Champions of the Orange-Sullivan Women's 600 Club championship dtournament are, from the left, A-Division Cathy Van Horn of Port Jervis, B-Division Anita Bucci of Pine Bush and C-Division Sue Naughton of Callicoon Center.
Patrick Allen 
Kyle Stevens Someone Give Lessons To Rob Stone
PBA HAPPENINGS
Ouch...it's geeting painful to listen to new play--by-play announcer Rob Stone on the Sunday ESPN Professional Bowlers Tour.......he surely doesn't showmuch affinity for the game of bowling.
Stone appear to not get the game......after all his broadcasting knowledge comes mostly covering soccer........... with the PBA matches on Sunday afternoon he is more obsessed with the term used for a three bagger "turkey."
And now he's got something going with a four-bagger...he calls is the "hambone"..who knows what he'll come up with next........boy we sure miss the likes of Chris Schenkel.
We hate to see the end of the women's tour on the Sunday PBA TV show.
They only had four tournaments scheduled in this years PBA tour and what we saw of it was all good. Possibly next year the PBA tour will make this a weekly event or look into giving the women their own show, but, financially it may work out better to include the gals in with the regular PBA tour.
The PBA stop last Sunday in Baltimore saw Patrick Allen winning over Wes Malott, 247-217 for the 2007 Lumber Liquidators Championship at AMF Country Club Lanes. It was Allen's 10th career Denny's PBA Tour title.
The tour stop this week is in Spartanburg, S.C. at Shamrock Lanes with the live ESPN televised finals taking place this Sunday at 1 p.m. It's the last Tour stop for 2007 as the PBA takes their holiday break and returns in January.
Last Sunday saw a unique format in which there were eight bowlers in the finals in this regular season event .......and this took place for the first time since 2000. The first match featured a four-bowler shootout with the bowler scoring highest advancidng to take on the No. 4 seed from round robin. That winner then faced No. 3 wifh the winner of that match taking on No. 2.....with the No. 1 see awaiting that winner.
Last Sunday's event also saw a tape delay which went on the air at 8:30 to 10:30......a two hour prime time telecase for the PBA....the first since 2001.
For those who don't believe in fate, maybe Diandra Asbaty's experience in the Great Lakes Classic will change their minds.
Asbaty, one of the most decorated amateur bowlers of all-time, just missed one of the 16 exemptions by two spots for the all-new PBA Women's Series....a special four-event mini tour sponsored by the United States Bowling Congress (USBC).
As a second alternate, it didn't seem Asbaty would get a chance to bowl in any PBA Women's Series events, but as fate would have it, exempt player Wendy Macpherson withdrew from the event and Wednesday mroning, while Asbaty in the Denny's PBA Tour Qualifying Round to try and earn a spot in the men's field, fist alternate Robin Romeo slammed her hand in her car door. Asbaty, who only bowled the TQR because she was in town doing an Etonic photo shoot, agreed to take Romeo's place.
Fate had her winning and she took home her first professional title.
Statistics from the tour stops so far this year finds Walter Ray Williams Jr. topping the list for the 2007-08 Chris Schenkel PBA Player of the Year race with 44 points and Sean Rash and Mike Wolfe in second place with 24 points each.
USBC NEWS
The United States Bowling Association (USBC) will award cash prizes to local or state associatiions winners in a newly expanded news media and communications awards contest. It's designated to recognize excellence in communicating news and information about bowling to the public during calendar year 2007. Association winners will be recognized during the USBC Convention in Kansas City, Missouri, May 6-10, 2008.
LOCAL SCENE
Association Tournament
A reminder to all Tri-County NY USBC womens and men's teams........entries close on January 31 (entires post marked February 1 will be accepted) for the 2ed Annual Tri-County Tri-County NY USBC Men's Open and Women's Championship Tournaments.
This year the tournaments will be held at the same location with the same dates and time.
The tournament dates for the team event are Satuurday, March 1 at 1 and 3 p.m. and Sunday, March 9 at 9 a.m., 11;30 A.M. and 2 p.m.
