Jesse Bowman got by John Schmidt twice to go undefeated at the Annual Breaker's 9-Ball Tournament in Mobile, AL on the weekend of Aug. 7-8. The $6,280-added event, with a guaranteed purse of $15,000, drew some familiar names (Schmidt, Larry Nevel, Jesse Middlebrook and Jonathan “Hennessee from Tennessee” Pinegar, et al), and a total of 109 entrants to Breaker's Billiards in Mobile.
As Bowman was busy sending Schmidt west 9-4 in their first meeting, C.J. Wiley and Darryl Diggart were battling to get into the hot seat match. Wiley advanced to play Bowman in that hot seat match with a 9-4 victory over Diggart. Bowman then sent Wiley to the semifinals with a 9-3 win and sat in the hot seat, awaiting Schmidt.
On the one-loss side, Josh O'Neal, following victories over Mike Brown and Larry Nevel, was waiting for Schmidt. Diggart faced Gary Lutman, who'd defeated Jesse Middlebrook and Kenneth Briston to reach him. It was Diggart and Schmidt advancing to the quarterfinals; Diggart, with a 9-6 win over Lutman and Schmidt with a 9-2 victory over O'Neal. The quarterfinals was a struggle, with Diggart and Schmidt battling to double hill, before Schmidt advanced.
Schmidt made it three in a row in the one-loss bracket with a 9-4 win over Wiley in the semifinals and got his re-match against Bowman. To no avail, however. Bowman took command of those finals and won the event with a 9-3 victory over Schmidt.
