Spring
Dear Members,
Next Tournament: This Sunday, March 11 we will host our Lucky Draw Tournament. This will be a scotch doubles tournament where you will be paired with a partner by luck of the draw. Sign up at 12 noon and play at 1 pm.
Results from 9-Ball Tournament: First Place was Jose Torres; second Place was Al Ballesteros; third was Arnell Ferry; and fourth was Marney. Thanks to all who came out and made this event a success.
Board of Governors: Please write your name on the score sheet by next Tuesday evening if you are interested in serving on the BOG. We have three seats open for the board. So far, the nominees are: Marisol Lopez and Malisa Mapu.
Till next time, shoot well and have fun.
Al Ballesteros
Dear Members,
Welcome to our week two stats.
Thanks to our statistician Ran Refael and our web master Bryan, you can now check your personal or your team stats as they’re being updated after each match, at any time, go to LAPL website and click on the Live Stats on the menu under Stats and Winners.
Next Mini Tournament: We will host our Pick a Partner scotch doubles event this Sunday, February 11 at Little Joy in Echo Park. This is an 8-ball pool tournament where YOU choose YOUR partner to compete in a scotch-doubles. Bring a friend to be your partner.
This tournament is open to all players out there, no membership is required to play. Pick your partner and bring them with you!
Registration Fee is $15
Time of Registration is 12pm-12:50pm
Little Joy Cocktails
1477 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026
There will be a drawing for a money prize! Come purchase your tickets for the prize, whether you play or not. Participation is not required.
Till next time, shoot well and have fun.
Al Ballesteros
Dear Members,
This Sunday, January 28 we will host our first tournament at the Eagle LA, our Greased Lightning Tournament. Sign up at 12 noon and play at 1 pm. This is an eight ball tournament with a 15 second shot clock.
Next Tuesday will be our first night of play. Please check the website for your playing location. This season, we continue with 18 teams, 10 on the west side and 8 on the east side. Lots of new players and returning teams.
There is a new scoresheet that was approved by the members at this past weeks meeting. That will also be on our website.
Please have a great season.
Al Ballesteros
Dear Members,
Welcome to a new season of the LA Pool League.
We begin this Spring 2018 Season with 18 teams, 8 in the East Division and 10 in the West Division. We have a several new Captains who stepped up to lead teams - including Allen Fambro who is leading team Russfull; and Jeffrey Nii who is leading the Shaft Queens; and Drew Amann who is leading Cue Branch. Thanks to our new captains. Our league grows and expands through leadership and that starts at the captain level - so this is much appreciated.
Welcome New and Returning Players - The LAPL has several new players and many returning players. The Expendables, led by Ran Refael has several new players as does the Cue Branch team led by Drew Amann; Y-Unit, led by Justin Yau has a couple new players as does Russfull, led by Allen Fambro. The Little Joy teams and the Jerry's teams have brought on new LAPL players. We want to thank all the captains and sponsors for recruiting these new players. We hope our new players enjoy themselves this season.
Captains - Remember to add your players to our email list. You can email their email address and name to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we will make this happen. The email list is the best way for our league to get information out to our players. Also ask your players to like us on Facebook.
Next Mini-Tournament: "Pick a Partner" will be held at Little Joy on February 11 with sign up at 12 noon and play at 1 p.m. This will be a scotch doubles tournament where you bring a partner of your choosing to compete in the tournament. Trophies to first through fourth place.
Greased Lightning - 19 players turned out last Sunday and in the end, 1st Place went to Al Ballesteros, 2nd Place went to Gibbi Tkatch, 3rd Place to Monty Kimball and 4th to Ran Refael.
BOG - If you are interested in running for the Board, please let us know by the end of week seven.
West Coast Challenge 77 - LA will host the West Coast Challenge July 6-8, 2018 at the Burbank Marriott Hotel. We are hoping to send a very strong contingent to the challenge, so please encourage your players to compete in the Open, Women's Hi-Lo and of course teams. If you are interested in helping with this event, please let a board member know. There will be several open tournaments for our members to participate at WCC 77. We will put out information in the next few weeks about these upcoming events.
Until next time, please have fun and shoot well.
Al Ballesteros, President
LAPL
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