CBE Has Another Successful Showing At Lakeview Lanes.
First off, thanks as always to everyone that came out to the CBE on Sunday at Lakeview Lanes.We tried to make them hard, and once again the talent of the field proved to me that they can score on anything. Scores were much lower than usual, but the talent of this field is just incredible.
Incredible bowling to Michael Haugen Jr for leading the “young guys” and showing them how it’s done.
Congrats to Keith Fung for getting his 2nd title joining only Andrew Cainand Dave Cirigliano in the multiple titles class.
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BVL Tournament A Success In Phoenix. Photo Courtesy Of Metro Phoenix USBC.
Bowlers came from Phoenix, Casa Grande, Maricopa, & Tucson to bowl and raise $$$ for our Veterans. Thanks To All who participated!! Very close to $4000.00 raised with 104 Bowlers!!
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Pony League News - Courtesy Of Pony League Brunswick Zone Glendale.
Pony Singles 2nd Quarter Week 3 of 9, 11/5/2018: After three weeks, Dylan Taylor (19-5) holds a slight edge over Shawn Kozak (18-6) and John Babbitt(16-8) in the 214 and over division. Wes Marema (24-0) remains perfect in the 202 to 213 division. Wes is followed by Carey Lee Hofmann (22-2) and Dwayne Brooks (12-4). Dwayne's team will be post-bowling later this week which will affect his match against Pat Lombardo as well as the division standings. In the 196 to 201 division, Henry Diflorio and and Randy Nortonare tied for the lead at 20-4 followed by Keith Matter at 16-8. Tom Kaneleads the 190 to 195 division with a perfect 24-0 record followed by Lee Spiva (22-2) and Jimmy DIaz (20-4). The 182 to 189 division is led by Tom King (24-0) followed by Stuart Porter (20-4) and Stephen Reed (19-5). John Lesner (22-2) leads the 181 and under division followed by Scot Piercy (18-6) and Charles Adams (16-8).
Pony League Sponsored by Revolutions Pro Shop, Second Quarter Week 3 of 9, 11/5/2018: The New Standard (Dylan Taylor, Nick Pluhowsky, Henry Diflorio, Mike Barcus and Wes Marema) share the league lead with Above180.com (Marve Burrell, Tracie Roberts, Myke White, Tim Burg and Steve Roberts). Both teams have 20-4 records. Four teams are two points from the lead at 18-6 (Leftover Beef Stu, Revolutions Pro Shop, Raisins, and 5 Jokers. Price McElroy and Willis Hartford both rolled 11-in-a-row 290s to share the league high game for the week. Joey Burruel was next with a 288 followed by a trio of 279 games rolled by Jimmy Diaz, Wes Marema and Frank Sidoti. Wes Marema's 780 series topped the weekly leader board followed by Shawn Kozak 771, Price McElroy 762 and Stephen Reed 741. Melody Moody rolled a 236: High game of the week for the ladies, followed by Juli Bayer 233, Danielle Worthington 226, and Deanna Evans 220. Melody Moody also rolled the ladies high series of the week with a 667 followed by Juli Bayer's 632. Pony League bowlers averaged a season high 195 per game per bowler this week raising the season to date average to 191 per game.
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Story Courtesy Of Strike Force Tour.
Chris Allen wins Title #2 at Brunswick Kyrene!
This weekend's event was at Brunswick Kyrene. The event drew 93 total entries (62 qualifying and 31 economy parlay), had 26 cashers, a 1 in 3.6 cash ratio and paid out over $4,400.00 in main and side event prize funds. The players bowled on a 39ft Seoul oil pattern that played a lot tighter on the fresh, but once the pattern broke down, scoring went through the roof. We haven't bowled on this pattern before, but the key was to get your ball into a roll and play a little straighter along the track. Those that could do that were able to take advantage of the pattern. We saw the average cut scores for the weekend were high compared to the last few tournaments. Congrats to Mark Yakich for winning the Momma's Mystery Score with a nice 214 game for $500.00! The winner of the free Track plastic bowling ball, with an option to upgrade to any high-performance Track ball, was Ron McDonald.
We also want to welcome some new bowlers to the SFT AHT Family from this weekend. Michael Heath, Estevan Otero, Ethan Haas and Robert Coleman all bowled in their first tournament this weekend! Estevan even made it to the quarterfinals on his first try! We hope you all enjoyed yourself, and we hope to see you again soon! There were no parlay power players this weekend as the cut scores blew up in the 3rd squad. We also want to congratulate everyone who made it to their first quarterfinals or their first quarterfinals in quite a while. Congrats to Estevan Otero, David Bishop, Andy Morin, Ernie Mendoza and Steve Convirs!
