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Wes Malott

Ronnie Russell to Make Team USA Debut at 2016 PABCON Adult Championships

2016 U.S. Open Features $100,000 Added to Prize Fund

Wes Malott Wins No. 1 Berth for PBA Badger Open Finals

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (Sept. 7, 2016) – Wes Malott of Pflugerville, Texas, outlasted Sean Rash of Montgomery, Ill., to earn the top qualifying berth for the Professional Bowl-ers Association Badger Open stepladder finals Wednesday night at Thunderbowl Lanes.

Malott, a 39-year-old 10-time PBA Tour champion, went head-to-head with Rash for the lead over the final six games, winning the duel with a 226 final game to Rash’s 162. Malott finished the Badger qualifying round with a 2,854 pinfall total and a 36-pin lead over Rash.

“The last six games, Sean was bowling well, and I was

just kinda staying on the show,” Malott said. “But when (Rash) got into trouble, I kinda kicked it into gear and was able to take over.”

In leading the Badger field, Malott qualified for his first PBA Summer/Fall Swing televi-sion appearance.

“As far as these (Wolf, Bear and Badger) patterns are con-cerned, this is only the second time I’ve bowled on them,” Malott said. “I didn’t have any success at all in Oklahoma (last year’s tournament host), but I’ve had some success at Thunderbowl in the past, so it kinda shows some centers favor certain styles, and everything came together for me here. I hope it continues during the TV show.”

Also qualifying for the CBS Sports Network telecast were Canadians Graham Fach of Guelph, Ontario, and Quebec City native Francois Lavoie, who now lives in Wichita, Kan. Australia’s Jason Belmonte claimed the fifth spot in the finals when Denmark’s Thomas Larsen missed a spare in the 10th frame.

Fach, who won the Barbasol PBA Players Championship for his first title earlier in the year, and Lavoie, the top qualifier in the Wolf Open on Monday,

ARLINGTON, Texas - Ron-nie Russell of Marion, Indiana, has showed consistent improve-ment during his professional bowling career and entered the 2016 season with a streak of three consecutive years with a Professional Bowlers Associa-tion Tour title.

While he may be winless on the PBA Tour this season, he started the calendar year with a memorable milestone as he earned a berth on Team USA for the first time.

The 36-year-old right-hander now will represent the United States at the 2016 Pan Ameri-can Bowling Confederation Adult Championships, which runs from Sept. 12-23 at Bolera Departamental in Cali, Colombia.

The men will bowl during the first half of the event, with singles getting underway Monday. The tournament also includes doubles, trios and team competition, and medals will be awarded for all-events. The top 16 all-events perform-

ers will advance to Masters match play.

“In November, I decided to try out for Team USA because it’s something I’d never done, since I had so much going on with high school and college baseball and then the PBA Tour,” said Russell, who finished eighth at the 2016 United States Bowling Congress Team USA Trials and was selected to the team based on

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Ronnie Russell

ARLINGTON, Texas - The U.S. Open traditionally pro-vides one of the more challeng-ing, but rewarding, formats in bowling, and competitors at the 2016 edition will compete for one of the most lucrative prize funds in the sport today.

The 2016 U.S. Open will take place at the South Point Bowling Plaza in Las Vegas, a premier facility for tournament bowling, from Nov. 3-9, and the event is expected to attract more than 250 bowlers from across the globe.

Competitors will bowl for a prize fund expected to exceed $226,000, which includes $100,000 in added money. Based on 252 entries, the top prize will be $30,000. The 24 bowlers who advance to match play will receive a minimum of $3,200, while the last cash spot

in the tournament will earn a minimum of $1,000.

The stepladder finals of the event will be televised live on CBS Sports Network on Nov. 9 at 8 p.m. Eastern.

“We are excited about the upcoming U.S. Open and the opportunity to carry on its great tradition,” United States Bowling Congress Executive Director Chad Murphy said. “The challenging lane condi-tions and extended format have made the U.S. Open a favorite event for competitors and fans. Additionally, we want to make sure the prize fund is represen-tative of a major championship from top to bottom.”

