GOODFELLAS 8-BALL CHAMPIONS AGAIN!
ANOTHER FINE SEASON FOR KELLY'S
The BCA San Diego Metro 8-Ball Division was secured once more by Goodfellas, who had gone 37 weeks undefeated until the final match of the season when, due to unavoidable circumstances, they found themselves 2 players short against See You Next Thursday, who were able to claim forfeits for Goodfellas missing team members and become the only team to defeat them for two whole seasons!
Luis Abarca was MVP with a magnificent total of 118 wins, teammate Robert Howell came in 2nd with 117 and third place was also from Goodfells, Jared Pitts, with 114.
Runner-up in the league went to OB1 Homies with a very strong performance, finishing the season with 31 wins and 7 losses which pushed What's Shape? into 3rd spot with their tally of 30W & 8L.
2025 bca world pool league championships, las vegas, NV.
Fran Smith with just a few of the many San Diego pool players in action at the Rio Convention Center this month. Fran herself played matches in the Fairmatch 8-Ball Singles and the Ladies 8-Ball Singles and watched dozens more of her players, including up close with Shane Van Boening.
Mothlike live-streamed over 25 matches from Vegas and recorded several others when the internet connection was unavailable, edits of these matches coming soon to the Mothlike YouTube channel.
We'll have a full round-up of who cashed in Vegas soon, but wanted to say congratulations to Antuwan Anton for finishing 5-8th out of 431 players in the 8-Ball Singes Silver picking up $2,000 and to Jared Pitts, Rob Epple and Wayne Farnum II, all three finished 9-16th from 211 players in the 8-Ball Singles Platinum collecting $500.
I lost hill-hill in the final of the Second Chance 8-Ball, finishing 2nd from 60 players, picking up $1,000.
Fran added:
"I look forward to hearing how much cash you all won! I had such an awesome time and can't wait for next year!!!"
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mothlike tv coming to facebook
We're keen for our live-streamed billiards matches to reach a wider audience and are launching a new Mothlike Facebook Page. Please follow and share with your fellow pool enthusiasts.
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NEW LOOK MOTHLIKE TV ON YOUTUBE
@MothlikeTV is the official YouTube channel for the San Diego Metro BCA and features weekly livestreams from both the 10- and 8-ball divisions.
10-ball league team names!
Cheesy Team Names Galore
For the first time, teams in the San Diego Metro 10-Ball League have names, judge for yourself which name takes the prize of The Grand Cheese...
On Cue 5 is "catchusifucan", On Cue 1 is "Hot Shotz" and O'Billiards #1 is "Shark School". College #2 is "Rack Pack", O'Billiards #2 is "86'd" and On Cue #6 is "A Few Bad Men."
Next comes "Wer Wer Where?" (On Cue #4), "JCVD" (On Cue #3) followed by "In10sity" (College #3) and "Shooting Stars" (College #1) and lastly "Cue Fusion" (College #4) and "On Cue Crue" (On Cue #2).
ON CUE #5 DOMINATE 10-BALL LEAGUE-ENDING TOURNAMENT
MURPHY & TOLENTINO JOINT WINNERS
The season-ending singles tournament took place last night, Wednesday 11/12/24 at On Cue Billiards and attracted 20 entrants vying for bragging rights over their team mates and rivals in the San Diego Metro 10-Ball league.
Shaun Murphy, from newly crowned Champions On Cue #5 came through the Winners' side and his team mate Winnie Tolentino fought through the One Loss side to reach the final, having defeated Phil Carranza (On Cue #1) into 3rd place and Mike Mann (also On Cue #5) into 4th. Strong performances by Christopher Moore (On Cue #2) and Danny Castaneda (College #1) saw them reach 5th & 6th place.
In the final, Winnie inflicted a first defeat of the evening on Shaun, however, since this is a true double-elimination format Winnie would need to beat Shaun twice. Alas, we were already past midnight and the club was late closing and so the team mates decided to share the glory and the prize money, making them both joint winners.
