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BASTA PINOY! PORTS REVIEW

Bata scores 2 impressive wins

MANILA, July 3  -- Efren "Bata" Reyes scored two
impressive victories to grab a piece of the Group 1 lead even as four of his teammmates had contrasting fortunes in the $250,000 World Pool Championships at the Cardiff International Arena in Cardiff, Wales.
Reyes, who defeated German qualifier Daniel Dutz, 7-2, in his first match to jumpstart his title-retention bid, coasted to a 7-2 victory over unseeded Kevin Smith of England.

Then he gave overnight leader Lou Condo Jr. of Australia a neat lesson in pool wizardry with a masterful 7-3 victory to vault himself to the top of Group 1 together with Mexican Ernesto Dominguez.

The opening stage of the 10-day event features 16 groups with six players in a round-robin, race-to-7 format with the top four players from each group will advance to the 64-player, single elimination phase.

Reyes, who will next face Dominguez, had a total of six points and already assured of a slot in the next round of the tournament which he won last year.

After his two victories, Reyes admitted that the current field, which features 96 of the best cue artists in the world playing for the top prize of $60,000, is good and he needs more than luck to regain the title.
Rodolfo "Boy Samson" Luat, the biggest story for the R.P. team after he posted two victories, continued his winning ways, beating Harry Stolka of Germany, 7-5, but his luck ran out when he was defeated by 7th seed Marcus Chamat of Sweden, 7-4.

Despite the loss, Luat, who defeated 26th-ranked Peter Nielsen of Denmark, 7-5, and veteran campaigner Jim Rempe, 7-2, is assured of a slot in the next round like Reyes.

Sixth seed Francisco "Django" Bustamante used his powerful breaks to the hilt en route to a 7-2 victory over Lee Tucker of England but he failed to sustain the momentum and dropped a 7-6 heartbreaker to Shin-Young Park of Korea.

Leonardo "Dodong" Andam, winner of the recent $50,000 Match of the Masters and seeded 25th in this tournament, saw his campaign hit a snag when he suffered his second loss in three games.

Andam, who won the Dallas Open in 1995 where he earned the monicker "The Rattlesnake," lost to Edwin Montal, a native of San Fernando, Pampanga but carries the colors of Canada in this tournament.

Warren Kiamco, the fifth Filipino campaigner, posted a 7-2 victory over Jose Castro of Mexico but he couldn't find his range in his 7-4 loss to many-time Manila visitor and 4th seed Nick Varner of the United States. (SNS)

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