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Good luck to our players in the Erie tournament

Good luck to Greg Miller and Anna Voelker in the 2010 Millcreek Giant Round Robin in Erie, PA today.

This will be the first sanctioned tournament for both players.

Good luck and have fun.  Let us know how it goes.

New ratings after the Millcreek Open have been processed

Our club members new ratings are as follows:

Chris Bailey – down 3 points to 1657
Dan Barnes – down 30 points to 1173
Chris Malis – down 13 points to 1529

Receiving his first USATT rating is:
Evan Gould – initial ratings of 999

Welcome to the real world of pong, Evan.

Reaching new highs in their rating history are:

John Scarnato – up 116 points to 1275 after being rerated upwards
Kyle Barnes – up 45 points to 426

Congrats to John and Kyle on soaring to new heights.

The official 2009 Millcreek Open recap

I’m copying Sam’s recap below, but you can read it and view some pics at the Erie Table Tennis site.

Butler Table Tennis Club members are highlighted in red.

2009 MILLCREEK OPEN
TABLE TENNIS TOURNAMENT

October 24-25 in Erie PA

By Sam Steiner

Word is evidently getting out about the Erie tournaments.  A roster of 165 players signed up for this 18^th annual event, another record, and about 20 more were turned away much to their disappointment.  The addition of several tables in low-rent areas of the building allowed us to keep within a half hour or so of schedule.

Most notable of Saturday’s events was a thrilling Junior Under 17 final match between two newcomers to U.S. table tennis: Tim Van Gerwen, an exchange student from Germany living in South Bend, and Zexuan Wang, a Chinese player from Toronto.  Tim brought in a rating of 2361 recently earned at his first two U.S. tournaments, while Zexuan was unrated in the U.S. but rated 2329 based on his record in Canadian tournaments.  These two talented topspinners fought a close, exciting final match with Wang winning the Junior title 3-2.

On Sunday, 13 round robin groups led to a single elimination playoff for the final four round robin.  Some noteworthy matches here were Van Gerwen over Randy Seemiller in a long tough 4-3 match, and John Wetzler over Zexuan Wang 4-0.  Joining these winners in the semi’s were perennial power Dan Seemiller, still rated over 2500 at age 50+, and Dan’s current protégé Joe Cochran.  In the RR finals it was Dan without losing a game, with Cochran gamely battling his coach but settling for 2^nd.  The best match here was Van Gerwen pulling past a tiring Wetzler 4-2 for 4^th place.  Cochran did rule the very competitive U2400 event losing only one game to Wang along the way.

Thanks to sponsors Butterflyonline.com, Glass House Inn, and Millcreek Rec & Parks, and to the Erie tournament committee members for many long hours of labor to bring it all together.

Results:

U900

Semi’s:  Hasan Soliman d. Bill Stewart 3-2             Jeremy Bernard d. Bill Miller 3-1
Finals:  Bernard d. Soliman 3-2

U1600

Semi’s:  Karl Ostermann d. Dustin Zemaitis 3-2            Tundi Balogh d. Cameron Siou 3-0
Finals:  Balogh d. Ostermann 3-1

U1800

Semi’s:  Henry Chau d. Adrian Molina 3-1      Juraj Vlahovic d. Dave French 3-1
Finals:  Chau d. Vlahovic 3-1

U1100

Semi’s:  Kyler Posey d. Bill Miller 3-0       David Sommers d. Rick Stuyvesant 3-0
Finals:  Posey d. Sommers 3-0

U2000

Semi’s:  Alex Meleshenko d. Richard Chan 3-1       Wayne Carney d. Dalibor Stojcic 3-0
Finals:  Meleshenko d. Carney 3-1

U1300

Semi’s:  John Scarnato d. Kirk Loomis 3-2         Boris Shtarkman d. J.D. Wagner 3-2
Finals:  Scarnato d. Shtarkman 3-0

Senior O40

Semi’s:  Dan Seemiller d. Philip Poon 3-0           John Wetzler d. Andrew Anderson 3-2
Finals:  Seemiller & Wetzler split

3400 Doubles

Semi’s:  A. Maronian/Sanzotta Sr d. Ling/Chan 3-0      Balderas/K. Pinili d. Bailey/Malis 3-0
Finals:  Balderas/Pinili d. Maronian/Sanzotta 3-0

Open Warmup

1.  Dan Seemiller                  2.  Desmond Preston
1.  Joe Cochran                     2.  Hossein Sharifi
1.  John Wetzler                     2.  Philip Poon
1.  Tim Van Gerwen              2.  Tom Yost
1.  Zexuan Wang                   2.  Dan Seemiller Jr.

