Pan American 9 Ball Championships

[Harold Acosta]

For those Latin American brothers and sisters here at the board, the Pan American 9 Ball Championships will be held in Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles) from June 3rd through the 6th. This is the 6th Pan-American 9-Ball Championship for Men and the 3rd Pan-American 9-Ball Championships for Women.

The Pan-American Championships is the most important and prestigious 9 Ball event in this area that groups seventeen (17) Caribbean, Central and South American Countries.

This event is sanctioned by the World-Pool Billiard Association and qualifies eight (8) male and two (2) female players to represent their countries during the
World Pool Championships to be held this year in Taipei, Taiwan on July 10-18, 2004 and the Womens World Pool Championships to be held this year in Johannesburg, South Africa in July 2004.

The following countries have confirmed participation in the event: Argentina, Aruba, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Chile, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela.

Ernesto Dominguez, Morro Paez, Ditto Acosta, Jason Cruz, Alan Rolon, and Jorge Llanos are among the players this year.

Some of you know these players, and I'm looking forward to watching the outcome of the tournament. For more information you may want to visit the Curacao Federation website at www.febiko.com (http://www.febiko.com)

Just thought some CCB'er would like to know about this tournament.

Harold
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[9 Ball Girl]

Thanks Harold. I checked the website and it's well organized. Do you know if they'll be posting the names of the players from the countries that are being represented?

Wendy&lt;---rooting for Jason Cruz all the way... /ccboard/images/graemlins/blush.gif

[Harold Acosta]

The complete list of players as of May 13th, is as follows:

1. ARGENTINA: Lucas Schuh &amp; Rodrigo de Luca
Susana de Vita G.
2. ARUBA: Ditto Acosta, Aaron Franken, Jorge Petrocchi, and Richard Wolff
Jelitza Trimon &amp; Ghyslaine Kock
3. BOLIVIA: Sergio Canseco
4. BRAZIL: Rodrigo Turmina &amp; Pedro Renato
Magali Farina &amp; Carmelita Yomito
5. CHILE: Pending Confirmation
6. COSTA RICA: Giovanni Orozco, Jimmy Barboza, Christian Campos &amp; Gonzalo Fallas.
Adriana Villar
7. MEXICO: Ernesto Dominguez, Mauro Ibarra &amp; Ismael Paez
8. NETHERLANDS ANTILLES: Johnny Hellmund, David Prins, Bryan Landskind, Bryan Farah
John Kruytoff (St. Martin) &amp; Milton Anthony (Bonaire).
Lucia Wever &amp; Signella de Camps.
9. PANAMA: Javier Palacios, Jorge Diaz, Marco Valencia &amp; Lino Castillo.
Elizabeth Ortiz
10. PERU: Martin Lara, John Lopez, Gustavo Borda &amp; Hans Gonzalez
Jessia Mamani, Zdenka Maric Garcia, &amp; Betzabeth Sanabria
11. PUERTO RICO: Jason Cruz, Alan Rolon, Javier de Jesus and Edgardo Irizarry.
Valerie D' Andrea
12. VENEZUELA: Jerry Calderon, Dario Perez, Johnny Martinez, &amp; Luis Miguel Sanchez.
Mirjana Grujicic, Alejandra Pererira

The Mexican, Aruban, Puerto Rican and Venezuelan players including Jorge Llanos from Argentina are the Forces to reckon with. Most of these players should finish in the top 10 unless they face each other in the early rounds.

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