Pictured At The Left Is: Rim Country Bowl.
Champion Of Champions Tournament At Rim Country Bowl In Payson.
Payson - - - The Mesa Metro Association held its 50th Champion of Champions tournament on June 29-30 at Rim Country Bowl in Payson.The first Champion of Champions tournament took place in 1969. The tournaments entries were comprised of teams who had won their league championship during the 2018-19 season. And of teams who were invited to take part in the event.
Formerly known as Rim Country Lanes and Beeline Bowl, Rim Country Bowl is located about 65 miles north of Mesa on the Beeline Highway in Payson. A big Thank You! goes out to the staff and management of the bowling center for taking excellent care of the bowlers and the MMA board members who worked the tournament.
Monday Night Scratch Match Point At Brunswick Mesa.
Mesa - - - Are you looking for a challenge to improve your game this coming season? Well look no further than the Monday Night Scratch Match Point league. Over 20K in league prize fund with even more patterns to bowl on this year. If you're interested, please feel free to submit your roster or contact(pm on Facebook Tawna Jean McDonald) with any questions or concerns. Thanks!
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Lucky Strike Bowl Open On July 4th.
Tucson - - -We will be open on the 4th of July from 11:00am until Midnight. Bring the family and enjoy the cool temps inside!
No Tap Saturday Nights At Tucson Bowl.
Tucson - - - No Tap Saturday Nights at Tucson Bowl, 7020 E 21st Street had 27 total entries on June 8th, 2019. We paid out $351.00 in prize fund, and $54.00 in the shootout. The Strike Pot was not hit and continues to grow. No Tap Saturday Nights is every Saturday Night throughout the summer at Tucson Bowl, 520-747-1363.
Looking For Practice On A Sport Shot?
Tucson - - -For those of you looking to improve your game, and get ready for the 2019/20 Fall/Winter Season, come on out to Tucson Bowl, 7020 E 21st Street on Sundays. We will be running our League House Shot on lanes 1-16, as well as a Sport Short on lanes 17-24. Bowling on sport conditions is a great way to improve your game. Our 2019/20 Fall/Winter Schedule is out, there is a variety of leagues to choose from, stop by or give us a call, 520-747-1363 to sign up for a league.
6 Game Sweeper At Tucson Bowl.
Tucson- - - Tucson Bowl, 7020 E 21st Street, will be hosting a 6 Game Sweeper on Thursday, the 4th of July, 2019.Check-in will start at 9:30 AM, bowling will begin at 10:00 AM. The entry fee will be $60.00, the oil pattern will be the Kegel Bourbon Street. There will be 2 divisions, scratch and handicap. For additional information call 520-747-1363.
King Of The Hill At Tucson Bowl.
Tucson - - -The next King of the Hill Tournament at Tucson Bowl will be on Sunday July 14th, 2019. Check-in will start at 9:30 AM and bowling will begin at 10:00 AM. The entry fee is $50.00 and the oil pattern will be the Kegel Alcatraz. The format will be 6 games of qualifying with a 5 person stepladder final. For additional information contact Tucson Bowl at 520-747-1363.
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CBE News Courtesy Of CBE
Sun City West - - - Well, our first ever major is in the books.
Long day, grueling oil pattern, and at the end of the day, G $$ (Gary Estep) takes home the $2,000 first place prize check.
Fantastic bowling to Gary.
Runner up with an unfortunate injury in the title match was Miguel Ruiz Lopez. Miguel qualified 11th and bowled incredible to work his way to the title match. Great bowling all day Miguel!
Rounding out the top 5 was
3. Kyle King
4. Chris Klerk
5. Jim Pratt
Bowlers competed on the brutal Kegel Red Square pattern today.
Cut for top 12 was -11 after 7 games.
Cut to cash (16th) was -28.
By far the lowest scoring event overall that we’ve had yet....and I loved it!!
Next event is the Prescott event on July 21st for the Open players to begin the 2nd half of the season.
Points will he updated this week.
Thank you again to all of the bowlers for coming out, and thank you to our amazing sponsors
AVTECH (Kevin Jenkins)
Bowling Dynamics
Dennis Klein with Your Strike Shop
Mark Burright Realty
Apparel EFX
Columbia 300
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Pony League News - League Bowls On Monday Night At Bowlero Glendale. Story Courtesy Of The Pony League.
Glendale- - -The release of the July 2019 Desert Bowler is still one week away. The following is the article written for the July 2019 Desert Bowler:
The Pony League is on break for the summer. Our tentative schedule for the 2019-2020 season follows.
