Billiard Coach – Mike Fieldhammer

4 Bears Classic 2013 from New Town, North Dakota

Posted on 24. Apr, 2013 by Mike Fieldhammer.

The event finished Sunday evening. Record turnout: approximately 165 men and 55 women showed up for the main event of bar table 8-ball.

Final results of the 9 – Ball tournament
1st Joey Gray $1,200
2nd Warren Kiamko
3rd Chip Compton
4th Jeanette Lee

Here are the 9-ball full results.

The competition really heated up when the 8-ball started. I joked that it was the new pro tour.

Then the player auction for the final 32 set all kinds of records.

Men’s Final Results:

1st Corey Deuel
2nd Lu Hui-Chan
3rd Shane Van Boening
4th Stan Tourangeau

Stay tuned for a link of the video. I’ve got Corey’s final shot in the finals. 5-5 tied score.

Here are a few photographs I took over the weekend.

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Rugby, ND Trip Report

Posted on 02. Nov, 2010 by Mike Fieldhammer.

Spence thinking

I love visiting North Dakota.  It is so much fun to visit old friends and to meet new ones in the Peace Garden State.  It may be the third least populous state, but there are so many great people.  As usual, we hit the famous Monday night 9-Ball tournament at Fargo Billiards & Gastropub on the way back home.

Here are the results from the Twelfth Annual Northern Lights Shootout.

I’ll have links to my photo gallery here later today.  EDIT-  Here are some of the collection of photos from the tournament.

2010 Northern Lights Shootout

9 Ball

1.      Jesse Engel – $1000

2.      Dean Flanders – 500

3.      Stan Tourangeau – 200

4.      Ryan Solleveld – 100

5.      Brent Hanson – 50

6.      Robert Pulver – 50

9 Ball Consolation

1.      Matt Sherman – $100

2.      Mike Fieldhammer – 100

3.      Kyle Opstedal – 40

Women’s

1.      Jeri Bouvette – $250

2.      Rachel Wentz – 150

3.      Lisa Hunt – 100

4.      Val Wilhelmi – 50

8 Ball

1.      Jarrod Spence – $2200

Jesse Engel

2.      Jesse Engel – 1300

Stan eyes the prize

3.      Stan Tourangeau – 900

4.      Felix Beardy – 600

5.      Demetrius Jelatis – 400

6.      Tom Kamanski – 400

7.      Marc Oelslager – 300

8.      Matt Sherman – 300

9.      Josh Burbul – 200

10.  Brent Donahue – 200

11.  Chad Sylvester – 200

12.  Chris Halkyard – 200

13.  Kyle Opstedal – 150

14.  Jeff Clare – 150

15.  Nathan Kleespie – 150

16.  Jon Stitch – 150

17.  Bruce Wheeler – 40

18.  Ryan Solleveld – 40

19.  Mike Frechette – 40

20.  Dave Jeffers – 40

21.  Dean Flanders – 40

22.  Tyler Perry – 40

23.  Carey Hafner – 40

24.  Cam Carter – 40

25.  George Goodburn – 30

26.  Cornell McClean – 30

27.  John Kimble – 30

28.  Richard Urbanik – 30

29.  Bruno Nadeau – 30

30.  Larry Jago – 30

31.  Mike Fieldhammer – 30

32.  Dieter Bonas – 30

8 Ball Consolation

1.      Jim Williams – $100

2.      Ryan Spence – 75

3.      Dan Fisher – 50

4.      Clive Hjon – 40

5.      Joe Cvitko – 10

6.      Ernie Barber – 10

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