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Carleta PoydrasWins State‘Queens’ Tiara

Carleta Poydras,bowling in her very firstMichigan State Queen’stournament, wentundefeated in match playto return the “Tiara” tothe Detroit area.

— See page 5

Birch Run’s Brian Waliczek WinsMich. State Masters at 300 Bowl

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NEWSGene Stus, Jason CouchJoin PBA Hall of Fame

• ELEVEN-time PBA Senior Tour winner Gene Stus and16-time Pro Tour titlist Jason Couch were inducted into thePBA Hall of Fame during ceremonies Saturday, April 14 at theRed Rock Resort.

As a competitive bowler for most of his adult life, the 71-year-old Stus wondered how he might have done on the PBATour. But the opportunity to compete in Tour competition didn’tpresent itself until he retired from General Motors after 32 yearsat the age of 50 and became a regular on the Senior Tour.

Stus’ 11 Senior Tour titles rank fourth on the all-time listbehind fellow Hall of Famers John Handegard with 14 titles,and Gary Dickinson and Dale Eagle each with 12.

In 1992, Stus, who currently resides in Taylor, earned Se-nior Player of the Year honors thanks in part to winning twotitles. In July of that year he became the first Senior Tour playerto bowl a 300 game on national television, defeating DonGilman, 300-188, in the Pacific Cal Bowl Senior Open in Lake-

• BRIAN WALICZEK ofBirch Run won the Michigan StateMasters at 300 Bowl in WaterfordTownship Sunday, April 15 whenhe defeated Jeff Edwards of Ster-ling Heights, 356-343, in the two-game match to win the $3,600 first

prize. Edwards settled for the sec-ond-place check of $1,800.

Waliczek qualified 29th in thefield of 160 with a six-game totalof 1,218. He remained in thewinner’s bracket with victoriesover Mason Brantley of Detroit,

382-320, Jason Stephenson ofDavison, 438-406, Brian Thomp-son of Flat Rock, 400-398, J.R.Raymond of Saginaw, 453-406,and Edwards the first time, 461-429. He also won a paid entry intothe 2013 United States BowlingCongress Masters tournament.

“What can I say? Tough lanes.Great turnout. I’ll take it,” saidWaliczek. “I was fortunate to sneakin, then overnight I developed anew lane play strategy and itworked.” Waliczek averaged 206

for 18 games of competition.Edwards qualified seventh with

1,283. He also remained in thewinner’s bracket with triumphsover Angelo Newby of WaterfordTownship, 364-350, JeremyDixson of Saginaw, 481-399, BoGoergen of Sanford, 371-353, andJeff Suma Sr. of Auburn Hills, 437-409, before getting knocked intothe loser’s bracket by Waliczek,461-429. In the loser’s bracket hebeat LeRoy Anderson of Saginaw,

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USBC Women’s ChampionshipsUnderway at Reno-Sparks

RENO, Nev. — The 2012 United States Bowling Congress Women’sChampionships kicked off with a bang Saturday as the first of morethan 30,000 bowlers took to the lanes at the National Bowling Stadium.

Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority Chairman of theBoard Dwight Dortch and local and bowling-industry dignitaries helpedwelcome the participants and their guests back to The Biggest LittleCity in the World.

The festivities featured a ribbon-cutting ceremony, the traditionalMass Ball Shot and live entertainment, which included “The Man inthe Mirror,” a theatrical tribute to the music of Michael Jackson. Theshow will be running at Eldorado Hotel Casino throughout the durationof the USBC Women’s Championships.

“We look forward to bowling on the opening squad every year andhad a lot of fun today,” said Vella Edwards from Azle, Texas, who madeher third tournament appearance. “I really enjoyed the performance. Itwas very entertaining and memorable.”

The opening squad saw 74 teams make their way down Center Aisleto usher in the 2012 event, which will run for 86 consecutive days,concluding July 8. During that time, more than 6,100 five-player teamswill compete in the 93rd running of the world’s largest participatory

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Sean Rash TopsPBA ‘T of C’

Sean Rash won thePBA Tournament ofChampions, ending afive-year, 14-tournamenttelevision drought with a239-205 victory overRyan Ciminelli.

