Beausejour Lions Club 8-ball Tournament

03/02/2020

Here's your winners! The 2020 Beausejour Lions Club 8-ball champion is Mike Orvis! Mike won the plaque and $375! And he defended his title as the 2019 champ as well! Way to go Mike!!
The ladies champion is Tracy Ewonchuk! She won the plaque and $100!!
Here are the results:
1: Mike Orvis of Pinawa (and also a member of the Beausejour Pool League) $375
2: Tim Sinclair of Winnipeg $200
3 & 4: Cory Parenteau of Winnipeg and Rommel Helgas of Steinbach $90 each
5 to 8: Dave Rempal (Transcona), Sonny Courchene (Winnipeg), Darren Kehler (Steinbach, member of the Beausejour Pool League), Trent Russell (Hadashville, member of the BPL) $30 each
9 to 16: Mike McNaughton (Beausejour and President of the BPL), Alex Mallet (Kenora, ON), Will Anderson (Winnipeg), Gerard MacIsaac (Dryden, ON), Harley Porth (Winnipeg), Mark Ewonchuk (Beausejour, BPL player), Mike Kornelson (Steinbach, BPL player) and Dave Twist (Ste. Rita, BPL player)
As for the ladies:
1: Tracy Ewonchuk of Beausejour $100
2: Tammy Wenzoski of Beausejour (former BPL player) $50
3 & 4: Joaline Labossiere (Ste. Rita, BPL player), Helen Medwedew (Beausejour, former BPL player) $25 each
5 to 8: Jenn Martin (Beausejour, BPL player), Kelly Brinkworth (Ste. Anne, BPL player), Tina Cooper (Beausejour) and Robyn Friesen (Beausejour)
Thanks to all of the 47 entrants for playing! Great people, great times!
As for the Beausejour Lions Club: I am very proud to announce that we raised $2,407 towards power stretchers for our Beausejour paramedics!! We had silent auction, 50/50's, meat draws and several personal donations.
Thanks to Aactive Pool League for the donation of their tables, to Blue Haze BBQ for 2 x $25 gc's for 8-ball breaks, Molson's for $250 sponsorship and to all of the others for the generous donations of prizes!

03/01/2020

Last chance for the silent auction! The draws will be around 3pm. Come to the Beausejour Hotel / BJ's Bar and support your local Beausejour Lions Club's volunteers! The money raised will go towards purchasing a power stretcher for our local paramedics! Doors open at noon, come buy tickets! You don't have to be here to win. "Where Friends Meet Friends" & support!

02/29/2020

MEAT DRAWS! 50/50 draws! Support your Beausejour Lions Club!
There will be meat draws this afternoon at the Beausejour Hotel / BJ's Bar starting around 2pm in support of the Beausejour Lions Club! There will also be 50/50 draws throughout the day and evening! AND you can enter to win a silent auction prize! You don't have to be here to win! (draws will be tomorrow afternoon with the unclaimed tickets put on the Beausejour Hotel / BJ's Bar page)

02/25/2020

This weekend!! Only $30! There is also a ladies' tourny! Sign up now, we still have 20 open spots!

02/19/2020

We're excited to announce that the 8-ball Break prize has been donated by Blue Haze BBQ! Get a clean 8-ball off the break during the tournament and get a $25 gift certificate! We have 2 of them, thank you Blue Haze BBQ! (8 ball must go in clean during the break: all others must stay on the table)

02/10/2020

We are excited to announce that Molson Breweries has stepped up and will sponsor ALL 4 of the brackets! There will be special prices for Coors Light, Coors Original (formerly known as Banquet), Molson Ultra and Molson Canadian!

01/23/2020

The Beausejour Hotel / BJ's Bar is proud to host the 3rd annual Beausejour Lions Club 8-ball singles tournament!
We are accepting the first 52 paid intrants this year. The entry fee is $30 with $25 going to the prize fund and $5 to the Lions charities. 4 brackets of 13 for round robin, with playoffs for the finals - guaranteed 12 games based on a full field.
Cash prizes for top player AND TOP FEMALE (based on minimum 8 female entries). There will be 50/50 draws throughout, and silent auction prizes, as well as an 8-ball break prize! The total prize pot is $1300 (with a full field of 52 players).
The tournament schedule is as follows: Friday, 7pm to midnight; Saturday, 12 noon to midnight; and Sunday, from 1pm to completion.
The rules are “Ball in Hand”, a.k.a. league rules. Must be 18+ to enter. Any questions or concerns? Message this page, e-mail [email protected] or call the Beausejour Hotel at 204-268-2495.
Entries fees can be paid in person at BJ's Bar ("Where Friends Meet Friends"), or e-transfer to [email protected]. Must be paid to be entered.

