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SEEDS ADVANCE IN LAS VEGAS
Mike Panozzo
Thursday, May 18 3:30 PM CST
The top seeds advanced Wednesday night at the 2000 Billiard
Congress of America Open 9-Ball Championships in Las Vegas. Johnny Archer, the
top seed in the 64-player men's division, rolled to an impressive 11-6 win over
recent
Hall of Fame inductee Buddy Hall. The ladies' No.1 seed,
Allison Fisher, continued her quest in defense of her 1999 BCA title with an
easy 9-3 win over Canadian Kathy MacDonald as the winner's bracket moved to the
final eight in action at the Riviera Hotel & Casino.
Archer and Fisher were joined in the winner's bracket
quarterfinals of the $160,000 tournament by most of the high seeds in each
division. Third-seeded Francisco Bustamante, who dropped his first match to
Junior Harris and was subsequently eliminated by Dutchman Alex Lely, was the
only player among the top four seeds in each division to fail to reach the
winner's bracket quarterfinals. Second-seeded George SanSouci, the defending
champion, and fourth-seeded Earl Strickland remain undefeated, as do Gerda
Hofstatter, Karen Corr and Vivian Villarreal, the nos. 2, 3 and 4 seeds,
resepectively, in the women's division.
Winner's bracket matches Wednesday night did feature one
significant upset, as Sweden's Marcus Chamat surprised sixth-seeded Efren Reyes,
11-9.
Winner's bracket matches continue Thursday afternoon. Both
divisions will be pared down to the final four Thursday, with Friday's semifinal
matches being taped for future airing on ESPN, and the championship matches
scheduled for Saturday afternoon.
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WINNER'S BRACKET
Wednesday
(Seeds in parenthesis)
Men's Division
Archer (1) def. Hall (16), 11-6
Chao (8) def. Varner (9), 11-6
Chamat (11) def. Reyes (6), 11-9
Strickland (4) def. Matlock, 11-5
Daulton (14) def. Harris, 11-7
Kucharo def. Toda, 11-4
Souquet (7) def. Coltrain (10), 11-5
SanSouci (2) def. Martel (15), 11-8
Women's Division
Fisher (1) def. MacDonald, 9-3
Thornfeldt (8) def. Pippin (9), 9-7
Kajitani (11) def. Laurance (6), 9-1
Villarreal (4) def. L. Smith (13), 9-1
Corr (3) def. Garon, 9-4
Hopkins (12) def. Oyama, 9-8
Chen (7) def. Andersson, 9-1
Hofstatter (2) def. Stinson, 9-4
LOSER'S BRACKET
Men's Division
Reimering def. West, 11-5
Rempe def. Kennedy, 11-8
Schmidt def. Potier, 11-6
Ellin def. Deuel, 11-7
Lely def. Bustamante (3), 11-10
Davenport def. Medina, 11-10
Immonen def. Michaels, 11-7
Horsfall def. Vickery, 11-9
Women's Division
Tipton def. Muneta, 9-4
Paski def. Sone, 9-7
Yamauchi def. Nelson, 9-6
Bernier def. O'Hare, 9-7
Thamsen def. Mazzola, 9-6
Kelly def. Little, 9-8
Dodson (10) def. Webb, 9-6
Stark def. Biddle, 9-4
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