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Bowlers Day With The Arizona Diamondbacks On August 4th.
Phoenix - - - In conjunction with National Bowling Day, coming up this Saturday August 10th. The Arizona Diamondbacks held their second annual 'Bowlers Day' at Chase Field on Sunday August 4th. The Dbacks won the game, 7-5, over the Washington Nationals.
A good crowd of bowlers from various leagues in the Valley. As well as fans who attended the game, visited the first-base lounge on the suite level. Where they had a chance to win bowling balls, and other items donated by the Dbacks through a free raffle drawing. Each person who passed through the promotional area, was given three free raffle tickets just for stopping by. While those who wore a bowling shirt, were given six tickets for a chance to win a raffle item.
Fans also had a chance to roll a bowling ball down a lane, that was made available for use from Bowlero. Bowlero is a sponsor of the Dbacks.
The third annual bowlers day with the Dbacks is in the planning stages for next season. Ideas are being kicked around to have it during the week of April 23-25, when the PWBA Tour visits Lucky Strike Bowl in Tucson, for the second annual Tucson Open. But, nothing as of yet has been finalized. Shannon O'Keefe, is the defending champion.
Special thanks goes out to Dbacks employees: Mike Friedrichs, Leslie Marsh, and Diney Ransford, for hosting the event. And to the volunteers who came out to help out.
Please remember to come out and support your favorite bowling center and pro shop, on National Bowling Day. And thank them for being there for us.
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1. Bowlero Mesa 8/31.
2. AMF Mesa 10/12.
3. AMF McRay 11/16.
4. Bowlero Kyrene 2/15.
5. Mesa East 3/14.
6. AMF Chandler 4/11.
Tempo Mixed League At Bowlero Mesa, Courtesy Of Gary Roff.
Mesa - - - Mondays got you down in the drag after the weekend? Come on out to BrunswickZone Mesa and join fun bowling league to relieve some of that back to work stress.
Tempo Mixed league at BrunswickZone Mesa is looking for full teams and individuals to join us for 36 weeks of fun and exciting bowling. Come on out to our league meeting and join some great bowlers out to have fun.
Where: BrunswickZone Mesa
When: Monday, August 26, 2019 @ 6PM
Teams: 5-person mixed (Men and Women)
Weekly Dues: $18/week (per 2018-19 season)
# of Teams: Capped at 24 max
Officers: Amy Brown-Tanner (President), Myself (VP), Bobbi Fredrikson (Secretary), James Knox (Sgt At Arms)
Mesa Strikers Youth League.
Mesa - - - Summer is coming to an end and we are gearing up to start our fall league. Beginning August 17th - May 2020. We are a competitive league for bowlers of all ages and skill levels.
Saturday mornings starting August 17th.
League meeting @ 9: am, bowl at 9:30 am.
Cost is $14 a week.
For more information contact Mesa Strikers @ q.com.
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FYI For Those Of You In Arizona, Who Are Planning On Bowling This.
Rio Rancho, NM.- BIG NEW MEXICO OPEN NEWS
1. We received an extra $ 1,000 from a sponsor and will add that to Friday's 9 am & 2 pm qualifying squads. In squad one the top TWO scorers will each win $ 300, while in squad two, the top two scorers will each win $ 200. We hope this will increase entries on that day,with already two changing over from Saturday.
2. The NMO Program (24 pages) is available NOW at our website tenpins-more.com. Please let everyone know!
3. We're at 152 entries July 29 with 13 states represented. New Mexico leads with 54 bowlers, followed by Arizona 28, Colorado 22 and Texas with 20.
4. The Pro-Am that has squads Tuesday through Friday, August 13-16 has 93 entries and looks set to beat last year's record mark. Call 892-7117 to enter this and/or the main event.
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Rollin On Two Friday @ 6:30 pm.
Union Hills - - - ATTN Bowlers:
AMF Union Hills is starting to floor their Fall Leagues, We have openings on the Friday night League!
We currently have 5 individual spots and 2 team spots left!!
Rollin on TWO Friday @ 6:30p
USBC Certified League
4 person Teams
Adult Mixed
HDCP (90% of 230)
$20 a week (last year)
36 Week session
WE start on Friday, August 16th, 2019 Meeting at 5:30p-5:45p with League play immediately starting after meeting!
Diverse league with competitive Brackets! A little side pot fun for everyone!!
Hdcp/Scratch Brackets
Jackpot Brackets
If you are interested let me know and I will add your team/you to a team!