Qualifying at this year’s U.S. Open will include 24 games over three days for all competi-tors, with the top 25 percent

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Dave Lundgren/Dale DumbletonWin SASBA 70/60 Doubles in Denton

DENTON – Dave Lundgren and Dale Dumbleton led quali-fying on Saturday, September 3 at University Lanes in Denton, TX.

They won 6.5 of their matches on Sunday to lead the finals wire-to-wire.

It was Dave’s 2nd SASBA title and Dale’s 3rd title.

Roger West and Doug Hayes qualified second and finished second while A.C. Adam and Mark Estes qualified and finished in third.

Bob McGregor and Rick Minier claimed fourth and Fred Barnes and Willie Wells rounded out the top five.

300s were rolled by Butch Calvert, Willie Wells and Randy Summers.

Roger West and Charlie Lacy both left the Lily.

Dog of the Week goes to Sam Magill with a 123 game.

Thanks to Daniel Cruz and staff for another great tourna-ment at University Lanes.

The tacos and salsa were awesome as usual.

University added $2,250 to the prize fund and SASBA added $150.

Our next tournament is at Cityview Lanes in Fort Worth for the Annual Championship. You must have bowled one tournament this year to be eligible. You must be entered

Champions Dave Lundgren and Dale Dumbleton

with Runner-ups Roger West and Doug Hayes

by Wednesday before the tournament.

Two weeks later we are at Del Mar in Houston for a Regular Singles.

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It’s a classic sports story. Athlete has pretty good rookie season, then looks forward to continue the momentum the following year. Next season arrives, does OK at first, then athlete goes into a slump. But unlike the sophomore slump many athletes coming off a good rookie season, this athlete kept battling, figured out what happened, then showed off her talents by making the match play rounds in the last two tournaments on the two most demanding oil patterns of the season.

The adjustments by athletes at the highest levels are often very subtle, often invisible to the naked eye. But when things go well, as we’ve seen with Pete Weber on the PBA50 Tour this summer, results can be off the chart.

Jodi Woessner was kind enough to answer questions going into season two of the new PWBA. Now, she recaps one of the most mentally chal-lenging seasons an athlete can experience.

JPA: After your success in 2015, was there a different mind set or game plan going into this season?

Woessner: Yes, but it didn’t work in my favor. I learned a

lot last season in regards to the more technical aspects of bowling but I think all that did was make me overthink things at times instead of just letting my ball motion tell me what to do. My game plan going in this year, which was trying to stay as straight as possible, caused bad habits of laying off the ball too much. That would have worked better on the patterns last year, but not so much this year.

JPA: Did this year’s patterns play different than last year’s patterns? I know the PBA pat-terns are tweaked a little from year to year.

Woessner: Yes, I felt they did. It felt like regardless of length and volume, many of them played very similar and that wasn’t matching up with me. Some of that definitely could have been due to the struggles I was having with my release, as well.

JPA: What were the factors you found out contributing to the slide in the second half of the year?

Woessner: It was really the middle part. I started off ok until the last round of Queens. Then, I had some feel troubles, which turned into timing issues and lack of confidence.

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I got that figured out for the most part going into the last six tournaments, but I still wasn’t getting the ball to go through the pins right. After talking to Dan Higgins at the Florida stop, he gave me a few things to focus on and that seemed to do the trick!

JPA: What was tougher, nar-rowing down what caused the slump, or putting in the work to correct the issues?

Woessner: Definitely nar-rowing it down. I tried several things to fix it but nothing re-ally worked. Once I tried what Dan suggested, it seemed to all fall back in place quickly and honestly, it was pretty simple. I just concentrated on feeling my ring finger in the ball and through the swing. Simple enough but nothing that I had tried up to that point worked.

JPA: I’ve heard from some it’s almost an audible sound hearing the timing clicking back into place. What habits did you find that crept into your game?

Woessner: It was not having my hand in the right position at the bottom of my swing. It wasn’t that far off but made a big difference at the break point and how my ball was going through the pins. Even when it was going through the pins decent, my carry was not good.

JPA: Did you look at The Luci and bowling with Dino Castillo and think the slump was about to be in your rear view mirror or was the slump over before you arrived in Houston?

