Senior Center Billiards Championship

Team Pirates won the 2019 Spring-Summer League Billiards Championship on September 16th during the tournament held at the James E. Kinney Senior Center.

The Pirates were captained by Jim Diviny and beat the Phillies captained by Larry Lukas in the final best of three round winning 2-1.

League Commissioner Pete Palestina said the regular season league play started on April 22nd and concluded September 16th after 75 games were played by each team prior to the playoffs for the championship. A total of 6 teams made up the league with 3 to 4 players assigned to each team.

Shown in the 3 person photo are Pirates team members (l-R) Jerry Nisenfeld, Team Captain Jim Diviny and Mike Mulkeen. In the Collage are several players who participated in the tournament.

The upcoming Fall-Winter league will be larger than ever with 12 teams and will begin play on September 23rd. The league plays on Mondays unless there is a holiday closing in which case the games that week will be played on a Tuesday.

A video clip can be found at

https://youtu.be/Vzcl0nOId2s