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VOL. 64, NO. 17 www.TheBowlingNews.net OCTOBER 15, 2020
Our 64th Year
Carsten Hansen Becomes Next European to have Break Out Performance at PBA WSOB
By: spopp Centreville, Va. – Denmark's
Carsten Hansen defeated BJ Moore, 216-193, in the PBA Scorpion Championship to win the final event of Storm World Series of Bowling XI, which started in March in Las Vegas and concluded at Bowlero Cent-reville on FS1 Monday night.
It wasn't Hansen's first Go Bowling PBA Tour title. That win came a year ago in Sweden at the PBA International-World Bowling Tour Storm Lucky Larsen Masters. But this Scorpion victory, coming in his first appearance on American national television, was as special, perhaps more so.
"It was my childhood dream to win on this stage I saw on TV as a kid," Hansen, 27, said. "That was what I wanted to try and do, and now to have done it, it is just amazing."
With his win on the 42-foot Scorpion pattern, Hansen joined a veritable 'who's who' of European Professional Bowlers Association players who have made a name for themselves at the PBA World Series of Bowling.
Starting with Finland's Osku Palermaa in 2010 at WSOB II, a strong group of Europeans have become PBA stars after burst-ing on the scene to win their first PBA title on American TV
at the World Series. England's Stuart Williams and Dom Bar-rett each won in 2011 at WSOB III. Jesper Svensson of Sweden did it in 2015 at WSOB VII, and Richie Teece of England in 2017 was the latest at WSOB IX.
"It's what I have been fighting for my whole life. All the long hours in the bowling center or the gym. Trying to understand bowling balls or lanes," said Hansen. "Now, knowing all that hard work wasn’t all for nothing, is just amazing."
Hansen was joined in the Scorpion finals seeding round by a final four headlined by 26-year-old, 7-time PBA champ Jakob Butturff, one-time champion BJ Moore and Darren Tang, still searching for his first win after failing to cash in on a Cheetah Championship finals appearance earlier this week.
Hansen won the top seed in the stepladder with a 224, but the drama was for the No. 2 seed as Moore and Tang tied at 217. Moore won the one-ball roll-off, 10-9, to secure the top seed.
Tang disposed of Butturff in
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Denmark's Carsten Hansen
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Just Paying Just Paying AttentionAttention
The premise of the Emmy Award winning television series “Undercover Boss” is pretty simple. Owners, CEO’s, and others in charge of a larger company train for a variety of entry level positions in the same company get a first-hand view at issues and problems faced by those workers.
Most executives know going in that part of the premise is truly experiencing the outside of the box phenomenon. Many of them also know the trade of their personal inconvenience is part of a more positive expo-sure for their company. Last week on CBS-TV, Bowlero was the featured company.
In last week’s Bowlers Jour-nal International’s podcast with Editor Gianmarc Manzione, Bowlero Chief Customer Officer
and PBA CEO Colie Edison said this was a step in helping to bring bowling back to the mainstream.
“What I’m trying to do at a very high level is make bowling mainstream and bring it back. Any exposure that we can get at reaching such a huge audi-ence I’m going to take advan-tage of that,” Edison said.
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This article appeared in a few bowling newspapers in October of 2017, marking the four year anni-versary of the passing of PBA legend Billy Hardwick. Tony Franklin thought that readers of The Bowling News might enjoy this inside view of the U.S. Open at Forum Bowl through the eyes of a rookie in 1975.
It has been almost four years since the passing of Profession-al Bowlers Association (PBA) Hall of Fame member Billy Hardwick (November 16, 2013). I remember fondly my first meeting with Mr. Hardwick as we crossed lanes together at the 1975 U.S. Open in Grand Prairie, Texas, after I had won the California State U.S. Open
Billy Hardwick Makes It Right In Grand Prairie
Qualifying Tournament. It was an exciting trip that
was filled with all the wisdom of Will Rogers famous state-
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PBA Playoffs Competition Begins with Six 2-hour Telecasts on FOXBy: spopp
Centreville Va. – Big money bowling returns to FOX on Saturday, Oct. 10 at 8 p.m. with the PBA Tour’s grand finale event of the season – the PBA Playoffs. A $100,000 first place prize and the last title
of the year are on the line as the Tour’s top 24 players compete head-to-head in the bracket style, single elimination tournament.