Woessner: That was re-ally the first test of if it being behind me. The time between Florida and The Luci was when I fixed it in practice, so that was the test if what I thought was actually going to be reality and it was! Throwing it better and being the high female in that field for the twelve quali-fying games instantly helped me gain some confidence back going into the U.S. Women’s Open.

JPA: Despite the end of U.S. Women’s Open match play, how rewarding was being one of three women (Diana and Rocio) to make match play at The Luci and the Open?

Woessner: Actually I didn’t realize that fact which makes it even more rewarding!

JPA: By making the match play rounds at both, is the season still a success?

Woessner: As far as con-sidering the season a success, I would say I ended on a very good note, definitely learned a lot and never gave up working at it which I would consider a success. And I have to thank my ball reps Del (Ballard), Jimmy (Calahan) and Hank (Boomershine), they were all VERY helpful and just as confused sometimes as I was regarding my ball motion.

JPA: Will you prepare differ-ently for next year’s tour than you did his year?

Woessner: Yes, for sure. I worked hard on being strong physically and mentally which

I’ll still do but I’m going to focus more on understanding my ball motion and what layouts work better for me. I don’t think we were drilling my equipment strong enough either so I’m not going to be afraid to do that and possibly use more surface so I can stay aggressive instead of trying to fit it in. Just have to be pre-pared for anything and when it’s not working, I need to figure it out much faster than I did this year.

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nearly twenty years of this column has been critiquing the telecasts. For the first time since 2003, a professional women’s tour finals has been available to watch and enjoy. The PWBA finals were part of a 23-show package on CBS Sports Network, which also included USBC Junior Gold, the ITC college finals, and later on this fall, the U.S. Open.

What’s been fun to see is the enthusiasm and profession-alism of the lead announcers, Dave Ryan and Dave LaMont. Both have covered bowling

before on ESPN, so the ins and outs broadcasting the sport on television are well-known to them. It is one thing to broad-cast, but if you don’t know the game (Irv Brown), or sort of don’t care and tell golf stories (Jim Kelly), it really shows. Nowadays, casual viewers know this, too. They have also learned more about the game.

For the first time in a while on either tour’s telecasts, we had three different color ana-lysts in the booth in the same season. Kelly Kulick, Carolyn Dorin-Ballard, and Kim Adler handled the duties. Each has her own different style, each still easy to follow, and even share a laugh.

With that in mind, the PWBA series was fun to watch this summer. What may have helped the crews on both sides of the camera was the fact that multiple shows were recorded directly after the live shows of the USBC Queens and U.S. Women’s Open. Once a broad-cast crew finds an optimum rhythm, you know you’re in for some good television.

Terry Ellis headed the honor roll for the week at Forum Bowl with a top-drawer 207-266-221 = 694 Weekenders session.

Kim Jackson, also from the Weekenders group, paced the ladies with a nice 171-182-244 = 597 set.

HONOR ROLLStacy Harden (9 pin) 300-900,

Judith Guillory (9 pin) 300-834, Jason Thompson 259-684, Jennifer Nguyen 223-556, Robert Jones (4 games) 231-817, Tami Rogers (4 games) 186-642.

Judy Haas 182-518, Larry Reed 267-634, Elaine Boykin 170-451.

SENIORSHomer Dudley (9 pin) 300-810, Pam

Stewart (9 pin) 264-708.

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Ellis smashes 694

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WomenDebby Oulicky, Plano Super Bowl ......................... 744Lauren Cathey, Ennis All Star Bowl ....................... 617Kim Jackson, Forum Bowl ...................................... 597RoseMary Brown, Cowtown Bowling Palace ........ 577

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Roy Simpson’s super strong 213-300-268 = 781 Senior Stars series took top honors for the week at Cowtown Bowling Palace.

Rose Mary Brown led the ladies with a sturdy 200-208-169 = 577 Ladies and Gents set.

HONOR ROLLJeremy Trubenstein 258-696, Dana

Nadenell 231, Mark Moon 241, Sandy

Groh 214, Stephen Smithers 237, Samuel Magill 266, Ross DiCapo

266, Chris Crum 246, Dawn Crum 208-564, Graddy Adams 246.

Amy Adams 208, Robbie Daily 235-690, Joann Brower 202, Gary Brown 279-703, Nonna Skinner 151-404, Pete Brown 246, Duane Skinner 245.

