Pool sharks and novice pool players alike are invited to join the local BCA Pool league for the 2014/15 season.
Monday, September 15 at 7:45 p.m. is the start up meeting for the pool league at Sandstone Lanes.
Ralph Veenhuis, League Operator for BCA Pool leagues in Drumheller and Olds area, said the meeting is for all team captains, and anyone else interested in the league is welcome to attend.
The first games for the BCA Pool League are scheduled Tuesday, September 23.
The pool is 8-ball format with BCA rules, with teams consisting of four players and up to six spares.
And Veenhuis said although the league has some highly skilled players, the league is for everybody.
“The league is not designed to cater just to high end players, even though we have lots of good teams. It’s designed so everybody has a chance to win. Last year, teams in the lower third of the league, two of them won trips to Vegas out of the draw.”
The prizes are awarded at the league’s year end tournament, which in the past two years has been held up at the Stampede Barn.
East Coulee, Morrin and Carbon teams are included in the Drumheller league, which last year hosted 26 teams.
“It’s a night out to have fun, it’s a fairly inexpensive evening to go out and play pool with the league, and you meet lots of new friends, lots of new people,” said Veenhuis. “And there’s just an amazing amount of prizing at the year end tournament.”
Veenhuis has been running the league for about eight years now, and said that they had to add two tables last year at Sandstone Lanes to accommodate all the pool teams.
He wants players to know that the former Vintage pub, which is presently closed, will be re-opening with a new name under the original management to host pool teams again this year.
Players pay $15 per game, which goes to league operations, but the majority of the fees go to the year-end tournament prizes, said Veenhuis.
For more information on Tuesday’s BCA Pool League, call Ralph Veenhuis at 403-334-0007.