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GENE STUS AND JASON COUCH JOIN PBA HALL OF FAME

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Stus was not able to attend the ceremo-nies for health reasons but good friend andfellow Senior Tour competitor DaveBernhardt accepted the honor on his behalf.

“I always wanted to bowl on Tour and itwas the Senior Tour that allowed me to ful-

fill my dreams,” Stus said through his videoacceptance. “I wasn’t able to bowl on Tourwhen I was younger but I was still fortu-nate to have the honor to bowl with thesport’s greats.

“I hope that bowlers like myself whodidn’t have the opportunity to bowl on Tourwhen they were younger will give the Se-

nior Tour a try because it’s a great opportu-nity to fulfill their dreams.”

The 42-year-old Couch is the only playerin Tour history to win three consecutivePBA Tournament of Champions titles, anevent many players consider one of the mostdemanding to win because a player must wina PBA title to be eligible to compete.

In addition to his Tournament of Champi-ons titles, which came in 1999, 2000 and 2002(the tournament was not conducted in 2001),Couch won a fourth Tour major in the 1993PBA Touring Players Championship. TheClermont, Fla., left-hander began his Tourcareer in 1992 when he earned Rookie of theYear honors. His first title would come thenext season in Windsor Locks, Conn.

Couch’s career path was probably a fore-gone conclusion as the son of parents whoowned a Florida bowling center.

“I lived my life dreaming of this day,”Couch said. “From the time I was a kid

bowling in junior leagues, I couldn’t waitto get back home to watch the pros on thePBA Tour telecasts on Saturdays. To notonly watch them, but also try to do whatthey did. I went out and did my best andwhen I achieved one milestone, I continuedto work hard and went on to the next goal.”

Throughout his 20-year Tour career,Couch had a string of winning at least onetitle in six straight seasons (1998-2004) andhe won multiple titles in five seasons. Stillactive on Tour, he has more than $1.6 mil-lion in career earnings and was ranked 24thamong PBA’s 50 greatest players in historyas part of the organization’s 50th anniver-sary in 2009. He also won 25 PBA regionaltitles.

The PBA Hall of Fame ceremonieswere held in conjunction with the PBA Tour-nament of Champions at Red Rock Lanes.The TOC concludes the PBA’s 2011-12 sea-son.

New Yorker Becomes 19th Bowler to Roll 900 SeriesARLINGTON, Texas — John Martorella Sr. of Greece, N.Y., grew up around bowling

and had the opportunity to experience the sport’s ultimate achievement when he rolled 36consecutive strikes for a 900 series in the Knox Amusement scratch league at Domm’sBowling Center in Rochester, N.Y., on Thursday night.

The accomplishment still is pending approval from the United States Bowling Con-gress, but would make the 28-year-old right-hander the 19th bowler in history to achievethe feat. It would be the 20th USBC-approved 900 series.

“I was able to shoot 300 the first game, and then things started to settle down, so I wasable to stay on my pair,” Martorella said. “When my son came up to me during my pre-shot swing in the ninth frame, I couldn’t help but laugh. It gave me a chance to step backand start my routine all over, and it really helped. I’m glad that he and my father were ableto be there with me. My brother bowls in the league, too.”

The first USBC-approved 900 occurred Feb. 2, 1997 when Jeremy Sonnenfeld rolledthree consecutive perfect games in Lincoln, Neb. There has never been a 900 on SportBowling lane conditions.


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I enjoy going on Sundayfor the round robin matchplay. The eight contestantsbowl all seven of the others,garnering points for eachpin over 200 and 30 bonuspoints for winning theirmatch. It is always exciting.I was not disappointed thisyear.

Lisa Bishop of Belle-ville, shot a 296 game onSaturday — I hear it was a“bucket” for the high gameof the weekend. Other highgames on Sunday belongedto Carleta Poydras ofRedford 278, Altramese

“Mickey” Webb 262 and 268, Lisa added a279, Michelle Keirns, last year’s Queen,267, Ronda Dexter had a 266, Allyse Millerhad a 279 and Jody Fetterhoff had a 278game. Nice bowling to all of these ladies!

It was great seeing Mickey Webb outthere competing once again and boy did sheever! She was in third place going into theposition round, when she shot 268 the finalgame to total 1871 to leap over Lisa Bishopwho had 1858.