Pre-Season Meeting: Monday, August 12, 2019, 6:00 pm, Bowlero Glendale (Brunswick Zone Glendale)
Pony League Starts: Monday, August 19, 2019, 6:15 pm practice, 6:30 pm competition begins, 36 weeks (Quarters are 9 weeks, 9 weeks, 8 weeks, 9 weeks plus 1 week sweeper)
Optional Singles Starts: Monday, August 26, 2019, 34 weeks (Quarters are 8 weeks, 9 weeks, 8 weeks and 9 weeks)
Pony League Does Not Bowl: Labor Day, Monday, September 2, 2019
1st Quarter Ends (9 Weeks): October 21, 2019
Pony League Does Note Bowl on Veterans Day, November 11, 2019
2nd Quarter Ends (9 Weeks): December 23, 2019
3rd Quarter Ends (8 Weeks): February 17, 2020
Fourth Quarter Position Round to Decide the 4th Quarter Champion Team: April 20, 2020
4th Quarter Ends (9 Weeks), league playoff semi-finals, and optional singles league ends: April 27, 2020
Sweeper, payout night and league playoff finals: May 4, 2020
League Champions and Team Average for the 10 most recent seasons:
2018-2019: Chi-Town (Piercy/Adams/Freeman/Piercy/Lesner), 931
2017-2018: A Family Swimming Pool (Schamber/Pamula/Berry/Pamula/Kane), 992
2016-2017: Free Consultation (Burns/Lombardo/Rudd/Estep/DeFine), 1080
2015-2016: Out of Control (Gray/Spinck/Dryer/Spinck/Drew), 963
2014-2015: Hammering the Storm (Roberts/Corirossi/Kasting/Solberg/Jones), 1107
2013-2014: Rolling Rock Landscape (Tistle/Fee/Dickinson/Anaya/Graham), 1085
2012-2013: Roc-N-Rollers (Pullen/Meyer/Billow/Ludlow/Vangordon), 1037
2011-2012: To Have or Have Not (Kelsey/Havers/Deal/Kannard/Windle), 1009
2010-2011: Lucky Strugglers (Joralmon/Kelly/Dziurzynski/Blanchard/Gibbs), 962
2009-2010: Joralmon/Kelly/Dornath/Blanchard/Gibbs, 1001
The Pony League, sponsored by Revolutions Pro Shops, rolls each Monday evening, 6:30 pm, mid-August through early-May, at Bowlero Glendale (Brunswick Zone Glendale). Up to 40 teams, 200 bowlers, will be competing for over $80,000 in prize money next season in team and optional singles competition. We are now taking team and individual sign-ups for the 2019/2020 season which begins in mid-August 2019. Contact James Bungard at 602.828.9965, voice or text, messenger, or e-mail at jbungard4@outlook.com.
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Ron McDonald wins title #2 at Glenfair Lanes! SFT News Courtesy Of SFT.
Glendale - - -Our event this weekend was at Glenfair lanes and we had nice little turnout with all the other events going on in the Valley. We had 68 total entries (44 qualifying and 24 economy parlay), 26 total cashers, a 1 in 3.1 cash ratio and paid out over $3,250.00 in main and side event prize funds. Players bowled on the PBA 47ft Scorpion pattern. Most of the players played in the middle of the lane or around the 2nd arrow at the furthest right. It took a couple of squads for the pattern to finally break down and forced players further left, but once it finally broke down the scores increased significantly.
As always, we want to welcome our first-time bowlers to the SFT AHT family! Welcome Erica Bierly, Chris Cahn, Jeff Miller, Brenda Burk and Rene Villa to our little bowling family! We hope you all had a good time at your first event, and we look forward to seeing you at the next one! Also, congrats to Charlie Light on being this weekend's only Parlay Power Player. Charlie was able to make the quarterfinals off his initial $25 investment. Congrats to Xavier Altamirano and Sheila Reddic on advancing to the quarterfinals in their first ever event or their first quarterfinals appearance in quite a while! Also, congrats to Jonah Tafoya for winning Momma's Mystery Score, with a 167, for $190.00! Your raffle winner of the free plastic ball with an option to upgrade to any Track High-Performance bowling ball for $85.00 was Dan Lanious!
The quarterfinals, like the rest of the event, was medium to high scoring with the standings being very tight and being determined by the final game of the quarterfinals. In the A & C Division, with only 5 players in each Division, we would see the Division winners advance straight into the Final match. The winner of the A Division would be Ron McDonald (+85) and the C Division leader would be Dan Lanious (+49). In the B Division, we would have a semi-final match as we cut down to the top 2 bowlers which would be Josh Black (+107) and he would have to face off against Richard Wallace (+96). The semi-final would see Richard start off the match with a good lead, but a split in the seventh frame would event things up. Josh was able to get lined up and it would all come down to the tenth frame. Richard was on a double and would need to keep striking to put some pressure on Josh to do the same. Unfortunately, Richard couldn't carry the pocket and would fill out his tenth with nine-spare and nine on his fill ball. Josh was able to strike out in the tenth frame to punch his ticket to the Finals, 241 to 209.
Going into the Final match we would see Ron McDonald looking for his 2nd SFT AHT title. Josh Black, our reigning SFT Player of the Year, receives 20 exemptions for the year which places him directly into the quarterfinals without having to qualify. This would be his first chance to get his first title of the 2019 season and 2nd SFT AHT title overall. Dan Lanious was making his 5th appearance in the Finals and trying to get over the hurdle to claim his first SFT AHT title.
The Final match would see everyone fire right out the gate with all three bowlers getting strikes on their first ball. It looked like it was going to be a higher scoring Final match. Dan would leave a 1-3-6 but was able to pick it up in the second frame. Ron would strike in the 2nd frame and ten pin in the third frame. Josh would split in the second frame leaving an ugly 4-6-10 and split again in the third this time leaving the Big Four (4-6-7-10). This would put him a bit of a hole as Ron and Dan would keep striking. Dan would throw four Brooklyn strikes in a row to build up a good lead. He would see his string of strikes end in the seventh frame as he was able to pick up the 1-3 but a missed ten-pin in the eighth would give Ron a chance to catch back up. Ron would throw a four bagger in the fourth through seventh frames to stay on Dan's heels. Dan would try to put some pressure on Ron by picking up his eight-spare in the ninth but would miss the 6-10 spare in the tenth to finish at 237. Ron would spare a three pin in the eighth and then strike out for the rest of the match to finish at 258 scratch, 278 with handicap. This would give Ron his 2nd SFT AHT title and $625.00!!! Congrats to Dan Lanious on 2nd place and Josh Black on 3rd place.
Thank you to everyone who came out this weekend to support our event. We look forward to seeing you all in two weeks at AMF McRay on July 14th. Good luck to everyone that's heading to Las Vegas for the TAT!!!
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