Moore Bests Hall in Seminole Final
Seminole Pro Tour / Holiday, FL
by Skip Maloney
Steve Moore defeated Justin Hall twice to go undefeated, capturing first place at the Seminole Pro Tour stop the weekend of April 24-26. The $6,000-added event drew 43 entrants to Hammerheads in Holiday, FL.
From among the winners’ side final four, Moore recorded his second shut-out of the tournament, sending Mike Davis west as Hall got by Louis Altes 8-6. In their first meeting, Moore gained the hot seat with an 8-5 win over Hall and waited for his return.
Over on the one-loss side, Donnie Mills and Jerry Calderon were waiting for Davis and Altes. Mills had gotten by Tony Crosby and dropped Yu Ram Cha 8-5 into the tie for seventh place, as Calderon defeated Adam Wheeler and then dropped Han Berber 8-1 into the seventh place tie with Cha. Mills and Calderon advanced a step further into the quarterfinals with Mills besting Altes 8-4 and Calderon over Davis 8-5.
Calderon advanced to the semifinals with an 8-6 win over Mills and then dropped into third place when Hall defeated him by the same score for a second crack at Moore. In spite of the extended wait for the finals to begin, Moore jumped out to an early 4-0 lead that he never relinquished. Hall managed to close the four-rack gap with some consecutive racks in the middle of the match and got as close as two at 7-5. Moore put an end to it right there and closed out his undefeated weekend.
Moore defeated Justin Hall twice to go undefeated, capturing first place at the Seminole Pro Tour stop the weekend of April 24-26.
Results:
1st Steve Moore $3,000
2nd Justin Hall $2,200
3rd Jerry Calderon $1,600
4th Donnie Mills $1,100
5th Mike Davis $700
Louis Altes
7th Han Berber $400
Yu Ram Cha
9th Tony Crosby $250
Adam Wheeler
Ray Lenares
Brian Brekke