First Round action kicks off Saturday with Hall of Fame veterans battling it out against
the Tour’s rising stars in a win or lose go home format. In this sudden death tournament, anything can happen!
The top 24 players earned points all year towards a spot in the playoffs, with the top eight receiving a first-round bye to advance to the Round of 16.
Those top eight players represent the Tour’s best talent
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Colie Edison
In this rare photo from 1969,Billy Hardwick is seen enjoying a High Life Beer with a Miller Brewing executive, after
the filming of the "Miller Makes It Right" commercial. Photo courtesy of PBA, LLC
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Edison added she thinks the company’s growth may have been a factor in getting contact-ed by show producers. In her twelve years with Bowlero, it went from owning five centers, acquired the AMF chain, then the Brunswick Recreation Centers, now owning over 300 centers.
In a character named Michelle, who in her words, is a “geeky ex court reporter who’s looking for a new job all filmed in a documentary about second careers.”
Edison shadows a center GM, a party coordinator, a lane server, and the head mechanic. She learns about them profes-sionally as well as personally, later encountering them as the CCO critiquing their job performances. I won’t spoil the twists and turns of the show, but regular viewers of UB won’t be too surprised.
Preliminary overnight Nielsen ratings posted on show-buzzdaily.com showed 2.6 mil-lion watched at least a portion of the program, trailing Game 5 of the NBA Finals on ABC with 5.3 million, even beating WWE Smackdown on Fox averaging 2.1 million viewers.
Although the recording of the show took place last fall shortly after Bowlero’s purchase of the PBA, the airing of the episode could not have been
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better. The night after the UB episode aired, the first round of the PBA Playoffs kicked off with a live two hour show on the main Fox network Saturday October 9.
Edison’s BJI podcast can be found here: ( https://sound-cloud.com/user-658733792/podcast-bowlero-cco-colie-edison-discusses-her-upcoming-appearance-on-undercover-boss?fbclid=IwAR1IO8fWLZRozjejk6AkAjXFvU7hs2PQikmU-4FDLnnaF4EwOUTjSbkMprY).
The Undercover Boss/Bowlero episode can be found on CBS All Access and at cbs.com.
######If you felt a wave of bowling
trying to ‘win the internet’ last week, you were not mistaken. First, Architectural Digest posted a YouTube video of tennis star Maria Sharapova’s Florida home. And, yes, it has a pair of lanes in the basement.
The Grand Slam winner says the lanes are the most surprising aspect of this home, because she claims not to be a bowler herself. Despite that claim, When Sharapova’s friends told her it’s a “profes-sional alley,” probably meaning professional sized alley, she took the liberty of inviting pros to come and bowl at her house. Cue the wave.
In the video, we get to see the narrow area where the lanes sit, acknowledging an earlier point about the plot of land being narrow as well and
how other architects had shown her lanes would fit well in that space. According to Sharapova, the only drawback was the noise of the falling pins and pinsetters (that isn’t too tough of a fix, really).
Bowlers, especially lefties, notice right away is the right lane has a wall immediately to the right of the 10-pin side gutter cap and gutter, making 7-pin conversions difficult. There is also a very expensive larger painting hanging by the foul line on that wall.
As a few pros and marketing folk chimed in on her “know-ing how to get a hold of me” claim (probably on Twitter), I wonder how this might work. It could. See the video for yourself here:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt_5Faa_J-U&t=71s).
Odd thing is the video was posted in June 2019. Wish I knew why it took this long to find out Sharapova wanted pros to bowl in her basement.
