EUROPE STAYS ALIVE
by Mike
Panozzo
In a match the bore little resemblance to the break-and-run-out contest that preceeded it, Marcus Chamat and Jeremy Jones traded missed oppotunities Sunday night at York Hall, where the young Swede held off the error-prone Jones, 5-3, to keep Europe's slim hopes alive at the 2000 Acclaim Mosconi Cup. America, leading now 11-9, still needs just one match win to clinch its fifth straight Cup.
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Sweden's Marcus Chamat, showing his true colors, kept Europe's hope's alive at the Mosconi Cup by edging Jeremy Jones, 5-3, Sundaynight in London.
Photo by
Lawrence Lustig
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Neither player was able to hold serve, as the match see-sawed to 3-3. Jones botched several chances to take a 4-3 lead, then missed a simple 5 ball when trailing 4-3 to give Chamat the match. Jones would have broke in the deciding game.
"I just gave that match away," said the disgusted Texan, as he slammed the butt end of his cue into the hardwood flooring at London's York Hall.American captain Earl Strickland will try to end the tournament against Germany's Thomas
Engert.
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