But the story of the day was CarletaPoydras who was bowling her very firstQueen’s tournament. In match play, shewent undefeated, tying one game of 223. Heractual totals for the eight games was 1884,averaging 235. Her high game was 278 andher low game was her first game of 203.

The left-hander throws an incrediblysmooth ball and never looked nervous, evenas she competed against two-time Queen’sChampion Lisa Bishop. When I asked herabout her nerves, she said that she decidedthat working in the operating room in or-thopedics at Sinai-Grace is stressful, so sheused that same mentality to steady herselffor her final match. It was very fun to watch!

Congratulations to all of the ladies who

• THE TIARA has returned to the “D!”This past weekend, the Michigan State

USBC WBA conducted the Queen’s Tour-nament at Century Bowl in Waterford.

The “Queens” began in 1984, with TerryGrant sporting the first “tiara” given to thechampion. Since then, there have been 20years where a member of what is now MetroDetroit USBC Association has beencrowned the champion, including JodiWoessner from Toledo who used to bowlhere in the Bowlerettes, and Petesy Wrayfrom Windsor.

The other ladies who now have a tiara intheir possession are: Terry, Gerry Ritter,Cheryl Stipcak, Dina Manni-Jones (two),Linda Painter, Nicole Idziak-Owsley, BettyTrimper (two), Teri Taylor (White), SandraWinbigler Schultz (three), Novella White(Daniels), Julie Wright and Julie Hall. Thereare a lot of Hall of Fame members in thatlist!

I love watching this tournament. The bestlady bowlers from around the state compete.Although the field was only 72 this year,there was a tremendous amount of talent onthe lanes.

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lineup, would record the markcount, a mark being a strikeor spare. If one bowler recordsa seven on a spare or a doublestrike and an opponent fellsnine, that’s a quick two-pindifference, and in certaingames one team could beahead of another by 30 ormore pins in wood count.

For many years youngbowlers, and seniors too,made some extra spending orbowling money by keepingscore in leagues, and that wasparticularly true in California.

That is not necessary inthese days of automatic scor-ing, but that key counter is

still important because many bowlers areslow in scoring, even slower in the projec-tion of scores and the possibilities on bothsides of competition. And that even goes forsome of the announcers describing gameson TV.

Head-to-head match games were an im-portant and exciting part of the sport andhome-and-home matches, as few as five or10 games, or as many as 50 to 100 games,were common, well attended, and well offi-ciated.

Sometimes, part of the agreement calledfor the pinboys to wear white gloves andfootwear.

Wasn’t that a nice touch to the action?No. It was simply a better way to keep

an eye on the fast moving hands and feet ofthe human pinsetters to make sure that theyalways set up pins instead of somehow, bymistake of course, they either pushed orkicked a pin down here and there.

And now you know a little bit more aboutthe ancient art of scoring.

Once upon a time.

Bowling’s Past FeaturesMany ‘Strange Things’

DETROIT ALL-STAR CLASSIC

Financial Strategies/Storm TeamWraps Up Spring Season Title

• THE DETROIT All-Star Classic, sponsored by Thunderbowl Lanes, watchedthe Financial Strategies/Storm team wrap up first place for the Spring Season withone week left.

Financial Strategies/Storm won the one point they needed from Ansara’s Restau-rant Group, winners of the Winter Season, to clinch the title at Harbor Lanes. AbedDaher paced the winners with 719. Ansara’s won two of three in a valiant effort tostay in the hunt as Chris Nielson with 795 led the charge. He had plenty of help fromteammates Ken Wyatt 759 and Kevin Trumbull 750. Ironically, Ken and Kevin arein a four-way battle for the King of Bowlers which goes to the bowler with thehighest average over the year.

The real battle is for the sixth and final roll-off spot in the John P. Gavie CupRoll-Offs which are conducted at the end of the season. Cozy Inn/Bonanza Laneshas opened up a three-point lead over Eastridge Insurance entering the final week atPlaza Lanes for that coveted last spot in the John P. Gavie Cup Roll-Offs.