######Another case of bowling
trying to win the internet came as the new World Bowling administrators posted a ques-tion on its Facebook page, and it’s not just any question.
They posed this pair of queries: “If you could change one rule in bowling, what would it be? Would you remove an existing one or add a new one?”
Tightening of pattern and topography specs, using one ball per game, and no outside coaching during competition, using only one hand deliveries, and using no wrist aids, were among those suggested.
Among some of the tongue in cheek answers were having the lead off guy buy beers for the night if he is late, and turn-ing off the foul lights because
they are expense to maintain and crossing the line benefits nobody. That was suggested by the guy who shot an 899 series last week.
######I was asked recently how
college bowling has changed since my days of the early 1980’s. After a chuckle while saying where do I start, my reply was it is a little louder, we sat down between frames, and had a lot more Baker system matches on flatter oil patterns. We also bowled mostly on wood lanes with beat up heads and inconsistent track areas and house shots with three-piece polyester equipment. Urethane was only months away in 1981, while two-piece equipment was four years away in 1984.
So, what did it look and feel like? For this week’s JPA Lost Classic, we go back to a national championship finals I wanted to post in the spring, but with the NCAA Women’s Bowling season starting on
October 1, now is as just as good a time.
Three women’s and three men’s teams made the show in a one-game Baker stepladder format, keeping with the four matches in a ninety minute show, standard at the time. From the old Red Carpet Celebrity Lanes in Milwaukee, here’s Duane Dow and Lomar Bowling Supply co-founder Loa Boxberger on the call for the Mizlou Television Network as the Wichita State win its first of eleven men’s national championships.
If you watch the entire men’s clip, found here (https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=uuXfu9g 6F1Y&t=1534s), you’ll see a few familiar names, and a brief in-terview with the one and only Bill Lillard. The only clip of the 1980 women’s finals is part of a compilation of Eric Community College’s four titles, found here (https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=4stXGiON78E).
ment, “If you don’t like the weather in Texas, just wait a minute,” or something to that effect. When we landed in Dal-las on Sunday it was raining, with a threat of sleet. By the next morning it was snowing and before I left later in the week we had experienced 80 degree temperatures and a tornado warning.
When I arrived at the lanes with my bowling ball (yes, only one bowling ball) and rental shoes that I borrowed from L & L Lanes in Sebastopol, Califor-nia, the pressure was placed upon me from the first moment that I met Harry Golden, the
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PBA Tournament Director. Golden informed me that
I would need to get a haircut before the first qualifying round the next day (there was a requirement that hair could not go below the bottom of the collar at that time), and that I would need to purchase my own bowling shoes.
Luckily Bobby Meadows, an excellent bowler and the gen-eral manager of Jeanie Hulsey’s Triangle Bowl in nearby Arling-ton, Texas, overheard my plight and set me up with a local barber and a nice pair of Lind Bowling Shoes.
Somehow I managed to shrug all of that off and showed up the next day for the first 8 game qualifying round in a
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MenRaymond Lussier, Forum Bowl .............................. 805Tim Crowe, Plano Super Bowl ............................... 798Andrew Nguyen, JB's Allen Bowl ........................... 793Dennis Drescher, Cowtown Bowling Palace ......... 752Greg Bell, Red Bird Lanes ...................................... 726Jacob Harding, Strikz ............................................. 702Zach Beckner, Ennis All Star Bowl ......................... 694
WomenMiki Jo Parish, Cowtown Bowling Palace ............. 752Lauren Cathey, Ennis All Star Bowl ....................... 737Dawn Borcherding, Forum Bowl ............................ 687Patty Ellington, Plano Super Bowl ......................... 671Jaclyn Smith, JB's Allen Bowl ................................ 663Lauren Cathey, Red Bird Lanes ............................. 630Loren Tenczar, Strikz ............................................... 581
Raymond Lussier topped the scoring barrage last week at Forum Bowl with a booming 269-267-269 = 805 Forum Classic league production.
