Untouchable Moore Takes Seminole billiard Event
Seminole Pro Tour / Cape Coral, FL
by Skip Maloney
Steve Moore went undefeated to capture the first-place prize on the Seminole Pro Tour’s June 20-22 stop. He did so with a 9-2 defeat of Sparky Ferrell in the finals of the $8,000-added event that drew 60 entrants to Diamond billiards in Cape Coral, FL.
Early Sunday, Moore moved into the hot seat match with a hill-hill victory over David Vaughn, as Justin Hall did likewise in defeating Jerry Calderon. Moore then sent Hall west with an 8-5 victory to be the last man standing on the winners’ side.
On the one-loss side, Ferrell, who’d been sent there by Moore with a commanding shut-out victory in the third round on Saturday, battled his way back through an impressive array of billiard talent, including Louie Smith, Corey Deuel, Donnie Mills (who won the last stop on the tour in May), and Jason Richko to reach the quarterfinals. Ferrell defeated Jerry Calderon 8-3 in his next match and turned to face Hall, fresh off his defeat at the hands of Moore. He finished Hall’s tournament run with an 8-6 victory and turned to Moore in search of some revenge for the earlier shut-out.
It was not to be. Moore jumped out to a 4-0 lead before allowing Ferrell a single game. When Moore missed the 8 ball in the fifth rack, Ferrell did take advantage, chalking up his first win of the match, but Moore took the next two before Ferrell took another rack—his last. Moore concluded his first pro tour victory of the year by jumping the 5 ball in the final game and hitting a dead 2-10 combination to end it.
Results:
1st Steve Moore
2nd Sparky Ferrell
3rd Justin Hall
4th Jerry Calderon
5th Tony Crosby
David Vaughn
7th Hunter Lombardo
Jason Richko
9th Jonathan Pinegar
Donnie Mills
Jason Kirkwood
Tony Chohan

Fur Flies in Florida’s Final Four
Seminole Pro Tour / Cape Coral, FL
by Skip Maloney
Steve Moore, David Vaughn, Jerry Calderon, and Justin Hall advanced to the final four on the winners’-side bracket of the Seminole Pro Tour stop at Diamond billiards in Cape Coral, FL, Saturday, June 21. Advancement entailed a few surprising victories that ultimately created a series of marquee match-ups for Sunday.
Moore, who’d sent Sparky Ferrell to the one-loss side in the third round of play with a 7-0 victory, sent Jason “The Dark Horse” Kirkwood west with a much narrower 8-6 win for his spot in the final four. Moore’s opponent on Sunday was to be Vaughn, who’d clawed and scratched his way through three double-hill victories, including a third-round win that sent Earl Strickland to the one-loss side of the bracket and a subsequent hill-hill victory over Hunter Lombardo.
Justin Hall lost only 7 games in his first three rounds but found himself matched up against Donnie Mills among the final eight winners. Mills, in search of his second straight victory on the Seminole Tour (he defeated David Grossman to win the last stop in May) battled to hill-hill, but Hall prevailed. Calderon reached the final four on the heels of a commanding 8-2 victory over Jason Richko.
The one-loss side of the bracket, featuring the recently-arrived Mills, Richko, Kirkwood, and Lombardo, was to feature some intriguing match-ups Sunday. Mills would be facing Sparky Ferrell, who’d eliminated Corey Deuel on Saturday. Richko was slated to face Jonathan Pinegar, who’d ousted Strickland. Kirkwood was scheduled to face Tony Crosby, as Lombardo took on Tony Chohan.
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Mills Jumps for billiards Victory
Seminole Pro Tour / Holiday, FL
by Skip Maloney
Donnie Mills used his jump stick to great effect on the Seminole Pro Tour billiard stop in Holiday, FL, the weekend of May 17-18, defeating David Grossman in the finals. After being knocked to the one-loss side earlier in the day, Mills worked his way back through three opponents to capture first prize in the $8000-added event that drew 61 entrants to Hammerheads billiards.
Mills faced Hans Berber Oglu in the final four winners’-side matches early Sunday, while his eventual opponent in the finals, Grossman, matched up with Tommy Kennedy. Oglu sent Mills westward with an 8-4 victory as Grossman moved into the hot seat match by defeating Kennedy 8-6. Grossman secured his seat in the finals with an 8-5 victory over Oglu.
On the one-loss side, Dan Lavoie moved on when Corey Deuel forfeited (his second forfeit of the tournament; he ended up in the 9-12 slot without ever having lost a match). Joining Lavoie among the final four on the left side of the bracket were Anthony Meglino, Marc Vidal, and Hunter Lombardo. Lombardo and Vidal advanced to face Mills and Kennedy, respectively, who dropped them both into the fifth-place slot and squared off against each other in the quarterfinals.
Mills defeated Kennedy in a tightly contested 8-6 quarterfinal match and renewed acquaintances with Oglu, who’d defeated him earlier, on the winners’ side of the bracket. In another 8-6 contest, Oglu dropped into third place, leaving Mills and Grossman to face each other in the finals.
Grossman jumped out to an early 4-1 lead, but he only won one of the next nine games. As Mills fought his way back, Grossman hooked him on a number of occasions, leading Mills to break out his jump cue and, ultimately, make every jump shot that Grossman forced him into. It was Mills’ first win on the Seminole Pro Tour, and he was able to manage it in front of a partisan crowd that had gathered to root him on in his homeroom at Hammerheads billiards.
Results:
1st Donnie Mills
2nd David Grossman
3rd Hans Berber Oglu
4th Tommy Kennedy
5th Marc Vidal
Hunter Lombardo
7th Dan Lavoie
Anthony Meglino
9th Butch Croft
Mike Caron
Mark Coates
Corey Deuel
13th Tony Ruberto
Elvis Rodgriguez
Adam Wheeler
Mike Hutchenson

