GCU Earns Trip To The Collegiate Bowling Nationals. Pictured is the GCU mens and womens bowling teams.
Congratulations to the Grand Canyon UniversityBowling Team on making The Sport of Bowling – USBC Collegiate Nationals!! This young program has come a long way and we are happy for them all.
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Handicap Trio Team Event At Glenfair Lanes.
The TNBA Phoenix Bowling Senate, presents a handicap trio team tournament on Saturday March 16, at Glenfair Lanes. Check in is at 11:00 am, and bowling starts at 12 noon. Cost per team is $120. Handicap is 90 percent of 690. Bowl all three games on same pair of lanes. For more information on this event, contact Cheniqua Johnson of the TNBA at 602-318-9098.
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Pony League News - - - League Bowls At Brunswick Zone Glendale.
Pony League Sponsored by Revolutions Pro Shops, Fourth Quarter Week 2 of 9, 3/11/2019: Congratulations to Chuck Stration for rolling a 300 game in his second game of the evening. Chuck's perfect game is only the fifth 300 rolled in the Pony League season in a league where bowlers average more than one 300 per week in recent years. Way to roll Chuck! Chuck's team, the Dawg Pound (Jason Smith, Lexi Stration, Josh Grow, Chuck Stration Jr. and Chuck Stration Sr.) are on top of the standing sheet for the fourth quarter with a 16-0 record, followed by four teams at 14-2: Strike & Awe, Gray Matter, Revolutions Pro Shop, and Virtue Bowling Supply. Joel Nemec rolled a 289 game: Second high for the evening, followed by Shawn Kozak's 278, Bob Molck's 276 and Kevin Van Gordon's 276. Price McElroy's 762 series topped the weekly leader board, followed by Dylan Taylor's 755, Gary Demeny's jumbo 747, and Shawn Kozak's 743. Alison Kozak rolled the high game of the night for the ladies with a 242 followed by Shirley Braverman's 237, Christine Powell's 226 and Amber Clark's 225. Shirley Braverman's 629 series was the ladies high series for the evening, followed by Alison Kozak's 625, Amber Clark's 618 and Tracie Roberts' 617. Pony League bowlers averaged 198 per game for the evening with the league's season to date average remaining at 195 per game.
Wishing all the best for our Pony League Bowlers, past and present, and those others representing the Valley of the Sun in these upcoming national events:
Juli Bayer: Participating in the:
The 29th National Golden Ladies Classic - 2019
The Orleans Bowling Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
March 11 through March 14
Josh Blanchard, Jakob Butturff, Andrew Cain, Jim Pratt and Stu Williams: Participating in the:
2019 PBA World Series of Bowling X, Allen Park, Michigan, Thunderbowl Lanes
March 12 to March 22
PBA Cheetah Championship
PBA Chameleon Championship
PBA Scorpion Championship
PBA World Championship
USA versus the World Championship
Finals live: March 18 through March 22, 8:00 pm EDT each night, Monday through Friday, all on Fox Sports One (FS1).
Bowl well and score even better in each of these events!
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Jacob Buettner wins 1st SFT Title at AMF Mesa! - SFT News Courtesy Of SFT.
Our event this weekend was at AMF Mesa lanes, which we hadn't been at in a long time and it showed! The bowlers were ready to come out and bowl in this center again! We had a great turnout with 130 total entries (87 qualifying entries & 43 economy parlay entries) 35 total cashers, a 1 in 3.7 cash ratio and paid out over $6,900.00 in main and side event prize funds! The players bowled on a 43ft Mexico City oil pattern, which started with higher scoring than we had seen on a fresh pattern, but the scoring pace remained the same for all three squads with the average cut being around +60 for all three divisions.