Other high scores from Harbor were posted by Jeff Edwards from 2 Booli/Maxi-mum Potential Pro Shop. Jeff rolled 752 which helped his team to a sweep and aspot in the roll-offs. Bob Learn celebrated his 50th birthday by stroking 770 to leadhis Red Robin Restaurants/Sunnybrook Lanes team into the roll-offs as well. Be-ware Senior PBA Tour, Bob is now eligible. Plaza Lanes locked up a spot in the roll-offs as Larry Walker 748, Randy Warnken 705 and Dave Tulak 704 led the way.Danny Maine 730 and Nate Adams 721 paced the Columbia 300/Premier BowlersPro Shop.

Big shooters from the previous week at Rose Bowl Lanes were Harry Sullins 300in a 762 set, Kevin Trumbull 300 in 736, Ken Wyatt 739 and Steve Mrakitsch 718,all from Ansara’s. George Juszczyk had 300 in 774 and Jeff Hicks 711, both fromthe Financial Strategies squad. Nick Wissinger had 719 from Plaza Lanes. TreyRaynes had 727 and James Koss 704 from Cozy Inn/Bonanza Lanes. Dave Silvermanhad 711 from the 2 Booli/Maximum Potential Pro Shop team. The High Totals ofthe night went to Ryan Mitter (congrats on being a new daddy) with 795 to pace hisSoltz’s Quality Meats/Red Robin/DBT team.

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times at 7 p.m. May 1st will be conducted at Hazel Park Bowl, May 2nd will takeplace at Bonanza Lanes and May 3rd will be contested at 5-Star Lanes. Make plansto come out and watch the top six teams battle it out for the cup.

— Art Schroeder, Secretary, Detroit Traveling All-Star Classic


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unrealistic average and the game of bowl-ing is cheapened. The USBC has recentlystarted promoting Sport Bowling as a modelfor standardizing a more challenging lanecondition that would require a higher skilllevel to average 200.

The sport pattern is a much flatter oilpattern. When you miss to the right the balldoesn’t reach the head pin and when youmiss to the left it hooks high. Although thesport pattern needs some tweaking, I believethey are on the right track.

I have personally lost interest in leaguebowling because the conditions are so out-rageously easy. In my conversation withother high average bowlers, they too havelost interest because of the current situation.When bowlers are rewarded for making badshots and penalized for making good shotssomething needs to change.

Maybe lane conditions should be ratedlike in golf. Some conditions would be 225for par for the easy conditions — 210 forthe semi-easy conditions and 200 for thetough conditions. Just a thought.

I think it would be a good idea to have aNational Sport Bowling week in centers allacross America so bowlers could maybehave a dose of reality and see where theregame is really at. By no means am I tryingto offend anyone, but I think we are cheat-ing ourselves when we believe we are parbowlers when we are not.

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Become a ‘Complete Player’ by Practicing on Demanding Conditions

• SHOOTING a 300 game and averag-ing 200 is not news anymore. Instead it isbecoming the norm. I haven’t said muchabout scoring conditions, but I believe thelong range future of the game is being im-pacted by unreal scoring conditions that arecommon today. It is a Catch 22 situation —bowlers want big scores and bowling cen-ters give them what they want.

If a center tries to put out a more chal-lenging or honest condition, they risk los-ing their bowlers to other higher scoringcenters. In the long run bowlers are cheat-ing themselves because they have an inflated

Roller Tournaments as well as the PBA Tourcompete on much tougher conditions and thatseparates the solid par players from the in-flated average players. In fact on the PBA Tourthe average guy who carried a 225 average inhis leagues averaged only 189 on tour.

If you want to be a complete player anda serious competitor who has aspirations ofbeing better than just a great house bowler,

you should try to practice on more demand-ing conditions or possibly join one of theleagues in the area that puts out a more chal-lenging condition.

—◆ Send Questions to Cheryl Daniels, P.O. Box 252, Novi, MI 48376 or e-mail meat “[email protected]” or visit mywebsite at www.cheryldaniels.com.

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• THE BUDWEISERMichigan Majors Bowling As-sociation is still going stronggoing into the 46th year ofbowling excellence. Therewere three different winnersstarting the 46th year —Duane Henderson atThunderbowl, Matt Randall atSterling Lanes and CoreyMiller at Plaza Lanes.

