JBT News - Courtesy Of JBT. Photo Courtesy Of JBT.
Mesa- - - Zach Greim and JT Verde wrapped up a big Southwest Conference weekend with singles titles in exciting action at Bowlero Mesa.
After five qualifying games on the challenging 'Boardwalk' pattern, the top 16 in each division advanced to matchplay. Scratch division top seed Hunter Mayes led qualifying at a blistering 242 average, and had no problem with his opponents, including a 279 semifinal win over Andrew Guba to reach the final. He'd face his constant rival Zach Greim, who defended his #2 seed with wins over Kyle Reed, Daniel Hong, and Lucas Rabb to reach the championship game. In the finale, Mayes lost his look a bit, and Greim grinded out a clean 216, good enough for the 12th title of his JBT career.
Jason Bardol earned the top seed in the handicap division, and survived to the semifinal, but red-hot Mackenzie Hammer defeated him 190-181 to advance to the final. On the other side of the bracket, Las Vegas' JT Verde took out So Cal's Jimmy Pfaff 222-206 to reach his first singles title match. The 10 year-old didn't perform like a rookie in the final though, blasting 215 srctah for a 245-182 win over Hammer, and first career JBT title.
Daniel Hong fired a back-seven 250 to beat Cesar Padilla for the day's U17 title. Emily Cheesman won the day's Girls Scratch event with a win over Madison Holman, who also finished 8th in the main scratch event. Caden Meliska won the day's bowling ball from our title sponsor Ebonite.
Thanks to the team at Mesa for their usual fantastic job hosting our Tour! Want in on the fun? Just check out our schedule and come on down!
AZ Doubles champs and finalists
Mesa - - - JBT veterans and rookies shared in over $3,300 in scholarships awarded at the annual Arizona Doubles, hosted by Bowlero Mesa.
Ethan Young and Kaitlynn Pennington began the baker-format handicap stepladder finals with a 170-132 win over newcomers Ryan Doyle and Bryn Widows. Ethan and Kaitlynn then squeezed by Conner Pendergrass 183-173 when Young came up with a clutch tenth frame double. Top seeded twins Reef and Ryder Hirokane had run away from the field in qualifying and matchplay, but found themselves in a battle in the title match. Needing a mark to win, they got the strike they needed for the win and first career JBT titles each.
The scratch division was studded with JBT stars both past and present, and nothing was decided after round one, with Ben Canfield and Mathew Adragna tying Cerell Cardines and Andrew Guba at 217. Adragna's strike won the ensuing rolloff, and they rode the momentum of that to a 259-179 win over Hunter Mayes and Justin Song to reach the title match.
2017 Main Event champ Brennan 'Bean' Haugh teamed with all-time JBT 'goat' Cortez Schenck to lead a tightly-packed field after matchplay, but a ringing-10 from Tez gave Ben and Matt a chance to take the tournament away. 23-time champ Canfield's first effort came up high though, and Haugh collected JBT title #3, while it was #97 (!) for Schecnk as a result.
Huge thanks to the adult bowlers, many of them JBT alumni, who came out to bowl with today's JBT bowlers. Bowlero Mesa is a great place to run an event, so huge thanks to them as well. Want in on all this fun for all ages and averages? Just check out our schedule and come on down!
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SFT News - Courtesy Of SFT.
Chandler - - - This weekend, December 11-12, was our very final event of the 2021 season. We had our Match Play Invitational at AMF Chandler Lanes. The top 24 bowlers in total season points, except the Player of the Year, 2nd and 3rd place bowlers were invited to bowl this event. These bowlers were all trying to win an event exemption for the upcoming 2021 season. The winner of this event would win 2 exemptions and 2nd place would receive 1 exemption for the upcoming 2022 season.
We would take check in and like in previous years we would go down the season points list trying to fill our brackets. The #24 seed of this event would be Justin Surat, who had just recently started to bowl our events in the last month, and he would get in after being at #163 on the season points list. So just remember that if you are not in the Top 24 then you still have a chance at bowling the event. Your Top 4 seeded bowlers would receive a three-round bye, while your next #5-8 seeded bowlers would get a two-round bye. This would be advantageous as it would allow you to get further in the bracket without bowling as many games.
We would see a few bowlers that would lose their first match by upset with the lower seed bowlers winning their match. Since this tournament is a double elimination format, then the bowlers would still have a chance to make the Finals, but it would be a real uphill climb. A couple of the lower seeded bowlers would try to make a run in the Winner’s bracket, but would run into some trouble as the day went on.