ON CUE #5 CROWNED CHAMPIONS ONCE AGAIN
The final week of the 10-Ball season saw O'Billiard #1 play host to On Cue #5 in what proved to be a relatively close-run match, trailing the Champions-Elect 3-4 before Shaun Murphy secured their 22-0 win record for a second consecutive season.
Rob Epple from 2nd-place finishers On Cue #1 made a most impressive debut to the BCA 10-Ball league claiming MVP for games won at 178, ahead of Nayan "Snax" (162) and Shaun (161). Rob also took MVP for table runs with a new record of 24, leading Shaun (17) with Nayan & Winnie Tolentino in joint 3rd (13) and finally Rob shared MVP for most shut-outs (2) with Bruce Edgar. Please refer to the 10-Ball standings page for full final results.
The season-ending 10-Ball tournament will take place on Wednesday 12/11 at On Cue. Practice from 6.30pm and play starts promptly at 7pm.
FRAN'S SURPRISE TRIP TO VEGAS
The players from the San Diego Metro Pool Leagues sprung a surprise on League Operator Fran Smith on Thursday 8/22, in appreciation of her decades of dedication running our local BCA leagues, by presenting her with a personalized tournament jacket along with a trip to Las Vegas for the 2025 BCA World Pool League Championships.
Here at metrobcapool.com we’d like to send our huge thanks to Fran for all she does for us, to Jesse Sturm for coming up with this initiative, to all those who attended the presentation and, of course, to everyone who donated so generously to help make this happen.
Fran herself added:
"I want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who participated in my 'surprise gifts' night at On Cue. I appreciate your support in my efforts to maintain a league with good rule for the benefit of serious players.
See you in Vegas !!!"
BCA 10-ball league RESUMES 10th july 2024
GET READY!
The next season of the San Diego Metro BCA 10-Ball League is scheduled to begin on Wednesday 10th July 2024.
An interim 3-week schedule will be published soon, meanwhile players should speak to their team captains to confirm their team roster.
ON CUE #5 WIN BCA 10-ball league
REIGNING CHAMPIONS WIN THE LEAGUE ONCE AGAIN
Shaun Murphy, Winnie Tolentino, Nayan "Snacks" Tamrakar and Mike Mann, a.k.a. On Cue #5 are BCA 10-Ball Champions once more, having completed the season with a 7-2 win over O Billiard #1 on Thursday 29th May, having lost only one match out of the 22 played this term.
Shaun also took MVP for games won (187), with Winnie in 2nd (175) and Jared Pitts from On Cue #1 in 3rd (169). Shaun also won MVP for Table Runs with 19, Winnie again was 2nd with 15 and Nayan in 3rd with 13 and to complete a clean sweep of all MVP prizes, Shaun also won Most Shut-Outs having won 9-0 on 2 separate occasions this term.
N.B. Season-Ending Tournament will be at On Cue on Sunday 9th June at 12 noon. See you all there!
NAYAN WINS APA 8-BALL CLASSIC
Nayan "Snacks" Tamrakar wins $15,000 in APA National 8-Ball Tournament
Our congratulations go out to Nayan who took down the title and first prize in the
APA 8-Ball Classic (Purple Tier, Skill Level 7) in Las Vegas on May 3rd 2024.
We will be interviewing the new champion soon... stay tuned!
Way to go Nayan!
GOODFELLAS WIN BCA 8-BALL LEAGUE
March 28, 2024
Congratulations to Goodfellas, a.k.a Kelly's #1, who have sealed their position as our latest 8-Ball League Champions. They also produced MVP #1 and #2, Robert Howell and Luis Abarca respectively.
MVP #3 was won by Wayne Crow.
What's Shape? were runners-up and Double Snap finished 3rd.
Please check out 8-Ball Standings section for further details.
