 7-5.  This set up the 3rd place match where Miyuki and Rachel swapped games until it was tied at 5-5, then Miyuki pulled ahead again for the 7-5 win, earning Miyuki another shot against Kelly.  However, Kelly had other things on her mind as she quickly led the match 6-2.  Miyuki won a couple of more games, but Kelly prevailed 7-4 to win the first place prize of $750 and the WPBA Qualifier to a WPBA 2005 event.  Kelly had an entire tournament of lop sided scores - the highest number of games anyone could get against her was 4, and that was achieved only twice - by Miyuki in the finals and Val Finnie, Kelly's roommate, early in the tournament. Miyuki earned $560 for second place, Rachel earned $400 for 3rd place, and Tara earned $270 for 4th place.  Congratulations to all the ladies!

Kelly and Miyuki

The Second Chance tournament was won by Leslie Anne Rogers with second place going to Natalie Mans who had a great tournament.  Natalie won $85 and Leslie anne won $120.

Ed Carson, Hunter Classics Cue winner

A BIG thanks to Wes Hunter of Hunter Classics Custom Cues who has been sponsoring this tour for over 11 years! 

Visit us next month at Big Daddy's in Alvin, Texas on November 6th and 7th for the Hunter Classics Tour Champion Stop.  Everyone is invited.  Come join us to celebrate the longest, largest running women's tour in the nation!  There will be gifts and raffles, including $2,000 added, a WPBA Qualifier, and the first place prize of $750.  We will also crown the Most Improved Player and the Tour Champion. 

 

Results:

2nd Chance Tournament Results:
      $100 added
 

1st	Leslie Anne Rogers	$120
2nd	Natalie Mans	$85
3rd	Val Finnie	$50
4th	Tina Lehrmann	$25
5th/6th	Keri Hoeppner and Amber Stone	$10