Day 1: Friday, 3/4/22
The sixth event of the 2022/23 Race 4 Eight X season kicked off on Friday afternoon in beautiful Tucson, AZ, with the Race 4 Eight’s best vying for ranking points in the season’s final regular season event before April’s Aces Player’s Championship.
Round of 16: Tucson Dominates!
For the first time this season, four Tucson pros advanced to the quarterfinals in the same event, as third-seeded David Fink (Chapman), fifth-seeded Sam Esser (Ure), seventh-seeded Shorty Ruiz (Langmack), and eighth-seeded Abraham Montijo (Mehilos) were all dominant in two-game sweeps.
Top-seeded Killian Carroll extended his WPH winning streak to 36 matches against the ageless Leo Canales, Sr., second-seeded Lucho Cordova swept David Schiller, fourth-seeded Danos Cordova defeated Loren Collado, and sixth-seeded Leo Canales, Jr. defeated Dylan Hernandez in the evening’s most exciting match.
Round of 16
Carroll def Canales, Sr. 15-4, 15-6
Lucho def Schiller 15-1, 15-1
Fink def J. Chapman 15-2, 15-4
Danos def Collado 15-2, 15-10
Esser def R. Ure 15-10, 15-3
Canales def D. Hernandez 15-12, 15-7
Ruiz def Langmack 15-3, 15-5
Montijo def Mehilos 15-10, 15-2
Watch ESPN App Schedule for Saturday, March 5, all times MST
Saturday, March 5th, 2022:
10:00 Men’s Pro Singles – Killian Carroll (MA) vs Abe Montijo (AZ)
10:45 Men’s Pro Singles – Sam Esser (AZ) vs Daniel Cordova (TX)
11:45 Men’s Pro Singles – Luis Cordova (MEX) vs Shorty Ruiz (AZ)
12:30 Men’s Pro Singles – Dave Fink (AZ) vs Leo Canales Jr (AZ)
13:30 Men’s Pro 5th Place Singles – Semis: Montijo or Carroll vs D. Cordova or Esser
14:15 Men’s Pro 5th Place Singles – Semis: Ruiz or L. Cordova vs Canales or Fink
15:15 Men’s Pro Singles – Semis: Carroll or Montijo vs Esser or D. Cordova
16:15 Men’s Pro Singles – Semis: L. Cordova or Ruiz vs Fink or Canales
Follow the brackets from the 2022 R48 X Stop 6: March Madness & USHA Hall of Fame Tournament HERE
2022 R48 X Stop 6: March Madness Broadcast Schedule HERE
Live Handball starts at 10 am MST on Saturday, March 5
David Fink
WPH Senior Writer