Congratulations to Skip & Jan’s very own Robert Berry, Darren Bradford & Harold Lyons of the Flying Chanclas!  At 13-1 they are the number 1 seeded team in the league heading into the AZPL State Championships in January!  Congratulations to all the other 1^st place teams throughout the league, in 2^nd & 3^rd respectively are Rock Out with Ur Chalk Out led by woman’s MVP Crystal Parada, Matt Miller & Jose Cardenas from Skips and Bustin R Ballz featuring Enrique Gomez, Josh Branham & Michael McGaughey out of the Drift Inn Saloon won their divisions at 12-2!  Enrique’s other team Liquored Down with Ernie Encizo and Steve Cubbie Key out of 2 Lanes Saloon led their division at 11-3 beating out Uptown Billiard’s Cover the Spread by 17 points to take 4th place and the final 7pm start time.   Alex Franklin, Kent Bybee and division MVP Anthony Begay make up Cover the Spread.  Taking the 6^th spot is Ryan Levengood, Chris Negrin & Jerry French of Most Hairless who led the Tuesday Skips Double Header division.  And pulling up the rear in the 7^th spot is Kenn Clark, Dave Gabel & Michael Kerin of the KDM Kue Klub who finished in 1^st at the Dave’s on Northern in-house!   And congratulations to the lucky dog Cuatro Mosqueteros of 2 Lanes Saloon with Mike Bernabe, Joeneil Tolimao & the legend Frank Taylor who finished at 11-3 and 17 points ahead of the next team to take the 8^th seed and last 5pm start time!

Congratulations to division MVPs Dolly Lucero of Chalk It Up and John Casey of Team Expedition, who lead the league with 37 wins, 5 losses & 10 30-point games, from the Dave’s on Northern In-House, 3x player of the week Reynalda Cody of Scratch This from Stockman’s and Anthony Begay from Cover the Spread, Laura Boothroyd of Better Late than Never and Ryan Levengood of Most Hairless from the Tuesday 2 for 1 Double Header division at Skip & Jan’s, Maggie Boone of the Pool Hall Junkies from the Drift Inn Saloon and Steve Cubbie Key from 8 Ups out of 2 Lanes Saloon in the Tuesday Globe Miami traveling division, the husband-wife one-two punch cleaned house at the 2 Lanes Saloon In-House with Donald Hudgings leading the men and Carey Hudgings leading the women while playing for the Fire Breathing Rubber Duckies!  Laura Boothroyd took her 2^nd women’s MVP of the season on Thursday with The Cue Factor while Robert Berry once again led the league with a tame by his standards 8.769 power rating in the Thursday Skips In-House division.  He led the league with 399 points, 182 points allowed, scored 95% of his possible points, outscored his opponents by 217 points and shot a 28.50 match average.  At Skips on Sunday MVP Crystal Parada became the top female in the league on her way to winning top rookie honors too!  She was also player of the week 3 times!  Donald Hudgings of Just a Phucken Name took home his 2^nd MVP of the season on Sunday at Skips!   Laura Boothroyd and Donald Hudgings also won Multi-Night MVP honors as well leading all other players who played on more than one team!  As mentioned earlier Crystal Parada was the top ladies rookie.  For the men the honor goes to Chad Purvis of JR Needs a Slap on Thursday night at Skips!  Caity Bemis of the Heavy Ds from Bun Huggers and the Drift Inn Saloon’s Pool Hall Junkie Joe Demers are the league’s Most Improved Players!  JR Ascencion was a 3x player of the week for JR Needs a Slap! 

Climbing the stat ladder Pete Williams scored his 16,000 point which puts him in 4^th all-time!  Robert Berry won his 1,400^th game!  He is only the 3^rd player to do so!  Laura Boothroyd moved up to 7^th All-Time in points scored passing Pat Kloeppel, Tara Negrin and Kat Esparza while scoring her 6,000^th point!  She played on 3 teams this past season!  Laura also moved into 6^th all-time in wins with 423 again passing Kat!  She also moved into 7^th passing Wendy Stanfel with her 32^nd 30-point game!  Tim Ashley moved up a notch passing Bob Campbell for 9^th place All-Time in Power Rating.  Tim also scored his 13,000^th point and won his 1,000^th game!!  Carlos Preston scored his 9,000^th point and won his 500^th game!  Gary Wimmer scored his 9,000^th point!  Harold Lyons scored his 7,000 point and won his 600^th game while having his best season ever in the league!  Rick Albertson, Ryan Levengood, Carlos Preston & Steve Key won their 500^th games!  Walt Seng scored his 6000^th point and won his 400^th game!  Joeneil Tolimao scored his 6,000^th point!  Albert Sanchez Sr won his 400^th game!  Enrique Gomez scored his 5,000^th point while winning his 300^th game!  Mike Krause scored his 5,000^th point!  Thoi Truong won his 300^th game!  DJ Powell, Josh Branham & Scott Lutz each scored their 4,000^th point.  Roberta Loyd scored her 4,000^th point and won her 200^th game!  Frank Taylor, Eddie Mayorga, Bubba Ashley and Mac Ashworth all won their 200^th games!   There were a bunch of players who scored their 3,000^th point this season starting with Tom Snipes, Jeff Koch, Daniel Keele, Ronnie Lucero, Laura Nordan, Jean Garcia & Carey Hudgings!   Heath Trent, Randy Torres, Richard Chavez, Dolly Lucero, Jason Miller, Chris Barbee, Richard Szpara, Travis Lucero, Sean Goodfellow, Heather Freeman & A.B. Ulibarri all reached 2,000 career points scored!

Globe Trot IV was Dec 6-8 at 2 Lanes Saloon in Globe.  Full brackets were the theme of the weekend!  Friday night we had the opening night singles tournament.  Race to 2 both sides.  16 players came out including 6 out of towners!  In the end it was Brian Love beating out John Casey who himself defeated Sura Williams for a trio of out-of-towners in the money at $80 for 1^st, $50 for 2^nd and $30 for 3^rd! 

Saturday we had 8 teams playing in the blind draw team event including 12 out of towners!  At the end of the night it was Team Justin – Justin King, Brian Love & Marcos Benitez – putting the dollar on the ceiling and winning $240!  Team Cubbie – Steve Key, Mike Krause & Jay Lownsberry - came in 2^nd with $180 and Team McGaughey - Ernie Encizo, Carey Hudgings and Mike himself on his birthday finished in 3^rd to win $60!  That night the scotch doubles / singles tournament had 16 players!  The team of Shawn & Mac Ashworth defeated the team of Mike Krause and John Casey to win $100.  $60 went to 2^nd place. 

Owner of 2 Lanes Mike Krause put out a huge spread of burgers, brats & hot dogs for everyone to eat free of charge on Saturday and Sunday!  With a live band featuring Jean Garcia on the drums Friday and karaoke with Sarah on Saturday it was a great weekend for everyone!

We had a few more teams this season and it shows in the payouts.  Added $1600 to the bracket this season!  Overall over $13,000 will be paid out over the weekend!  The Spring season begins the week of January 13^th.  We may have a few new divisions popping up around the state this season.  It’s going to be exciting! 

How teams qualify for the State Championship tournament: