She navigated that encounter 8-6, and drew Tzu-Chien Wei in the other winners’ side semifinal.įisher defeated Menard 8-3 and was joined in the hot seat match by Fefilova, who’d sent Tzu-Chien to the loss side 8-4. Margaret Fefilova, in the meantime, got by Kennedy Meyman in the opening round (1), Angela Janic in the second (0) and Janet Atwell (6) before running into a tricky part of her trip by drawing Ouschan in a winners’ side quarterfinal. Fisher survived that to down Yuki Hiraguchi 8-2 and draw Veronique Menard in one of the winners’ side semifinals. It made for a highly competitive series of matches for pretty much everyone involved.įisher’s path went through Leanne Lini (1) and Jaye Succo (3) before she was challenged in a double-hill battle against Bean (Meng-Hsia) Hung.

Also on hand were a number of junior competitors, who continue to flex their young muscles against their older counterparts, like Savannah Easton, Sofia Mast and recently-graduated from junior status Kennedy Meyman. It was a female star-studded event with all of the usual suspects competing for the title, including but not limited to Allison Fisher, Brittany Bryant, Caroline Pao, Kristina Zlateva, Kaylee McIntosh, Kristina Tkach, Janet Atwell and Kyoko Sone. When the dust settled and ranking points had been assigned, the 2023 Soaring Eagle competitors were the top four on the WPBA rankings, although not in the same order Fisher, Ouschan, Tzu-Chien Wei (who finished 4 th) and Fefilova. The $40,000-added event drew a full field of 64 entrants to the Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort in Mount Pleasant, MI. “I love Soaring Eagle!” shouted Ouschan at the conclusion of the weekend, as well she might. That privilege went to Margaret Fefilova, who would go on to face Fisher in the hot seat match and later, face Ouschan for a rematch in the semifinals. This time, it was Fisher waiting in the hot seat for Ouschan, as she completed a five-match, loss-side winning streak that Fisher had not started. This past weekend (July 12-16), Ouschan claimed her fourth, with the steps to final victory working out just a little differently.

Ouschan defeated Fisher a second time in the finals of that event to claim her third Soaring Eagle Masters title. Just shy of a year ago, Jasmin Ouschan was sitting in the hot seat at the WPBA’s 2022 Soaring Eagle Masters event in Michigan, waiting for Kelly Fisher to complete a five-match, loss-side winning streak that had begun when Ouschan sent her over in a winners’ side quarterfinal. WPBA Vice President Daryn Hamilton, Tournament Director Jerry Stuckart, Jasmin Ouschan, Kelly Fisher and WPBA President Dean Roesler

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