Dawn Borcherding headed the ladies high-set chart with a sky-high 245-205-237 = 687 Fast Lane Trio set.
Kenny Hamby earned high-game honors with an award-winning 12-bagger.
HONOR ROLLMarsha Goforth 204-507, Sheila
Burger 223-649, Jeff Davis (9 pin) 300-818, Lori Hansen (9 pin) 166-403, Dean Braudrick 246-707, Teresa Ross 258-685, Eddie Murillo 247-698, Cierra Pree 225-619.
Hao Tran 259-731, Arlet te Washington 203-604, Joseph Puckett 269-715, Donetta Fleming 255-602, Aaron Smith 254-706, Vicky Dunn 234-571, Brian Grange (4 games) 259-970, Dawn Borcherding (4 games) 905.
Bob Swope (9 pin) 286-787, Sherri Clemmer (9 pin) 241-686, Bobby Adkison 257-727, Regina Stewart 202-487, Steve Gray 256-690, Sherrie Miller 176-504, Brian Crawford 237-570.
Susan Brownell 193-462, Cassie Reese 214-614, Robert Warren 279-773, Tanisha Roberts 236-619, Kenny Hamby 785, Melissa George 223-607, Jessie Sereseroz, Jr. 235-630, Brittany Perez 168-491.
Troy Denbow 233-611, Vicki Williams 265-614, Bruce Taylor 209-576, Veronica Sherrin 187-445, Steven Nutt 245-634, Luann Burkhalter-Mills
At Forum Bowl
Lussier fields 805, Borcherding belts 687Hamby 300
208-530.SENIORS
Russell Fox 248-684, Debbi Czaykowski 255-659.
56 game format. I was paired with Fred Conner, a fellow Californian and general nice guy, and Billy Hardwick, one of my favorite bowling legends of all time, originally hailing from San Mateo, California.
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The pairing could not have been better and I felt completely at home in the palatial Forum Bowl, owned by Ms. Hulsey, with chandeliers above every pair of lanes in the concourse area. What I was not comfort-able with was the automatic scoring, because I had never before bowled in a center with the giant new Brunswick Scor-
ing monsters that calculated scores across 4 lanes.
The worst part was the cur-sor on each lane that had to be moved to your particular slot before you bowled each time. Needless to say, with all of the aforementioned Harry “Goose” Golden pressure, and trying to
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NCTUSBC Youth Results
Kyle Leet headed the Dallas-area USBC youth bowling last week with a rip-roaring 216-183-212 = 611 Youth Mania series at JB’s Allen Bowl.
Hailey Spencer posted a top notch 200-176-190 = 566 Monday Gold “Sport” set to pace the girls at Plano Super Bowl.
At Ennis All Star Bowl – Drake Harrison 146-387, Morgan Hopkins 181-496, Manny Escobar 139-346, Kaiden Featherston 134-323, Beau Rodriguez 106-277, Trinity Rodriguez 93-252.
At JB's Allen Bowl – Cooper Powell 109-310, Issac Wilson 139-380, Bryan Coggins 142-405, Lydia Breidenthal 175-385, Cooper Mandrell 163-446, Cooper Powell 138-370, Zaiyic Bickel 154-401, Evan Tran 143-395, Lauren Hubbard 176-450, Daniel Young 571, Annika Svedvik 188-431, Jessica Hub-bard 184-527, Richie Duvall 145-378.
At Plano Super Bowl – Amari Browder 130-340, Olive Sterling 97-286,
BoysKyle Leet, JB's Allen Bowl ..................................... 611Dawson Byrd, Plano Super Bowl .......................... 580Logan Solis, Strikz ................................................. 559William Jewel, Forum Bowl ................................... 550Drake Harrison, Ennis All Star Bowl ..................... 387
GirlsCharisse Graham, Forum Bowl ............................. 600Hailey Spencer, Plano Super Bowl ....................... 566Jessica Hubbard, JB's Allen Bowl ........................ 527Morgan Hopkins, Ennis All Star Bowl ................... 496Tori Franklin, Strikz ................................................ 480
Youth Honor Roll
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William Jewell turned in the top score of the week for the Fort Worth-area USBC youth bowling with a power-packed 197/550 Forum Strikers series at Forum Bowl.