Seminole Pro Tour Hits Hot-lanta
by Skip Maloney
The second event of the Seminole Pro Tour kicked off Friday at Mr. Cues II billiards in Atlanta, GA, and now heads into its final day with 12 players returning to battle it out for the $8,000-added prize purse.
In a first-round upset, Nevel won double-hill over Johnny “The Scorpion” Archer 7-6, sending Archer to the one-loss bracket early. Nevel followed him there in the next match after facing the winner of the tour’s opening event in Palm Harbors, FL, last month, Sparky Ferrell, who bested Nevel 7-5.
Suddenly Nevel and Archer were on the opposite ends of a new bracket, where they both worked their way through 4 opponents and prepared themselves for a possible rematch among the final 12.
On the winners’ side, Ferrell went on to defeat Louis Ulrich 7-5 before running into the hot cue of Jeremy “Double J” Jones, who, after narrowly defeating Clint McCullough 7-6 in the opening round, lost only 3 of the next 17 games he played on his way to the face-off against Ferrell, whom he then defeated 8-2.
Corey Deuel, in the meantime, last year’s Player of the Year on the Seminole Tour, was on something of a hot streak as well. He drew a bye in the opening round and then proceeded to best his first three opponents—Paul Song, Gabe Owen, and Jason Richko—by a combined score of 22-6. Deuel and Jones are set to square off Sunday morning. They are joined on the winners’ side by Mitch Yarborough and Jonathan Pinegar, both of whom also drew first-round byes.
Nevel will try to get by Jason Richko in his opening round Sunday, while Archer will take on Dave Grossman, who got by his first four opponents before running in to Mitch Yarborough, who defeated him 8-4. After a 7-6 win over Duane Bourgeois in the opening round, Tommy Kennedy dropped his second-round match to Tony Crosby double-hill and will face Ferrell.
Jesse Middlebrooks, who lost a second-round match to Johnny Mattowa 7-2, will meet Steve Moore, who had worked his way through three opponents in the winners’ bracket before falling to Pinegar 8-3.
The $8,000-added event ($6K from the sponsoring Seminole Tribe and $2K from Cues II billiards) will hand the winner $3,000. Second place will earn $2,200.
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Ferrell Takes Seminole billiards Tour Opener
by Rick Davis
The 2008 season of the Seminole Pro Tour kicked off over the March 7-9 weekend at Strokers billiards in Palm Harbor, FL, where a 64-player field matched up for the lion’s share of the $8,000 added prize fund. After three solid days of play in the 10-ball, double-elimination format it was Sparky Ferrell who came through seven matches undefeated to claim the season’s first honors.
As usual, the Seminole Pro Tour, formally known as the Florida Pro Tour, drew in an incredibly stacked field of top competitors. On the winners’ side “Rocket” Rodney Morris was an early favorite as he breezed through his first three opponents 7-1, then drilled Monica Webb 7-2, and then nearly shut out Jason Miller 8-1 to reach the hot seat match without breaking a sweat. Nearby, tour veterans Adam Wheeler and Dave Grossman matched up where Grossman edged out the win 7-5. Cleaning up perhaps the roughest portion of the winners’ side, Ferrell defeated Steve Moore 7-6, Corey Deuel 7-5, and Ronnie Wiseman 7-2 before dropping the axe on Grossman 8-1. That set up the hot seat match, in which Ferrell was able to keep control and ward off Morris with an 8-6 win to own the winners’ side.
Late on the one-loss side there was a WPBA matchup as Helena Thornfeldt faced Webb and defeated her 8-5 and then went on to eliminate Grossman double-hill. At the same time Wiseman was making a smooth comeback by ousting Wheeler 8-4 and Miller 8-5 before he was shut down by Thornfeldt 8-7 in the quarterfinals. Although Thornfeldt looked good in the semifinals, Morris’ fire was nowhere near out, and he knocked out Thornfeldt 8-3 to earn a final crack at Ferrell.
With the finals set, a single race to 9 separated Morris and Ferrell, who totally dominated the event. Neither player could keep much of an edge as the match got rolling until Ferrell made a final surge in the end and came up a 9-6 win over Morris to take the top spot.

Open Results:

1st
Sparky Ferrell

2nd
Rodney Morris

3rd
Helena Thornfeldt

4th
Ronnie Wiseman

5-6th
Jason Miller

Dave Grossman

7-8th
Adam Wheeler

Monica Webb

9-12th
Tony Crosby

Hunter Lombardo

James Roberts

Jose Del Rio

13-16th
Steve Moore

John DiToro

Raul Alvarez

Justin Hall