National Shootout: Dominguez beats Cousins 5-4
Oscar Dominguez defeated Tom Cousins 5-4 in Wednesday's final at Harrah's Cherokee to take the Shootout title.
CHEROKEE, N.C. — Oscar Dominguez beat Tom Cousins 5-4 in Wednesday night's final of the National Shootout at the Ultimate Pool USA Grand Finals, wrapping up at about 11:02 p.m. ET, closing out the week's showcase invitational on the TV Arena table at Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort.
Dominguez reached the final by beating Joven Bustamante 6-3, then Declan Brennan 5-3. Cousins had reached it by beating Shane Van Boening 6-3, then Craig Waddingham 6-3.
Earlier in the evening, Craig Waddingham beat Chris Melling 8-2 and Declan Brennan beat Joe Prince 6-3 in the remaining quarter-finals.
The 32-player invitational played out its last three rounds on Wednesday — the last 16 in the morning, quarter-finals in the evening session and the semi-finals and final under lights — all on the single streamed table under the league's 30-minute match clock, with level scores settled by the six-ball shootout tiebreak.
Why it matters: The Shootout is the Grand Finals' headline men's invitational — 32 of the league's best-known names in a one-table knockout — and the second title settled in Cherokee this week after Margaret Fefilova-Styer won the women's edition on Monday. BilliardNews' Shootout coverage.
Result via the official DigitalPool bracket, confirmed by Inside Spin's live results page; the Shootout purse has not been published.
