This weekend Mezz Cues Baltic Pool League was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, and the game on the table was 9-Ball. The venue for the preliminary rounds of the event was Billiard Club Undine and for the first time in the history of Baltic Pool League the finals were held in a beautiful PC MEGA shopping mall. Anna Prisjaznuka made two out of three in this years competition as Pijus Labutis got his first stage win.

Labutis in top form

Mens division was dominated by local players as half of the last eight were Lithuanians. The winner of the stage was Lithuanian Pijus Labutis who in the semi final got a good resistance from Estonian Joonas Saska when the match ended 8:6. Belorus Vadim Papish denied an all Lithuanian final when he was better of Domas Mineikis (LIT) 8:5. However Papish was unable to keep up with Labutis as the latter won 8:3. 
After the third event mens division is lead by Joonas Saska.

Prisjaznuka two out of three

Lithuanian oldboys and women made it even better than men. There was an incredible six players from Lithuania in the last eight, but the winner came from Latvia. The last stage winner Anna Prisjaznuka kept her nerve and secured her second stage win in the row which makes in this years event two out of three. It was a perfect final as overall ranking first two battled out the best player of the day. As said Prisjaznuka was better, but Agne Jarusauskaite (LIT) did not go down easily as the final score was 8:6. Prior to the thrilling final both of the finalist got comfortable wins in their semi finals. Prisjaznuka won 7:1 over Darius Bacinckas and Jarusauskaite over Diana Tracevic both of whom were from Lithuania. Regardless of the loss in the final Jarusauskaite still holds the number one spot in the overall ranking by one point.

New venue for the Mezz Cues Baltic Pool League

This time it was for the first time that Mezz Cues Baltic Pool League got out of the pool hall and got more attention and spectators from people outside pool. As previously said the final was held in PC MEGA shopping mall and looking at the spectators number it was a huge success and good advertising not only for the Mezz Cues Baltic Pool League, but to the pool sport.

There were in total of 84 players from Belorus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Norway participaing this weekend. Big thank you goes out to all the athletes, fans, Undine Pool Club, PC MEGA shopping mall and all the volunteers that made another great event possible. Naturally a special gratitude to all the sponsors - Mezz Cues, Aramith, Biljardai, Kamui, Aveiras, True Tight Rack, Entry, Baribal Pool Club, Undine, Bams Pool House and East European Billard Council.

For more information about the event, players, sponsors and all other related information and to sign up for the next event please visit our webpage http://balticpoolleague.eu/ and https://www.facebook.com/balticpoolleague