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Could Be Arizona's Best Ever Field with ($15,000.00 PAYOUT)!
Billy Palmer Tops Jeremy Jones At 2007 Desert Dustoff

The 2nd Annual Arizona Desert Dust-Off Bar-Box
10-Ball tournament, with a payout of over
$15,000.00 was played at Alexander's Sports Bar
on February 9th thru 11th, 2007. Billy Palmer,
fresh off his win two weeks ago at the Jay Swanson
Memorial Tournament in Hollywood, California,
came from the one-loss side to defeat Jeremy
Jones in the finals of the Dustoff. No one can
remember, at least for the past decade or two,
an Arizona field as strong as the one at this years
Desert Dust-off. The players came from twelve
different states and two even made the trip to
Alexander's from Canada.

Billy Palmer defeated Jose Parica in the loser bracket finals to advance to the one race to (13)
games finals where he met up with hot seat winner, Jeremy Jones. Billy jumped out to a 10-3 lead
in the finals then waited for his chance to close the match out as "Double J" made his run to close
the gap to 11-9. Billy won the next game to get on the hill (12-9) then won the match and the
tournament when Jeremy called a foul on himself in the next game. With Billy on the hill, Jeremy
attempted a safe but failed to get a ball to a rail. As Billy approached the table, Jeremy informed
him that he had not "got a rail" and Billy had cue ball in hand. Billy took advantage of a ball in
hand 3-10 combo to close out the match and win his second tournament in two weeks. Billy
Palmer collected $5,425.00 for his win. Jose Parica finished in third while Alexander's own Tony
Confalone finished fourth. Arizona's Jimmy Mendoza, with his 7th place finish, was the second
Arizona player to finish in the top eight. Arizona's Chuck Evans and Mitch Ellerman broke the top
ten with their 9th - 12th finish. Other Arizona players in the cash were Mike Williams, Doug Hale,
Ray Robles, Brad Johnson, and Jeremy Nelson who all finished 17th - 24th. Justin Whitehead and
Gus Briseno finished 25th - 32nd. On a special note, Brandon Butler, who can be found practicing
and playing league at Alexander's just about every day or night, also finished in the cash with his
25-32 place finish. Brandon is an eight rated player on the Arizona Ratings list and truly deserves
a special mention when you consider the strength of this 119 player field. Well done Brandon!

Former #1 in the world, Kim Davenport, and Arizona's Scott Frost, did not make the cash.
Congratulations to all the players who did cash, and a special congrats to the Arizona players who
performed so well against a dozen or so of the best players in the world.

1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5/6
5/6
7/8
7/8
9/12
9/12
9/12
9/12
13/16
13/16
13/16
13/16
17/24
17/24
17/24
17/24
17/24
17/24
17/24
17/24
25/32
25/32
25/32
25/32
25/32
25/32
25/32
25/32

BILLY PALMER
JEREMY JONES
JOSE PARICA
TONY CONFALONE
ERNESTO DOMINGUEZ
HENRY NOGIEC
JIMMY MENDOZA
JOSHUA BURBUL
PAUL SONG
MAX EBERLE
CHUCK EVANS
MITCH ELLERMAN
SHANE VAN BOENING
FACH GARCIA
BRIAN PARKS
JIM WEAST
DAMIAN ALISHAN
MIKE WILLIAMS
DOUG HALE
RAY ROBLES
SAL BUTERA
JOEY CHIN
BRAD JOHNSON
JEREMY NELSON
BRANDON BUTLER
BRIAN BREKKE
RICHARD WHITE
GREG ROSENHECK
MARK GRIFFIN
STAN WEISTER
JUSTIN WHITEHEAD
GUS BRISENO

$5425.00
$2860.00
$1460.00
$850.00
$595.00
$595.00
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$225.00
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$225.00
$175.00
$175.00
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$175.00
$125.00
$125.00
$125.00
$125.00
$125.00
$125.00
$125.00
$125.00
$75.00
$75.00
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