Katharine Alexander
623-297-1990
MPUSBC 2019-2020 Tournament Schedule. ·
All MPUSBC bowlers, here is a tentative schedule of all our upcoming tournaments. Dates, times and locations are subject to change. Mark you calendars for these upcoming events for the 2019-2020 season.
12 Annual MPUSBC 2 X 2 Mixed Doubles.
August 18th, 2019 Glenfair Lanes. 10:00am - 4:00pm.
25th Annual Valley of the Sun
September 21-22 2019 R.H. Johnson Lanes
33rd Annual Maricopa County Senior Woman's Tourney
October 5-6 2019 Location TBD
BVL - November 16th 2019 AMF Union Hills
11th Metro Phoenix USBC Youth King, Queen, Duke and Duchess
December 8 2019 - Location TBD
62nd Annual Metro Phoenix USBC Senior Open Championships
December 7- 8 2019
Team - Bell Lanes
D/S - Lakeview
21st Annual MPUSBC Senior Masters/Queens
December 22, 2019
Lakeview Lanes
78th Annual MPUSBC Ladies Championship
January 19 and 25-26 2020
Location TBD
39th Annual MPUSBC Youth Open
February 8-9, 2020
Location TBD
77th Annual MPUSBC Open Championships
February 22-23 & 29 and March 1 2020
Via Linda
32nd Annual MPUSBC Princess and
12th Annual MPUSBC Classified Masters
March 21-22, 2020
Location TBD
37th Annual MPUSBC Masters
56th Annual MPUSBC Queens
March 28-29, 2020
Location TBD
See you all out on the lanes!
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Congrats To The 2019-2020 Metro Phoenix USBC HOF Inductees.
Phoenix - - - Metro Phoenix USBC would like to congratulate the class of 2019-2020 Hall of Fame inductees. For Superior Performance - Dennis Klein, Carey Lee Hoffman and Nick Pluhowsky. For Meritorious Service - LouAnn Rickett. Congratulations to all the inductees!!
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Save This Date For Bowl For The Cure.
Tucson - - - Bowl for the Cure 2019!!
We are excited to announce the opportunity to sponsor a lane this year!!
Phoenix October 19 - AMF Peoria Lanes
Tucson October 20 - Cactus Bowl
'Eastenders' Bowling League At Tucson Bowl.
Tucson - - - Tucson Bowl, 7020 E 21st Street, welcomes back the "Eastenders" bowling league, which will meet on Tuesday August 27th, 2019 at 6:30 PM, and begin league bowling on Tuesday September 3rd. This league offers a great time, and provides an easy going atmosphere with all the returning bowlers from this well established league. This is a handicapped, mixed league, teams of 4, USBC sanctioned, with a season ending prize fund. The Eastenders bowling league had 18 teams last season, and there's room for more, so come on in and sign up, or give us a call at Tucson Bowl, 520-747-1363.
'Vegas Bound League' At Tucson Bowl.
Tucson - - - Friday nights at Tucson Bowl, 7020 E 21st Street, features a Vantage Bowling Centers "Vegas Bound League". The league will meet on Friday August 30th, 2019, at 6:30 PM, and league bowling starts Friday September 6th. This is a great league, full of returning Vegas Bound bowlers, who all have a great time on Friday nights at Tucson Bowl. Come on out and join the fun, lets fill the house on Friday nights at Tucson Bowl. Then its off to Las Vegas for 3 nights, May 30th, 31st, June 1st, 2020, and you'll bowl in a fantastic tournament at the Orleans with all the other Vantage Bowling Centers Vegas bound bowlers. This league is comprised of 4 person, mixed teams, handicapped, USBC sanctioned, with a season ending prize fund and Vegas travel money, and of course 3 nights stay at the Orleans Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. All this for $21.00 per week. Come on in to Tucson Bowl, or give us a call to sign up, 520-747-1363.
Match Play Scratch Trios Draft League At Tucson Bowl.
Tucson - - - On Monday nights at Tucson Bowl, 7020 E 21st Street, for the 2019/20 bowling season, we will be starting a "Match Play Scratch Trios Draft League". There will be a league meeting on Monday August 26th, 2019 at 6:30 PM. The league will start bowling on September 9th. This will be a draft league, the draft is currently scheduled for September 9th. We are starting to take sign-ups for the league. The league will be limited to 48 bowlers. The contact person is Brian Andrews, 520-419-6438, or email him at bandrews06@centurylink.net. You can also contact Tucson Bowl at 520-747-1363, to sign up. If you want to bowl this league get signed up.
No Tap Saturday Nights At Tucson Bowl.