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Jordan Scott 179-499, Megan Wente 171-410, Dawson Byrd 236-580, Mya Murray 219-484, Cole Phan 208-561, Nicole Phan 148-397, Raul Castilleja, Jr. 234-565, Brittany Eaton 155-356, Robbie Baum 136-379, Isabella Hudson 153-357, Luke Henke 136-398, Charisse Graham 202-584, Caden Witt 190-557, Carlen Gattenby 168-446, Noah Raleigh 226-575, Caden Witt 223-575, Lunden Simon (2 games) 95-177.
At Strikz – Logan Solis 226-559, Zachary Smullen 195-549, Nico Smith 166-409, Caleb Stoval 194-477, Brandon Moon 176-454, Wyatt Curtis 146-413, Colton Bervig 195-475, Tyler Keeton 190-487, Matthew Lopez 144-413, Ethan Long 165-448, Jake Sullivan 158-420, Tori Franklin 199-480, Madison Damer 162-457, Gabriela Gamboa 134-372, Alexia Moon 154-391, Jayme Brooks 117-384, Ireland Spofford 131-370, Julia Rouse 141-354, Jude May 101-270, Anthony Gamboa 72-212, Russ Johnson 79-199, Clayton Caviness 57-155.
Charisse Graham, Jewell's league mate, paced the girls with a super-strong 233/600.
At Forum Bowl – Cohen Jones 86-155, Oliver Harris, Jr. 154-392, Danica Voracek 87-221.
including breakout star, Kris Prather, who won the inaugu-ral PBA Playoffs last year to solidly himself as an elite PBA performer. The 2019 champion upset the world’s best bowler, Jason Belmonte, to win a spot in the final four and subse-quently took down established stars Anthony Simonsen and Bill O’Neill to win the title.
Prather, Belmonte, Simon-sen, and O’Neill are joined by PBA stars EJ Tackett, Jesper Svensson, Kyle Troup, and Sean Rash to round out the top eight.
The PBA Playoffs will take place at Bowlero Centreville, just outside of Washington, D.C. No fans will be in attendance and access to the venue is limited to ensure the health and safety of players, crew and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fans can catch all the action of the PBA Playoffs on FOX and Fox Sports’ FS1, and live stream the PBA on the FOX Sports and FOX NOW apps or at FOXSports.com. Select high-lights will be available on @FOXSports social handles across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. International fans can watch live on FloBowling.com.
The complete TV schedule for the playoffs is as follows:
PBA Playoffs: ROUND OF 24 – Saturday, Oct. 10, 8 p.m. ET on FOX
No. 16 Tommy Jones vs. No. 17 Jakob Butturff
No. 9 Francois Lavoie vs. No. 24 Norm Duke
No. 13 Dom Barrett vs. No. 20 Dick Allen
No. 12 Marshall Kent vs. No. 21 Chris Via
PBA Playoffs: ROUND OF 24 – Saturday, Oct. 17, 6 p.m. ET on FOX
No. 15 Kyle Sherman vs. No. 18 AJ Johnson
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Dennis Drescher turned in an exceptional 236-298-218 = 752 Ebonite Classic Trio series to head the leader board last week at Cowtown Bowling Palace.
Miki Jo Parish led the ladies with a noteworthy 258-278-215 = 752 Wednesday Winners set.
HONOR ROLLLuke Fraser 279, Tracy Brower 249,
Harlan Tunnell 259, Sarah Cole 234-597, Ray Ballaro 258, Alma Rodriguez 210, Rick Benard 278, Cody Uthoff 274, Fania Cobo 258-701, Ron Boroff 272-720.
