Pat Taitano raced to the top of the winner’s bracket and took top honors in 19th Hole\u2019s final 8-ball tournament of 2011 held last Dec. 29.<\/p>\n
Taitano had to get by perennial champion Pat Cepeda and Norman Tenorio to reach the winners bracket final against Juanette Atalig.<\/p>\n
Tenorio took a close match from Ed Suzuki, but shot himself in the foot against Taitano by accidentally pocketing the 8-ball early.<\/p>\n
J.J. Atalig sent Phil Fejeran to the loser’s bracket, but left too many openings to wife Juanette.<\/p>\n
Suzuki continued his strong play, eliminating Cepeda and getting a break when J.J. Atalig also pocketed the 8-ball early.<\/p>\n
Energized by his early loss, Tenorio came back with concentration, cue ball control and shot-making. He eliminated Jack Cruz, Suzuki, and Juanette Atalig, then grabbed the first finals game from Taitano.<\/p>\n
As winner’s bracket finalist Taitano had a game to give. Their third meeting went back-and-forth. with both players mixing terrific shots with mental mistakes.<\/p>\n
The smooth-stroking Taitano finished the game and match when Tenorio gave him a shot with easy shape on the 8-ball.<\/p>\n
Taitano took home half of the pot, with Tenorio getting 30 percent for second place and Juanette Atalig 20 percent for third.<\/p>\n
The first 2012 8-ball tournament was set last Thursday. Sign-ins start at 7pm for the double elimination matches. The entry fee is $10.<\/p>\n
Sign-ups are continuing for 19th Hole\u2019s two-member Tag Team league. Two-person teams face off in two singles and one doubles match every weekend for a month with the first, second and third place teams splitting the entry fees.<\/p>\n
For more information, you can contact Rose or Ken Phillips at 788-5929. Send text messages to that number or to 788-3913.\u00a0(PR)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pat Taitano raced to the top of the winner’s bracket and took top honors in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}