Sevier Wins MMA 35th Annual Masters Title. Pictured Are MMA President Mike Barrett, And David Sevier.
Mesa - - - The MMA held its 35th Annual Masters Tournament on February 23, at Brunswick Zone Mesa. A big congratulations goes out to David Sevier on winning this years title. Those who made the cut to the top five, are listed below.
2nd Place was Mike Ramsey
3rd Place: Robbie Patterson
4th Place: Devyn Scotford
5th Place: Eric Flick
Thanks to all the men who came out to bowl!
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Courtesy Of The Pony League - Brunswick Zone Glendale.
The Desert Bowler Newspaper, March 2019 edition, should be available this weekend at bowling centers and pro shops across Arizona. The Pony League article is provided here for your convenience:
Congratulations to our third quarter champions, Chi-Town: Terry Piercy, Charles Adams, Les Freeman, Scot Piercy, John Lesner and sixth roster member Phil Glass. Chi-Town earned the third quarter title with a stellar 54-10 record. The Anger Sharks (Johnny Chi, Larry Eng, Scott Englehart, Cliff Adams, Shad Schoenemann and sixth roster member Johnny Wing), and All Mixed Up (Steve Barlow, Bob Molck, Brian Childress, Mark Childress, Bill Spiva and sixth roster member Moriah Taylor) tied for second place at 50-14. Chi-Town joins our first and second quarter champions, Ramsey Auto Center (Pat Lombardo, Larry Spitali, Wayne Swayda, Alan Wagner, John Babbitt, and extra roster members Juli Bayer and Andrea Lewis), and Strike & Awe (Kurt Zimmerman, John Nassivera, Shirley Braverman, Carey Hofmann, Michael Marranca and sixth roster member William Milho) in the overall league championship semi-finals.
Spare Club For Men (Josh Mullen, Stephen Reed, Stephen Anderson, Greg LaPointe and Joey Burruel), rolled the high series of the season with an excellent 3545 set. Perhaps a name change is in order? Strike Club for Men?
Men’s High Averages: Jason Van Bodegon 231, Shawn Kozak 230, Dylan Taylor 228, and Steve Roberts 227
Women’s High Averages: Jacqueline Smith 203, Shirley Braverman 202, Alison Kozak 202, and Tracie Roberts 188
Men’s High Series in February: Josh Mullen 794 and 760, Ronnie Miertschin 791, Jeff Row 789, Shad Schoenemann 768 and 743, Wes Marema 764, Jason Van Bodegon 761, Jeffrey Miller 757, Joey Burruel 753 and 741, Greg LaPointe 753, Terry Vander Vlucht 752, Brian Vangordon751, Dylan Taylor 741, Rich Strowman 738
Women’s High Series in February: Zelle Rubio 745, 674 and 621, Jacque Smith 712 and 643, Alison Kozak 680, 665 and 619, Sara Wolek 673, Shirley Braverman 656 and 641, Becky Tistle 638, Kristie Albani 624, Tracie Roberts 619, Bev Spinck 611, Christine Powell 609
Men’s High Games in February: Joey Burruel 290, Brian Van Gordon 289, Ronnie Miertschin 286, Steve Barlow 279, Steven Berry 279, Gary Demeny279, Les Johnson 279, Tom King 279, Wes Marema 279, Shad Schoenemann 279, Jim Keister 278, Price McElroy 278, Chuck Stration278, Greg LaPointe 277, Josh Mullen 277, Ryan Riley 277, Rich Strowman 277
Women’s High Games in February: Alison Kozak 278, 258 and 241, Jacque Smith 268, Zelle Rubio 264 (2), Chris Gonos 247, Sara Wolek 247, Tracie Roberts 244, Andrea Albani 242, Kristie Albani 235, Barb Wilson 234, Danielle Worthington 234, Shirley Braverman 233, Niki Smyth 228 (2)
Pony League bowlers are averaging 195 per game season to date.
Third quarter singles division champions: Steve Roberts in the 216 and over division, Wes Marema in the 207 to 215 division, Shad Schoenemann in the 201 to 206 division, Myke White in the 193 to 200 division, Jim Bungard in the 182 to 192 division, and Scot Piercy in the 181 and under division.
The Pony League, sponsored by Revolutions Pro Shops, rolls each Monday evening, 6:30 pm, August through May, at Brunswick Zone Glendale. 180+ bowlers on 35 teams are competing for over $75,000 in prize money this season in team and individual competition.
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Eddie Thompson wins 1st SFT Title at Lakeview!-SFT News Courtesy Of SFT.
Our event this weekend was at Lakeview Lanes in Sun City, AZ! While this isn't always the most convenient for the SFT regulars, many of them still make the drive all they way to Sun City. We had members from as far away as East Mesa and Tucson, Arizona that came to bowl the event. The members love how clean and well kept the center is, and they like that it is a little smaller and more quaint. In most cases we fill the entire center each squad, and so it feels like the house is there for our tournament only. The event drew 80 entries in 2 squads which is a great turnout for being in a place that isn't as centrally located as some of the other places we go. The players bowled on a very difficult 36ft stockholm oil pattern that had very low scores. The average cut score ended up taking scores that required bowling 5-10 over your average per game. Even though there was a good amount of hook due to the shorter pattern, it was still very easy to push your ball through the break point or miss the friction that was there.
We had a lot of new bowlers again at this event! Let's welcome Charles Rodgers, Michael Taylor, J.R. Banks, Kyle Hoard, Darren Fletcher, and Eugene Vigil to the ever growing SFT AHT family. It has been crazy the surge we have seen in the last month of new bowlers at our events! A special congrats to J.R Banks who was the only new bowlers to advance to the quarter finals today too! Also congrats to Emilio Perez on winning the bowling ball raffle!
The quarter finals at this event was not on a fresh oil condition like it normally is. For the 2 squad events, we go straight into the quarter finals, with no break to re-oil. This forced the bowlers to be versatile and know how to bowl on the fresh or more worn conditions since winning a title at SFT AHT can go either way depending on the event type. Because it is only 2 squads, the number quarter finalists was a little less which meant we the A and B Divisions cut straight to the Division champion, and no semi-final was necessary. The C Division was the only division that went to a semi-final match and that was between Eddie Thompson and Michael Sylve. The A Division champion was Shawna Strause and B Division champion Kevin Convirs. The C Division semi-final match started off with Michael Sylve having 5 straight open frames and it looking like Eddie Thompson was going to be the clear cut winner, but then Eddie not only had many opens, but a frame that he double guttered in and it looked like Michael had another chance, but didn't take advantage of it, which gave Eddie the C Division title.
The final match could be summarized as striking and no sparing. All three players had a great strike shot line, but when it came to making spares, really struggled. It was back and for the whole time with Eddie Thompson having a small lead and then making that lead a little bit bigger in the middle of the game with Shawna and Kevin both missing some more spares, However, opens late by Eddie gave Shawna and Kevin life again, but they had to strike out from the 8th and weren't able to do so. However, Shawna struck out in the 10th and got 9 in the fill to put pressure on Kevin for winning 2nd. Kevin needed all 3 strikes in the 10th to tie Shawna and split 2nd and 3rd place prize money. He got the first two, and did it in convincing fashion, which made it seem likely he was going to get the 3rd one, but he threw that one a little faster and it missed the head pin to the left a little (he's a lefty) which gave Shawna 2nd place and $350, and Kevin $250!
Thanks to everyone for making this event so successful! We look forward to seeing everyone at our next event at AMF Mesa next Sunday!
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