Story And Photo From Mesa Metro Association.
Mesa - - - MMA Donation to Legion Riders of American Legion Post #26 for their annual Christmas Toy Drive for the Phoenix Children's Hospital Cancer Ward. Donation raised during the annual Military tournament. Thank you, bowlers, for helping make this happen.
Front row: Leslie Marsh (MMA), Marcy Carter (LR), Jeremiah McLelland (MMA), Heide Young (LR)
Back row: Gary Carter (LR Asst. Director), Ron Young (LR Director), Craig Renevitz (LR).
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GCU Bowling - Courtesy Of GCU.
Diamond Bar, CA. - - -This past weekend, the team traveled to Diamond Bar, CA for the first leg of their West Coast campaign. Both the Varsity and JV squad came away with a sweep!
VARSITY
Oak Tree Open: The team jumped out to a huge lead following the 4th team game but struggled down the stretch and ultimately held off San Jose State for the title.
Floria Financial Open: The lead was tightly contested between ASU, Fresno, San Jose, and UNLV. A solid position round performance on a difficult pattern saw the Lopes clinch a narrow victory over the Bulldogs of Fresno State!
JV
Oak Tree Open: The Lopes cruised to a resounding victory over the 6 other teams in their division.
Floria Financial Open: Sunday’s contest was a bit closer, as the squad battled back from over a 100-pin deficit to secure a 19-pin victory over UNLV.
Notable Individual Finishes:
Oak Tree Open: Jovan - 1st; Mike - 5th; Brendan - 10th; Tyler - 11th; Ethan - 14th
Floria Financial Open: Jovan - 3rd; Drew - 16th; Tyler 17th
The coaching staff is proud of how the team persevered throughout the weekend and are excited for the month ahead with trips to Fresno and Las Vegas. Thanks to all of our supporters near and far! Lopes Up!
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Thompson Tournament News - From Kristi Smith - Thompson.
Chandler - - - Congratulations to our November '24 Bakers winners!
We had 48 entries. 19 in the 370 & 29 in the 430 cap
11 teams made cashing rounds. We paid out $2780 in prize money, and $932 in side pots
We raised $96 for Mesa Strikers Youth
Our 300 pot was not won and will roll over with $446
The 12 strike pot was not won and remains at $2000
Our new 11 strike pot was won by Kyler Adams/Chase Rohlik and they received $128
60% of the overage for our next doubles will be $105 if you hit 11 of our 12 strikes. Remember a tie will split, but if more than 2 wins it will roll over.
Congratulations to Gary Kresse for winning our $50 free entry raffle. The $50 is good for any of our Thompson Bowling Tournament events.
370 Division:
- Finals came down to Josh Thompson/Mark Baker vs Andrew Locke/Shane Gomez with Andrew & Shane pulled off the win 235-182
- High Games paid out $34 to each team: Howard/Hegarty 244, Boothe/Smith 258, Thompson/Baker 247, Ellis/Ellis 267, Rybicki/Finn 228 & Gomez/Locke 255
- High Series paid $96: Erin Boothe/Edmond Smith 1301
430 Division:
- Finals were Chris Stewie Stewart/Dan Quilt vs Team Hanna with Dan/Chris taking the win 224-199
- High Games paid out $56 each team: Patterson/Feber 289, Rivers/Ward 279, Graham/Riley 267, Ellis/Foster 278, Muldrow/Thompson 235, Hanna/Hanna 228
- High Series paid $168: Team Hanna 1390
Complete standings including side pots and brackets can be found on Tournamentbowl.com. We're listed under TBT Nov '24 Bakers Doubles.
Upcoming events: Bakers Trios December 14th. We are almost full with a 40 team max for the 1pm. If we get enough interested over the 40 Jay Jay will let us run a qualifying squad at 9am.
Then our New Years Day Hangover Special Bakers Doubles will be January 1st at NOON. Registration is open for both, just DM, comment or email. Mark you calendars and we'll see you there!!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Results From The 45th Annual Tucson Metro Senior Women's Championships - Courtesy Of Mark Kerr.
Tucson - - - Here are the unofficial final standings for the 45th Annual Tucson Metro USBC Senior Women’s Championships. With this posting, Tucson Metro USBC'S 72 hour clock has begun for review and questions. After 72 hours, Tucson Metro USBC will post the Final Standings with prize fund and begin the process to get tournament checks out to those bowlers who cashed. Please email Steve Harris, Association Manager if you have any questions. Email am@tucsonmetrousbc.com. Tucson Metro USBC thanks everyone who took part in the tournament.
45th Annual Women’s Senior Tournament High Scratch Award Winners
Team – Sun City West Ladies - 2622
Chris Wiley - 649
Lora Summers-Franklin - 635
Shelley Zarick - 676
Brenda Burns - 662
Doubles – 1282
Shelley Zarick – 666 / Brenda Burns - 616
Singles – 691
Brenda Burns
All-Events – 1969
Brenda Burns – 662 – 616 - 691
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Strike Force Tour News - From Strike Force Tour. November 22, 2024.
Exciting Updates for the Strike Force Tour Aht!
Please share or tag anyone that might be interested in knowing about this or applying.
We will have some brand new tournament directors join us in 2025 and we want to insure they are set up for success and that this is another stage of growth and excitement for our members. For 12 years, the Strike Force Tour has stood by its innovative, transparent, and membership-driven structure and we are excited to expand on that.
If you aren't aware of how SFT works, unlike many other events that have a “tournament czar” that determines everything with a minimally transparent set of rules, you—our members—decide the rules at our annual Year-End Meeting, we then update our 14 page rulebook that is always available on our site and then the TD enforces what you decide. We’ve always ensured transparent rules, payouts, and processes that put the power in your hands, and that commitment hasn’t changed.