SENIORSRon Starnes 265, Wanda Eads 197,

John Ferrell 203, Les Messinger 202.

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Simpson topples 300/781

Australia’s Jason Belmonte Tops PBA Detroit Open Field

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (Sept. 8, 2016) –Australia’s Jason Belmonte, trying to energize his bid for an unprecedented fourth consecutive PBA Player of the Year title, qualified No. 1 for the PBA Detroit Open finals at historic Thunderbowl Lanes Thursday to cap a four-event qualifying series with his third chance to win his first 2016 title.

Belmonte, who failed to qualify among the top 12 in the Bear Open on Tuesday, had a solid six-game round on the flat 41-foot Bear pattern Thursday afternoon to take the lead and he maintained his pace throughout the Badger qualify-ing round Thursday night to lock up his 10th television appearance in the four-year history of the PBA Fall/Sum-mer Swing. The 33-year-old two-handed star qualified earlier in the week for the PBA Wolf and Badger Open finals.

Belmonte finished the 36-game Detroit Open qualify-ing phase, bowled in three 12-game blocks on the PBA’s Wolf, Bear and Badger oiling patterns, with a 229.9 average for an 8,277 pinfall total. Sean Rash of Montgomery, Ill., qualified second with 8,100 pins followed by Wes Malott of Pflugerville, Texas, at 8,078; E.J. Tackett of Huntington, Ind., at 7,953 and Tom Daugh-erty of Riverview, Fla., with 7,927 pins.

Daugherty, who entered the day in 14th place, completed his charge to the stepladder finals with a 268 final game to win a battle with Brad Angelo of Lockport, N.Y.; Rhino Page of Orlando, Fla., and Canada’s Francois Lavoie for the final berth in the stepladder finals.

“It’s always fun when more pins fall for you than anyone else,” Belmonte said. “I always set a very high standard for myself and the beginning of this year was good, but I’m here to win. That’s the goal I set, and when you’re not at your best, that’s the frustrat-ing part. So for the past few months, I’ve worked very hard to lose a few kilos, become extremely focused on my spare game and it’s paying off.

“I don’t want to be second, ever, so I’m going to work harder than anyone else to get to the top again.”

With his high-revolution game, Belmonte has histori-cally struggled on the shorter lane oiling patterns, including the 32-foot Wolf pattern, the shortest application of oil in PBA Tour competition. So when he qualified for the CBS Sports Network finals in the Wolf Open on Monday, he had a good feeling.

“I was happy with my short oil game. I wanted to make good shots on it, and that’s exactly what I did,” the 12-time PBA Tour titlist said. “I decided

to be very aggressive and if I threw the ball in the gutter, it fell in, and it didn’t bother me. That helped my confidence.

“I always feel if I have enough games, I can make it to the TV show,” he added. “The more games I have, the better the chance I have to catch the leaders. Or, in this case, to stay in front.”

The CBS Sports Network stepladder finals of the PBA Wolf Open will air on Sept. 21; the Bear Open finals will air on Sept. 28; the Badger Open finals will air on Oct. 5; the Detroit Open finals will air on Oct. 12, and the King of the Swing – featuring the four previous title winners plus the leading player in Fall Swing points without a title – will air on Oct. 19. All CBS Sports Network shows air at 9 p.m.

All times are Eastern.PBA DETROIT OPENThunderbowl Lanes, Allen

Park, Mich. Sept. Final Qualifying Standings

(after 36 games; 12 each on PBA Wolf, Bear and Badger oiling patterns; top five ad-vance to stepladder finals and air on CBS Sports Network on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 9 p.m. ET)

1, Jason Belmonte, Austra-

Jason Belmonte

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Lane Laughter

BoysMason Phillips, Ennis All Star Bowl ...................... 473

GirlsLeilani Lopez, Cowtown Bowling Palace .............. 400Morgan Hopkins, Ennis All Star Bowl ................... 307

Youth Honor Roll

Dallas USBC Youth Scores

Fort Worth USBC Youth

ResultsLeilani Lopez topped the Fort

Worth-area USBC youth bowl-ing last week with a thundering 159/400 Generation Gap series at Cowtown Bowling Palace.

