Pictured Is Howard Strause Of Tucson.
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Pony League - Courtesy Of Pony League Brunswick Zone Glendale.
Pony League Sponsored by Revolutions Pro Shop, Second Quarter Week 6 of 9, 11/26/2018: Congratulations to Kevin Lewis for rolling an 805 series on games of 280, 247 and 278. Kevin was followed by Pat Lombardo 782, Tim Burg 772 and Leon Sabelka 747 this week. Shuan Hutchinson rolled the high game of the week with an 11 strikes in a row 290 followed by Keith Fung 289, Pat Lombardo 287 and Kevin Lewis 280. Shirley Bravermanrolled the high series for the ladies with a 713 followed by Tracie Roberts 679, Jacqueline Smith 675 and Susan Galan 631. Shirley Braverman's 254 game was the ladies high game of the week followed by Jacque Smith's 247, Sue Galan's 235 and Alison Kozak's 231. Second quarter team standings are tight. 18 teams are within 8 points of the league lead. Leftover Beef Stu, Strike & Awe, Far From Limpin' and Above180.com share the lead with 34-14 won-loss records. Anger Sharks, Raisins and 5 Jokers follow close behind at 32-16. Pony League bowlers averaged a season high 199 per game per bowler this week with the league season to date average remaining at 192 per game. Reminder: No new roster members after next Monday, December 3rd. No roster additions on 12/10 and 12/17. Anyone bowling on 12/17, the end of quarter position round, must have bowled a minimum of 12 games in the Pony League this season to participate in the position round.
Pony Singles 2nd Quarter Week 6 of 9, 11/26/2018: With three weeks remaining in the second quarter, John Lesner (38-10) is ahead of Charles Adams (36-12) in the 181 and under division. Tom King (38-10) leads Stephen Reed (35-13) in the 182 to 189 division. Tom Kane (42-6) is six points ahead of Jimmy Diaz (36-12) in the 190 to 195 division. The 196 to 201 division is led by Randy Norton (36-12) followed by Mike Pyeatt (30-18). Don Tistle (38-10) leads Wes Marema (34-14) in the 202 to 213 division. Dylan Taylor (35-13) is tied with Steve Roberts (35-13) in the 214 and over division.
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Howard Strause wins $1,000 at AMF Tempe Village! SFT News Courtesy Of SFT.
Our event this weekend was at AMF Tempe Village and it was a BIG ONE! We had a whopping 114 entries through 3 squads, which consisted of 80 qualifying entries and 34 economy parlay entries. This created a huge payout of over $6,000.00 in main and side event prize fund! The players bowled on a very tough 45ft Dragon oil pattern that forced most players to play the middle part of the lane. It was very difficult to play to the right unless you were pointing it right at the head pin. Most of the player's that had success were in around the 3rd and 4th arrow. The cut scores for the weekend were around the +40 range which only requires bowling a little bit over average for the 3 game set.
We had some new bowlers come out for their first event this weekend! We want to welcome Clarence Young, Gary Spinler, Jennifer Byrd, and Xavier Altamirano. We hope all of you had a good time in your first event. We typically have at least one new bowler that advances, but in this case we didn't. We did have some economy parlay power players in Eddie Thompson, Chris Tucker and Howard Strause. We also had some first-time quarter finalists in Robert Berhendt! Congrats to everyone on those accomplishments! This might be the first event we have ever had with two players in the finals that got there all the way from the parlay! Who were they? Keep reading to find out!
The quarter finals was bowled on a fresh condition and because of that scores were a bit lower. Bowling average pretty much allowed most to move on to the semi-final round. I think after back to back weeks of long patterns, everyone is ready to see their ball hook a little bit more. After the quarter finals, we had #1 seed Mike Fitzgerald vs #2 seed Sean Ashley for the A division finals, #1 seed Eddie Thompson vs #2 seed Mike Hodge in the C division and #1 seed CJ Black vs #2 seed Howard Strause in the B division finals. We had two #2 seeds win and one #1 seed. Sean Ashley won a very close match against Mike, and Howard Strause took advantage of some early open frames to become the B division champion. The only #1 seed to win was Eddie Thompson who seemed to be on fire all day long.
This put Eddie Thompson vs Howard Strause vs Sean Ashley in an interesting final match. Howard and Eddie both bowling in their first title match looking for their first title, and Sean Ashley looking for his 3rd SFT AHT title and to make a big move in the SFT AHT overall player of the year points race. The match started off pretty even between Eddie and Howard, but Sean opened in the 4th and since he was getting the least amount of handicap, it put him behind tremendously. Howard then put together a three bagger in the 5th-6th-7th, which with his double early in the game gave him a good boost to take the lead and he only needed to stay clean to take home the title. His first shot in the 10th was picture perfect finishing high flush and striking giving him the win and $1,000.00! In clutch and dramatic fashion Sean Ashely ended up striking out in the 10th frame to force Eddie to mark to take second. Eddie left the 2-10 split, but didn't look like he gave up on it. He made a run at the split and converted it to take 2nd place from Sean which gave Eddie 2nd place and allowed CJ Black to retain the lead in the Player of the Year points race. A second-place finish for Sean would have had him go around CJ by 5 points for the lead. The POY races are certainly shaping up to be exciting finishes.
Thanks to everyone for coming out and making the event such a successful one! We look forward to seeing you all at our event next weekend!
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28th Annual MMA Senior Open This Weekend At AMF Mesa Lanes.
Mesa Metropolitan USBC Association
28th Annual Senior Open Championships
Sat. Dec.1st ~ Team @ 8:30 AM / Doubles & Singles @ 1:30 PM
Sun. Dec. 2nd ~ Doubles & Singles @ 8:30 AM / Team @ 1:30 PM
AMF Mesa Lanes ~ 2115 E Southern Ave., Mesa, AZ 85204
Tournament is open to ALL AZ USBC Certified Bowlers
(age 50 or over as of 12/01/2018)
Two Divisions offered:
Division A = 190 Average & Above
Division B = 189 Average & Lower
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Thanks for coming out to our Turkey Roll Fund Raiser At Lucky Strike Bowl.
For our 11 and under was Justin with 151 game, the 12-19 Division was Makayla with a 261 Game and the Adult Robert with a 239 game. all bowl on the Chameleon Sport Shot!
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