The Bil­liards Sports Or­gan­i­sa­tion of T&T's (BSOTT) Na­tion­al Pool League (NPL) 8 Ball com­pe­ti­tion con­tin­ues to de­liv­er some in­ter­est­ing re­sults. For the sec­ond week in a row, ‘D’ Un­der­dawgs de­fied the odds to de­feat one of the top teams in the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion of the NPL.

On Wednes­day, the sixth-place Un­der­dawgs vis­it­ed Ken­ny’s Sports Bar in Ch­agua­nas to take on the sec­ond-placed Check Side and came away with a 4-1 win. This fol­lows their 3-2 de­feat of Gold­en Arch­es Ti­tans in the pre­vi­ous round.

The vis­i­tors got off to a win­ning start when Ryan Ram­roop won a hard-fought en­counter 3-2 over vet­er­an Alvin Daniel. The see-saw bat­tle saw Ram­roop win the first, third and fifth frames. Un­der­dawgs’ cap­tain Fi­del Mo­hammed fol­lowed with a sim­i­lar 1,3,5 vic­to­ry over Damien Bis­nath. The dou­bles game was next with Lyn­don Ramkissoon and An­drew Ma­haraj tak­ing on the home pair of Va­sude­va ‘Bun­ny’ Siewsankar and Ravi Goorah.

The Bun­ny/Goorah com­bi­na­tion took the first frame but that was their on­ly suc­cess as they lost the next three, which ef­fec­tive­ly cost them the match. Alvin Dalips­ingh made it four games in a row for the ‘Dawgs’ as he came back from a first frame loss to beat Ja­son Khan 3-1 and in the fi­nal game of the night, Roop­nar­ine Latch­man pulled a game back for the hosts and avoid­ed a white­wash by beat­ing An­dre Durham three frames to two.

De­spite the win, ‘D’ Un­der­dawgs re­main in sixth spot with five wins and sev­en loss­es, while Check Side move back down one spot in­to third.

Gold­en Arch­es Ti­tans, af­ter one week, are back up to sec­ond spot af­ter de­mol­ish­ing Pool­hulics Krew A 5-nil at Gold­en Arch­es II in Curepe. The Ti­tans have a record of eight wins and four loss­es while Pool­hulics A are sev­enth on the ta­ble with just three wins from twelve games.

Nu­bian Kings and Cen­tral Stars are fourth and fifth re­spec­tive­ly, both with sev­en wins and five loss­es, the same as Check Side. The ‘Kings’ and the ‘Stars’ met at Mr. Bil­liards Place in Aranguez and the ‘Stars’ pre­vailed 3-2.

The ta­ble-top­ping Unit­ed Stars, mean­while, have now won eight match­es in a row, their most re­cent, a 3-2 re­sult over the cel­lar-placed Liq­uida­torz at Club Fete in Gas­par­il­lo. The Liq­uida­torz have just one win in twelve match­es so far and have now lost ten on the trot.

NPL First Di­vi­sion News: In a match played on Thurs­day, Check Side 1 hand­ed One Zee’s Shoot­ing Stars on­ly their sec­ond loss of the sea­son. The Ken­ny’s based Check Side 1 host­ed the ta­ble-top­pers and de­fend­ed their home turf with a clin­i­cal four games to one win. The first di­vi­sion ‘Stars’ were in the midst of a nine-game win­ning streak. Check Side 1 moves back in­to sec­ond on the stand­ings with nine wins and three loss­es, the same as third placed Sicar­ios. Sicar­ios spent one day back in sec­ond af­ter beat­ing Sharp­shoot­ers BT 3-2 on Wednes­day.

An­oth­er Thurs­day en­counter saw Rox­bury Sports Bar beat Dekko All Stars 5-0. With the win, Rox­bury is fourth on the stand­ings with eight wins and four loss­es. The Ari­ma-based Sharp­shoot­ers are fifth af­ter some mixed re­sults over the past week.

In a resched­uled round 11 match on Mon­day, Sharp­shoot­ers swept to a 5-nil win over Triple Bee’s at Ram­baran’s Bar in Ari­ma but fell in their Wednes­day fix­ture at Es­co Bar. Sharp­shoot­ers now boast a record of sev­en wins and five loss­es, the same win/loss record as Crazy 8. Crazy 8, who are sixth on the ta­ble, were 4-1 win­ners over bot­tom of the ta­ble Jer­ry Junc­tion on Tues­day.

Pool­hulics Krew B, who oc­cu­py 11th spot, reg­is­tered their sec­ond win in twelve match­es when they beat sev­enth-placed Scotchie’s Deton8tors 4-1. The on­ly out­stand­ing round 12 match is be­tween the tenth-placed An­ni­hi­la­tors and eighth-placed Triple Bee’s. That match was sched­uled for Sun­day at Club Fete in Gas­par­il­lo.

Round 13 fix­tures

Tues­day

First Di­vi­sion

Pool­hulics Krew B vs The An­ni­hi­la­tors, Mr. Bil­liards Place, Aranguez

Jer­ry Junc­tion vs Rox­bury Sports Bar, Jer­ry Junc­tion, Cara­pichaima

One Zee's Shoot­ing Stars vs Sicar­ios, Club Fete, Gas­par­il­lo

Scothchie's Deton8ers vs Crazy 8, Scotchie's Bar, Ari­ma

Triple Bee's vs Check­side 1, Club Fete, Gas­par­il­lo

Dekko All Stars vs Sharp­shoot­ers BT, Dekko Pub, Princes Town

Wednes­day

Pre­mier Di­vi­sion

Cen­tral Stars vs Gold­en Arch­es Ti­tans, Ken­ny's Sports Bar, Ch­agua­nas

Unit­ed Stars vs The Nu­bian Kings, Board­room Lounge, Debe

'D' Un­der­dawgs vs Liq­uida­torz, Spar Bar and Lounge, Re­form Vil­lage

Pool­hulics Krew A vs Check­side, Gold­en Arch­es II, Curepe