Congratulations to John Ilk, Richard Chavez & Nathan Holliday of Bus Drivers II from Jester’s Billiards in Gilbert!  They are the #1 ranked team heading into the AZPL State Championships at 12-2 with 1,090 points scored and 87 games won!  Number 2 was just a meer 17 points behind and goes to Robert Berry, Mike Penrod & Darren Bradford of Hold My Beer from the Q n Brew in Tempe!  They went 12-2 as well, with 1,073 points and 88 games won.  Two Strokers & a Poker – Louie Weddle, Ramzy Saba, Bernardo Garcia and Cathy Hamilton-Kelley – from Jester’s finished in 3^rd overall at 11-3 with 1,114 points and 93 wins. 

Congratulations to all the first place teams – No Name in Flagstaff, Pool Flys in Globe, Show Me the Money in Phoenix and Derailed Too from 2 Lanes In-House!  And to Division B Champions Pool Flys of Globe, Division C champs Ladies & the Tramps from Jester’s, Division D winners The Elimin8ors and the E division winners Soldiers of Fortune! 

And how about a round of applause to all of the division MVPs – Gary Wimmer & Reynalda Cody from Flagstaff, Joeneil Tolimao from Globe, Jason Crugar & Kendra Mikkelson of Phoenix, Donald Hudgings & Samantha King of 2 Lanes, Laura Boothroyd from the Q n Brew, and Bernardo Garcia & Heather Cortez of Jester’s Billiards!

And an even bigger round of applause for our state MVPs Robert Berry from the Q n Brew and Kat Dale from the Huddle!  Robert’s season was good enough to be the 7^th best All-Time and earns him $200!  He went 39-3, scored 407 points, allowed a mere 162, had 11 30-point games and currently has a 16-game winning streak!  Congrats!  Kat scored 359 points (10^th highest all-time) while winning 28 games, 2 30-point games and an 8-ball break while shooting a near 26 clip! 

Most Improved Shooter award goes to Arron Hetrick of Chalk You and Kat Dale from Derailed!  Kat lead the league shooting over 4 points over her career match average.  Joeneil Tolimao from Globe wins the Multi-Night MVP award with 58 wins and 706 points. 

Jason Crugar of Bumper Cars & Heather Cortez of Long Shots are the AZPL’s top rookies this season.  Jason was the #2 player in the league with 353 points, 33 wins and 8 30s while shooting near 28 over 13 matches.  Heather, while only playing 7, certainly dominated going 17-4 while scoring 187 and allowing just 122.  She tied the league lead with 4 30s and shot almost 27 this season.  With a full season I have a feeling she could set some records for the ladies to strive for!

Pete Williams had a pretty good season, moving from 8^th all-time to 6^th all-time in Power Rating passing Cecil Attson & Doc Rice.  Chris Negrin needs just 36 points to reach 14,000 for his career.  Chris also moved from 7^th to 5^th all-time in wins passing Doc Rogers & Jim Green to finish at 1,094.  Phil Anderson passed Doc Rogers for 9^th all-time in points scored reaching 12,613!  Rick Meredith scored his 12,000^th point and won his 800^th game!  Lance Tucker won his 800^th game and needs just 49 points to reach 12K in points.  Darren Bradford became the 24^th player ever to reach 10,000 for his career and won his 800^th game!  Ryan Fedora is 10 wins shy of 800.  Anthony Begay is 1 win shy of 700.  Joe Zack scored his 9,000^th point!  Tony Begaye and John Ilk both reached the 8,000 point plateau.  Tony also won his 600^th game.  Eric Ely has 592 career wins.  Sandra Danielson passed Claudia Morado to move into 4^th all-time in points scored with 7,325.  Skip Bales scored his 7,000^th point.  Duane Hostetler needs a pair of 30s to reach 7K in points!  Terry Lemke & Jimmie Shay Jr both scored their 6,000^th point!  Nate Holliday needs just 99 to reach the mark but did reach his 400^th career win!  Kip Anderson, Mike Perkins, Brandon Warren and Donald Hudgings all scored their 5,000^th point!  Kip also won his 400^th game as did Carlos Preston and Rick Albertsen.  Mike Perkins needs 2 more wins to join them.  Laura Boothroyd, PJ Jauregui & Eric Danielson Jr all won their 300^th game.  John Watts needs 6 wins to reach 300.  Hector Montolla is a mere 36 points shy of 5,000.  Tara Negrin & Sam Ricketts both reached 4,000 total points.  Mike Penrod fell just 2 short of 4K this season.  Steve Blackburn, Shawn Ashworth, Andy Briones, Nate Harney, Kendra Mikkelson, Mindy Teague and Ernie Encizo all scored their 3,000^th point this season.  Arron Hetrick, Vince Gonzales & Darryl Ulibarri all won their 200^th games!  Mike McGaughey, Eric Culpepper, Tom Snipes, David Hetzler, Jamie Stafford & Joel Monville each reached the 2,000 point plateau.  Congrats to our newest 1,000-point scorers Chris Hazel, Jay Lownsberry, Kat Dale, Travis Nosie, Truett Opdahl & Joe Ramirez!  And our newest 100 game winners Jessy Perkins, Frank Faubush, Josh Branham, Mark Higgins, Garnet Snow, Enrique Gomez, Eddie Mayorga & Spencer Brinkley!  Scott Hudson set a record with 5 8-ball breaks this season!  Audrey Grieser had 2 15-0s to lead the ladies this season!  Keep up the great work everyone!

