Pictured Is SFT Winner Daniel Austin
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Courtesy Of The Pony League At Brunswick Zone Glendale.
Pony League Sponsored by Revolutions Pro Shop, Second Quarter Week 2 of 9, 10/29/2018: Congratulations to Shuan Hutchinson who rolled his first 300 game in sanctioned competition! Josh Taylor (299), John Conaway(299) and John Lesner (297) just missed perfectos this week. Jason Van Bodegon rolled a 790 series: High for the week, followed by John Conaway's 785, Josh Taylor's 768 and John Babbitt's 758. Tina Williams 726 series was ladies high series of the week followed by Julie Nelson Pratt's 680, Shirley Avvenire Braverman's 659 and Jacqueline Smith's 627. Tina Williams' 267 game also was atop the leader board followed by Shirley Avvenire Braverman's 242, Jacqueline Smith's 236 and Julie Nelson Pratt's 234. The New Standard (Dylan Taylor, Henry Diflorio, Nick Pluhowsky, Mike Barcusand Wes Marema), at 14-2, is atop the team standings followed by five teams at 12-4: Rolling Rock Landscape, A Family Swimming Pool, Bite Me, and Above180.com. Pony League bowlers averaged 193 per game per bowler this week. The season to date average remained at 190 per game: 7 pins below the mean Pony League entering average.
Pony Singles 2nd Quarter Week 2 of 9, 10/29/2018: Early in the second quarter, Dylan Taylor (14-2) and Jason Van Bodegon (13-3) are atop the 214 and over division. Wes Marema (16-0) and Carey Lee Hofmann (16-0) are tied for the lead in the 202 to 213 division. The 196 to 201 division is led by Henry Diflorio (14-2) and Randy Norton (14-2). Tom Kane (16-0) and Lee Spiva (16-0) lead the 190 to 195 division. The 182 to 189 division is led by Tom King (16-0) and three bowlers tied at 14-2 (Michael Pamula, Stuart Porter and Chris Gonos). John Lesner (14-2) leads Sonja Echeverria (12-4) and John Spinck (12-4) in the 181 and under division.
The Pony League has an opening for two bowlers on the same team. Contact me for details and/or you would like to join this team: An ideal situation for a couple or a couple of friends who would like to bowl together.
Pony League Sponsored by Revolutions Pro Shop, Second Quarter Week 2 of 9, 10/29/2018: Congratulations to Shuan Hutchinson who rolled his first 300 game in sanctioned competition! Josh Taylor (299), John Conaway (299) and John Lesner (297) just missed perfectos this week. Jason Van Bodegon rolled a 790 series: High for the week, followed by John Conaway's 785, Josh Taylor's 768 and John Babbitt's 758. Tina Williams 726 series was ladies high series of the week followed by Jul...
The Desert Bowler Newspaper, November 2018 edition, should be available next week at bowling centers and pro shops across Arizona. The Pony League article is provided here for your convenience:
Congratulations to Ramsey Auto Center: The 2018-2019 Pony League’s first quarter champions. Ramsey Auto (Pat Lombardo, Larry Spitali, Wayne Swayda, Alan Wagner and John Babbitt) won 52 out of 72 points, topping the Anger Sharks (Johnny Chi, Larry Eng, Scott Englehart, Cliff Adams and Shad Schoenemann) and The New Standard (Dylan Taylor, Henry Diflorio, Nick Pluhowsky, Mike Barcus and Wes Marema); both teams with 50-22 won-loss records. Ramsey Auto is the first of four quarterly champions who will meet in the playoffs to determine the league champions in late April and early May 2019.
League Leaders through the end of October:
Men’s High Averages: Jason Van Bodegon 234, Shawn Kozak 231, John Conaway 228, Andy Hakiel 226 and Mike Barcus 225
Women’s High Averages: Tina Williams 222, Shirley Braverman 200, Jacque Smith 199, Alison Kozak 197 and Chris Gonos 191
Men’s High Scratch Series: Stu Williams 832, John Conaway 808, Shawn Kozak 803 and Jason Van Bodegon 790
Men’s High Handicap Series: Willis Hartford 877, John Conaway 862, Josh Taylor 861 and Scott Englehart 855
Women’s High Scratch Series: Tina Williams 726, Jacque Smith 707, Juli Bayer 704 and Mandy Etem 692
Women’s High Handicap Series: Julie Pratt 845, Becky Tistle 827, Jacque Smith 815 and Amber Clark 811
Men’s High Scratch Game: David Hurley 300, Shuan Hutchinson 300 (Shaun’s first sanctioned 300 game!), Mike Barcus 300, Stu Williams 300
Men’s High Handicap Game: John Lesner 348, Scot Piercy 342, Chuck Stration Jr. 337 and Shuan Hutchinson 336
Women’s High Scratch Game: Tina Williams 279, Mandy Etem 268, Jacque Smith 258, Shirley Braverman 257 and Juli Bayer 257
Other Games of 280 and higher: John Conaway 299, Jeff Row 299, Chuck Stration Jr. 299, Josh Taylor 299, Joel Nemec 298, John Lesner 297, Keith Fung 290, Kyle King 290, Jeff Miller 290, Larry Spitali 290, Keith Matter 289, Steve Roberts 289, Carey Hofmann 282, John Babbitt 280 and Scott Englehart 280
In optional scratch singles competition, 76 bowlers are competing in six average-based divisions. Our first quarter singles champions are Jason Van Bodegon in the 223 and over division, Michael Marranca in the 212 to 222 division, Carey Hofmann in the 205 to 211 division, Chuck Stration Sr. in the 196 to 204 division, Arvle Knight in the 188 to 195 division, and Jeff Skidmore in the 187 and under division.