The first jewel of theMMBA “Triple Crown” isnext — the 37th AnnualMatch Game Championshipon April 21-22 at WayneBowl. Craig Nidiffer is the de-fending champion. The starttime for both Saturday andSunday is 10 a.m. There is a guaranteed$1,500 first-place prize.

The cost for joining the BudweiserMichigan Majors is $60 yearly dues. This

is what the MMBA operateson. The cost for each regulartournament is $80. The entryfee for each three Champion-ship tournaments is $100.

The MMBA tries to pay outall entry fees taken in by year’send. The MMBA collected$64,100 in entry fees and paidout $63,850 in prize money.

The format is all entrantsbowl a six-game qualifyinground. The semi-final cut is a1-in-4 ratio to the entry. Theybowl additional three games.The top five nine-game totalsadvance to the stepladder fi-nal.

The Match Game Champi-onship is the only two-day tournament witha different format. There is still a six-gamequalifying round. The top 32 scores (basedon 90 entries) advance to the semi-final.

They are paired off and bowl a three-gamematch. The first to win two games elimi-nates his opponent.

The eight remaining winners on Satur-day return on Sunday. They are again a bestof three game matches until only two areremaining. The final match is five gameswith the first to win three games is the MatchGame Champion.

The competition and talent has been con-stant for over 45 years. No one can disputethe Michigan Majors has the best bowlersin the state performing each tournament.Many of the Hall of Fame members such asMitch Jabczenski, Ken Kossick, LarryWalker, Mike Lee, Dale Strike, Ken Wyatt,Scott Weston, Dave Tulak, Harry Sullins,Nick Wissinger, Dale Hofmeister, NunzioMarino, Rick Schultz, Kerry Kreft, TroyStus, Joe Manor and Jeff Roche are stillperforming. Plus many good and up-and-coming young bowlers are still joining.

The Michigan Majors is more than just amonthly tournament. There is the all readymentioned Hall of Fame, which I am proudto be one of the 62 members now enshrined.There are Bowler of the Year and Rookie ofthe Year awards. There is a Championshipbanquet to honor the previous Champion-ship tournament winner, plus Sportsman ofthe year award and the induction of any new

hall of fame members.There have been 522 tournaments held

with 235 different winners. Dale Hofmeisteris the leader with 17 titles. Dick Beattie has15, Nick Wissinger 14 and Dale Strike 10.

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• WITH TWO weeks left in the last thirdof the Ebonite Thunderbowl All-Star Leagueseason, Romulus Auto Supply has widened

their lead to fivepoints and lookunbeatable. Inthe past weekthey threw an-other 3600 seriesat Red RobinRestaurants.

A l t h o u g hRed Robin putup a good fightin the firstgame, they stillwound up los-ing by sevenpins after hav-ing a 60-pointlead in the ninthframe. Four out

of five bowlers from Romulus struck outwith Terry Haines in anchor needing twostrikes to win the point, which naturally hegot as he buried both balls.

In the series Nate Adams posted a 725,Jeff Hayes 762, Jeff Roche 728 and Rich-ard Wayne 759, with a 300 game in the sec-ond game. Terry Haines relaxed after his two

clutch strikes and posted a 653 series.In a second-place tie is Northridge In-

surance and Strike It Rich Pro Shop. Highgames for the night were Richard Waynewith a 300, Darrin Greene at 299 and KenRogers at 290. Bob Slayden took the highscratch series at 790.

On the ladies side Josie Bashara shot 238for the high game and had the high series forthe evening with 640. With the easier shot inthe last third of the season, the 75 bowlers inthe league posted an average score in the pastweek of 222. That brought up the league av-erage for the season to 211. High individualaverages belong to Jake Monto at 229, JeffRoche at 229 and Bob Slayden at 227. SaraLitteral leads the ladies at 212.

* * *• BY THE TIME of the next edition of

this column, the season will be over and areport can be made as to the winner of thelast third of the season. If Romulus AutoSupply is successful this third, it will meanthe league had a different winner in eachthird of the season. It is interesting how itworks: Team 3, who took the first third, isnow in 11th place with a 23-27 record andThunderbowl Lanes, who won the secondthird, is in ninth place with a 24-26 record.

