Results are in for our 50TH Anniversary Tournaments which were held this past weekend at Jerry's Billiards in Pasadena. These tournaments were handicapped according to the Fargo ranking of the players. This meant that the higher ranked players had to win more games than a lower ranked player, thus creating a "level playing field" for all those competing.  

Our Scotch Doubles event was held Saturday, December 7th and 26 players represented 13 teams.  This was an exciting event and the results were as follows: 

1st Place:   Chris Taganas & Baj Khatao (1,136)

2nd Place:  Lori Perry & Frankie Galvez (809)

3rd Place:  Fabian Martinez & Eduardo LOBO Rangel (1,121)

4th Place:  Matthew Bradbury & Brenden Quigley (976)

These winning teams played great with lots of strategy and communication amongst the partners.  We want to congratulate Chris and Baj for a great first place win.  We also call out the exceptional effort made by team Lori and Frankie taking second and team Matthew and Brenden taking fourth especially because they were ranked in the middle of the pact behind higher ranked teams.  This means that they had to play exceptional pool.  Congratulations to Fabian and Lobo on their third place finish.  

Our Singles event was held on Sunday, December 8th and 41 players competed for seven top spots.   This tournament brought in a range of player levels with the top Fargo ranked player Juan Cajina at 627 and the lowest ranked Fargo player being Tod Davenport at 309.  In fact, there were 18 players ranked above 500; 12 players ranked in the 400s; and 11 players ranked in the 300s.  The winners were as follows:  

1st Place:  Roberto Valenzuela (562)

2nd Place:  DJ Kinne (567)

3rd Place:  RHINO Lay (619)

4th Place:  Yuri Cortes (475)

5th Place:  Lori Perry (411)

6th Place:  Ray Cruz (619)

7th Place:  Jesse CRASH Palomares (501)

Prize money and trophies were provided to those that placed.  Great Job Roberto, Baj and Rhino our top three spots.  

We want to call out the exceptional efforts of Lori Perry who with Partner Frankie Galvez, took second in the Scotch Doubles and fifth in the Singles was quite an accomplishment.  

The tournaments ran smoothly and it was a great day of sportsmanship and competition.  Los Angeles Pool League brass came out to play including Vern Addison, top women's player from the 1980s, 1990s and her nephew Michael.  Pat Bingham also a long time LAPL player also came out to visit.  

We are especially thankful to players who came from Lake Forest, Long Beach, Simi Valley and Palm Springs to play in the singles event.  

Tod Davenport designed and produced our 50th anniversary T-Shirts and Steve Duckman, LAPL President choose the trophies for both tournaments.  Thank you to Jose Torres, Lori Perry, Steve Duckman, Tod Davenport and Jon Bourgault for helping organize the event.  We appreciate the support of Jerry's Billiards and its owner Frank for supporting our league.  Finally, we appreciate Natalie and Elio of Jerry's who were a great help during the event and are always helpful to our league and our members.



Al Ballesteros

Thanks to everyone who attended Greased Lightning and even bigger THANKS to our Fundraising Chair STEVE DUCKMAN and our sponsor bar the EAGLE LA!!

Here are the impressive results:

1st place Arturo Carrillo

2nd place Laurie Jow

3rd place Matthew Bradbury

4th place Brendan Quigley

Welcome to the Los Angeles Pool Leagues Fall 2024 8 ball season. This is our 50th year in existence. We have 9 teams signed up with a promising 10 new players to the League.

Thank you to my fellow Board members and especially our sponsors this season; Frank at Jerry’s Family Billiards, Charlie and Hunter at the Eagle LA, Rick at Brickyard Pubs NoHo & Hollywood and Waldo at Trunks Sports Bar.

The 1st week was a success having all the teams playing at Jerry’s. The whole night was filled with fun conversations around the tables and we managed to get the last matches done well before midnight.


Remember Captains!!! 

Please make sure you fill out your score sheets legibly and if your players are splitting games, note which games by writing there first name in the actual game box. Also, make sure you mark the number of wins next to each players name where designated and send a photo of your score sheet to the statistician at the end of the evening with both Captains signatures at the bottom verifying the scores.

Important!!!! Your team fees and any new player BCA dues are to be paid the 2nd week of play. Venmo is the preferred method. Venmo @Jon-Bourgault.  If you have any question contact our treasurer at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Our fundraiser schedule will be announced next week.

Please mark your calendar!! Tuesday, November 12th is not only our 5th week of play, but from 6:30 - 8pm we will be having our Spring 2024 Awards party at Jerry’s. There will be food, drinks and raffle prizes. Everybody in attendance will receive 1 drink ticket and 5 raffle tickets. Additional raffle tickets will be available for purchase during the party.  Immediately following presentation of trophies and the raffle all teams scheduled to play will begin their matches.  There will also be a table available for the team with the BYE to practice on.

Thank you to all our League members who made the 1st week of play so successful. 

Shoot well. Play fair. Have fun!!!!

Steve ‘Ducky’ Duckman
Los Angeles Pool League
President 


Fall 2024 Schedule