Week Six Fall 2016

Dear League Members,

Re-Cap: After six exciting weeks, Better Luck Next Time with Captain Phil Stephens leads the league with a 750% followed closely by Stroke of Genius, captain Al Ballesteros with 729%. Leading our Individuals are Tommy Nguyen with 905%, James Prather at 875%, Gabriel Rodriguez at 842% and Al Ballesteros, Tre Rounds and Tod Davenport at 800%. Our top women are Malisa Mapu at 1.000, followed by Marney Cameron at 667% and Lori Perry at 600%.

Next Tournament: Lucky Draw (Calcutta) Tournament, Saturday, October 1st at 12 noon at the Eagle Los Angeles. Play starts at 1 p.m. This will be a Scotch Doubles tournament, so come ready to play and win some $$$.

Congratulations: Thank you to all that came out to our last tournament "Betting on the Team" which was held at Trunks last Sunday. This was a very exciting and well-played tournament and we heard lots of great feedback from all the players. It was great competition. In the end, the #1 winner was Jose Torres (Stroke of Genius), #2 Al Ballesteros (Stroke of Genius), #3 Arnell Ferry (White on Rice) and #4 Saeromi Kim (Scratch This!).

BOG Nominations: We currently have three open seats for the BOG. If you are interested in running, please submit your name on the score sheet or in the comments section of the on-line submissions before the end of week seven. You can also email us here. Currently running are: Al Ballesteros and Arturo Carrillo.

Next meeting of the BOG: The next BOG Meeting is scheduled for Saturday, October 22 at 11:00 a.m. at Trunks. The agenda will be posted next week.

New Players: I want to acknowledge our new players to the league in the past couple of seasons. I've met many of you and I want to personally welcome you to the Los Angeles Pool League. On the Scratch This! team is Emily Huffman, Kerby Ferris and Ruby SawAnn Bryan; representing The Girlz, Marisol Lopez, Marney Cameron and Stephanie Westfall; for Cue Up, David Monroe; for Z8nker's is Amy Olsson, and on No Trouble is Stephen Spanos and we'd like to welcome back Reyleen; representing Nice Rack is Todd Savvas and Maad Alarabi and George Torres on Why So Hard. A belated welcome to Tiffany May who started last season who is playing with Smooth Shaft. I hope I did not miss anyone, if I did, please send your player's name to me and I will make that acknowledgement in the next Cue News.

Players Needed: There is an open position on Ian Dodrill's team The Beautiful People which plays out of C-Frenz. If anyone has a friend or knows someone that is interested in playing in the pool league, please send their name and contact information here. We will get that person in touch with Ian.

E-Mail List: Captains, please make sure your players are listed with us for our regular e-mail blasts. This is the main way that our league is able to communicate with our members to keep them informed of the on-goings of the league. Please ask your teammates if they are getting these e-blasts and if not, please email their name and email address here to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Until next time, shoot well and have fun.

Al Ballesteros, President