Tucson - - - No Tap Saturday Nights at Tucson Bowl, 7020 E 21st Street, continues on August 10th, 2019. Last Saturday night we had 29 total entries and paid out $377.00 from the prize fund. The optional shootout side pot paid out $75.00, with the optional strike pot now at $496.00. For additional information call Tucson Bowl at 520-747-1363.
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Pony League Gearing Up To Start 2019-2020 Season.
Glendale - - - The Pony League 2019-2020 season begins on Monday, August 19th, practice at 6:15 pm with competition for score beginning at 6:30 pm. Optional singles league-within-the-league competition begins the following week, August 26th. Brunswick Zone Glendale Lanes (Bowlero Glendale).
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National Pattern Trios League, Courtesy Of National Pattern Trios League.
Sun City - - - National Pattern Trios Week 10 of 10, August 5, 2019: Congratulationsto Team # 8, Andy Hakiel, Leon Sabelka and John Babbitt, the National Pattern Trios 2019 champions, on the strength of their 72-48 won-loss record. Team # 12, No Mercy (Rich Strowman, Ronnie Miertschin and Tom Frigon), finished in second place at 70-50, followed by Team # 7, Hank Schrader, Tom Klein and Mike Oelschlager, in third place at 64-56. Andy Hakiel earned the league high average at 195 followed by Mitch Diestler 187, Ronnie Miertschin 186 and John Babbitt 182. SonjaEcheverria led the way for the ladies at 161. Andy Hakiel's 1080 five game series topped the high series leader board followed by Mitch Diestler's 1052, and Ronnie Miertschin's 1047. John Babbitt rolled the league high game with a 279, followed by Robert Clark 274, Price McElroy's 269, Andy Hakiel's 267 and Ryan Riley's 259. Though our super subs weren't eligible for league awards, their accomplishments are worthy of mention. Jim Pratt averaged 204, rolled a 267 game and an 1122 five game series. Keith Fung averaged 204, rolled a 263 game and a 1061 series. Mike Barcus averaged 196, rolled a 269 game and a 1063 series. Tim Burg averaged 192 and rolled a 1080 series. NPT bowlers averaged a season high 177 per game during the final week of the season, raising the league average to 172 per game per bowler for the season. NPT bowlers improved substantially during the 10 week season while bowling on the 2018 USBC Open Championship Team and Doubles/Singles patterns. NPT bowlers averaged 169 per game during the first week of the season, 173 per game four weeks later and 171 for the first five weeks of the season bowled on the 2018 USBC OC Team pattern. NPT bowlers averaged 169 per game the first week on the doubles/singles pattern, 177 per game four weeks later and 173 for the last five weeks of the season bowled on the 2018 USBC OC Doubles and Singles pattern. Thanks to each of our bowlers for accepting the challenge and bowling on these tough sport patterns. The National Pattern Trios will return to Lakeview Lanes for the summer of 2020 using the 2019 USBC OC Team and Doubles/Singles patterns. A big thank you to Randy Johnson, Mike Barcus, Pat Cook and the staff of Lakeview Lanes for hosting the league and supporting sport bowling. We're looking forward to growing the league from 12 teams and 36 bowlers to as many as 24 teams in May through August 2020. This is a great way to prepare for the USBC Open Championships as well as many other events contested on sport and challenge patterns. Contact Jim Bungard to reserve a spot, team or individual, for the 2020 NPT league.
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Dan Lanious wins 1st title & $1,050 at AMF Tempe Village! SFT News, Courtesy Of SFT.
Tempe - - -Our event this weekend was at AMF Tempe Village and it was a pretty big turnout! We had a whopping 112 entries through 3 squads, which consisted of 70 qualifying entries and 42 economy parlay entries. This created a huge payout of over $5,100.00 in main and side event prize fund! The players bowled on a very tough 36ft Phase 1 oil pattern, which were bowled on new lanes that were installed at this house at beginning of the year, which forced most players to be able to make shots and convert their makeable spares. It was very difficult to hook the ball on the fresh and bowlers had to adapt as each pair played differently. Most of the players that did have success was after the pattern had broken down and you would see the scores increase as the day went on. The final cut scores for the weekend were only around the +15 range which only requires bowling their average or just a slight bit above average for the 3-game set.
We had some new bowlers come out for their first event this weekend! We want to welcome Pete Smith, Amanda Smith, Eric Caruth, Jeff Weigandt, William Walsh, Charles Mickens, Nathan McDaniel and Chad Summers. 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 DJ Kniefel and Kevin Dollar. We also had some first-time quarterfinalists, or some bowlers hadn't made the quarterfinals in a while. Congrats to Mark Large, DJ Kniefel, Sean Warren and Juan Brooks! Also, the winner of the ball raffle for a free plastic ball, with an option to upgrade to any Track high-performance bowling ball for $85.00, was Clay Fritz!
