By Dale Brimicombe
March 1, 2025
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The Metro Pool League Partners tournament was recently hosted by Doolys Portland and had its second largest turnout ever with 120 players coming out to participate in what many players perceive as the league's most enjoyable event. Partners are determined by throwing the 1-point players in one hat and the 2-pointers in another then random drawing for partners. This always produces some interesting duos to compete for the title. There were fourteen of the women's team players in attendance and they not only showed the guys how much they love the game, three of them made it to the money rounds! Well done, ladies, it has certainly been a pleasure to have you involved in the league.
The event always is a lot of hustle to get started but when things got going, the action heated up quickly. With no less than 16 former champions in the field, the competition would be very tight and the players didn't disappoint. Only one of those former champs, however, made it as far as the top four (Darrell Abolit), ensuring there would be two new names on the trophy. Dan Deal + Chad Davis fought their way undefeated to the final, dispatching Tony Coles + Colin MacDonald to claim the hot seat. In the B side final, Tony + Colin then relegated Narlen Thompson + Bob Miklos to a very respectable third place finish. The true double knockout format would have them needing to win twice to claim the title but it was not to be as Dan + Chad closed it out by winning the first set to emerge victorious.
Many thanks to Tracey Goodyear, Jen Reid and the staff at Doolys Portland (Heather, Melissa, Angie and Sophie) for hosting our event. You folks make it a pleasure to hold events there; to Brian McNamara and Brian's Cuesport Streams for providing live-streaming of the event; to Craig Teal, who not only did the ordering, pick up and delivery of the food for so many players, but also made sure finances were in order, archived the draw and still managed to play his way to the top six. Kudos to you, sir, you are truly one of the best! Thanks also to Paul Gunn , Keith Tyler and Glenn Nickerson who helped immensely during the day in getting things going and manning the draw sheet.
1st-$500 - Dan Deal + Chad Davis
2nd-$380 - Tony Coles + Colin Macdonald
3rd-$300 - Narlen Thompson + Bob Miklos
4th-$240 - Drew O'Leary + Darrell Abolit
5th,6th-$170 - Mark Wile + Jeff Teas; Anthony G Welshman + Craig Teal
7th,8th-$130 - Gilda Saunders + Geino Mantolino ; Mike Wood + Jody Swim
9th-12th-$100 - Dragan Cado + Mike Laffin; Jen Reid + Percy Gouchie ; Leigh Ann Giles + Lawrence Borden ; Duane MacDonald + Robert Williams
13th-16th-$70 - Robert Hamilton + Jon Kynock; Ryan Doucet + Glenn Nickerson; Marcel Verrette + Glen Stuart; Daniel White + Mike Deal
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