We want to welcome another group of new bowlers to the SFT AHT family. Justin Golden, Tyler Anderson, Sean Casey, Edward Hurd, Jacob Smith, Matthew Barr and Tanner Shipman were all bowling in their first event this weekend and we want to welcome them all to the growing SFT community! It's amazing to see that we still are getting new bowlers every week. We hope you all had a good time in your first event, and we look forward to seeing you at the next one! A special congrats Max Premeau for being our only Parlay Power Player this weekend! Max was able to turn his $25 investment into a spot in the quarterfinals and a chance at our $1,200 first place prize. Congrats to Sean Ashley and Chris Weyrauch for both winning Momma's Mystery Score today. Sean won $50.00 with a score of 188 and Chris won $500.00 with a score of 162. Also, congrats to Sean Ashley for winning the drawing for a free plastic ball with an option to upgrade to any high-performance Track bowling ball for $85.00.
The quarter finals the scores were still high as they had been for most of the day, even though we had re-oiled before the round. In the A Division the players moving on were Eric Flick as the #1 seed, at +143, and Chase Nadeau was the #2 seed, at +119. Chase was making a return after taking a bit of time off. The B Division would pit Bryton Bobbitt, +93, against newcomer Jacob Buettner, +86, who was in his debut in the semi-final round. In the C Division, since there were nine quarterfinalists, we would see three bowlers make it to the semi-final match. Your #1 seed was Max Premeau, at +171, who had shot an impressive 300 game in the quarterfinals to secure his spot. He would be facing off against Joe Huber, +155, and Thomas Darnell, +93, who were all making their first appearance in the semi-finals.
The A Division semi-final would see Chase Nadeau throw a ton of strikes to defeat Eric Flick, 274 to 197. The B Division semi-final would come down to the final frame with Jacob Buettner striking out to come from behind and defeat Bryton Bobbitt, 229 to 208. The C Division semi-final would see Joe Huber and Thomas Darnell stay with Max Premeau, but Max was able to out strike them to punch his ticket to the Final match.
All three bowlers in the Finals would be looking to win their 1st ever AHT SFT title and $1,200. Jacob Buettner was the only bowler remaining who was not in the progressive pot, so the most he could win was $600.00. He had plenty of new fans, in the remaining bowlers watching the match, and with his win any progressive pot money left over in the prize fund would be dispersed to the other quarterfinalists.
The Final match would start off with Chase Nadeau continuing to string strikes, opening the match with a three bagger, to jump out to an early lead. Jacob Buettner would try to keep pace with Chase, also throwing a three bagger in the 2nd through 4th frames. Max Premeau would struggle to get lined up, missing spares in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th frames. Halfway through the match and Chase would continue to lead. In the sixth frame Chase threw a nice shot only to leave a pocket 7-10, giving Jacob and Max a chance to get back into the match. In the 7th frame, Jacob would roll the 4-7 for a late strike. Jacob would seize this opportunity and strike in the 8th and 9th frames to put pressure on Chase, who would have strike out in the ninth and tenth to stay in the lead. Max would strike out in the ninth and tenth to finish at 228, but it was too little too late. Chase would stay clutch and strike out in the tenth for a score of 237, putting all the pressure back on Jacob. Jacob would need to mark in the tenth to win. Jacob would get up and throw a good ball but leave the 4-pin standing. He was able to pick up his spare and win his first AHT SFT title and $600.00! Congrats to Chase for taking 2nd place and to Max Premeau for 3rd place.
We would like to thank everyone for coming out this weekend and supporting the event. We look forward to seeing you all again next Sunday at Glenfair Lanes! Hope you all have a great week!
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King Of The Hill At Cactus Bowl In Tucson.
Tucson - - - The King Of The Hill tournament will return to Cactuc Bowl in Tucson on Saturday March 30. Starting time is 12 pm and check in is at 11:30 am. Entry fee is $45. Bowl six games of qualifying. Field is then cut to the top five for the stepladder finals. Event is sponsored by Texas Roadhouse and 900 Global. For more information contact Cactus Bowl at 520-327-6561.
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