Fedor Gorst
Fedor Gorst avenged his only loss of the event, with a nail biting 13-10 win over Mika Immonen in the finals of the Turning Stone Classic XXXVII at the Turning Stone Resort & Casino in Verona, NY on Sunday September 3rd.
Immonen was the man to beat all weekend, after marquee wins over defending champion Jayson Shaw, Thorsten Hohmann and then Gorst in the hot-seat match.
After Hohmann defeated Jeremy Sossei on the one loss side, he ran into Gorst in the semi-final match. It probably wouldn’t have mattered who it was that Gorst was facing, as he dominated this match, running out to a 6-0 lead before Hohmann could get on the scoreboard. Hohmann managed to win two games, before Gorst regained control and won the match 9-2.
The rematch with Immonen in the finals, an extended race to thirteen, was a back and forth battle between these two champions. The players exchanged one rack leads early, until Immonen was able to take advantage of two dry breaks by Gorst, and build a two rack lead at 7-5. A couple uncharacteristic errors by Immonen let Gorst back into the match, and he tied things back up at 9-9.
Gorst picked the perfect time to regain his break, with two table runs as he took the hill at 12-9. Gorst gave Immonen one last chance, missing a two ball that would have led to an open table in rack twenty-two, but Immonen was only able to put together two racks before missing a one ball that allowed Gorst control of the table, that he didn’t relinquish, making a rail-first one ball and running out the rack for the 13-11 win.
The title is the first Turning Stone Classic title for Gorst, in just his third appearance at the event. First place was worth $10,000 for Gorst, with Immonen taking home $6,500 for second place.
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