Crazy 8’s se­cured a win in Round 16 of the Na­tion­al Pool League (NPL) first di­vi­sion, to take their record to eight wins and eight loss­es.

On Tues­day night in Cou­va, the Spe­cial Brew Sports Bar team host­ed Scotchie’s Nu­bian Kings and were im­pres­sive in a 4-1 re­sult. Ryan Ram­bal­ly got the hosts off to a win­ning start, get­ting the bet­ter of Mukesh Ram­nath, four frames to three. Ram­bal­ly opened with a com­bi­na­tion nine ball (tack­le) in the first frame, be­fore los­ing two in a row, with Ram­nath reg­is­ter­ing a tack­le of his own, in the third frame. Ram­bal­ly hit back with two straight wins to take a 3-2 lead. Ram­nath took frame six to join his op­po­nent on the hill but it was Ram­bal­ly who came out on top with a win in the sev­enth rack.

David Ra­haman made it two-nil for the hosts, de­feat­ing May­ton Charles four frames to two. Ra­haman won the first two, lost the next two and closed out the win with two more wins.

The Crazy 8’s lone loss came in the dou­bles, where their cap­tain Ren­nie Mo­hammed teamed up with Gavin Ram­lochan against Brent John and An­tho­ny John. The John com­bi­na­tion proved too strong as the Scotchie’s duo wast­ed lit­tle time, dis­pos­ing of their op­po­nents in four straight frames, with a com­bi­na­tion nine in rack three.

Eme­lio Smith sealed the vic­to­ry for Crazy 8’s in game four by beat­ing Deck­lon Ash­ton 4-2. Smith raced to a three-frame lead but Ash­ton bounced back with two wins on the trot. Smith re­mained calm and col­lect­ed and that helped him in com­plet­ing the win.

With the match al­ready in the bag, Valmi­ki Sookdeo end­ed the night on a high against vis­it­ing cap­tain, Lind­say "Scotchie" Whiskey. Sookdeo, like Smith be­fore him, ran out to a three-nil lead be­fore Whiskey won the fourth frame but there was no way back as Sookdeo won the en­counter four frames to one.

With the win, Crazy 8’s moves up one spot in­to sev­enth spot on the 14-team ta­ble, while the ‘Nu­bian Kings’ are ninth with six wins and ten loss­es.

JJ Shoot­ers, who pre­vi­ous­ly oc­cu­pied sev­enth spot, swapped places with Crazy 8’s af­ter los­ing to di­vi­sion lead­ers Rox­bury Shot Callers 2-3 at Rox­bury Sports Bar, Cunu­pia. It was the ‘Shoot­ers’ first loss in four match­es, while the ‘Shot Callers’ have now won three in a row. The ta­ble-top­ping Rox­bury has a record of four­teen wins and just two loss­es.

Sicar­ios Bil­liards Club hold on to sec­ond spot on the ta­ble af­ter a 3-2 win over Ago­ra Stingers at Bil­liards Place in Aranguez. The ‘Stingers’, who were a top-four team just two weeks ago, find them­selves in sixth place af­ter four con­sec­u­tive loss­es. ‘Sicar­ios’ are one match win be­hind Rox­bury with thir­teen wins and three loss­es.

For­mer di­vi­sion lead­ers, Pock­et Preda­tors suf­fered a sur­prise loss to Ken­ny’s at Ken­ny’s Sports Bar in Ch­agua­nas. De­spite the loss, ‘Preda­tors’ re­main in third with eleven wins and five loss­es. Ken­ny’s have four wins to go with twelve loss­es and are cur­rent­ly 13th on the ta­ble. Preda­tors pre­vi­ous­ly held on to the top spot on the ta­ble in round eight.

Lucky Sports con­tin­ue to roll in their de­but sea­son of the NPL and have now won six match­es in a row. The Williamsville-based Lucky Sports trav­elled to Play­house Sports Bar in Barataria to take on the Pan­thers and the vis­i­tors came away with a close 3-2 win. Lucky Sports are fourth on the stand­ings with ten wins and six loss­es. Pan­thers are tenth with six wins and ten loss­es.

There are four teams in the di­vi­sion with six wins, two of which met at Bil­liards Place in round 16. Top Shooterz Krew (11th) and Dekko All Stars (10th) locked horns and it was the home team ‘Top Shooterz’, which came out on top 4-1.

Shoot­ing Stars were al­so in win­ners’ row de­feat­ing Unit­ed Stars 3-2. Fifth-placed Unit­ed Stars would have been hop­ing to get their cam­paign back on track against the cel­lar-placed Shoot­ing Stars but just could not get over the line. Unit­ed Stars now have nine wins and sev­en loss­es and Shoot­ing Stars have two wins from six­teen match­es played.

With Tues­day (April 1), be­ing de­clared a pub­lic hol­i­day, round 17 of the first di­vi­sion will be con­test­ed on Wednes­day (April 2).

Round 17 Di­vi­sion 1 Fix­tures

Lucky Sports vs JJ Shoot­ers; Lucky Sports Bar, Williamsville

Dekko All Stars vs Crazy 8’s; Bar­code, Princes Town

Scotchie’s Nu­bian Kings vs Pan­thers; Bil­liards Place, Aranguez

Pock­et Preda­tors vs Top Shooterz Krew; Echo Bar and Lounge, En­ter­prise

Rox­bury Shot Callers vs Unit­ed Stars; Rox­bury Sports Bar, Cunu­pia

Shoot­ing Stars vs Sicar­ios; Pyra­mid Sports Bar, Gas­par­il­lo

Ago­ra Stingers vs Ken­ny’s; Ago­ra Bar and Lounge, Ch­agua­nas