The quarterfinals were bowled were very low scoring on the fresh oil pattern and it showed how difficult this pattern was in this house. In the A Division we had #1 seed Mark Large (+51) vs #2 seed Kevin Convirs (+0), in the B Division we would see #1 seed Sean Warren (+34) face off against #2 seed Brian Roever (-8) and finally in the C Division #1 seed Dan Lanious (+43) vs #2 seed Juan Brooks (+17). The A Division semi-final would go back and forth before seeing Mark Large double in the tenth defeat Kevin Convirs, 238 to 206. The B Division semi-final would come down to the tenth frame as Brian Roever would chop his spare attempt in the ninth frame. Brian would nine-spare, strike in the tenth to put pressure on Sean Warren to mark and get good count in the tenth. Sean would throw a good shot on his first ball but would leave a ten pin. He was unable to convert his spare giving Brian the win, 189 to 185. The C Division semi-final would see Dan Lanious defeat Juan Brooks, 220 to 198.
Going into the Final match we would see Mark Large as the #1 seed overall and after his semi-final match be the clear favorite to win. Mark was looking for his 2nd AHT SFT title and the top prize of $1,050. Brian was looking for his 5th title and was making his 2nd Finals appearance this season. Dan was making his fifth title match appearance was looking to break through to get his first title under his belt.
Brian and Mark would start off the match with strikes and it looked like this match would get off to a quick start. Mark would strike in his first three frames to make up the different in handicap between Brian and Dan. Brian would open in the fourth frame after leaving a tricky 2-7-8 split. Dan would try to get lined up through the first four frames and was able to convert all his spares. Finally, in the fifth frame, after a ball change, he was able to line up and throw a strike. Halfway through the match and it looked like Mark was going to run away with the match, but splits in fifth frame (3-4-6-7-10) and sixth frame (3-10) derailed those plans. Brian would strike in the fifth and nine-spare in the sixth to catch back up but would miss a 10-pin spare in the seventh to even the match back up. Dan would covert his spare attempts in the sixth, eighth and ninth frames to give himself a slight lead going in to the tenth frame. Mark would finish his tenth frame with a strike and eight-open for 190. Brian was up next and was strike and nine-spare to finish at 198. Dan would throw a good shot leaving the eight-pin giving him the win with a score of 202 and his first AHT SFT title and $1,050.00!!! Congrats to Brian Roever on 2nd Place and to Mark Large for 3rd Place!
Thank you to everyone that came out to support our event! We hope to see you all next Sunday at AMF Union Hills! Have a great week!!!
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Virtue Bowling Supplies Grand Openining Is This Saturday, August 10th, In Prescott.
Prescott - - - #Team Virtue is growing! Virtue Bowling Supply is pleased to announce the opening of it’s newest two stores inside Plaza Bowl in Prescott, and Antelope Lanes in Prescott Valley! The stores are being re-modeled and fully stocked as you are reading this article! We are preparing for our grand opening event on August 10th at Antelope Lanes! We are excited to bring some resources to the Prescott area that have never been available before like ball demos, bowler ID and blueprint technology, as well as world renowned coaches like Josh Blanchard.
Brian Miller the owner of both bowling centers and previous operator of both pro shops cared a great deal about making sure his customers have a reliable, knowledgeable and trusty worthy pro shop they can visit when bowling at his centers. Because of our incredible customers and supporters down in the valley, he had already heard of us before and expressed immense trust in us taking over a very vital role in his centers. He was excited to have Virtue Bowling Supply taking over the management of both pro shops. He was even more excited to hear that they would be managed by a long time Prescott local scratch bowler, Jeff Row!
Jeff has been dedicated, full-time, to his training under Craig Spencer and his team in the valley since February. Learning how to take his knowledge as a successful competitor and pair it with an IBPSIA accredited training on how to drill balls, fit hands and understand the technical elements of ball motion and layouts. As a long time foreman in construction, his background with fractions, drilling and working with his hands made him a perfect fit for the job. He is excited to reconnect with many of the local bowlers and help them take their game to the next level to enjoy the sport of bowling in a new way!
We want to thank all of #TeamVirtue in the valley that has supported us, helped us grow, and given us the reputation that has allowed us to make this possible.
We encourage all of you to come out to our grand opening event! GET OUT OF THE HEAT AND COME JOIN US ON AUGUST 10TH! Fun tournaments and a bowling ball demo! See you all there!
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