New­com­ers to the Na­tion­al Pool League (NPL), the Nu­bian Kings edged the Ti­tans three games to two when they met on Wednes­day in round two of the NPL 8 Ball Pre­mier Di­vi­sion at Gold­en Arch­es II in Curepe.

The Kings were play­ing away from home and did well to come away with a win against a strong Ti­tans team. Lawren­cio El­liott aka Rin­cy, the vis­it­ing cap­tain, was drawn to play first and got his team off to a good start by de­feat­ing Stephen Irv­ing 3-2. Irv­ing stole the first frame but El­liott bounced back to even things up at one with both frames com­ing down to the black ball. El­liot went up two games to one but Irv­ing won frame four to force a de­cider, which ‘Rin­cy’ won com­fort­ably, Kings 1; Ti­tans 0.

Josh­win Roberts was next up for the Kings, his op­po­nent was Vishaal Singh. Again, the two play­ers split the first two frames with Singh win­ning the first and Roberts the sec­ond. That, how­ev­er, was Roberts on­ly suc­cess as Singh took the next two frames for a three to one win. Kings 1; Ti­tans 1.

The dou­bles en­counter fol­lowed with Kings’ Sham Jagerssar and Bladimir Ce­de­no com­ing up against Ti­tans’ Adri­an Man­ga­roo and Rea­gan Low Chew Tung. The first frame, a black ball frame, went the way of the hosts’ Man­ga­roo and Low Chew Tung, un­for­tu­nate­ly, the pair could not build on the pos­i­tive start and Jagerssar and Ce­de­no won three straight to give the Kings the lead. Kings 2; Ti­tans 1

Mar­tin Davis, re­turn­ing to the Bil­liards cir­cuit af­ter sev­er­al years, could not repli­cate his per­for­mance of Round 1 where he won three frames on the trot. This time, he met a much tougher op­po­nent in Clint Bachan, who gave him no chance what­so­ev­er, win­ning in three frames. Kings 2; Ti­tans 2.

It was left up to the Ti­tans cap­tain, Ravy Joseph, to seal the win for the hosts against Deck­lon Ash­ton and on pa­per he should have but Ash­ton ap­par­ent­ly nev­er got the memo. Ash­ton won the first frame, Joseph the sec­ond, Ash­ton went up 2-1 and the fourth frame came down to the eight ball with Ash­ton emerg­ing vic­to­ri­ous and in so do­ing win­ning 3-1 and keep­ing his Nu­bian Kings team un­beat­en af­ter two rounds of com­pe­ti­tion. Kings 3; Ti­tans 2

The Nu­bian Kings are cur­rent­ly sec­ond on the stand­ings Unit­ed Stars and just ahead of Cen­tral Stars, the oth­er un­de­feat­ed teams af­ter two rounds.

In oth­er Pre­mier Di­vi­sion match­es, Gold­en Arch­es II was al­so the venue for the match be­tween Pool­hulics Krew A and Unit­ed Stars. Unit­ed Stars emerged with a 3-2 win.

Re­sults

Pre­mier Di­vi­sion

At Spar Sports Bar, Re­form Vil­lage: Cen­tral Stars def ‘D’ Un­der­dawgs 4-1

At Ken­ny’s Sports Bar, Chase Vil­lage: Check Side def Liq­uida­torz 4-1

Atb Gold­en Arch­es II, Curepe: Unit­ed Stars def Pool­hulics Krew A, 3-2

Di­vi­sion I

At Ken­ny’s Sports Bar, Chase Vil­lage: Triple Bee’s def Check Side 1 3-2

At Ram­baran’s Bar, Ari­ma: Sharp­shoot­ers BT def Dekko All Stars 3-2

At Ken­ny’s Sports Bar, Chase Vil­lage: Scotchie’s Deton8ators def Crazy 8 3-2

At Es­co Bar, Mon­trose: Sicar­ios def Shoot­ing Stars 3-2

At Club Fete: Pool­hulics B def The An­ni­hi­la­tors 3-2

At Rox­bury Sports Bar, Rox­bury def Jer­ry Junc­tion 4-1