BREAKING it DOWN TIFFANY FINNAN AND DENISE DOMINGO
MARY RAKIN AND ELEANOR CALLADO
The sixth stop of the 2012 Tiger West Coast Women’s Tour (TWCWT) took place October 20 - 21 at The Broken Rack in Emeryville, California. Forty-four players took the challenge in this double elimination, race-to-seven on the winners’ side, race-to-five on the oneloss side tournament. And on Sunday, with eight left in the Main Event, twenty-one eliminated players came back for our Second Chance--a single elimination, race-to-five tournament. On day one, Helen Gaughran, a well known local player who hasn’t been playing much tournament pool lately, made it through unbeaten with a bye and wins over Tammy Moreda (7-6), Kirsten Karim (7-3) and Holly Robinson (7-3). Tour leader Mary Rakin took matches from Tiffany Finnan (7-3), Heather Pulford (7-2), Amy Burdick (7-2) and Jessica Skye (7-1) to set herself up as Helen’s opponent on Sunday morning. On the other half of the chart, twins Eleanor and Emilyn Callado, worked their way to another Sunday come to sister meeting. Eleanor defeated Cheryl Morgan (7-1), Mary Osbourne (7-0), Dar Domingo (7-1) and Leslie Bernardi (7-1). Emilyn’s victories were over A Aiem-sa-ard (7-3), Lynn Donner (7-5), Theresa Mojica (7-4) and Revelina Um (7-5). Players on the one-loss side making it through to Sunday still in the main event were: Revelina Um, Leslie Bernardi, Jessica Skye and Heather Pulford. Sunday morning, both winners’ side matches went hill/hill, with Mary Rakin and Eleanor Callado progressing to the hot seat match. On the other side, Revelina Um defeated Leslie Bernardi, then Helen Gaughran. Heather Pulford (who recently visited her old stomping grounds in Texas and took first in an OB Cues Tour tournament while she was at it) won matches against Jessica Skye and Emilyn Callado. But Rev was in a groove and put Heather out of this tournament in 4th. While all this was going on Mary Rakin prevailed over Eleanor Callado (7-4) to take the hot seat. Meeting El in the last match on the one-loss side, Revelina hit that glass ceiling between 3rd place and the finals that she’s hit before, losing 4-7 and setting up a Mary/Eleanor rematch in the finals. El kept it close, but in the end it was a 7-5 victory for Mary Rakin. With lots of different players vying to make it to the top 8 in the Main Event—and the high percentage of women who don’t make it who return to play Sunday—The Second Chance has become quite a tournament in itself. This month Dee Domingo made it back to the finals after winning
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it last month, but had to settle for second when Tiffany Finnan took the match 7-4. Kim Broughton and Bonnie Koerner finished in 3rd/4th, marking Bonnie’s first time taking home money on the Tour. Prize money was $100 for first, $80 for second and $55 for 3rd/4th. Our Main Event finalists Mary Rakin and Eleanor Callado are both WPBA players currently ranked in the top 30. They, along with fellow TWCWT members Emilyn Callado and Kim Broughton, will be competing in the WPBA Tour Championship on Nov. 7-11, in Lincoln City, Oregon. Good luck all! As usual, everyone had a great time. Thanks to The Broken Rack for hosting the event and adding a combined $750 to our Main Event, Second Chance and end of year prize funds. Thanks to our tour sponsor, Tiger Products, for their continued support. Eileen Henshaw provided much appreciated (and needed!) therapeutic chair massage, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting TWCWT. And thanks to talented jewelers and pool enthusiasts Jody Shelton, Janie Williams and Caroline Yim for donating some of their beautiful creations to the cause. Next month TWCWT will be visiting Family Billiards in San Francisco on Nov. 17 & 18 for our final stop of 2012. It will be our 7th tournament of the year, our most ever, but it feels like we just started. If you’ve missed the fun so far, you still have a chance to check out the Tour. New players are welcome at any stop. One-stop membership is only $10, and the entry fee is just $30, which includes entry in the second chance tournament for any player not in the final eight of the main event. For more information, go to our website www.twcwt.com or check us out on facebook. THE FINAL EIGHT IN ORDER OF FINISH WERE: 1ST $500 MARY RAKIN 2ND $335 ELEANOR CALLADO 3RD $245 REVELINA UM 4TH $160 HEATHER PULFORD 5TH/6TH $120 HELEN GAUGHRAN 5TH/6TH $120 EMILYN CALLADO 7TH/8TH $80 LESLIE BERNARDI 7TH/8TH $80 JESSICA SKYE
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