Martin Daigle, Utica Billiards on the Boulevard owner Andrea Duvall and Nick Charette
Nick Charette made it three in a row, with another win on the Joss NE 9-Ball Tour at Utica Billiards on the Boulevard on April 29th – 30th, and it looked an awful lot like the first win in this series of success.
A month and a half ago, on March 18th – 19th, Charette won the first of these three straight tour stops at Brick House Billiards in Syracuse, NY. He won that event with an undefeated run to the hot-seat, like he did this time. The Brick House hotseat was at the expense of Ron Casanzio, while this hot-seat was earned with a win over fellow Canadian Martin Daigle. Charette was leading the match at 5-2 when Daigle decided he had seen enough and unscrewed his cue.
Daigle brought his frustration under control pretty quickly and defeated Casanzio in the semi-finals. Casanzio had lost his second match of the weekend to Qays Kolee, before winning eight straight matches on the left side of the board. Casanzio’s run was ended by Daigle by a 7-4 scoreline.
In the finals of the aforementioned event at Brick House Billiards, Charette had faced off against Daigle, and he found himself facing off with him again in the finals on this weekend. Just like the finals before, Daigle scored a convincing win in the first set of the finals. This weekend, it was by a 9-3 scoreline. That set up a second set and just like at Brick House Billiards, the second set of the finals went to hill-hill before a winner was crowned. That winner, just like at Brick House Billiards, was Charette with the hill-hill win in the second set.
Sunday’s second chance tournament was a miniature version of the main event, with Joe Whiteley taking the hot-seat with a 3-2 win over Jamie Gauthier, and then dropping the first set of the finals, in a lopsided 3-0 match against Jordan Turner. Just as Charette did in the second set of the main event, Whiteley went hill-hill with Turner in the second set of the finals, before pocketing the case 9-ball for the win.
The Joss NE 9-Ball Tour was back in action on the weekend of May 6th – 7th at Raxx in West Hempstead, NY.
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