Cathy Nelson 243, Nicollette Gaudette 226, Ben Tunnell 239, Unique Edwards 203-562, Mark Moon 234-663, Ronnie White 233, Larry Cox 257, George Stilen 256-705, Michelle Teel 225, Billy Gann 248.
Jamie Hines 200, Selena Murray 266-616, Adam Beasley 280-725, Cathy Nelson 255-691, Danny Seeders, Jr. 275, K W Gibbins 257, Jacki Craft 214, Jacob Olson 254, Danielle Sapp 214-616.
Merito Gutierrez 253, Timothy Landers, Jr. 246-719, Max Cogdill 279, Diane Dudley 181-474, Kevin Moore 246-700, Ray Ballaro 244, Phil Harbin 245, Diane Dudley 201-506, Les Couch 236, Joe Pesqueda 225-630.
SENIORSKen Eilert 258-690, Tee Ropers-
At Cowtown Bowling Palace
Drescher turns in 298/752, Parish nails 752
Tim Crowe led the scoring parade for the week at Plano Super Bowl with a hard-hitting 300-253-245 = 798 Track Classic Trio league series.
Patty Ellington, from the Las Vegas Doubles group, rounded up the top spot for the ladies with an outstanding 242/671 set.
Chris Russell took runner-up honors with a near-perfect 299 solo.
HONOR ROLLZach Howarth 241-689, Wanda
Averett 157-400, Trey Bevels 190-499, Chris Russell 759, Tracey Stafford 238-645, Mark Peet (4 games) 245-805, Tracey Stafford (4 games) 181-675.
Brian Halvorson 277-707, Denise Freeman-Boone 216-591, Richard Peterson 243-591, Shirley Patterson 159-450, Matt Richter 228-636, Betty Parks 198-532, Bill Ferguson 245-686.
Ashliegh Fisher 203-578, Ashley Crowe 180-501, Michael Reilly 235-637, Diane Wallentine 210-603, George Vaughn 248-685, Susan Lee 214-580, Ed Olmos 226-560, Susan Breedlove 166-466.
Dwayne Winstead 279-753, Cindy Mann 215-635, Dottie Culpon 194-514, Chris Compton 278-737, Brittany Trumbo 233-653, Chris Sivak 257-696, Diane Wallentine 237-602.
Linda Davidson 214-502, Randy Peters 184-524, Emily Ryan 157-416, Wes Wade 224-648, Beverly Houston 227-538, Darryl Lipinski 257-713, Jessica Ford 206-534, Steve Klinger 248-693.
Jennifer Eckstrom 171-504, Steve McBride 247-714, Cindy McBride 214-545, Nick Lankford (4 games) 289-968, Kiyoko McDonald (4 games) 237-847, Steve Mitchell 247-694, Peter Phan 278-701.
Jody Muskett 227-646, Taylor Yarborough 264-679, Amanda Rippetoe 187-540.
At Plano Super Bowl
Crowe smashes 300/798, Ellington levels 671Russell 299
Tucker 223, Mike Eller 247, Jackie Glover 212, George Hernandez, Sr. 242, Karen Wittenberg 211, David Pruitt 235 564, Reva Springfield 220-546, Cathy Anderson 210.
Larry Stevenson 258, Karren Wittenberg 223, Johnny Zaskoda 247, Luis Morales 246.
No. 10 Darren Tang vs. No. 23 Nicholas Pate
No. 14 Tom Smallwood vs. No. 19 Chris Barnes
No. 11 Brad Miller vs. No. 22 Tom Daugherty
PBA Playoffs: ROUND OF
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16 – Sunday, Oct. 25, 5 p.m. ET on FS1
Jones/Butturff vs. No. 1 Jason Belmonte
Lavoie/Duke vs. No. 8 Sean Rash
Barrett/Allen vs. No. 4 Anthony Simonsen
Kent/Via vs. No. 5 Kris Prather
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Lauren Cathey racked up a rollicking 190-290-257 = 737 Ennis Mixed Classic session to earn top billing on the honor roll last week at Ennis All Star Bowl.
