Pictured Is: The Metro Phoenix BVL Event. Photo Courtesy Of Rich Prince.
Pony League News - Courtesy Of The Pony League Bowlero Glendale.
Glendale - - - Pony League, Sponsored by Revolutions Pro Shops, Summary after Week 12 of 36 (Second Quarter Week 3 of 9), November 18, 2019: Three weeks into the second quarter, Glory Bowl is atop the standings with a perfect 24-0 record followed by four teams at 20-4 (Strike & Awe, Jackwagons, Old Man Club and Gonna Out 60 ft Ya), three teams at 18-6 (Traffic Cones, Jomama and Anger Sharks), and four teams at 16-8 (Sultans of Swing, Rolling Rock Landscape, Tuggers and Chino Bandido). Johnny Wing rolled the high series of the week with a 766 followed by David Hurley 746, Pat Lombardo 736 and Rich Prince 727. Johnny Wing also rolled the high game of the week with a 289 followed by JD Wogoman's 288, Mike Dirmyer's 268 and John Babbitt's 268. Tracie Roberts 631 and Shirley Braverman 601 topped the 600 mark for the ladies. Shirley Braverman's 630 series led the way for the ladies, followed by Danielle Worthington 225, Amber Clark 222 and Jennifer Zagerman 218. Pony League bowlers averaged 189 per game this week with the season to date average remaining at 186 per game per bowler.
Pony League Singles Week 11 of 34 (Second Quarter Week 3 of 9), 11/18/2019: After three weeks, our second quarter division leaders are Steve Roberts, Ryan Riley, Dylan Taylor, Keith Matter, John Lesner, Marve Burrell, Wes Marema, Willis Hartford and Chuck Morgan.
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Otawa University Wins Challenge Match Against GCU.
Litchfield Park - - - This past weekend Ottawa University, in Surprise, AZ, hosted our team for a Challenge Match. The match consisted of Doubles/Trios/Team baker games and provided a great tune up for our Women and Men's JV Team. Ottawa bowled great and came out on top with a 10-8 win. Congrats to their team and thanks so much for hosting us! #LopesUp #TeamVirtue #Genesis — with OUAZ Bowling Club.
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Mayes, Othic win JBT's Best In The West Event.
Tucson - - - Hunter Mayes and Aiden Othic win JBT’s Best In The West event at Bowlero Tucson! Avery Domaguin and Solomon Salama win Priority Girls Scratch and U17 respectively. Great action, great hosts, great weekend! Complete results coming soon at our really neat website! The event took place on November 16-17.
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11/16/2019 BVL Tournament at AMF Union Hills. Pictures by RICH PRINCE PHOTOGRAPHY.
Union Hills - - - $2,242.00 was raised to add to our current donation totals. Preliminary totals now at $19,583 not quite half way to our goal of $40,000. but we are getting there.This event was hosted by Metro Phoenix.
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Joe Huber wins his 1st title at AMF McRay!!! SFT News Courtesy Of The SFT.
Chandler - - - Our event this weekend was at AMF McRay and we had a huge turnout with 120 entries (73 qualifying and 47 economy parlays). We had 31 cashers, a 1 in 3.87 cash ratio and paid out over $5,300.00 in main and side event prize funds. The players bowled on the 42ft PBA Scorpion oil pattern that played pretty tough for most of the day. There were some higher scores but bowlers were able to play a variety of angles on the pattern. The cut scores stayed around +60 for most of the day, which meant that you had to bowl about 10 pins over your average per game to qualify.
We had some new bowlers join us for their first event and we want to welcome John Damazio, Kaylee Am Khong, Tracie Ball, Earle Leach, Rosine Marschke, Angelica Schweickert, Josh Umstead, Phillip Stancato and David Carrington who all bowled in their first event this weekend. We hope you all had a good time and look forward to seeing you at our next event. Congrats to Kaylee, Rosine and Earle who all made it to the quarterfinals in their very first event! Also, congrats to Eric Flick, Carlos Vejar and Patrick Fontierro for being this weekend's Parlay Power Players. They all made the quarterfinals off their $25 economy parlay investment. Congrats to Carlos Vejar and Kevin Convirs who both won Momma's Mystery Pot with a score of 184 for $270.00!! There was another bowler that also bowled a 184 game, but was not present when the Momma's Mystery Score was announced. Your winner of the free plastic ball raffle, with an option to upgrade to any Track high-performance ball for $85.00, was Ron McDonald.
