Lukas Fracasso-Verner, room owner Wanda Jackson and Jonas Souto
Jonas Souto added another title to his growing resume over the September 16th – 17th weekend with an undefeated run through the field at the Joss NE 9-Ball Tour stop at Run Em Racks Billiards Bar & Grill in Johnston, Rhode Island.
Souto tasted US success earlier this year, with his win over Jayson Shaw in the finals of the Super Billiards Expo NineBall Pro Players Championship. He was away from the states for a number of international events, but returned with a fifth place finish at the Turning Stone Classic XXXVII (where he eliminated Shaw on the one loss side).
Souto found out that not everyone in the States is as easy to beat as Shaw, as he took losses from Pat Fleming and Denis Grabe at the Raxx MVP Tour Open in New York early in the week and made the 3 1/2 hour drive to Rhode Island for another shot at glory.
Another player who didn’t fare as well as he hoped to at Raxx was American Lukas Fracasso-Verner. Fracasso-Verner also made the trek to Rhode Island and the two young guns ended up facing off for the hot-seat in Rhode Island. That match went to Souto, by the closest of margins at 9-8.
Fracasso-Verner eked out a hill-hill win over Alex Bausch to earn another shot at Souto in the finals, but he lost another hill-hill battle to Souto in the first set of the double elimination finals 9-8.
Sunday’s second chance event saw Jake Ricked turn in an undefeated run through the field with wins over Mike DeMarco for the hot-seat and then Kurt Matheson in the finals.
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