Morphew Earns Great Southern Billiard Title
Great Southern Billiard Tour / Bristol, TN

by InsidePOOL Staff

Corey Morphew survived a late loss to Russ Edwards to come back and trump him in the final match of the February 26-27 stop of the Great Southern Billiard Tour. The $1,500-added stop hosted 62 amateur players at Borderline Billiards in Bristol, TN.

Corey Morphew survived a late loss to Russ Edwards to come back and trump him in the final match of the February 26-27 stop of the Great Southern Billiard Tour.

With a 9-7 victory over Morphew in the winners’ side final four, Edwards advanced to the hot seat match. His opponent there was room owner and former WPBA pro Janet Atwell, who had just dispatched Jimmy Dickerson to the one-loss side 7-5. Edwards had little trouble besting Atwell 9-2 to reach the finals undefeated.

Morphew began quickly working his way through the west side of the chart and eliminated T. J. Moore in fifth place 9-7. Tying with Moore was Justin Harris, who was ousted by Dickerson 7-4. Morphew then went on to plow through Dickerson in the quarterfinal match 9-3.

Waiting for Morphew in the semifinals, Atwell seemed unable to put up much of a fight and succumbed 9-3, ending up in third place. In the double-elimination final match against Edwards, Morphew took the first set 9-5 to force a second, where he also came out the winner, this time 9-7.

Results:
1st Corey Morphew $1,000
2nd Russ Edwards $600
3rd Janet Atwell $400
4th Jimmy Dickerson $300
5th T. J. Moore $200
Justin Harris
7th Steve Dye $100
Steve Cox
9th Stu Altes $70
Brent Hensley
Wes Covington
Dave Graham

Murphey and Winters Win Great Southern Billiards Titles
Great Southern Billiard Tour / Fairfield, OH

by InsidePOOL Staff

Shane Winters and Shannon Murphey both took titles at the February 18-19 installment of the Great Southern Billiard Tour, winning the $500-added 8-ball and the $1,500-added 9-ball divisions, respectively. Michael’s Billiards in Fairfield, OH, hosted the event, which drew a total of 107 entries.

A bank pool mini kicked off the busy weekend, with a full field of 32 competing. Timmy Heath went undefeated through the bracket to best T. J. Bach in the finals. Heath took home $300 for his first-place finish.

In the 52-player amateur 8-ball division, played on bar boxes, Winters claimed the hot seat after besting first Jeremy Seaman in the winners’ side final four 7-2 and then D. J. Holloway 7-3. Once on the west side of the chart, Seaman quickly recovered and eliminated Ryan Stone in fifth place with a 7-4 victory. Frank Ruby tied with Seaman after being ousted by Robert Frost 6-2.

Seaman and Frost then matched up in the quarterfinals, with Seaman winning the match with a narrow 7-5 victory. He then trounced Holloway 7-1 in the semifinals to reach the double-elimination final match against Winters. It was all Seaman in the first set 7-2, but Winters turned the tables in the second and won it with a decisive 7-5 score.

The 9-ball division attracted 55 entrants, with Murphey taking control of the winners’ bracket with an 11-1 thumping of Billy Thorpe to reach the hot seat match against Mike Brown, whom he bested 11-5.

Clay Carmen and Billy Thorpe tied for fifth place after being eliminated by Frank Ruby 9-7 and Ryan Stone 11-8, respectively. Ruby and Stone collided in the quarterfinals, with Stone staying alive with an 11-4 win. Stone continued his streak by ousting Brown in the semifinals 11-7. In the single-set final match, it was all Murphey, as he won the title 11-6.

Shannon “The Cannon” Daulton, Shane Winters, Jeremy Seaman, & Michael Medley (owner of MIchael’s Billiards)

Shannon “The Cannon” Daulton, Shannon Murphey, Ryan Stone, & Michael Medley (owner of Michael’s Billiards)

8-Ball Results:
1st Shane Winters $600
2nd Jeremy Seaman $450
3rd D. J. Holloway $250
4th Robert Frost $150
5th Ryan Stone $100
Frank Ruby
7th Alex Olinger $50
Clay Carmen

9-Ball Results:
1st Shannon Murphey $1,000
2nd Ryan Stone $600
3rd Mike Brown $400
4th Frank Ruby $250
5th Clay Carmen $175
Billy Thorpe
7th James Davis Jr. $100
Lee Holt
9th Tim Grigsby $50
Joe Pierce
Robert Frost
D. J. Holloway

Join us this this weekend for a $1,500 added amateur 9-ball event at Borderline Billiards in Bristol, TN. This room is owned and operated by WPBA pro Janet Atwell. Check out the room at: www.borderlinebilliards.biz.

Conway Jr. Fells Mitchelltree for Great Southern Billiard Title

Great Southern Billiard Tour / Virginia Beach, VA

by InsidePOOL Staff

After suffering a first-round loss to Dwight Cherry 9-4, Mike Conway Jr. rallied to roar back and win the next ten matches in a row to reach the finals against John Mitchelltree, whom he bested in the double-elimination final match. Conway Jr. joined 59 other players at Q-Master Billiards in Virginia Beach, VA, the weekend of February 4-5 for the $1,500-added amateur event.

Cherry went unchallenged through to the winners’ side final four, where Virginia State champ Chris Futrell knocked him to the one-loss side 11-7. Mitchelltree disposed of Cheryl Pritchard 9-5 and advanced to meet Futrell in the hot seat match, where he eked out a 9-10 victory.

Making his move through the west side, Conway Jr. ran into Cherry and ousted him in fifth place 9-7. Justin Spires tied with Cherry after Pritchard eliminated him 6-6. But Pritchard fell to Conway Jr. in the next round 9-3, ending up in fourth place.

Conway Jr.’s next victim was Futrell after their semifinal match ended with Conway Jr. advancing 9-10. The double-elimination final match against Mitchelltree was an uphill battle, but Conway Jr. met it head on, winning the first set 9-2 and the second 9-7.

A huge “Congrats” goes out to Cheryl Pritchard on her 4th place finish. “A stellar performance,” said co-tour director Marge Daulton of Pritchard’s fourth place finish; the highest for a woman in the five year history of the Great Southern Billiard Tour.  “She was down in a few and battled back, winning some key double hill matches.”"We’re proud to see her accomplish this,” Daulton added. “She earned it.”

Tour directors Shannon and Marge Daulton thanked Barry Behrmann and his staff at QMaster Billiards for their hospitality on Super Bowl weekend, as well as sponsors Andy Gilbert Custom Cues, Nick Varner Cues and Cases, Tiger Products and Delta-13 racks. The GSBT shifts to Michael’s Billiards in Fairfield, OH on the weekend of February 18-19, for a $2,000-added 9-ball/8-ball tournament, with a 9-ball bank tournament, scheduled for Friday night at 7 p.m.

Results: 1st Mike Conway Jr. $1,000

2nd John Mitchelltree $600

3rd Chris Futrell $400

4th Cheryl Pritchard $300

5th Dwight Cherry, Justin Squires $200 ea.

7th Dave Bollman, Jimmy Byrd  $90 ea.

9th Tim Colvin, Saul McClinton, John Hernandez, Carey Dunn $50 ea.