At Cowtown Bowling Palace – Max Brown 201, Seth Skinner 167, Damion Flores 159, Jacob Boone 159.

Mason Phillips led the Dallas-area USBC youth bowling last week with a thundering 179-160-134 = 473 Have A Ball series at Ennis All Star Bowl.

Morgan Hopkins, Phillips league mate, paced the girls with an outstanding 108-111-88 = 307 set.

of the field advancing for a fourth eight-game block Nov. 7. Total pinfall for 32 games will determine the 24 bowlers who will advance to the round-robin match-play portion of the tournament.

At the completion of 56 games, the top five players, based on pinfall with match-play bonus pins included, will advance to the stepladder finals. The 2016 champion will take home $30,000 and the coveted green jacket.

Left-hander Ryan Ciminelli of Cheektowaga, New York, will look to defend his U.S. Open title in 2016. He was the No. 1 seed for the TV show at the 2015 tournament at AMF Garland Lanes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and he defeated England’s Dominic Barrett, 236-223, to claim his first major title.

Entries for the U.S. Open are open. The online entry fee is $500, while entries paid on-site will cost $550.

U.S OPENContinued from Page 1

lia, 8,277.2, Sean Rash, Montgomery,

Ill., 8,096.3, Wes Malott, Pflugerville,

Texas, 8,083.4, Tom Daugherty, River-

view, Fla., 7,967.5, E.J. Tackett, Huntington,

Ind., 7,945.6, Francois Lavoie, Canada,

7,926, $3,500.7, Rhino Page, Orlando, Fla.,

7,908, $3,200.8, Brad Angelo, Lockport,

N.Y., 7,897, $3,000.9, Jesper Svensson, Sweden,

7,874, $2,800.10, Kristopher Prather,

Milton, Fla., 7,835, $2,600.11, Anthony Pepe, Elmhurst,

N.Y., 7,818, $2,400.12, Josh Blanchard, Mesa,

Ariz., 7,745, $2,200.13, Jason Sterner, Cocoa,

Fla., 7,720, $2,100.14, Bill O’Neill, Langhorne,

Pa., 7,711, $1,900.15, Martin Larsen, Sweden,

7,705, $1,800.16, Tommy Jones, Simpson-

ville, S.C., 7,697, $1,700.

DETROIT OPENContinued from Page 3

Rookie Francois Lavoie Tops PBA Wolf Open Qualifying

Francois Lavoie

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (Sept. 5, 2016) – Canadian native Francois Lavoie, now living in Wichita, Kan., earned the top berth for the stepladder finals of the PBA Wolf Open Monday as the Professional Bowlers Association Fall Swing got underway at Thunderbowl Lanes.

Lavoie, who starred with the Wichita State University bowling program, averaged ??? for his 12 qualifying games to claim the lead with a total of 2,878 pins, 76 ahead Australia’s two-handed star Jason Bel-monte. The 24-year-old rookie, bowling in only his fourth PBA Tour event, will make his na-tional television debut on CBS Sports Network on Wednesday, Sept. 21, at 9 p.m.

“It should be exciting. I’m looking forward to it,” Lavoie said. “I’m just drinking up all the experiences.”

After ranking third in the first eight games bowled earlier Monday in the main section of Thunderbowl Lanes, Lavoie dominated competition Monday night when the second six-game round was bowled in Thunderbowl’s historic arena bay, built in 1961 as a showcase for premier bowling competition.

“I think the surface on the lanes in the bay was a little different, so it played different than the main center,” Lavoie said, “but it was still fairly understandable if you were able to do the right thing with ball motion. And I was able to do that pretty well.”

Lavoie, who grew up in Quebec City, is living in Wichita on a temporary visa, but plans to apply for a athlete visa to stay here full-time.

“As long as I want to be a competitive bowler, I think I need to be in the U.S. and

Wichita is pretty centrally located to a lot of competitive bowling. Plus it’s a great city,” he said.

Belmonte, the three-time reigning PBA Player of the Year, is trying for his 13th PBA Tour title, but first of the 2016 season. He qualified for his eight career PBA Summer/Fall Swing television final, one shy of Bill O’Neill’s record in the fourth annual multi-event program.

