Naoyuki Oi
Day three dawns at the Turning Stone Classic XXXVI, with sixty four players still holding hopes of adding this event to their resume.
Defending champion Jayson Shaw is still undefeated, and is joined by such notables as Fedor Gorst, Donny Mills, Skyler Woodward, Mika Immonen, Erik Hjorliefson, Vitaliy Patsura, Danny Hewitt, Billy Thorpe, Jeremy Sossei, Naoyuki Oi and Johnny Archer.
Naoyuki Oi is earning a new set of fans here at Turning Stone, with his dominant play. Oi won his first two matches, over Ray Carey and Kristina Tkach, by a combined score of 18-0. Oi looked well on his way to keeping that record alive in this third match of the event, as he led John Morra 5-0 early in their match. Morra finally took advantage of an Oi miss and got back into the match, to eventually tie things at hill-hill before Oi pocketed the case ball for the 9-8 win. Oi will face the Ukraine’s Vitaliy Patsura at 2pm EST today.
Johnny Archer ended his Friday play with a convincing 9-6 win over Poland’s Mieszko Fortunski to remain undefeated. Archer’s first action on Saturday will be a match with fellow American Skyler Woodward.
Upstate Al is streaming selected matches on his Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/UpStateAL. Fans can follow all of the action online with our online brackets and real time scoring pages.
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