01/23/2020

01/20/2020

The Beausejour Lions Club, in conjunction with the Beausejour Hotel / BJ’s Bar, will be putting on the 3rd annual Beausejour Lions Club 8-Ball Pool Tournament to help raise funds Beausejour Lions Club's local charities on the weekend of Feb 28 to March 1. The tournament will run from 7pm to midnight on Friday; 12 noon to midnight on Saturday; and from 1pm to completion on Sunday.
Last year we had a full field of 52 participants (4 round-robin brackets of 13 people each). It is be open to anybody 18 years of age or older, however it will be presented to local competitors and Beausejour Pool League players prior to advertising in Winnipeg, so that the locals have more opportunity to make plans to enter. Premier players of the province will only be able to enter on February 18, if it isn’t already full. They will be allowed to join a waiting list for a $5 non-refundable deposit (the $5 deposit will go to the Lions charity if the tournament is full and they don’t play). No-shows for the tournament will be replaced by the first person on the waiting list.
The entry fee for each player will be $30. $25 of which will go into to the prize fund and $5 will go to the charity. The entry fee will have $25 refundable up to the end of the Monday prior to the tournament.
We will have several 50/50 draws throughout the weekend (every 3 hours or so) + a silent auction to create more funds for the Lions.
We are asking the local businesses for donations of prizes or cash. There are several ways to do this.
The 4 brackets can be individually sponsored for $50 each. These funds will go to the charity in full. Each bracket will have its own name. Each sponsor will be mentioned several times throughout the weekend.
We would also like to have an 8-ball break jackpot of $50. This would be given to a player who sinks an 8 of the break cleanly (all other pool balls must stay on the table). If this prize does not get claimed, it will go to the charity. If there is more than one donation for the 8-ball break jackpot, we can have more than one winner.
If anybody has any trophies or plaques to donate, it would be appreciated as well. We will give trophies to the top player and top female, plus we have a plaque to put the names of the winners.

02/25/2019

My sincere apologies if I missed anybody!

02/25/2019

Well it's another tournament done! We're very proud to announce that we have raised $2,212 for the Beausejour Lions Club's local charities! Thank you to all of the players and their friends, the volunteers, all the people that chipped in to help run the tournament, the Beausejour Hotel patrons and the hard-working staff of BJ's Bar as well!

Another thanks to all of the players!! A full field of 52 players, almost 700 games were played on 3 tables. ZERO problems with the games were reported! You should all be very proud of yourselves for the sportsmanship and patience that you showed!

As for the winners!:
Congrats to ladies champion Lisa Hunt from Lorette! She takes home the trophy + $100! Her name will also be put on the Beausejour Lions Club plaque on the wall at BJ's Bar.
2nd is Tracey Bernhard from West St. Paul, she got $50
Tied for 3rd ($25 each) Tracy Purcell from Tyndall & Amy Denise of Winnipeg. Both are players in the Beausejour Pool League!
5th to 8th: Tracy Purcell (Tyndall, Beausejour Pool League), Geri-Lynn Mekish (East Selkirk), Kelly Brinkworth (Pine Falls, BPL) and Tracy Ewonchuk (Beausejour).
We're very proud to have the ladies tournament with a strong turnout (12 ladies!). See you next year!

As for the open championship: Congrats to Mike Orvis from Pinawa!! Mike got the trophy plus $400, and his name on the plaque. Mike is also a member of the Beausejour Pool League.
2nd is Cory Parenteau from Winnipeg (and a former BPL player). Cory received $200.
Tied for 3rd ($100 each): Darren Kehler (Steinbach) and Trent Russell (Elma, BPL)
Tied for 5th ($25 each): Mike McNaughton (Beausejour & president of the Beausejour Pool League, thank you Mike!), Kyle Jones (Ste. Anne, BPL), Dave Twist (Ste. Rita, BPL) and Harley Porth (Winnipeg)
Tied for 9th: Jason McNish (Transcona, formerly of the BPL), Jay Wolfe (Transcona), Darcy Debaets (Beausejour & BPL), Adonis Santiago (Steinbach), Steve Sestak (Lorette, BPL), Shawn Quinsey (West St. Paul), Doug McEwan (Selkirk/Petersfield), and Will Armstrong (Winnipeg)

The bracket winners ($25 each) were Harley Porth and Amy Denise (Original 16 bracket), Mike McNaughton and Kelly Brinkworth (Budweiser), Cory Parenteau and Tracey Bernhard (Mike's Hard Lemonade) and Steve Sestak & Lisa Hunt (Molson Canadian)

Perry Van Damme of Lorette had a clean 8-ball break & won a $25 gift certificate for Big Fellas' Restaurant here in Beausejour! Thank you Big Fellas' Restaurant!

The total prize pot was $1300, including $300 for the ladies.

The 52 players came from all over Eastern Manitoba, including Pinawa, Elma, Ste. Rita, Steinbach, Anola, Tyndall, West St. Paul, Pine Falls, Petersfield, Selkirk, Ste. Anne, Lorette, La Salle, Winnipeg and of course Beausejour!

Congrats to the 50/50 winners (5 winners), and the silent auction winners! There was a lot of fantastic prizes! A special thanks to Dave Twist for donating a Poison jump cue, congrats to the winner of that as well! Whoever it is!! It's still unclaimed! If you have yellow ticket #802110 you won the jump cue. If you have this ticket, please PM me to make arrangements to pick it up. You have until Monday, March 4th to pick up your prize or else it gets donated to the Beausejour Pool League's year-end playoff prizes.

Thanks to the Aactive Pool League for generously waiving the green fees so that they could be donated to the Beausejour Lions Club!

The 3rd annual Beausejour Lions Club 8-ball Tournament will be the last weekend of February, 2020 again at the Beausejour Hotel / BJ's Bar - "Where Friends Meet Friends"!