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2008/09 SAPPA Tour Event 7
Styx American Pool Bar
28 Victoria Road
Kirkcaldy
Scotland
www.scottish9ball.com
www.styx.info

Sunday 18 January 2009

2008/09 SAPPA Tour Event 7

Sunderland's Chris Cowie won his first SAPPA Tour Event with an exciting 10 racks to 7 victory over reigning European Junior Champion, Phil Burford. The turnout of 48 players saw a good mix of new faces, regular faces and returning faces. One of the returning faces was that of Jimmy Pollock, SAPPA�s first Scottish 9 Ball Champion back in 2000 and he showed that his time away from SAPPA had not dulled his game by reaching the Quarter Finals.

The draw at the start of the tournament brought some fascinating match ups with Phil Burford having to work his way past Scottish number one, Pat Holtz, and the winner of the last Tour Event, Fraser Patrick, just to reach the last 16. In another part of the draw, Glasgow�s Stevie Capaldi had an excellent 7-4 victory over former Scottish 9 Ball and reigning Scottish 8 Ball Champion Jayson Shaw.

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The re-draw for the last 16 brought some interesting matches and it was at this stage that Cowie started his fight for the tournament win with a very tight 8-7 win over Davy Jack. Cowie followed this with a Quarter Final victory over Cameron Bowes of and a Semi Final match that saw him overcome a 5-1 deficit to beat Michael Valentine 9 racks to 5. On the other half of the draw Burford was making his way past Gordon Bain in the last 16 by 8 racks to 5, the returning Jimmy Pollock in the Quarter Finals, again with an 8-5 scoreline, and Scottish number one Pat Holtz with a 9-4 Semi Final victory.

Sadly for Burford, the winner of this season�s US Open Qualifier back in July, he did not play his best in the final and Cowie, who was runner up at the 2008 Scottish 9 Ball Championships held at the same venue, was able to capitalise on the few chances that were left for him to take his first SAPPA Tour win and the �320 first prize.

THE STATS

SAPPA
TOUR EVENT 7
THE LAST 16 (Losers - �20)
Michael Valentine	8 : 3	Darren Raine
Fraser Patrick	8 : 3	Andy Morris
Cameron Bowes	8 : 2	Tam Talent
Chris Cowie	8 : 7	Davy Jack
Pat Holtz	8 : 4	Stevie Capaldi
Jayson Shaw	8 : 5	Stewart McPhee
Jimmy Pollock	8 : 6	Gary Houston
Phil Burford	8 : 5	Gordon Bain

SAPPA
TOUR EVENT 7
THE QUARTER FINALS (Losers - �50)
Michael Valentine	8 : 7	Fraser Patrick
Chris Cowie	8 : 6	Cameron Bowes
Pat Holtz	8 : 4	Jason Shaw
Phil Burford	8 : 5	Jimmy Pollock

SAPPA
TOUR EVENT 7
THE SEMI FINALS (Losers - �80)
Chris Cowie	9 : 5	Michael Valentine
Phil Burford	9 : 4	Pat Holtz

SAPPA
TOUR EVENT 7
THE FINAL
Chris Cowie	10 : 7	Phil Burford

SAPPA
TOUR EVENT 7
WINNER - �320	RUNNER-UP - �160

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