Keith McCready bounced back from a loss to Danny Hewitt to earn the win in this weekend's Joss NE 9-Ball Tour stop at Golden Cue Billiards in Albany, NY.
McCready started the day with a 9-5 win over Hewitt, and then took the hot-seat with an identical 9-5 win over Ryan McCreesh.
On the one-loss side, McCreesh was handed another 9-5 loss, this time at the hands of Hewitt.
The first set of the true double elimination finals was completely one-sided with Hewitt cruising to a 9-3 win over McCready. The second set was a complete turnaround for McCready as he took an early 7-4 lead and help off a late charge from Hewitt to win the match 9-7.
McCready earned $1620 for first, while Hewitt settled for $1200. McCreesh and Tony Ruberto filled out the top four spots.
The top six players (McReady, Hewitt, McCreesh, Ruberto, Mike Zuglan and Frankie Hernandez) all qualified for the New Unified Tour System's Skins Game qualifier. Also qualifying were Charlie Fowler and Tim Parisian who were randomly drawn as wild cards.
The Joss NE 9-Ball Tour will be at Color of Money Billiards in Niagara Falls Ontario for a $5000 added event.
The Season Finale at Turning Stone Casino in Verona, NY scheduled for August 18-21 is filling fast with top names such as Mike Davis, Keith McCready, Karen Corr and Julie Kelly as well as this year's Turning Stone Classic winner Steve Tavernier already signed up.
Players are urged to contact Mike Zuglan to sign up early as this tournament will fill up fast. Mike can be reached using our new Online Player Contact Feature.
Complete Results:
1st Keith McCready $1620
2nd Danny Hewitt $1200
3rd Ryan McCreesh $900
4th Tony Ruberto $700
5th/6th Mike Zuglan, Frankie Hernandez $500
7th/8th Jeff Smolen, Vu Nguyen $350
9th/12th Tim Parisian, Eddie Vazquez, Daren, Belliveau, Carmen Lombardo $200
Photo courtesy of Rocco Spinelli
