Dan Louie of Seattle won the sixth annual Washington State Eight-Ball Championship on Sunday at Shotze’s Rack-N-Roll in Everett.
Louie, a former nine-ball national pool champion, defeated Richard Gieler of Seattle 7-2 in Sunday’s final. Louie earned $1,050. Gieler took home $650.
Rounding out the top four were James Davee of Seattle and Eddie Mataya of Federal Way.
Defending champion Mike Zimmerman of Renton tied for fifth with Canadian Jim Masterman.
Linda Carter of Renton was the top placer among the women, although she did not crack the top 16.
Rowing
Everett youth raises $500 for charity: Miles Kendall of Everett helped 300 rowers, kayakers and paddlers raise more than $31,000 for the fight against breast cancer Sunday at the Row for the Cure Regatta on Lake Union in Seattle.
Kendall, a 7-year-old student at James Monroe Elementary School in Everett, raised $500 to support a teacher at his school who was diagnosed with breast cancer in June. The second-grader paddled in the outrigger canoe demonstration with the Hui Wa Ao O Outrigger Canoe Club of Puget Sound.
In the rowing events, Bryan Volpenhein, a gold medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympics, helped the University of Washington alumni eight win the 3,500-meter men’s master event.
Two Tulalip Tribes canoes rowing in unison, the Big Brother and the Little Sister, won the tribal canoes event.
Since Portland, Ore., played host to the first Row for the Cure in 1994, the regatta has grown to include events in Seattle, Philadelphia, and Dayton, Ohio, and has raised more than $336,000 for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
Equestrian
Lynnwood woman nationally ranked: Stephanie Granger of Lynnwood and her horse Smoothe Domingo are third in two categories in the Pinto Horse Association of American rankings released Sept. 15.
Granger is ranked No. 3 in the Trail Junior Amateur and the English Equitation categories. Granger and Smoothe Domingo also are fourth in the High Points, Junior Amateur Challenge and Western Riding categories.
Granger, a 2004 Kamiak High School graduate, won three world titles and one reserve title at the Pinto Horse Championship Show held June 14-23 in Tulsa, Okla.
Granger rode Justa EZ Rider to first-place finishes in the Trail Senior Horse (6 years and older), Junior Amateur Trail and Western Riding categories. She won the reserve title in the Junior Amateur Western Discipline category riding Smoothe Domingo.
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