On the Winner’s side of the tournament bracket, we would see Bryton Bobbitt go on a run by winning all his matches. Bryton would go on to defeat Eric Flick, 231 to 214, to send him down to await the Loser’s bracket winner. Top 8 bowlers would finish out their matches in the Loser’s bracket. We would see David Corcino lose to red-hot Eddie Wilcox, 249 to 206, while Brandon Loss would defeat Outhay Lalab, 221 to 193. David and Outhay would finish in the 7th/8th place for the tournament for $60.00!
Brandon Loss would face off with Nicholas Tejada in a rematch from earlier in the Winner’s bracket where Nicholas went off on Brandon, so Brandon was looking to redeem himself. The match would go back and for but Nicholas would struggle on the pair as Brandon would win the match, 209 to 171. In the other match it would be Eddie Wilcox against Ken W. Davis. They would have a very close match with Eddie taking down Ken, 209 to 197. Nicholas and Ken would finish in the 5th/6th place for $70.00.
We would see Brandon Loss and Eddie Wilcox face off with the winner having to meet up with Eric Flick to determine who would face off with Bryton in the Finals. Brandon and Eddie would have a close match with it coming down the ninth/tenth frame. Eddie would need to strike out to put some pressure on Brandon, but would go high on his first shot to leave the 3-6-10, which he would convert. Eddie would fill out the tenth to finish at 203. Brandon would get up needing only a mark to win and would do more than that by crushing the pocket for a double and nine to win with a score of 227. Eddie Wilcox would finish up in 4th place for $100.00. Brandon would then face off with Eric Flick and their match would see Brandon catch fire. Brandon would string some strikes to defeat Eric, 245 to 183. Eric would finish up in 3rd place for $110.00.
This would set up Brandon to meet Bryton in the Championship match. With this being a double elimination tournament, Brandon would have to defeat Bryton twice in a row to win the event. Their match would start off with both bowlers struggling with the pair. Brandon would get enough marks to win the match, 221 to 154, and push the Championship match to a 2nd game. Bryton would make a ball change and it looked like it would be the right decision as he would come back to win the 2nd match, 191 to 173, to win the 2021 Match Play Invitational and 2 exemptions for the 2022 season. Congrats to Brandon Loss on 2nd place and 1 exemption for next season!
Sorry I forgot to record the Finals for this event!
I just want to say thank you to everyone that has come to support our events this season. Also, a big thank you to Tawna McDonald for helping run our events this year. We had 35 tournaments this season and I don’t know if we could do them all without her. Also thank to our sponsors for the 2021 season, Track Bowling and Chuck’s Painting!
Wish you all a Happy Holidays and we hope to see you next season!!!
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59th Annual Tuson Senior Open Concludes At Cactus Bowl.
Mark Kerr is at Cactus Bowl.
Tucson - - - The 59th Annual Tucson Metro USBC Senior Open Championships has concluded with the last squad of Team Competition today, December 12 at Cactus Bowl.
It was great to see Cactus Bowl full with bowlers, families, friends and supporters watching the tournament.
Good scores were shot today, yesterday and during the first weekend of competition. Your Tucson Metro USBC Board thanks the bowlers and everyone who was present and congratulates those with honor scores.
A big thanks to Jill Cinicolo Theis, Destiny Lopez and the staff at Cactus Bowl for hosting the tournament and for their good work and service.
I want to thank Donna Smith Hicks Tournament Director, Terry Snyder, Kari Snyder, Stuart Duncan, Steve Harris, Gloria Kaylor Harris, Stacey Pollard from your Board and the Association Manager for their work and efforts on this tournament. I want to thank Thomas Arnold Pollard for his work and giving of his time for the bowlers at the tournament. Thank you Tayler Clark, your Board's newest member for her work and Cowboy Jim, for your efforts.
Your Board will review the workings of this tournament and make adjustments needed to get ready for the Tucson Metro USBC Women’s Tournament.
Thank you again to the bowlers from Tucson and across Arizona who took part, a 27% increase over 2020 resulting in our effort to add an additional weekend for next year.
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Courtesy Of Mark Kerr - Tucson Metro USBC.
Tucson - - - Here are the Scratch Award Winners for the 2021 Tucson Metro USBC Senior Open Championships.
59th Annual Senior Open Tournament High Scratch Awards
Team – Ready to Strike 2755 Mike Schoephoerster, Todd Thrasher, Cory Knop, William Cicala.
Doubles – 1466 Keith Dommer, and Dwight Burns.
Singles – 790 - David Majeske.
All Events – 2213 - Kary Harris.