The quarterfinalist bowled on the fresh oil pattern and the cut scores were still a bit high with bowlers needing to shoot around +50 to advance to the semi-finals. In the A Division the #1 seed would be Chris Allen and he would take on Jonathan Ferrell. The B Division #1 seed would be Derek Hamm having to bowl against David Bishop. The C Division #1 seed was Steve Convirs versus Mark Yakich. The advantage of each #1 seed player is that they are able to pick the pair of lanes that they want their match to take place. Also, another advantage is that they get to choose the order of which player would start first.
The A Division semi-final match was a great match with both Chris and Jonathan striking at will. It would all come down to the final few frames and who would flinch first. In the ninth frame both players opened setting up an intense tenth frame. Jonathan would throw a strike and nine to finish at 223, meaning Chris would need to strike and get good count to advance to the Finals. Chris was able to throw three really good shots to strike and finish at 237. In the B Division Derek Hamm was unable to hold off David Bishop, who had been bowling good all day, losing 183 to 230. The C Division semi-final was won by Steve Convirs, 197 to 163, as Mark Yakich was unable to line up and find his shot on the pair of lanes that Steve had selected.
The final match would both Chris and Steve looking for their 2nd SFTAHT title and David making his first appearance in the Finals. Steve would start off the match with a spare while Chris and David would both strike. The oil pattern tended to transition quickly as the bowlers would find out. David would open in the 3rd frame with unable to convert 2-4-7-8 spare, Steve would chop the 4-8 and Chris also chopped his 2-4-8 spare attempt. They would all rebound quickly in the next frame. In the fifth frame David would miss a 3-pin spare and Steve would washout and unable to convert on the 1-2-8-10. This would give Chris a chance to jump out to a lead as he was able to strike in the 4th and 5th frames. Once he was able to take the lead, then Chris never looked back as he was able to run out the rest of the frames to finish at 224. This would give him his 2nd AHT SFT title and $970.00!!! Congrats to Steve Convirs on 2nd Place and to David Bishop on 3rd Place! Since David was not in the progressive pot, then the 3rd place progressive pot winnings redistributed among the rest of the bowlers that were in the progressive pot.
Thanks to everyone for coming out and supporting the event this weekend. We look forward to seeing you all next Sunday at Glenfair Lanes for our Standard 3-squad event! Hope you all have a great week!
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GCU Off To A Good Start.
The West Coast Collegiate Team Championships are in the books. The guys finished 2nd on Saturday and 4th on Sunday. We had a great time, but know that there is a lot for us to work on heading into the rest of the collegiate season. Big shout to Donovan Koff on his T2nd individual finish on Saturday and to Kyle Gilbert and Joshua Mabry on their top 10 individual finishes on Sunday! We are back in action on November 10th in Flagstaff!
Story Courtesy Of GCU.
By David Carter/GCU Staff
A close matchup that came down to the wire.
GCU Men’s & Women’s Bowling faced off against Arizona State University this past weekend in the annual grudge match between the two teams. The match came down to the closing moments-with both teams going into sudden death. After finishing the scheduled matches in an 8-8 tie, the teams went to a “sudden death roll-off” to decide the match. The Lopes won with a score of 271-220 in the roll-off to get the win in the annual matchup.
“It is super cool to grab a win in this match, and even up the overall record at 2-2,” said Lopes Head Coach Ben Canfield said. “We have won it two years in a row, (but) we’ve never had it come down to a tiebreaker.”
Canfield also mentioned how well his new bowlers performed.
“Our freshmen stepped up and threw big shots when they needed to,” Canfield said. “We can roll that confidence into the rest of the season.”
Canfield’s team captains both saw the confidence the win instilled in their teammates.
“We have a tournament coming up pretty soon and I think that this will be really good motivation to keep winning, “said Lopes’ Men’s Bowling captain Kyle Gilbert. “The feeling of winning is something that does not go away for a while. Keeping us in that mindset will be huge going forward.”
“It helps immensely because most of the bowlers are brand new and have not been in this situation before,” added Lopes’ Women’s Bowling captain Emily Ornelas. “It helps them gain experience.”
The Lopes’ Men’s Bowling team now concentrates on the West Coast Collegiate Team Championships I and II on November 3 and 4 in Fresno, California, while the Lopes’ Women’s next matchup will be against Northern Arizona University on Saturday, Nov. 10 in Flagstaff.