Doubles and singles will be bowled on Sunday, March 2 at 9 a.m., 12 noon and 3 p.m., Saturday, March 8 at 1 p.m. amd 4 p.m. and Sunday, March 16 at 9 a.m., 12 noon and 3 p.m.
The location of the tournament is Pin Street Lanes (formerly Frontier Lanes) on Route 94 in Warwick.
Team events are once again four member teams.
Check in time for the tournament is 30 minutes before you are scheduled to bowl.
Entry fee per person per event is $20 and the entry with check or money order can be mailed to Tri-County NY USBC Association, 405 Ave. E., Matamoras PA. 18336.
All events which is optional will be mailed after entries close on 1-31-08.
Entry blanks will be available at all Association bowling establishments.
Information can be obtained by calling Association Manager Michele Bensley at 845-239-0163
Christmas shoppers should remember the bowlers in their famly this holiday by stopping by their local bowling establishment or pro shop for bowling gift ideas.
600 & 500 Club Tournaments
The Orange-Sullivan Women's 600 Club Tournament is scheduled next year on the third Sunday in October. Champions in this year's event were A-Division Cathy VanHorn of Port Jervis, B-Division Anita Bucci of Port Jervis and C-Division Sue Naughton of Callicoon Center.
Champions of the 500-Club Tournament included A-Division Jean Grecco, B-Division Leslie Knickerbocker, C-Division Sandra Short and D Division Linda Millis.
Next years tournament will be November 2, 2008 at Ellenville Lanes.
Kyle Stevens Bowls Three 300 Games
Liberty Lanes left-hander Kyle Stevens has had a hot hand the past several weeks in the Thursday Men's Doubles league.
On November 29 he bowled back to back 300 games in his first two games of the night and finished with a 239 for an 839 series.
In the same league on December 6 he recorded another 300 game.
This column is written by Columnist and Consultant to the professional Sport of Bowling Ed Townsend. If you have a topic that would make good reading or have High Honor roll scores or tournament information or results you can contact Ed at 845-439-8177 or send an e-mail to bowlgolfect1@yahoo.com Our Web page can be read at http://bght.blogspot.com/
HONOR SCORES
300 GAMES
Kyle Stevens, (two back to back 300's) Thursday Men's Doubles league, Liberty Lanes
Kyle Stevens, Thursday Men's Doubles league, Liberty Lanes
Jay Young, Tuesday Service Club league, Pat Tarsio Lanes
Ralph Vitolo, Tuesday Service Club league, Pat Tasio Lanes
John Kittick Jr., Tues. Night Mixed, Pat Tarsio Lanes
Scott Goll, Wed. Bill Tarsio Memorial Men's league, Pat Tarsio Lanes
Robert Feliciano, Thursday Bruce Bryan league, Pat Tarsio Lanes
Jim Looney, Friday Bill Clark Memorial league, Pat Tarsio Lanes
Brian Conklin bowled his first ever 300 game Tuesday Sept. 11 during the second week of the Columbia Ball League and in the Friday Sept. 14 Mixed league bowled his second career 300....and it doesn't end there...... in the Friday Sept. 21 Mixed league he shot his third career 300 game....all at Middletown Lanes.
800 SERIES
Kyle Stevens, 839, Liberty Lanes
Dave Lambert 815, Pat Tarsio Lanes
Jim Looney 814, Pat Tarsio Lanes
Bowling Calendar
Febrluary 10, 10-game Scratch Tournament across 20 lanes--total pins will decide the winner. $2,500 first place based on 108 entries. $120.00 per person. Pat Tarsio Lanes, Newburgh, Tel. 562-5250
April & May, 2008. 27th Annual No-Tap Tournament.. Team and doubles. South Side Bowl, Scranton, Pa. Tel. 570-961-5213, http://www.southsidebowl.com/
April 19-May 4, 56th Annual Idle Hour Lanes Tournament, Scranton, Pa., co-sponsored by The Times-Tribune. Men's Women's Mixed teams and doubles events--5 person teams. Info call 570-489-7526.
