There are cur­rent­ly three Na­tion­al Pool League (NPL) first di­vi­sion teams play­ing out of Bil­liards Place in Aranguez.

On Tues­day night, two of those teams met Scotchie’s Nu­bian Kings and Top Shooterz Krew. The Nu­bian Kings were list­ed as the home team and they made good their home ad­van­tage by com­ing away with a con­vinc­ing 4-1 win.

Deck­lon Ash­ton opened the in­nings for the ‘Kings’ with a 4-2 win against Ren­nie Bha­gan. Both of Bha­gan’s wins came via com­bi­na­tion shots (tack­les) on the nine-ball in the sec­ond and fourth frames. The home team cap­tain, Lind­say Whiskey aka Scotchie, kept the pres­sure on the Top Shooterz by de­feat­ing Ah­mad Shageer 4-1. Whiskey ran out to a three-frame lead be­fore Shageer could an­swer with his on­ly win in the fourth rack. The dou­bles en­counter was next and An­tho­ny John and May­ton Charles teamed up to take on the vis­it­ing pair of Edge Ra­moutar and Aamir Balka­ran. The Top Shooterz duo won the first rack but John and Charles tied things up with a gold­en nine (nine on the break) in rack two and fol­lowed that up with wins in frames three, five and six. That vic­to­ry in the dou­bles sealed the best-of-five match for the Kings, which al­lowed their next play­er to ex­press him­self freely. That he did, win­ning his game against An­to­nio Boodoo four frames to ze­ro, in­clu­sive of a gold­en nine in the third rack. Brent John would have fan­cied his chances of com­plet­ing a clean sweep but the ‘Top Shooterz’ cap­tain, Kevin Ma­habir, had oth­er ideas. Ma­habir won the first, lost the sec­ond but fin­ished the match with three wins on the trot to give his team the con­so­la­tion win.

An­oth­er team, which makes Bil­liards Place their home, is the Sicar­ios. Un­like their sta­ble­mates, they had a sched­uled away fix­ture against Ken­ny’s in Ch­agua­nas. Sicar­ios, who are cur­rent­ly sec­ond on the stand­ings, reg­is­tered a sim­i­lar 4-1 win against the hosts and like the ‘Nu­bian Kings’, the Sicar­ios sealed the three best of five match­es af­ter three games. Al­lan Lawrence (4-1), Clint Mara­jh (4-1) and the pair of skip­per John East­man and Sachin Ram­nar­ine (4-2) gave the vis­i­tors an unas­sail­able lead. Al­lan Per­sad was the on­ly ca­su­al­ty for the vis­i­tors, los­ing the fourth game on the hill (3-4) against Andy Joseph. In the fi­nal game of the night, Dy­lon King, re­turn­ing to the Sicar­ios line-up af­ter a two-match lay­off, round­ed off the win with a 4-2 re­sult. Sicar­ios have a win/loss record of 12/3.

The team lead­ing the di­vi­sion is the Rox­bury Shot Callers. They en­ter­tained the Pan­thers at their Rox­bury Sports Bar in Cunu­pia and made home ad­van­tage count, as the Shot Callers won the match three games to two. For the hosts, there were wins for Jonathan Gor­ing (4-1), the dou­bles pair of Raj ‘El Cap­i­tan’ Per­sad and Ku­mar Singh (4-3), and Bri­an Bis­nath (4-1), while for the Pan­thers, Glen Ra­goo (4-2) and Kevin Car­dinez (4-3) were in win­ner’s row. Rox­bury has won thir­teen of the fif­teen match­es played.

The big win­ners on the night were the Pock­et Preda­tors. The ‘Preda­tors’, cap­tained by Bri­an Stod­dard, swept past Dekko All Stars, win­ning all five games, at the Echo Lounge in En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas. There were 4-2 wins for Stod­dard and Clif­ford Sookdeo in games one and two, while the three re­main­ing games could have gone ei­ther way, end­ing with close 4-3 score lines. The dou­bles en­counter was won by Gre­go­ry Gayadeen and Amit Sa­boo, the fourth game, Kirk Ram­sawak and in the fi­nal en­counter, Steven Her­nan­dez. The Pock­et Preda­tors are third on the ta­ble with eleven wins and four loss­es.

In Oth­er Re­sults: Lucky Sports made it five wins in a row with a 4-1 win over Crazy 8’s. With that vic­to­ry, the Williamsville-based Lucky Sports moves in­to the top four with nine wins and six loss­es.

Both Unit­ed Stars and Ago­ra Stingers have sim­i­lar 9/6 win/loss records. Those two teams met at Ago­ra Bar and Lounge in Ch­agua­nas and it was Unit­ed Stars which came out on top 3-2. That win for the ‘Stars’ sees them move up one spot to fifth, while the Stingers drop two spots to sixth.

JJ Shoot­ers, con­tin­ue their climb up the stand­ings and now oc­cu­py sev­enth place, swap­ping places with Crazy 8’s, with eight wins and sev­en loss­es. The ‘Shoot­ers’ trav­elled to the

Pyra­mid Sports Bar, Gas­par­il­lo, to do bat­tle with the Shoot­ing Stars and emerged with a cred­itable 3-2 vic­to­ry.

Pre­mier Di­vi­sion News

Al­so on Tues­day, there was one resched­uled round 14 pre­mier di­vi­sion match be­tween Shoot­ing Stars pre­mier team and Gold­en Arch­es Ti­tans, al­so at Pyra­mid Sports Bar. The Ravy Joseph-led Gold­en Arch­es team won the en­counter 5-0.

On Wednes­day, in Round 15 ac­tion in the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion, Shoot­ing Stars de­feat­ed Cuetrollerz 4-1; Unit­ed Stars downed ‘D’ Un­der­dawgs 4-1 and Sicar­ios beat The An­ni­hi­la­tors 4-1. Gold­en Arch­es Ti­tans and Ri­vals were in­ac­tive.

Tues­day's match­es

First Di­vi­sion (Round 16)

Unit­ed Stars vs Ago­ra Stingers at Pyra­mid Sports Bar, Gas­par­il­lo

Sicar­ios vs Ago­ra Stingers at Bil­liards Place, Aranguez

Ken­ny’s vs Pock­et Preda­tors at Ken­ny’s Sports Bar, Ch­agua­nas

JJ Shoot­ers vs Rox­bury Shot Callers at Jer­ry Junc­tion, Cara­pichaima

Pan­thers vs Lucky Sports at Play­house, Barataria

Crazy 8’s vs Scotchie’s Nu­bian Kings at Spe­cial Brew, Cou­va

Top Shooterz Krew vs Dekko All Stars at Bil­liards Place, Aranguez