Zach Beckner, Cathey’s league mate, led the guys honor roll with a hardy 238-198-258 = 694 set.
Jody Rogers captured high-game honors with an award-winning 12-bagger.
HONOR ROLLRick Lawrence 258-663, Jody Rogers
689, Jeff Macon 226-638, April Hopkins 212-600, Roger Zaeske 224-642, April Hopkins 257-638, Tice Hopkins 231-584, Annie Whittington 234-579.
Philip Nobles 215-580, Mary Kennedy 188-536.
At Ennis All Star Bowl
Cathey strokes 737, Beckner logs 694Rogers 300
Greg Bell led the week’s scoring race at Red Bird Lanes with a hard-hitting 268-232-226 = 726 Thursday Night Mixed series.
Lauren Cathey, from the Sunday Night Mixed group, paced the ladies with a free-wheeling 169-205-256 = 630 set.
HONOR ROLLMel Richards 257-670, Red
Richardson 236-652, Lauren Cathey
208-571, Debbie Cathey 209-574, Billy Cathey (9 pin, no tap, 4 games) 300-1052, Lauren Cathey (9 pin, no tap, 4 games) 233-891.
Vera Hobbs 144-401, Marie Compton 161-434, Mark Brown 200-576, Karen Strang 192-497, Kayleen Taves 187-501, Dallas Lindsay 236-696, Brittany Pope 227-597, Mel Richards 226-655.
Alice Edwards 239-552, Donny Yow 206-581, Valerie Shumate Yow 206-528, Phillip White 279-719.
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concentrate on my own game, and the double jump rule that was new to me… I kept forget-ting to move the cursor to the appropriate slot!
I began the first game with 6 in a row, and yet another visit from Harry Golden. He informed me that my slacks, resembling a light blue denim material, were not proper apparel and that I could no longer wear them during competition. Thankfully I was allowed to finish the block, and as I looked to the next pair of lanes, I could not help but notice the piercing glare of Dan Roche and Earl Anthony, which was most likely the reason for Golden’s visit in the middle of the game.
In an April 1975 article in the Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, California) newspaper, sports writer Ralph Leef commented that the pro’s were
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ignoring my “double jump” courtesies, which allows one bowler from each adjoining pair of lanes to bowl before you can step upon the approach.
Leef recounts: “I guess it was really bothering me and Billy could see it,” said Wil-liams. Hardwick quickly put Dave at ease. “If anyone gives you a dirty look, give it right back,” Hardwick told Williams. “Don’t worry about these guys,” the master pro said.
Messrs. Hardwick and Con-ner must have been upset every time that I forgot to move the cursor to the proper position, but they never said a word and instead blamed the machines. They even invited me to have a beer with them after the squad was done (I had a Coke).
We all bowled well for the week, with Fred finishing in the top 24. As for me, I was in 32nd with eight games to go in the qualifying rounds (32 games), and didn’t even cash (80 places). I guess the “Golden Goose” pressure finally got to
me. Years later when I was with
Nationwide Bowling in the New York City area, I had three young college interns working for me and they were talking one day about Billy’s son Chris Hardwick of Comedy Central fame. I mentioned to them that I knew his father, and they begged me to get them auto-graphed pictures of Chris.
I called Billy at his “Billy Hardwick’s All Star Lanes” in Memphis, Tennessee, and after reminiscing about the automatic scoring debacle in Texas, he said that his son was in town and he would see what he could do about the photos.
Within a week I had three 8 x 10 glossies autographed by Chris Hardwick. I only wish now that I had asked Billy for a photo with his autograph, because he probably never knew how much I respected him and what he did for me at my very first PBA tournament at Forum Bowl.
