Pictured Is: Kayla Price Getting Her Girl Bowler of the Year Award from Kristi Smith-Thompson. Photo By Karol Przybytek.
Mesa Metro Annual Meeting Notes.
Mesa - - - On Sunday May 5, the Mesa Metropolitan Association held its annual meeting at Mesa East. 12 board members, and 21 bowlers attended the meeting for a voting strength of 33. 25 was needed to have a quarum.
Current president Mark Wojtusiak was reelected Association President for another three-year term, by voice acclamation. Current board member Tom Wollert was also reelected to the board as a director, by voice acclamation.
Congratulations to the junior bowlers who were named this years Boy&Girl Bowlers of the Year. In the 11 & under age group, Cain Price and Olivia Gee were the award winners. And in the 12 & older age group. Asher Toberer and Kayla Price were the recipients. Cain and Kayla are the second brother and sister act to be Boy&Girls Bowlers of the Year. Ryan and Isabel Doyle were the first.
No one was elected into the Mesa Metro Hall of Fame this year. Trophies were handed out to tournament champions.
During the 2023-24 season MMA bowlers racked up 5,940 awards. Of those, 125 adult 300 games were awarded, as well as 41 800 series. Three junior bowlers also rolled perfect games this past season (per awards committee report).
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Tucson Metro Annual Meeting News - Courtesy Of Mark Kerr.
Tucson - - - Today, Saturday May 4, Tucson Metro USBC held their 2024 Annual Meeting at the Kay-Cee Club Ballroom. Tucson Metro USBC wants to express their thanks to Louie Valenzuela and the Club for letting Tucson Metro USBC use their facilities.
A total of 36 bowlers were present for the meeting, which a quorum was achieved.
There was one proposal for consideration to raise the Tucson Metro USBC fee rate, $1, from its current $9 to $10, to have the additional dollar go to help cover the additional costs for the awards (patches, key chain awards and 11 In A Row Mugs). Those present voted to approve this proposal by 32-2, with two not voting.
Elections were held for the nine seats on the Board up for consideration.
Here are the nine individuals who were elected and/or reelected to the Tucson Metro USBC Board.
Joe Shelton, Kari Snyder, Joe Beard, Ken Lewis, Matt Hunt, Matt Klaer, Victoria Ylvisaker , Alonso Sodari and Rebecca Marilynn Boyko.
Congratulations to you all on your election to the Board and welcome to the new members to the Board and Tucson Metro USBC looks forward to working with you.
Tucson Metro USBC wants to thank the other people who had also applied to run, and their interest in helping their fellow bowlers.
Belinda Hiscox, Terry Snyder and Lyn Peterson are leaving the Tucson Metro USBC Board and we thank them for their service to our bowling family.
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Riley And Wolfe Crowned 2024 Metro Phoenix Masters And Queens Champions.
Sun City - - - Congratulations to Annie Riley and Brett Wolfe on winning this years Metro Phoenix Masters and Queens Championship. The event was held at RH Johnson Lanes in Sun City, on Sunday May 5.
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Bowlero Bakers News - Courtesy Of Kristi Smith - Thompson.
Congratulations to our 5 person bakers winners!
Mesa - - - We max'd the field with 40 teams. 13 in the 925 & 27 in the 1075 cap.
9 teams made cashing rounds. We paid out $9565 in prize money, and $4680 in side pots.
Our 300 pot was not claimed and will roll to our next 5 person with $720
925 Division:
- 3 teams made stepladder finals: First match was team Darnell vs Pospeshil. Darnell took game 1 and lost game 2. Sudden death roll off went to Pospeshil. Our final round The Equalizers vs Pospeshil. Pospeshil took the first game 218-175, the Equalizers got the 2nd game 207-175. Went to sudden death roll off and the Equalizers got the win, and remained the Champs of the 925 division
- High Games paid out $100 to each team: Darnell game 1-205, game 2-222, & game 4-210, Monsta Mode game 3-267, game 5-246, Todd game 6–216, Equalizers got game 7–259 & game 10–245, Kasgnoc took game 8-234 and Herrmann game 9-246
- High Series paid $300: The Equalizers 2006
430 Division:
- Top 5 in the stepladder were: Schloss, Just House Bowlers, Trzaskowski, Menaces to Sobriety & Anderson. Team Anderson was defeated by Menaces to Sobriety, who then took on team Trzaskowski. They tied after 2 games and went to roll off, with Trazaskowski taking the win. Trazaskowski then took on Just House Bowlers and won both games to move into the final match against team Schloss. Team Schloss got game one: 204-202, then dominated game 2: 228-186 for the win
- High Games paid out $260 each team: Hanna took game 1 – 269 and game 2-258, Thompson and Just House Bowlers tied for game 3–258, Penwell got game 4–266 and game 7–254, Feber took game 5–287, Medling game 6–299 and game 8–267, Menaces to Sobriety got game 9–259 and The Royal Family took game 10-268
- High Series paid $780: Menaces to Sobriety – 2265
- Our next TBT is looking to be in June with Bakers Doubles set for June 15.
