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Fall Season kicks off at Shooters
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Posted on Sep 18 2005
The Fall Season of the 2005 Budweiser Bud Light Billiards League officially got underway Wednesday at its new home at the Shooters Sports Bar in Garapan.
A total of eight teams have signed up for the team pool competition, according to CNMI Billiards Association official and league coordinator Kim Prinz, who along with Fred Prinz and Santi Sablan, runs the show at Shooters.
The eight teams that will duke it out for billiards supremacy this season are led by last season’s champion No Mercy, whose team captain Senen Pangilinan remarked that his squad is up for a big test this season since other teams are out to wrest the title away from he “top dogs.”
Aside from the steady Pangilinan, other noted players that carry the cue stick for No Mercy are Joey Lucido and Rowell Mariano.
Pangilinan’s worries seem to be well founded as the best and the brightest of the island’s pool scene are well represented in the poolfest.
Among the teams Pangilinan’s players should watch for are Roger Espiritu and Pool Junkies, Jerry Soriano and Saipan Shooters, Luis Fajardo and Destroyer, Ed Manucdoc and Hyatt Pomec, Re Cabo and Los Cabos, Larry Mariano and Pinoy Big Brothers, and Ron Shisato and Marines II.
Kim Prinz said all eight teams would play in a single round with each head-to-head match consisting of four singles games and one doubles game. She said the league would last roughly 10-12 weeks. Each team can have up to six players with a minimum of four.
While the eight teams that signed up are already on board for the Fall Season, Prinz said the 2005 Budweiser Bud Light Billiards League is still entertaining new entries. She, however said, interested players and teams only have the next couple of weeks to signify their intentions, as Kim Prinz and company would no longer entertain new entries once the league goes into full swing.
Shooters Sports Bar is one of the newest billiards venue on Saipan and boasts of six billiards tables—two of which are of the nine-foot variety. Kim Prinz said she expects the place to be the home of billiards for years to come.
For more information in the 2005 Budweiser Bud Light Billiards League, contact Kim Prinz at 287-228 or Fred Prinz at 287-5005.