With the quality of each of the teams, it

Romulus Auto Supply Widens Thunderbowl All-Star Classic Leadtakes skill and luck to wind up on top. Fi-nancial Strategies, sponsored by Rick Flatt,has won the most overall points with 109,followed by Team 3 with 104, then it dropsoff with Barmatic and its solid team of

Cassise, Forfitt, Daniels, Kandes andTrimble next in line at 100 points. Althoughsteady through the season, Financial Strat-egies and Barmatic never got close to thetop rung.

competed. It was great to watch the best, but there is no reason this tournamentshould not be filled next year! I know in Metro Detroit USBC alone, we have over ahundred ladies averaging 200 or better that should give this tournament a try. It isgreat competition and it is for women!

I had several discussions with President Pat Russell and Association ManagerSharon Schildroth about allowing walk-ins to this tournament. I think in today’seconomy, ladies are making choices a little later than the deadline allows, and maybethat will help next year.

Thanks, ladies, for a very well-run tournament. Carleta, thanks for a great show!I will be watching for you in other tournaments, including the Metro Detroit USBCQueen’s, as well as the USBC Queen’s and Women’s U.S. Open... there is still time...some smart person should probably sponsor this very talented lady in Reno in June!

Just sayin’...

Carleta Poydras Wins ‘State Queens’to Return ‘Tiara’ to Detroit Area

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ENDS TV ‘DROUGHT’ WITH VICTORY OVER RYAN CIMINELLISean Rash Wins PBA Tournament of Champions for Fifth Title

Ciminelli also survived a pair of uncon-verted splits, throwing the first string ofthree strikes in the match to protect his slimlead and converting a 7 pin in the 10th frameto lock up the win. Fagan had won a pair of2011-12 titles including the United StatesBowling Congress Masters, one of the PBATour’s four major championships.

With Ciminelli’s loss, the PBA Tour

completed its first season since 1962 with-out a left-handed title winner.

* * *• WHILE the PBA Tour’s regular sea-

son ended with the Tournament of Champi-ons, a special post-season PBA SummerShootout is planned for Memorial Dayweekend in Chicago. Details will be an-nounced soon.

Belmonte Wins Third 2011-12 Title inPepsi PBA Elite Players Championship

LAS VEGAS — Australia’s Jason Belmonte won his third Professional Bowlers Asso-ciation Tour title of the 2011-12 season, and the fourth of his career, when he defeatedMike DeVaney of Murrieta, Calif., 255-238, to win the Pepsi PBA Elite Players Champi-onship at South Point Casino and Hotel.

The victory tied Belmonte with PBA Hall-of-Famer Norm Duke for current seasontitles as the PBA Tour heads into its final event of the 2011-12 season.

Belmonte, whose only PBA Tour title prior to this season was in the 2009 BowlingFoundation Long Island Open, wrapped up a stunning PBA World Series of Bowlingperformance with his Elite Players Championship. He won titles in three of his six WSOBtelevision finals, plus he had a third-place finish in the World Bowling Tour Finals pre-sented by the PBA which kicked off the World Series.

In a classic title-match battle, Belmonte and DeVaney both pounded the pocket, butDeVaney left an 8-pin in the fifth frame, a 9-pin in the seventh and a 10-pin on his first ballin the 10th, and Belmonte capitalized with a late string of five strikes to take charge of thecontest.

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Rash, who hadn’t won a title since the 2007United States Bowling Congress Masters,started the title match with four strikes andbowled an almost error-free game to win the$80,000 first prize and the fifth title of hiscareer.

“This one ranks right up there with themost important titles I’ve ever won,” Rashsaid. “Your first title is always special, and sois your first major, but this tournament is spe-cial because everyone who bowls in it is achampion. The other guys in the finals are allgreat young players.

“The biggest thing is learning from yourfailures. I learned that a long time ago, andI’ve worked hard to overcome my mistakes,”the 29-year-old said. “The great thing aboutwinning a title like this is we’re all family outhere. Every other player wants the other guyto succeed. It really feels good.”

With his title, Rash also inserted himselfinto the PBA Player of the Year chase. Heunofficially led the Tour in earnings, aver-age and competition points while finishingin the top 10 in 11 of 14 tournaments.