Pony League bowlers are averaging 190 per game per bowler after the first 11 weeks of the season: 7 pins lower than the arithmetic mean of entering averages of all bowlers competing this season.
The Pony League, sponsored by Revolutions Pro Shops, rolls each Monday evening, 6:30 pm, August through May, at Brunswick Zone Glendale. 180+ bowlers on 36 teams are competing for over $75,000 in prize money this season in team and individual competition.
Daniel Austin wins back to back at Brunswick Desert Sky! - Story And Photo Courtesy Of SFT.
This weekend's event was at Brunswick Desert Sky lanes. There were a lot of other events going on, but we were happy to get close to 50 total entries. The players bowled on the 42ft Tokyo oil pattern. It was an easy oil pattern and almost played like a house shot on the fresh. As the lane transitioned, the bowlers could move inside and continue to play along the track which resulted in higher cut scores than the previous few tournaments.
We would like to congratulate our parlay power players Eric Flick and Daniel Austin. These two bowlers were able to make it to the quarterfinals and only had the $25 economy parlay entry fee as their main cost. Congrats guys! Also congrats to Ron McDonald who won the free plastic ball with an option to upgrade to any Track high performance ball for $85.00!
The quarterfinals had similar scoring as qualifying, with marginal scoring but certain players really bowling lights out. Also since there was only five bowlers per division, the top bowler from each division would move straight into the Finals. Those players were Mike Umstead in the A Division who shot +136, Eric Flick in the B division who shot +63 and Daniel Austin in the C Division who shot +136! It was fair to assume that we were going to have a high scoring final match.
Heading into the Final match there were a few storylines to follow. Eric Flick was looking for his 4th title and also trying to make up some ground in the Player of the Year points race. Mike Umstead was looking for his 2nd title and Daniel Austin was looking to for back to back wins, as he had just won last weekend at AMF McRay. The match would start off a bit slow with the bowlers trying to get lined up. Eric Flick would spare, then chop the 2-4-7, leaving the 2 pin, before lining up to shoot a three bagger. Mike Umstead would start off with a washout (1-2-4-10) and only able to pick up the 2-4. He would then go spare, strike, spare, strike in the next few frames. Daniel Austin after missing a ten pin to start would get back to his old form and throw two strikes in a row, then spare and strike in the 5th frame.
Halfway through the match everyone was within a few pins of each other. Mike Umstead would split in the sixth leaving the 2-8-7, but was able to pick up this tricky spare attempt. Eric and Daniel would both spare in the sixth frame to keep pace with each other. Going into the seventh frame Mike Umstead would fail to convert a nine pin spare, opening the door for Eric and Daniel to pass him. Eric was able to strike in the seventh and spare in the eighth, while Daniel opened in the eighth unable to convert the 3-10 split. Mike would struggle with transition and open in the eighth and ninth frames taking him out of the match. Going into the ninth Eric would strike to put himself in position to win the match. The difference in handicap between Eric and Daniel was 11 pins and Eric was in the lead by twenty pins. Daniel would step in the ninth and confidentially strike to give himself a chance in the tenth. Eric would have to strike on his first ball in the tenth to shut out Daniel. Eric's ball off his hand looked good, but skidded just a little too far leaving a seven pin. He would make his spare and again flat seven pin on his fill to finish at 227. This would force Daniel to double in the tenth to win. Daniel's first ball was right on point hitting the pocket flush. His second attempt looked a bit inside, but it was able to hold its line and also strike. He would get nine of his fill attempt giving him a score of 237 and his 2nd AHT SFT title in back to back weekends!!! Congrats to Eric Flick on 2nd place and Mike Umstead on 3rd place.
Thank you to everyone that came out to support the event! Hope to see you all next weekend for our 3 squad Standard event on Sunday at Brunswick Kyrene!
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Perfect Games In The Bob Brown Classic League At Brunswick Zone Mesa.
Congrats goes out to Nick Nichols who rolled a perfect game in the Bob Brown Classic League on October 19, on lanes 21 and 22. And Barry Gilitiuk who also rolled a perfect game on October 26. Old-N-Slow is currently in first-place with a record of 28-7.