Eighteen-time PBA Tour champion Chris Barnes of Double Oak, Texas, fired a 300 game earlier Monday to take the early lead but slipped to third place in the evening session. Barnes, 46, is seeking his first title on U.S. soil since winning the 2013 PBA Viper Open in Las Vegas. Barnes’ most recent titles were won in Qatar (2014) and Japan (2015).

Tom Daugherty of River-view, Fla., qualified fourth and 19-year-old Texas two-hander Anthony Simonsen, a leading contender in the 2016 PBA Player of the Year race, slipped past Kris Prather of Milton, Fla., by six pins in the final game to clinch the fifth stepladder berth.

The Wolf Open stepladder finals will be conducted on Saturday, Sept. 10, at 11 a.m. for telecast on CBS Sports Network on Wednesday, Sept. 21, at 9 p.m. ET.

The first six games in the Wolf, Bear and Badger Opens count as the qualifying legs to determine the 18 players who will advance to the Detroit Open qualifying finals.

PBA WOLF OPENThunderbowl Lanes, Allen

Park, Mich. Sept. 5Final Qualifying Stand-

ings (after 12 games; top five advance to stepladder finals. Finals air on CBS Sports Network on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 9 p.m. ET)

1, Francois Lavoie, Wichita, Kan., 2,878.

2, Jason Belmonte, Austra-lia, 2,802.

3, Chris Barnes, Double Oak, Texas, 2,783.

4, Tom Daugherty, River-view, Fla., 2,773.

5, Anthony Simonsen, Princeton, Texas, 2,739.

6, Kristopher Prather, Milton, Fla., 2,733, $1,500.

7, Norm Duke, Clermont, Fla., 2,697, $1,300.

8, Anthony Pepe, Elmhurst, N.Y., 2,685, $1,100.

9, Kyle Troup, Taylorsville, N.C., 2,677, $900.

10, Jason Sterner, Cocoa, Fla., 2,655, $800.

11, Wes Malott, Pflugerville, Texas, 2,591, $700.

12, Jesse Buss, Belvidere, Ill., 2,549, $600.


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Will Benson, from the Suds Busters group, pocketed power-laden 258-256-279 = 793 numbers en route to earning high-set honors for the week at Plano Super Bowl.

Debby Oulicky registered a sizzling 255-246-243 = 744 Pepsi Classic set to lead the lady bowlers.

HONOR ROLLJim Crow 257-680, Eva Rhodes

211-565, Jim Monroe 195-556, Marilyn Frantz 168-483, Tony Boyd 278-761, Janelle Westbrook 236-645, David Rhodes 249-656, Tiffany Hartman 199-546.

Dottie Culpon 223-561, Ethel Powell 190-531, Ray Montoro 279-761, Jerry

Stobaugh 256-685, Art Victorine 222-618, Lynda O’Keeffe 168-449, Diane Wallentine 193-550, Sam Elliston 243-610.

Frieda Castaldo 200-543, Jerry Spencer 209-565, Emily Ryan 188-488, Keith Geissier 279-746, Stephanie Calbert 232-602, Frank Phillips 246-675, Lena Terry 191-568, Bradley Norris 268-748.

Debby Oulicky 245-606, Pete Mahre (4 games) 289-1028, Debby Oulicky (4 games) 255-965, W L Hargrove 280-746, Stacy Starry 247-703, Billy Foster 255-716, Debbie Lambert 188-539.

Edward Kiefert 269-689, Kathy Grondin 180-484, Rick Mann 269-744, Cindy Mann 279-686.

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Benson blasts 793, Oulicky nails 744

Sweden’s Jesper Svensson Tops PBA Bear Open Qualifying

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (Sept. 6, 2016) – Sweden’s Jesper Svensson, already the only player in Professional Bowlers Association history to win five titles by the age of 21, will try to make it six in the PBA Bear Open at Thunderbowl Lanes.

Svensson, a two-handed player who bowls from the left side, was top qualifier in the Bear Open Tuesday with a 12-game total of 2,706 pins, overtaking E.J. Tackett of Huntington, Ind., in the final game to earn the top run in the Bear Open stepladder finals.