PBA Playoffs: ROUND OF 16 – Sunday, Nov. 1, 7:30 p.m. ET on FS1
Sherman/Johnson vs. No. 2 Bill O'Neill
Tang/Pate vs. No. 7 Kyle Troup
Smallwood/Barnes vs. No. 3 EJ Tackett
Miller/Daugherty vs. No. 6 Jesper Svensson
PBA Playoffs: QUARTERFI-NALS – Sunday, Nov. 8, 1:30 p.m. ET on FS1
*Matches TBD after Round of 16
PBA Playoffs: SEMIFINALS & FINALS – Sunday, Nov. 8, 3:30 p.m. ET on FS1
*Matches TBD after Quarterfinals
PBA PLAYOFFSContinued from Page 5
The 2020 PBA Playoffs point standings are as follows:
1. Jason Belmonte - 30,295.02. Bill O'Neill - 20,387.53. EJ Tackett - 19,965.04. Anthony Simonsen
- 19,795.05. Kristopher Prather
- 19,470.06. Jesper Svensson - 15,995.07. Kyle Troup - 15,155.08. Sean Rash - 13,705.09. Francois Lavoie - 12,497.510. Darren Tang - 11,992.511. Brad Miller - 11,460.012. Marshall Kent - 10,395.013. Dom Barrett - 9,855.014. Tom Smallwood - 9,740.015. Kyle Sherman - 9,685.016. Tommy Jones - 9,410.017. Jakob Butturff - 8,855.018. AJ Johnson - 8,332.519. Chris Barnes - 8,185.020. Dick Allen - 8,177.521. Chris Via - 8,020.022. Tom Daugherty - 7,980.023. Nicholas Pate - 7,930.024. Norm Duke - 7,792.5
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HONOR ROLLTommy Davis 244-682, Rick Irvine
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Jackson Chin 192-541, Travis Hogman 185-514, Bryan Vorel 230-625, Rick Irvine 268-675.
SENIORSJune Barnhill 153-414, Lynne
Garriss 153-409, Eunice Burgess 153-402, Bob Gray 169-486.
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Harding reins in 702, Tenczar tosses 581
the first match, 214-160, as But-turff missed two spares during the match before also missing a meaningless third spare in the 10th.
In the semifinal match, Moore finished by stringing the last nine strikes to eliminate Tang, 255-213.
But Moore's run of strikes ended in the final. He could not muster a double, as Hansen
CARSTEN HANSENContinued from Page 1
marched to victory with a workmanlike clean game. Three 10-pin leaves were all that stood between him and the first seven strikes.
The longest WSOB ever is now complete. Jason Belmonte won the main event PBA World Championship at the event's original host, South Point Bowling Plaza in Las Vegas, back in March before the event was halted due to COVID-19. The animal pattern events were picked up in Virginia with strict safety guidelines
including no fans on site. Sean Rash won the PBA Cheetah Championship, Belmonte the PBA Chameleon Championship and Hansen in the Scorpion.
Hansen, a right-hander, has been a PBA member since 2012, competing primarily in World Series PBA events because of the opportunities the WSOB presents with multiple events at one location. He won a PBA regional doubles title with Palermaa at the World Series in 2013, but this win on TV against a field as deep and strong as the 120 that entered WSOB XI could signal a new star.
Hansen did not earn enough PBA points in 2020 to qualify for the PBA Playoffs, the season-culminating event featuring the top 24 in season points which begins its exciting six-show run of survive-and-advance single-elimination matches this past Saturday at 8 pm ET on FOX.
PBA SCORPION CHAMPFinal Standings1, Carsten Hansen, Den-
mark, $25,0002, BJ Moore, Greensburg,
Pa., $13,0003, Darren Tang, San Fran-
cisco, $7,0004, Jakob Butturff, $6,000Playoff ResultsSeeding Round – Hansen,
224; Moore, 217 (10); Tang, 217 (9); Butturff, 191.
Match 1 - Tang def. Butturff, 214-160.
Semifinal - Moore def. Tang, 255-213.
Championship – Hansen def. Moore, 216-193.
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