To enhance this approach, we’re introducing a new Advisory Council as an extension of this structure. This group will:
- Help us prepare an agenda for the year end meeting to speed up conversation around potential improvements.
- Help make decisions in nuanced situations where the rulebook isn’t clear.
- Provide feedback and ideas to improve events year-round.
- Act as a voice for the membership, allowing for quicker changes when needed.
- With new tournament directors joining in 2025, this Advisory
Council will ensure that communication between members and directors remains strong and that your wants and needs drive the future of SFT AHT.
- A full list of council members will also be fully transparent and available online once determined.
We’re inviting trusted, active members to apply to join the Advisory Council. Once selected, we’ll host a video meeting before the Year-End Meeting to share ideas, review results, systems, entry counts, and other key data. These insights will help ensure any membership-driven changes can be voted on at the Year-End Meeting and implemented at the start of the 2025 season.
If you’re interested in joining, apply here: https://forms.gle/7rNwCkHZiDLCCiGQ6
Thank you for being part of this incredible community and helping us continue to innovate and grow. Let’s make 2025 our best season yet!
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PBA West Regional News - Courtesy Of The PBA - November 17, 2024
Las Vegas - - - The dust has settled on the PBA West Region for the Year.
The final 3 events last weekend - Non Champions, PBA RPI qualifier and PBA50 RPI qualifier were all contested at one of the best venues on the West Coast if not the country - the South Point Bowling Plaza.
Thanks to Angie Bonifazi, Director of Bowling Operations for the Plaza and the entire staff, Aji, Mark, Savanna, David, Fred, Joe and numerous others. The weekend was as smooth as could be.
Chase Nadeau led the The Non Champions event qualifying shooting 806 (269, 289, 248) to start and never really looked back. It took +212 to make the top 16 in the one day event.
The single elimination bracket (best of 3) was a series of upsets. Only 2 of the top 8 survived to the second round - Matt Murtishaw and Kyle Ponzo. Those 2 players were also able to advance thru the next round to face each other. Murtishaw prevailed 232-214 to face newcomer Kaven Massey who was bowling his first PBA tournament. Matt threw an impressive 267 to Kaven's 228 to earn his first title. Congrats Matt. Matt joins his father, Jim, as a PBA champion!
The PBA50 qualifying started early Saturday morning, with Michael Hartter leading the way with +220, while the cut at 24th was Waren Eales at +46. Sunday morning's first advancer's round, had Ron Hurt taking over the lead by almost 100 with a solid 1208 for 5. After the 2nd advancers round Rick Benard was the top seed for stepladder shooting 913 for his 4 games in that round. A tie for 2nd and 3rd in the stepladder required an additonal game to break the tie for the stepladder seeding and DA smith came out on top of Ron Hurt. The first match was Walter Ray Williams Jr. versus Ron Hurt and Hurt won 237-209. DA Smith then defeated Hurt 221-212 in a close match. The championship match came down to the final frame where Rick Benard needed to spare in the 10 to clinch the title 220-211 over Smith. Congratulations Rick!
The open division started Saturday afternoon with Deo Benard absolutely mauling them averaging 247 to lead the field by almost 100. After the first advancers round Deo still maintained his lead going into the 2nd advancers round. Tim Cagle II made the biggest move that round moving from 17th to 6th with 1204 for the 5 games. The second advancers round was exciting as 6 players fought for the 4 stepladder positions. Matt Zweig made a 2-4-8-10 late in game 4 to secure his spot in the finals. Deo extended his lead but Cagle was able to secure the 2nd stepladder spot. Non Member Kevin Jenkins had a solid performance throughout the tournament to qualify in the 4th spot.
Kevin Jenkins defeated Matt Zweig in the first stepladder match 237-199. The second match was a high scoring affair with Tim Cagle II winning 256-245. Cagle II moving on to the title match vs tournament leader Deo Benard, In another high scoring match, Cagle II started with the front 7 strikes, while Benard had 2 spares thru 7 frames. Benard finished first with 258 forcing Cagle to get the first 2 strikes in the 10 for the win. He did just that taking home his 2nd title of the year and 5th overall. Congrats Tim!
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B3 News - Courtesy Of B3
December Lane Pattern Calendar and Holiday Specials.
Tempe - - - It’s that time of year! Check out the promotions and deals we will be running from December 3 - December 23. Also, as we do each year, we will be taking some time off between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day. Please see the calendar for the lane patterns for December, as well as the days we will be closed.
We wish everyone the happiest of holidays!!
HOLIDAY SPECIALS
GIFT CARDS
We will be running our yearly $5.00 for every $50.00 promotion. For every $50.00 that you spend in gift card purchases, you will receive an additional $5.00 that you can add to that gift card or keep for yourself.
BOW ON THE BALL
We will have several bowling balls that will be on sale. If you see a ball on the wall that has a bow on it, you will receive $20.00 off the purchase price of that ball. (Only valid for in stock bowling balls, and only while supplies last. All Bow on the Ball sales are final.)
RAFFLE
Every purchase of a 2-ball, 3-ball, 4-ball, or 6-ball performance rolling bag will come with an entry into a raffle for a free performance bowling ball. We will draw the winner after the New Year when we are back open. The winner will be provided a list of bowling balls from which to choose.
(Offer not valid for 1-ball bags, 2-ball totes, or 3-ball tournament totes.)
“I am grateful for what I am and have. My Thanksgiving is perpetual.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
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