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BWPPA Ranking Event No.3 - The Dynamic Mersey 9 Ball Shootout
Rileys American Pool and Snooker - Wavertree
Church Road North
Wavertree
Liverpool
L15 6TE
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Saturday/Sunday 16/17 June 2012

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Extends lead at the top of the rankings!

Liverpool cueman Tony Southern wins his 3rd BWPPA and his 2nd in a row title, on home soil winning the 2012 Merseyside 9-ball Shootout sponsored by Dynamic Billiards at Riley�s in Wavertree, Liverpool, over the weekend of the 16th/17th June 2012

Southern nicknamed �Robocop� by his fellow players, extended his lead at the top of the rankings to 70 points from Roy Kimberley. Matt Duffy, making his return to the tour, and a dangerous low seed in the first round, was Southern�s first opponent and was comfortably defeated 7-3, Welshman Craig Welsh was next up for Tony, and it was a complete contrast to his match with Duffy, with Southern taking a 3-1 lead and looking in command, and Welsh showing the true potential, talent and bottle all the players knew he had, battling back as the match went down to the wire, and Welsh took the match 7-6. This took Southern to the losers side, where he dispatched Shaun Madin 6-3, and then in a repeat of the final from the previous event, beat Gary Swift 6-3. Another hill-hill clash was next for Southern in the battle of the big hitters, but this time he was not be denied as he sent GB9 player Aslam Abubaker home 6-5.

Elsewhere in the event the former UK�s #1 Roy Kimberley looked to be back to his old form, with 7-2,7-0, and 7-3 wins over Adam Pearson, Frankie Gillen and Abubaker respectively, but then he ran into his old foe, Danny Luton in the semi final, who beat Kimberley for the 2nd event running with a 7-4 score line. Luton, like Southern had come through the losers bracket after a 7-4 loss to Welsh.

In the other semi-final and it was a rematch between Southern and Welsh, but after his efforts the previous day, Welsh had little left in the tank and Southern won comfortably 7-2.

The final was therefore contested between Tony Southern and Danny Luton. The final was not the close battle many expected, with Southern opening up a 3-1 and 4-2 lead, with a bit of good fortune and some good shot making.

At 4-2 down Luton missed a simple 9 ball to reduce the deficit to 1 rack, and that was the spur that Southern needed as he forged 6-2 ahead, and this knocked the stuffing out of Luton, who battled hard but eventually lost 7-3.

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