David Uwate, Tony Crosby (Tour Director), Floyd Milsap
Strokers 2, Tampa was the host location for the Fl State Amateur Championships this weekend. Seventy players showed up for this $2500 Added Event, plus a free ($500) entry sponsored by the Seminole Tribe of Florida into the $40,000 Added Mizerak event.
The day kicked off with an award ceremony for the KF Amateur player’s point’s leaders. Albert Howe was officially crowned Amateur player of the year and received a $500 bonus plus a high end KF Custom cue and a beautiful trophy supplied by Javier Chirino. A very close second was Mark Wathen, who received a high end KF custom cue, and 3rd was Mike Delawder also receiving a KF Custom Cue. Taz Naravane, in his last year as a junior, received Junior player of the year. A special award of Sportsman of the year was given to Angel Rivera who also received a high end cue.
The early rounds of the day would see some great matchups with player of the year Albert Howe defeating Jason Richko 7-4 before taking a loss to Cal Mcgann 7-3. Mcgann’s win would be short lived as Howe’s road partner, Bobby Moore, would take revenge with a very strong 7-1 win. Saturdays 70 players were wittled down to 16 coming back Sunday, 8 winner side and 8 one loss side matches. Local favorite Floyd Milsap went through the winner side to take the hotseat, with wins over, Travis Croft 7-6, Angel Rivera 7-2, Julio Del Pozo 7-3, David Uwate 7-6, Mike Delawder 7-4, Bobby Moore 7-4 and then a final win over Trey Jankowski 7-4.
Laying down the law on the one loss side was David Uwate. After taking his first loss to Floyd Milsap, Uwate would reach Sunday's play with a win over Jason Richko. Sunday would see Uwate come out strong with wins over John Souders 6-1, Chip Dickerson 6-4, Todd Anderson 6-3, Bobby Moore 6-2, Mike Delawder 6-5 and then a final win over Trey Jankowski to get to the final for a rematch with Milsap, who had taken him down on Saturday.
The Final would be a single race to 9, the first two racks were shared and at 1-1 Uwate would take control and never fall behind again. Uwate took a 6-2 lead, with Milsap winning the next two racks to get back to 6-4. This would be as close as he would get as Uwate won 3 of the next 5 racks to take the match 9-6 and be crowned The 2009 FL State 9-ball Amateur Champion, taking the 1st place money of $1100 and a $500 entry into the $40,000 Added Mizerak event to be held in November at the Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood FL. Uwate also the beautiful Fl State Champion Trophy, which was provided by Javier Chirino of A Touch of Glass Trophies.
Final Payouts
1st David Uwate $1100, plus $500 Entry
2nd Floyd Milsap $800
3rd Trey Jankowski $600
4th Mike Delawder $450
5th/6th Jeff Mabry, Bobby Moore $325
7th/8th George Saunders, Todd Anderson
9th/12th Walter Blacker, Chip Dickerson, Dan Whitten, Richard Fox $150
13th/16th Jarred Schlauch, Bill Delisle, John Souders, Taz Naravane $100
Top Lady, Stephanie Mitchell $50
We would like to thank Strokers 2 room owner Jose Del Rio for hosting another great event. Strokers 2 will also be the room for the Florida State Open 9-ball Championships coming up this weekend Saturday 5th/6th September $2500 Added plus a $500 entry into the Mizerak event.
We would like to thank all of our sponsors -
Title sponsor KF Cues, www.poolcues.com.tw
Billiard Scoop www.billiardscoop.com
Stroke It Wear www.strokeitwear.com
Tiger Products www.tigerproducts.com
Ozone Billiards www.ozonebilliards.com
Diamond Billiards www.diamondbilliardproducts.com
Aramith Balls www.saluc.com
Master Chalk www.tweeten.us
AZbilliards www.azbilliards.com
Inside Pool www.insidepool.com
Billiards Digest www.billiardsdigest.com
Maxim Billiards www.mxmbilliards.com
Seminole Tribe of Florida www.seminolesportsmanagement.com
Simonis Cloth www.simoniscloth.com
On The Snap Cue Repair chiponthesnap@yahoo.com
Our next event will be at Stroker2 5th/6th September for the Florida State Open 9-Ball Championships. Check out www.kfcuetour.com for more info.