The Bear Open is the second of four PBA Tour title events that are part of the PBA Fall Swing. The Bear Open finals will air on CBS Sports Network on Wednesday, Sept. 28, at 9 p.m. ET.

Svensson, a leading con-tender for PBA Player of the Year honors after winning the PBA Rookie of the Year title in 2015, is trying to become the PBA’s first four-time winner of 2016. He knows he’s leading the race, but he doesn’t want to think about it quite this early.

“To be honest, I’m trying to not think about it much,” Svensson said. “I’ll just try to bowl as good as I can. It’s nice to be in the lead, but I just hope I can stay there for the rest of the season.”

Svensson said bowling six games on the demanding Bear oiling pattern in the main section of Thunderbowl and another six in the historic arena bay “was hard, but it was hard for everyone. It was close at the end and I’m glad I could finish it up.

“I think I had a pretty good look in the arena,” he added. “I hope I can find the same kind of ball reaction during the TV show” which will be contested in the arena.

Also qualifying for the Bear Open finals were Tackett with 2,668 pins; Josh Blanchard of Mesa, Ariz., with a 2,660 total; John Szczerbinski, N. Tonawa-

nda, N.Y., 2,622, and Jon Van Hees, Charlestown, R.I., 2,597.

After six qualifying games each on the short 32-foot Wolf lane oiling pattern and the flat, 40-foot U.S. Open-style Bear pattern, left-hander Anthony Pepe of Elmhurst, N.Y., held the qualifying lead for the Detroit Open qualifying rounds which will be held Thursday in Thunderbowl’s arena bay. The field of 18 Detroit Open qualifiers will be decided after Wednesday’s six qualifying games on the long, 52-foot Badger Open pattern.

The Detroit Open stepladder finals field will be determined by combining the pinfall totals for the first 18 qualifying games with scores from three additional six-game rounds on the Wolf, Bear and Badger patterns.

Also at stake as the PBA Fall Swing progresses will be berths in the King of the Swing special event that will conclude the Fall Swing. The King of the Swing will include the winners of each of the three animal pattern events and the Detroit Open plus the highest-ranking player in competition points for the Fall Swing who doesn’t win a title.

All preliminary rounds of the Fall Swing are being covered live, exclusively on PBA’s online video stream-ing channel, Xtra Frame. For subscription information, visit pba.com and click on the Xtra Frame link.

PBA BEAR OPENThunderbowl Lanes, Allen


ings (after 12 games; top five advance to stepladder finals. Finals air on CBS Sports Network on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 9 p.m. ET):

1, Jesper Svensson, 2,706.2, E.J. Tackett, Huntington,

Ind., 2,668.3, Josh Blanchard, Mesa,

Ariz., 2,660.4, John Szczerbinski, N.

Tonawanda, N.Y., 2,622.

5, Jon Van Hees, Charles-town, R.I., 2,597.

6, Sean Rash, Montgomery, Ill., 2,582, $1,500.

7, Brandon Novak, Chilli-cothe, Ohio, 2,579, $1,300.

8, Jason Sterner, Cocoa, Fla., 2,536, $1,100.

9, Devin Bidwell, Wichita, Kan., 2,533, $900.

10, Shawn Maldonado, Houston, 2,520, $800.

11, Andrew Graff, Las Vegas, 2,506, $700.

12, Rhino Page, Orlando, 2,469, $600.

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The Badger Open is the third and final animal pattern event, all three of which played roles in determining the final-ists for the PBA Detroit Open, which is the fourth PBA Tour title event included in the PBA Fall Swing. The Badger Open

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Tennessee, and longtime Team USA member Sean Rash of Montgomery, Illinois.

A few members of the team are coming off a successful run at the PBA Fall Swing in the Detroit area. Szczerbinski and Rash both made TV appear-ances in the special event that featured four tournaments in one exciting week.

The Team USA women will head to Cali next week, with competition getting underway Sept. 19.

The team will include veterans Shannon O’Keefe of O’Fallon, Illinois, and Shannon Pluhowsky of Dayton, Ohio, Missy Parkin of Laguna Hills, California, Josie Earnest of Nashville, Tennessee, Danielle McEwan of Stony Point, New York, and Bryanna Cote of Red Rock, Arizona.

