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Mesa - - - Our event this weekend, October 24, was at Bowlero Mesa and we had a pretty good turnout considering that there were a couple of other events going on around the Valley. We had 113 total entries (76 qualifying & 37 economy parlay) for 3 squads, with 29 prize winners and a 1 in 3.89 cash ratio. We paid out over $6,200 in main and side event prize funds. The players bowled on a the 39ft WTBA Seoul oil pattern which is a medium pattern that allowed bowlers to play the pattern from a variety of angles. Scores were up and down all day as the pattern transitioned differently from pair to pair depending on how the bowlers were trying to breakdown the pattern. Some lanes you had to play deep, but others you had to straighten up to get the ball to enter the pocket correctly. The bowlers that were able to figure out their pair were able to stay out of trouble. The average cut scores to the quarterfinals were about +30 which meant that you just had to get 5-10 pins over your average per game.
We want to welcome Mackenzie Paige, Sable St. James, Hydeia Pennington, Chis Temple, Steven Situ, Michael Nguyen, Andy Situ, Robert Fox and Rich Beltoya to the SFT AHT family! We hope you guys all had a good time in your first SFT AHT event and hope we see you back at our future events. Congrats to Brandon Loss and Nick Collins on being this weekend’s Parlay Power Players! Both bowlers took their $25 investment and turned it into a Quarterfinals check with Brandon even making it all the way to the Finals! Also, congrats to Maurice Skyes, Robert Fox, Nick Collins and Trevor Jolley for making their first quarterfinals or who were returning to the quarterfinals in a while. Congrats to Nick Tejada for winning Momma’s Mystery Pot, with a 214 game, for $430.00! Your winner of the free plastic bowling ball, with an option to upgrade to any Track high performance ball for $85.00, was Brandon Bailey!
The Quarterfinals would be bowled on the fresh oil pattern. We would see all the quarterfinalists scores more in line with the 1st squad scores of the tournament. Picking up spares was the key to advancing to the next round. With our 1 in 3 cut ratio, with at least 7 bowlers in each Division, we would cut to the Top 2 bowlers for a Semi-Final round. It looked like it would all come down the third and final game of the quarterfinals to see who would make the cut.
Your A Division leader would be Parlay Power Player Brandon Loss (+61) and he would have to face off against up-and-coming youth bowler Cesar Padilla (+37). In the B Division your overall #1 seed would be Bryton Bobbitt (+93) and he would take on Lordan Ferguson (+48). The C Division would see Dan Friedline (+45) emerge as your #1 seed and he would be matched up against Trevor Jolley (+28).
The A Division Semi-Final match would go back and forth with each bowler trying to figure out the pair. Brandon would get lined up throwing a 3-bagger in the sixth, seventh and eighth frames, but would open in the ninth after not being able to convert the 2-10 split. Cesar would struggle to get any carry as he would crush the pocket be leave a single pin spares. Brandon would double in the tenth to win the match, 208 to 185. The B Division Semi-Final match would see your #1 seed overall Bryton Bobbitt come out firing on all cylinders early. Lordan could not get lined up fast enough and would struggle with the pair. Bryton would go on to win the match, 222 to 186. The C Division Semi-Final match would see Dan Friedline and Trevor Jolley going back and forth for most of the match. They would both struggle early on the pair with Dan being able to figure it out towards the end of the match to win, 201 to 163.
Going into the Finals we would see all three bowlers looking at winning their first AHT SFT title. Bryton Bobbitt was looking to win his first title in his sixth Finals appearance and his third Finals appearance in the last three months. Brandon was looking at improving on his 3rd place finish at the Memorial Day Major earlier this year and also was looking at turning his $25.00 parlay entry into $1,000.00! Dan Friedline was making his first Finals appearance and was not in the progressive pot, so he was looking to get the win and $500.00! What’s really amazing is that Dan had knee replacement surgery earlier this summer and was back to bowling well.
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