Ciminelli had nothing but praise forRash’s performance after eliminating twoPBA Player of the Year candidates in hisfirst two matches.

“I’m disappointed I didn’t win, but Seanbowled a great game. He earned it,”Ciminelli said. “Getting to the title matchwas another step in my career. I won by farthe biggest check I’ve ever gotten ($40,000),I qualified for the Japan Cup and I’ll get tobowl in the PBA Summer Series, so it wasa big week for me.

“And I think I handled the pressure well,”the 26-year-old left-hander said. “I usuallybeat myself up, but this week I’m proud ofmyself. There are going to be many, manymore opportunities. I’m very young.”

In the semifinal match, Ciminelli misseda 7-pin in the first frame but raced away toa 257-223 victory over Australia’s JasonBelmonte, striking on nine of his next 10shots. Belmonte couldn’t solve the right laneuntil the 10th frame and by then it was toolate. Belmonte came into the finals withthree victories during the 2011-12 PBA Tourseason and was considered a leading con-tender in the PBA Player of the Year race.

In the opening match, Ciminelli defeatedanother Player of the Year contender, MikeFagan of Dallas, 190-182, in a mistake-filledmatch. Fagan opened in three of his first fiveframes before rallying with a late turkey.


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USBC Women’s ChampionshipsUnderway at Reno-Sparkssporting event for women.

USBC Hall-of-Famer Flora Mitchell,who will be making her 50th Women’sChampionships appearance Sunday, rolledout the ceremonial first ball. The bowlersthen participated in the Mass Ball Shot Cer-emony, and 74 bowling balls simultaneouslyrolling toward the pins signified the officialstart of the tournament.

The Women’s Championships is makingits record seventh appearance in Reno, withsix of those being held at the 78-lane Sta-dium. “It’s always a great feeling to get theevent underway,” Women’s ChampionshipsTournament Manager Eric Pierson said.“The ladies were energetic and ready to hitthe lanes and have a good time. Our staff isexcited and ready to welcome all of thebowlers back to the tournament.”

The Women’s Championships includesthree average-based divisions and a 100-per-cent handicap format. The divisions are: Dia-

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458-370, then tried to avenge the earlier loss to Waliczek to no avail, 356-343.Edwards averaged 208 for 20 games of competition.

Anderson had to win a one-game roll-off defeating James Koss of Brighton, 214-194, to secure the 32nd and final spot. His qualifying score was 1,207. In match playhe beat top qualifier Nathan Hause of Charlotte, 372-370, before falling into theloser’s bracket with a loss Bob Chamberlain Jr. of Holly. In the match against Cham-berlain they tied at 390, then tied in a ninth and 10th frame roll-off at 26 beforewinning, 48-39. Anderson then lost the next match to J.R. Raymond of Saginaw,365-355. Once in the loser’s bracket he knocked out Andrew Burke of St. ClairShores, 477-467, Brian Thompson, 403-364, and Jeffrey Suma Sr., 402-346, beforeavenging his earlier loss to J.R. Raymond, 404-392, and finally falling to JeffEdwards, 458-370, to end his day. Anderson averaged 199 and took home $1,500.

Raymond qualified eighth with 1,283. In match play he remained undefeatedwith wins over Joey Saccucci of Eastpointe, 415-403, defending champion JeffAustreng of Waterford Township, 416-391, LeRoy Anderson of Saginaw, 365-355,before losing to champion Waliczek, 453-406. In the loser’s bracket he knockedAustreng out of the competition, 444-438, before getting knocked out by Anderson,404-392. He averaged 203 while cashing for $1,250.

Top qualifier Nathan Hause led qualifying by 79 pins with 1,450. He lost his firsttwo matches to LeRoy Anderson, 372-370, and Aaron Lorincz of Saginaw, 472-332. He settled for $300 plus $100 as the high qualifier. Defending champion JeffreyAustreng finished fifth cashing for $1,000 while averaging 212.

The field of 160 bowlers averaged 184.5 during the six games of qualifying. The topgame in qualifying was recorded by Mason Brantley of Detroit with 300. The top 32qualifiers averaged 208.6 during qualifying and 198.9 in match play.

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