U2400

Semi’s:  Joe Cochran d. Zexuan Wang 3-1            Tim Van Gerwen d. John Wetzler 3-0
Finals:  Cochran d. Van Gerwen 3-0

U1450

Semi’s:  John Ernisse d. Dan Cochran 3-1             Cameron Siou d. Berl Stein 3-1
Siou d. Ernisse 3-2

Open

Dan Seemiller d. Mike Walk 4-0
Tim Van Gerwen d. Randy Seemiller 4-3
John Wetzler d. Zexuan Wang 4-0
Joe Cochran d. Andrew Anderson 4-0

RR Finals:

1.  Dan Seemiller 3-0, d. Cochran 4-0; d. Van Gerwen 4-0; d. Wetzler 4-0
2.  Joe Cochran 2-1, d. Van Gerwen 4-1; d. Wetzler 4-0
3.  Tim Van Gerwen 1-2, d. Wetzler4-2
4.  John Wetzler 0-3

Junior U14

1.  Kieran Pinili 4-0 d. Chau 3-1; d. Daoud 3-0; d. Barnes 3-2; d. Wawrzaszek 3-1
2.  Sabrina Daoud 3-1, d. Wawrzaszek 3-0; d. Chau n.s.
3.  Kyle Barnes 2-2 d. Wawrzaszek 3-1; d. Chau n.s.
4.  Zach Wawrzaszek 1-3, d. Chau n.s.
5.  Gordon Chau 0-4

Senior Esquire

1.  Hossein Sharifi 2-0, d. Sandy Chu 3-1; d. Gary Martin 3-0
2.  Gary Martin 1-1, d. Sandy Chu 3-0
3.  Sandu Chu 0-2

U2200

Semi’s:  Andrew Anderson d. Tom Yost 3-2               Dan Seemiller Jr. d. Tak Cheong Yip 3-0
Finals:  Anderson d. Seemiller 3-2

Hardbat

Semis’:  Ken Pinili d. Bill McLaughlin 16, -16, 14    Gary Martin d. Guy McLean 19, 15
Finals:  Pinili d. Martin 14, 13

2800 Doubles

Semi’s:  Pinili/Pinili d. Barnes/Malis 3-0       Wang/S. Daoud d. Scarnato/Ostermann 3-1
Finals:  Wang/Daoud d. Pinili/Pinili 3-2

U1750

Semi’s:  Jim Huang d. Richard Roman 3-2               Karl Ostermann d. Jim Spetsios 3-0
Finals:  Huang d. Ostermann 3-0

U700

0.  Evan Gould 4-0, but unrated
1.  Kyle Barnes 3-1, d. Pinili 3-2; d. Wawrzaszek 3-0; d. Joyce 3-0
2.  Kieran Pinili 2-2, d. Wawrzaszek 3-2; d. Joyce 3-2
3.  Carol Joyce 1-3, d. Wawrzaszek 3-0
4.  Zach Wawrzaszek 0-4

Quick recap of the 2009 Millcreek Open

While we wait for tournament director Sam Steiner’s official tournament summary, I thought I would post a quick recap of the results of our Butler Table Tennis Club members at the 2009 Millcreek Open played on October 24-25.

Newcomer Evan Gould gained his first tournament experience and realized that the weekly beatings he receives at the Butler club are actually an integral part of improving his game.

Dan Barnes attended.

John Scarnato mercilessly pummeled opponents in the U-1300 Division enroute to winning the top prize.

As a myriad of kills shots caromed off the table and crashed into his victims welt-ridden bodies, the vanquished could only wonder why each painful body blow was followed by screams of “That’s for stealing my stuff, mother#@%$!$#%!”

When the carnage was over, Mr. Scarnato cheerfully accepted this:

John Scarnato's U-1300 Trophy

Congratulations John.

I believe Kyle Barnes won the U-700 event but need to verify that. Good job Kyle.

Chris Bailey did not lose to anybody rated below him and did not beat anybody rated above him.

Emulating the worlds largest yo-yo, he burned off 3 boxes of Ho Hos while being jerked from side to side in suffering two separate agonizing 5 game losses to a couple of friendly Chinese Canadian players with a combined 145 years of life experience.  Chris still loves Ho Hos.

Ho Hos

Several times during each match, Chris swore he heard his opponents chuckling the phrase “run fat boy, run”.

In a more pleasant turn of events, Chris’s maniacal rantings and threats of horrific violence if he didn’t win a damn door prize at this years Millcreek Open were snuffed out when he won this lovely gift:

HP J4580

This made Chris very happy.

And finally we come to El Presidente, Chris “Gandhi” Malis.

Mr. Malis has apparently switched to a brand of table tennis we will henceforth refer to as “pacifist pong”.

When questioned by his exasperated 3400 doubles partner as to why he refused to put away high balls, Chris would only reply “I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.”

When questioned about several losses to obviously inferior opponents, he muttered “It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.”

We wish Chris the best of luck in his quest to be at peace with the universe.