Jayson Shaw (Karl Kantrowitz)
Jayson Shaw and Fedor Gorst will face off at 3pm EST for the Turning Stone Classic XXXIV hot-seat.
Things were not looking good for Shaw in his early match on Sunday, as he trailed Kuwait’s Abdullah Al Youssef 8-4 in the race to 9. To the crowd’s delight though, Shaw put together another comeback and won five straight games for the 9-8 win. It was Shaw’s second comeback of this nature this week, as he also came back from a 5-0 deficit to defeat Earl Strickland on Saturday.
Gorst defeated Mika Immonen in his early match on Sunday in a true dogfight. The players exchanged the lead multiple times with Immonen getting the hill first at 8-7. A scratch on the break in the sixteenth rack was Immonen’s last trip to the table as Gorst ran out the next two racks for the 9-8 win.
On the one loss side on Sunday morning, Strickland defeated Joss Tour regular Dave Dreidel and recent NBL 10-Ball Champion John Morra dominated Tyler Styer 9-1. Those matches left Dreidel and Styer in 7th place, while Morra will now take on Al Youssef while Strickland faces Immonen. Those matches will take place at 1pm EST.
Upstate Al is streaming this event for free on his Facebook account and AzBilliards is providing online brackets and live scoring with help from Digitalpool.com.