We have some exciting things coming up this summer!  Not one but TWO big tournaments this summer!  One in June for any AZPL members with $500 added and our AZPL Tournament of Champions singles tournament in July with $1,000 added!  We have a few new divisions starting up – Monday In-House at Stingers, a Wednesday In-House at the Q n Brew and a Wednesday Verde Valley Traveling.  Good luck Topher Froio in getting that started up there!  Starting this summer the local divisions (Monday Stingers, Tuesday Phx Traveling, Weds Q n Brew & Thursday Q n Brew In-Houses and the Sunday Jester’s division will all see cash (up to $750 for 1^st) payouts to at LEAST the top 4 teams within each division on top of their point money and will still be eligible to play in the Championships for another $1,500!  ACS qualifying will continue on Sundays at Jesters and on Wednesday at 2 Lanes Saloon.  It should be a great season!  Hope to see you there! 

Thank you all for making this league so much fun to be a part of!  I love you all!  Thanks to our reps Anthony Begay in Flagstaff, Justin King in Globe, Mike Krause in Globe, Spencer Brinkley at Jester’s and coming this summer, Nate Holliday at the Q n Brew on Wednesday nights!  We all thank you all for going the extra mile to make sure everything is going well in your division! 

Did I mention it’s our 15^th anniversary this weekend?  J  Thanks to Sarah Crowley for all her help and efforts in getting this thing off the ground, the Sets (Our 1^st home) for having us, Jamie Sarner for driving a million miles every week just to get that traveling division started, Roger Long for taking all those trips all over Arizona with me to get those out of town divisions going and to Jennifer Legan for all those weekends you slaved away!  Ah the memories!  Thanks to Ahwatukee Trophies and Anton Sport for 15 great years!  All the reps who have helped out over the years!  All the bars we’ve played in!  And all of you!  Every last one of you who ever played a game!  Thank YOU for making these past 15 years so wonderful! 

Shoot well my friends and good luck to all of you this weekend!

How teams qualify for the State Championship tournament:

 

3rd Place - Dawg Slippers of Bull Shooters in Phoenix - Won $1,000!

 

 

Friday Night AZPL Player Appreciation Night

Order of Events:

Trophy Presentation, Player Appreciation Buffet & State of the League Address - Friday, August 31st @ 6:00pm

AZPL Wild Card Challenge - Friday, May 4th @ 7:00pm

To win the Wild Card Tournament and become the 48th team in the State Championships you must go undefeated in a single-elimination team tournament that starts at 7pm on Friday.  It's still 3 on 3 but it's a race to 3 wins!  Whichever team wins 3 games advances!  Final 2 teams play a full 9-game match for the 48th spot in the tournament!

AZPL Scotch Doubles/Singles Tournament 

Friday, May 4th @ 7:30pm, sign up starts at 6pm!

 

Scotch Champions Jayme Sell & Doc Rice - Won $380

 

2nd Place John Ilk & Robert Berry - Won $180

 

6th Place went to Kip Anderson who won $30 and 5th went to Nate Holliday who won $50!

 

Players team up in a blind draw scotch doubles tournament to start!  When you lose on the scotch side you ditch your partner and flip into a double elimination singles tournament.  The final two players on the winners side team up to take on the scotch winners.  The losers flip onto page two of the bracket for another round with those final two players having a shot at first!  It's a race to the 8 in every round. 

No Limit on players! 

Sign up at 6pm, First round starts at 7:30pm on Friday, May 4th! $10 entry

8-Ball Break & Run Derby – Friday, May 4th @ 7:00pm

2nd Place - Chris Negrin - $65 & $2 off his weekly dues!

1st Place - Robert Berry - $105 & $3 off his weekly dues!

3rd Place - Sheenan Leale - $40 & $1 off his weekly dues!

Players compete by breaking & running out the table!  Every player racks their own.  You get one freebie shot on the break meaning you don't have to make one on the break to continue shooting.  However, if you scratch your turn is over with 0. An 8-ball break counts as 20 points.  After that every ball you make counts as a point.  It doesn't matter what you shoot at - be it solids or stripes - as long as the 8-ball is the last ball.  Once you successfully make the 8 you'll re-rack the balls and break.  You MUST make a ball on this break to continue shooting.  Once you miss a shot your turn is over.  

8-Ball Break Bonus: If you hit (2) 8-ball breaks and NOT scratch in the current season you get double points in the opening round!  Your 3^rd & subsequent 8-ball breaks are good for a free do-over.  Every player gets a free do-over in the opening round only. 

Points add up from round to round.  The bottom third of the field is eliminated after the 1st round, the bottom half after the 2nd round.  After round 3 only top 3 Advance.  Points start fresh at 0 in Round 4, the final round.

Robert Berry scored 117 points in the opening round!

Ben Sutherland sets record with 59 points in the 2nd round!

August 31, September 1 & 2!

1st Place $1,500!!!