7/29/2023 0 Comments One pocket billiards matches![]() Archer then broke dry a second time, and for the second time, Orcollo made him pay. Immediately after Archer broke dry to give Orcullo the 4-2 lead, Orcollo broke dry to hand Archer his third rack. Though Orcollo would win by four racks, he and Archer both were handed and squandered numerous opportunities. He won six more to shut Roberts out and the re-match versus Orcullo was on. Acting as though he did this sort of thing every day, Archer stroked the ball and sure enough – rail first, cue hit the 1-ball, 10 slid over, nudged the 6-ball out of the way and dropped into the side pocket.ģ-0, Archer. On the third rack, Roberts broke dry, but left Archer a long, rail-first shot at the 1-ball, nestled against the 10-ball, pointed right at a 6-ball, sitting just off-center of the side pocket. Roberts broke to get things underway, but Johnny took the first game and then, sunk three on his subsequent break to jump start his way to taking the second. Mindful of his break problems in the hot seat match, Archer had spent much of the intervening time between the hot seat match and semifinal (during the quarterfinal match) practicing that break and it paid off. Roberts then ran into the buzz saw of Johnny Archer smelling the finish line. Roberts then defeated Thorpe in the quarterfinals 9-6. Roberts spoiled the Thorpe/Van Boening re-match by eliminating Van Boening, while Thorpe took Klatt out. Van Boening had defeated Jesse Bowman and Skyler Woodward to draw Roberts. ![]() Working on that loss side, Thorpe got by Chohan and Morra to pick up Klatt. He’d sent Van Boening to the loss side, and they were both working their way to a potential head-to-head rematch in the quarterfinals. Still playing on the loss side when the first money rounds came around were (among others) Shane Van Boening, Skyler Woodward, John Morra, and Tony Chohan. Archer broke dry five times in the hot seat match that sent him to the semifinals 9-5. Archer had just sent Josh Roberts to the loss side. The event, streamed live, by Ray “Big Truck” Hansen and his crew at PoolActionTV, drew 96 entrants to The Carom Room in Beloit, WI. They broke and ran their way through the first five games of that final matchup, until, ahead by one, Orcollo jumped on Archer’s first dry break of the match to take a lead he’d never relinquish. ![]() Early on, it looked as though one way or another, it was going to be over quickly.ĭennis Orcollo and Johnny Archer met up in the finals of the $10,000-added Carom Room Fall Classic up in Benoit, WI, a 10-ball, bar table event held on the weekend of August 28-30.
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