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Billiards - 16. October 2007.

Tara McCracken Scores Her 1st Hunter Classics Tour Win for 2007


The tables were fast, the players aplenty and the mood and energy at Bogie's this weekend was in one word "Fan-tab-ulous". The Hunter Classics Tour held their 9th tour stop of the 2007 calendar season at Bogie's Billiards in Houston, Texas October 13th-14th weekend. In addition to the Hunter tour event, a special charity benefit for Annie O Cuemaker, Anne Mayes, who has Stage IV non-small cell carcinoma, was going on all weekend. Kim White, WPBA Pro Player, was the hostess with the mostess and was the main nucleus behind the charity benefit. Kim emceed the entire benefit, collected all raffle and silent auction items, ran a 9-ball tournament with 52 players, kept the party and benefit rolling all weekend, and spent many waking hours making sure everything ran smoothly. Through her untiring efforts, she was able to help raise a large amount of dollars to help support Anne. Thank You Kim for all that you do. You are the best!

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Speaking of best, the Hunter Classics Tour would also like to acknowledge Jerry Williams, John Rizzo, Glen, and the entire Bogie's Billiards management and staff for their top notch hospitality and accommodations. Jerry said he had such a blast over weekend and his sentiments were shared by everyone who was at Bogie's this weekend.


There were thirty-six players in total and all the regular power hitters were there. Tara "Firecracker" McCracken, Heather Lloyd, Leslie Anne Rogers, Amanda Lampert, Kyu Yi, Lisa Marr, just to name a few. Maria Catalano from England just happened to be in the Houston area as well and decided to show us her stuff. Maria said she remembers playing in a Hunter stop back in 2001, so she was ready to get back in the groove and take on the competition.


By days end on Saturday, undefeated players in the Main Event were Helen Hayes vs. Tara McCracken and Kyu Yi vs. Leslie Anne Rogers. On the one-loss side were Maria Catalano vs. Elissa Jordan (her first Hunter stop…not bad for a newbie); Melinda Hinojosa vs. Heather Lloyd; Terry Petrosino vs. Susan Petty; and Jennifer Kraber vs. Ricki Lee Casper.


Tara was pretty much on fire on Sunday, but several players were trying to put out her flames. Tara defeated Helen 7-5 and then played Kyu for the hot seat defeating her 7-3. While Tara was waiting to see who would be her matchup in the finals, Heather Lloyd was starting a forest fire of her own. Heather defeated our own lovely Melinda Hinojosa 7-3, then she defeated Maria Catalano, who was our furthest traveler, but did that bother Heather…..no, Heather defeated Maria 7-4. Heather then defeated Helen Hayes, Leslie Anne Rogers, and Kyu Yi to meet up with Tara in the finals. Tara sent Heather to the one-loss side Saturday afternoon……so the rematch was on!


Tara was pretty much on a roll, balls were dropping, rolls were happening and she was stroking with all confidence at the beginning of the match. Then somehow the momentum switched. Tara was up 5-2, lost her focus and here comes Heather, 5-3, 5-4, 5-5, 5-6, 5-7. So Heather wins the 1st set and they both prepare to battle again. They took a break---Tara put her hair in a ponytail, pushed her long shirt sleeves up to her elbows----Heather took some deep breaths and the final set was ready to go. It was Tara who came out the victor. Tara pretty much was in the driver's seat the entire 2nd set. On the final game, she made a long 4 ball shot and managed to beautifully put the cue ball in the vicinity of a 5-9 combo. With the cue ball slightly on the rail, she hit the 5 into the 9 which went into the corner pocket for her 1st Hunter tour win for 2007 with a score of 7-4. Congrats to Heather for her 2nd place finish plus the WPBA Qualifier. Congrats to Tara for her awesome 1st place finish. You go girl!


A BIG thank you to Wes Hunter - sponsor of the longest running, largest women's tour in the country!



Our Championship stop will be at Legend's in League City, Texas, November 17-18th! See you there!

Main Event, $2,000 added:

Place

Player

Prize Money

1st place

Tara McCracken

$750.00

2nd place

Heather Lloyd

$550.00 + WPBA Qualifier

3rd place

Kyu Yi

$400.00

4th place

Leslie Anne Rogers

$280.00

5th place

Terry Petrosino

$160.00

5th place

Helen Hayes

$160.00

7th place

Jennifer Kraber

$110.00

7th place

Maria Catalano

$110.00

9th place

Melinda Hinojosa

$60.00

9th place

Susan Petty

$60.00

9th place

Elissa Jordan

$60.00

9th place

Ricki Lee Casper

$60.00

13th place

Ashley Nandrasy

$35.00

13th place

Lisa Marr

$35.00

13th place

Monica Anderson

$35.00

13th place

Samm Diep

$35.00

Second Chance Tournament:

20 players - $410 added monies

1st place - Amanda Lampert - $210

2nd place - Samm Diep - $160

3rd place - Tracie Voelkering - $100

4th place - Jillian Valles - $60

5th place - Kim Pierce - $30

6th place - Lisa Marr - $30

7th place - Becky Jones - $10

8th place - Julie Stephenson - $10

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