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coach Team USA, while PBA champion and longtime Team USA member Chris Barnes will serve as assistant coach for the event.

“I’m definitely a little bit nervous, but I’m also really ex-cited to see what this team can do,” Bryan O’Keefe said. “It’s a nice mix of experienced players and some younger bowlers who have an opportunity to learn a lot and show what they’re capable of on this stage.”

The tournament will feature more than a dozen countries, with more on the line than just gold medals.

The top eight men’s teams and top eight women’s teams will qualify for the combined 2017 World Championships in Kuwait. The top two countries will qualify for the World Games, which is held every fourth year and next will be contested in Wroclaw, Poland, in July 2017.

Visit BOWL.com/TeamUSA for more information on the Team USA program.

finals will air on CBS Sports Network on Wednesday, Oct. 5, at 9 p.m. ET.

The PBA Fall Swing (former-ly called the Summer Swing) is one of the PBA Tour’s most challenging events, requiring players to perform at a high level on three distinctly differ-ent lane conditioning patterns (the short 32-foot Wolf pattern, flat 40-foot Bear pattern and the long 52-foot Badger pat-tern). Overall performances on all three lane conditions determined the Detroit Open finalists.

Earlier Wednesday, Lavoie led the field of 18 players who advanced to The final rounds of the Detroit Open. Based on combined pinfall totals in the Wolf, Bear and Badger preliminary rounds, the top 18 advance another 18 games – six each on the three different patterns – to determine the five Detroit Open stepladder finalists.

Also at stake during the Fall Swing will be 10 invitations to compete in the 2017 DHC PBA Japan Invitational. The invitations, based on total prize money earned during the Fall

Swing, will be announced on Oct. 20.

PBA BADGER OPENThunderbowl Lanes, Allen


ings (after 12 games; top five advance to stepladder finals. Finals air on CBS Sports Network on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 9 p.m. ET)

1, Wes Malott, Pflugerville, Texas, 2,854.

2, Sean Rash, Montgomery, Ill., 2,818.

3, Graham Fach, Cnd, 2,812.4, Francois Lavoie, Canada,

2,790.5, Jason Belmonte, Austra-

lia, 2,772.6, Thomas Larsen, Den-

mark, 2,763, $1,500.7, Rhino Page, Orlando,

2,742, $1,300.8, Joe Paluszek, Bensalem,

Pa., 2,675, $1,100.9, Anthony Colosimo, Davie,

Fla., 2,660, $900.10, Martin Larsen, Sweden,

2,646, $800.11, Andres Gomez, Colom-

bia, 2,609, $700.12, Brad Angelo, Lockport,

N.Y., 2,545, $600.

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Fund That Pays for National Bowling Stadium Upgrades Eyed by Hockey Team

Another sport could be join-ing bowling and baseball in downtown Reno, Nev.: hockey. To make it happen, a proposal calls for money to come from the same fund that is paying for upgrades to the National Bowling Stadium.

The Reno Puck Club would like to bring an East Coast Hockey League team to the “biggest little city in the world,” and have it play its games in the downtown Reno

Events Center. That would require remodeling the center, which then would accom-modate 4,786 seats plus 246 suite-level seats for hockey. For other events, such as concerts, the floor could be reconfigured to accommodate about 6,500 people.

To help pay for the remodel-ing, the Reno Puck Club is asking for $500,000 per year for six years. The cost of the remodeling project is estimated at $5.6 million.

Earlier this year, Las Vegas landed a National Hockey League team. The East Coast Hockey League, which is com-prised of 27 teams affiliated with the NHL and American Hockey League, is considered the equivalent of the AA level

in baseball. Hosting an ECHL team would add about 40 events per year to the Reno Events Center.

* During each telecast of the Fall Swing, PBA Tour champions will provide their insights about the various animal pattern events, along with other reflections about their experiences in PBA Tour competition, as guest analysts with CBS Sports Network lead announcer, Dave Ryan, and veteran color analyst, Randy Pedersen. The players who will join the telecasts - not neces-sarily in the order of appear-ances - are Chris Barnes, Dom Barrett, Jason Belmonte, Bill O’Neill and Rhino Page.

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