Bucky Souvanthong and Jeremy Sossei with Utica Billiards on the Boulevard owner Andrea Duvall
The Joss NE 9-Ball Tour was back in action over the March 9th – 10th weekend at Utica Billiards on the Boulevard with a field of 48 players.
Saturday play narrowed the initial field of players down to four undefeated players in the form of Jason Reese, Geoff Montgomery, Ron Casanzio and Jeremy Sossei. Reese kicked off Sunday with a comfortable 9-4 win over Montgomery, while Sossei eked out a 9-8 win over Casanzio.
With his appearance in the hot-seat match against Sossei, Reese had already guaranteed his best career finish at a Joss Tour stop. It was his first career Joss Tour hot-seat match appearance, and it was against one of the most winningest players that the tour has seen. Sossei did what he has done so many times and dominated the match, scoring a 9-0 win over Reese.
Reese’s first match on Saturday had been a 9-7 win over another tour regular, Bucky Souvanthong. Reese had gone on to play four more matches after that first match and he might have forgotten about that first opponent. Souvanthong, had definitely not forgotten about that match though. Souvanthong won eight straight matches on the one loss side and then happily extended that run to nine matches with a 7-4 win over Reese to setup his place in the finals.
Sossei and Souvanthong have faced off in multiple matches on the Joss NE 9-Ball Tour, and their showdown in the finals was another close one, with Sossei pulling out the 9-8 win in one set for his first tour stop win since last May.
Sunday’s second chance tournament saw Aaron Greenwood start things off with four straight hill-hill wins, before a 3-0 win over Rick Bentley in the finals for the win.
The Joss NE 9-Ball Tour will be at Brickhouse Billiards in Syracuse, NY this weekend for their next stop.
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