The quarterfinals would be bowled on the fresh oil pattern and scores showed with those that could throw the ball straighter on the fresh were able to take advantage. Your A Division leader would be Grand Canyon bowler Kyle Gilbert (+85) and he would face off with Kevin Convirs. In the B Division your overall #1 seed would be Kaylee Am Khong (+123) and would take on Joe Huber (+64). The C Division would see #1 seed Robert Behrendt (+84) versus Robert Smith Jr (+35). The A Division semi-final match would go back and forth with each bowler grinding out the match. It would come down to the final frame as Kyle was able to stay clean and defeat Kevin, 179 to 165. The B Division would see Joe Huber throw some well-timed strikes while Kaylee would struggle to get lined up and winning the match, 227 to 191. In the C Division semi-final would see Robert Smith Jr stay clean enough to get by Robert Behrendt, 212 to 178.
The Final match would feature two bowlers (Kyle and Joe) that were not in the progressive pot. The way that the progressive pot works is that the money that the bowler wins that is not in the progressive pot is redistributed to all the bowlers that are in the progressive pot depending on where they placed. Both Kyle and Joe were making their debuts in the Finals and both were looking to capture their first SFT AHT title. Robert Smith Jr was looking at taking home his 2nd title and the first-place prize projected at $1,100!!
The Final match would start off with Joe Huber taking an early lead by striking in his first two frames. Robert would try to keep pace with Joe by picking up his spares. Kyle would struggle with carry and would fall behind Joe and Robert. Halfway through the match and it looked like Joe Huber would runaway with the game, but Robert was able stay in the game by picking up his spares. Kyle would try to get himself back in the game by making a ball change in the fifth frame, but it would be too little too late and he would finish the match at 167. Robert had a chance to get by Joe, but a couple of opens in eighth and tenth frames would be too much to overcome and he would finish at 191. Joe would continue to put together some well timed strikes to finish at 245 and win his first SFT AHT title and $550.00!!! Congrats to Robert Smith Jr for 2nd and Kyle Gilbert for 3rd place.
Thank you to everyone who came out to support the event this weekend and we hope to see you all next Sunday at AMF Tempe Village. Good luck to those bowlers that are heading out to Morongo for the TAT tournament! Have a great week everyone!!!
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Tucson- - - Just a reminder that on 23 November 2019 there is a King of the Hill at Desert Lanes. This is a Doubles Tournament. Starting at 12:00pm. Entry is $50.00 with a Side High Game Pot entry of $30.00. Total cost would be $80.00. Pattern is going to be 2017 US Open Team. I hope to see many of you there. Please pass the word. Make sure you try and get there early as you need a pass to get on post (FT Huachuca). If you have a active duty/retired ID card that is fine.Attached is the flyer.
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KOFTH At Tucson Bowl.
Tucson- - -Congratulations to Shawn Benitez for winning the KotH Tournament at Tucson Bowl on November 17th, 2019. We had 19 entries and paid out $650.00 from the prize fund. This was event #5 of 6 events in the Summer/Fall 2109 Session. The next KotH Tournament at Tucson Bowl will be Sunday December 15th, 2019. For additional information call Tucson Bowl at 520-747-1363.
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9 Game Sweeper At Tucson Bowl.
Tucson- - - Tucson Bowl, 7020 E 21st Street, will be hosting a 9 Game Sweeper on January 1st, 2020. Check-in will start at 10:30 AM, bowling will begin at 11:00 AM. The pattern will be the Kegel Mercury, the entry fee will be $90.00. Scoring for this event will be scratch. For additional information call Tucson Bowl at 520-747-1363.
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Hammer Senior Scratch Trio News.
Sun City - - - Hammer Senior Scratch Trio Week 12 of 33, 11/20/2019: Snap-Shot took on Da Bears this week in a clash of the two top teams in the HSST so far this season. Snap-Shot came out on top, 17 to 8, extending their lead to 16 points over Your Strike Shop # 2 and 21 points over Da Bears and Sidoti-Pawlowski Insurance. Only two other teams, Revolutions Pro Shop and Sharpe/Swayda/Partridge have winning records in the first half of the season. The other 10 teams are all below 50 percent won season-to-date. Randy Norton's 277 game was high for the evening, followed by Jeff May's 268 and Mike Maynard's 267. Lynda Bettini's 240 game was high for the ladies, followed by Jacqueline Smith's 232 and Sonja Echeverria's 215. High series leaders for the week: Jeff May 955, Dana Barrette 927 and Gary Demeny 923. For the ladies, Lynda Bettini 847 and Jacque Smith 820 topped the 800 mark. HSST bowlers averaged 201 per game this week with the season-to-date average increasing a stick to 201 per game per bowler.