Inter Novela Pool KO last 8 draw
MBABANE – It’s a Christmas tournament in that the team to win the E4 000 grand prize will certainly have a merry one.
Winning clubs usually share a certain portion of their prize monies as pool clubs consist of an average eight players.
Exactly eight clubs remain after the tournament kicked off last weekend at the Mbabane Theatre Club with the eliminations stage. It is all coming to an end tomorrow at the same venue with giant clubs still in it for the main prize.
While the remaining giant teams, mainly from the Manzini Regional Pool Association (MRPA), which is no surprise as the dominant region in the sport countrywide, avoided each other, Royal Eswatini Police Service
Way Inn Correctional MPC
REPS vs MPC Masters vs Malkerns vs Martins vs Bel-Air/Shooting Stars
(NB: Bel-Air and Shooting Stars at 6pm today)
PAST WEEKEND’S LAST 16 RESULTS:
13 – 12 Funtown
13 – 9 Stairs
13 – 5 Ntontozi
13 – 8 Bhunya
Malkerns MPC Martins REPS
(REPS), who are not good with knockouts despite reaching the final stage, may not be so lucky.
Tough
They will face either the toughas-nails Bel-Air from the Hhohho Regional Pool Association (HRPA). Bel-Air still a hurdle to deal with in Shooting Stars at 6pm today to produce REPS’ rivals tomorrow.
Usual knockout specialists
Way Inn, who boast champion of champions Zweli ‘Siziba’ Dlamini and BOAB National Championship Play-offs Last 16 finisher Xolani Mbingo, have a date with MRPA fellow rivals, Manzini Pool Club (MPC) Masters while Correctional Services, who have the country’s once-ranked pool star Flag Nxumalo, take on Malkerns who also play in same league as them under MRPA while MPC take on Martins from Ezulwini.
The latter ply their trade under the Hhohho Regional Pool Association (HRPA) league in the Mbabane Zone. The second prize here is E2 000, third and fourth prizes is E1 000. It will also not be a dry spell for teams placed fifth to eighth as they will each receive E500 which shows a E300 gain from the E200 registration fee. Games are expected to start as early 10am as the semi-finals and finals will also be played tomorrow.