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Strike Force Tour News - Courtesy Of SFT.
Today’s tournament, Sunday May 5, was a 2-squad event at AMF Mesa. With all the other events going on around the state we would have a nice turnout with 85 total entries (65 qualifying & 20 parlays) paying out over $5,600 in main and side event prizefunds.
The bowlers played on the 43ft Kegel Dead Man’s Curve which saw medium scores for the first two squads. The Quarterfinals would see scores explode as bowlers were able to move left and get around the ball for some strikes. We would see Mitchell Hays hit some crucial strikes when he needed it in the Semis and Finals to take home his 1st AHT SFT title and $1,050.00 first place prize! Congrats to Dustin Wengeler on second place for $300.00 (no progressive pot) and Shawna Strause on 3rd place for $350.00!
Thank you to everyone that came out today to bowl the tournament. Also, thanks to Kathleen Hedge Weissmann and the staff at AMF Mesa for having us out and providing great service to our bowlers. Thanks to Michael Dragon for helping out today to run the tournament.
Tournament results and event summary will be online tomorrow.
We are going to take a couple of weeks off for Mother’s Day and Graduations. We will be back for our 3-day Memorial Day Major at Bowlero Kyrene on May 25th thru May 27th!
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Three CAYSBC Junior Bowlers Headed To Junior Gold - Courtesy Of CAUSBC.
Prescott - - - It has been a very good year for the CAUSBC junior bowlers. This year they will be sending 3 bowlers to Junior Gold Championship and one to the Youth Open Championship. these tournament will be held in Detroit Michigan in July.
Titus Womble and Payson Jacobson both qualified for the Junior Gold Championship and Haedyn Wright qualified for both Junior Gold Championship and the Youth Open Championship. These bowlers qualified through the local, state and regional Pepsi tournaments.
CASUBC wishes all three of these bowlers the best of luck in their upcoming tournaments.
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Prescott Junior Bowlers Shine At AZ State Tournament Of Champions. Courtesy Of CAUSBC.
Prescott - - - The Prescott Valley Junior bowlers were busy at the AZ State Tournament Of Champions. They sent 5 teams and 9 singles to the tournament. After qualifying on Saturday, 3 teams and 5 singles qualified to bowl on Sunday.
In the team event, the bantam and prep teams finished in 2nd and the major team finished in 1st.
In the singles event Isabel finished in 3rd, Wyatt, Alia and Addy all finished in 2nd and Titus finished in 1st.
Congratulations to all our junior bowlers.
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E+BC Tournament News - Courtesy Of Eric Carroll.
Union Hills - - - May 25th; Handicap Tournament Event Entry Fee $65.00; Prize Fund Incentive (PFI)(aka Progressive) $25.00. Collegiate and Youth bowlers entry fee is $45.00. 1 Squad: Check in 10:30am-11:30am w/ tourney play at 11:30am. Bowlers will bowl 5 games. All totals ordered high to low. Cut to cashers finals 1 in 5. Finals/Cashers round 3 games head-to-head match play with 30 bonus pins. If you qualify, you cash. High game and series pots available. Eliminator and brackets available. We are also offering a scratch alibi side event at $25.00. Location: Bowlero/AMF Union Hills in Phoenix, AZ. When: Saturday, 05/25/24. You will be bowling on the E&BC Tournaments Sardius Oil Pattern. $2.00 of the PFI will rollover to the end of year final event along with $3.00 of the entry fee, in which the end of year event to be determined. We will be accepting Venmo up until 05/23/24. You can Venmo entry fee only ($65.00) to: @E-BCTournaments, Contact me via messenger for other options to pay entry fee prior to tournament date. Day of the event is cash only. Any questions, or if you'd like to sign up early you can email me at ebc_tournaments@yahoo.com.
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