April thru July, 40th Annual Lilac City Tournament. The world's 2ed largest Amateur bowling tournament, Team, doubles, singles. Rochester, NY. Info call 1-800-36-LILAC, e-mail information@lilactour.com
April thru July, 32nd Annual Lilac No-Tap Tournament. Handicap tournament for men, women and mixed..featuring singles and doubles events. Reservations call 1-800-36-LILAC, e-mail information@lilactour.com
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PBA HAPPENINGS
Ouch...it's geeting painful to listen to new play--by-play announcer Rob Stone on the Sunday ESPN Professional Bowlers Tour.......he surely doesn't showmuch affinity for the game of bowling.
Stone appear to not get the game......after all his broadcasting knowledge comes mostly covering soccer........... with the PBA matches on Sunday afternoon he is more obsessed with the term used for a three bagger "turkey."
And now he's got something going with a four-bagger...he calls is the "hambone"..who knows what he'll come up with next........boy we sure miss the likes of Chris Schenkel.
We hate to see the end of the women's tour on the Sunday PBA TV show.
They only had four tournaments scheduled in this years PBA tour and what we saw of it was all good. Possibly next year the PBA tour will make this a weekly event or look into giving the women their own show, but, financially it may work out better to include the gals in with the regular PBA tour.
The PBA stop last Sunday in Baltimore saw Patrick Allen winning over Wes Malott, 247-217 for the 2007 Lumber Liquidators Championship at AMF Country Club Lanes. It was Allen's 10th career Denny's PBA Tour title.
The tour stop this week is in Spartanburg, S.C. at Shamrock Lanes with the live ESPN televised finals taking place this Sunday at 1 p.m. It's the last Tour stop for 2007 as the PBA takes their holiday break and returns in January.
Last Sunday saw a unique format in which there were eight bowlers in the finals in this regular season event .......and this took place for the first time since 2000. The first match featured a four-bowler shootout with the bowler scoring highest advancidng to take on the No. 4 seed from round robin. That winner then faced No. 3 wifh the winner of that match taking on No. 2.....with the No. 1 see awaiting that winner.
Last Sunday's event also saw a tape delay which went on the air at 8:30 to 10:30......a two hour prime time telecase for the PBA....the first since 2001.
For those who don't believe in fate, maybe Diandra Asbaty's experience in the Great Lakes Classic will change their minds.
Asbaty, one of the most decorated amateur bowlers of all-time, just missed one of the 16 exemptions by two spots for the all-new PBA Women's Series....a special four-event mini tour sponsored by the United States Bowling Congress (USBC).
As a second alternate, it didn't seem Asbaty would get a chance to bowl in any PBA Women's Series events, but as fate would have it, exempt player Wendy Macpherson withdrew from the event and Wednesday mroning, while Asbaty in the Denny's PBA Tour Qualifying Round to try and earn a spot in the men's field, fist alternate Robin Romeo slammed her hand in her car door. Asbaty, who only bowled the TQR because she was in town doing an Etonic photo shoot, agreed to take Romeo's place.
Fate had her winning and she took home her first professional title.
Statistics from the tour stops so far this year finds Walter Ray Williams Jr. topping the list for the 2007-08 Chris Schenkel PBA Player of the Year race with 44 points and Sean Rash and Mike Wolfe in second place with 24 points each.
USBC NEWS
The United States Bowling Association (USBC) will award cash prizes to local or state associatiions winners in a newly expanded news media and communications awards contest. It's designated to recognize excellence in communicating news and information about bowling to the public during calendar year 2007. Association winners will be recognized during the USBC Convention in Kansas City, Missouri, May 6-10, 2008.
LOCAL SCENE
Association Tournament
A reminder to all Tri-County NY USBC womens and men's teams........entries close on January 31 (entires post marked February 1 will be accepted) for the 2ed Annual Tri-County Tri-County NY USBC Men's Open and Women's Championship Tournaments.
This year the tournaments will be held at the same location with the same dates and time.
The tournament dates for the team event are Satuurday, March 1 at 1 and 3 p.m. and Sunday, March 9 at 9 a.m., 11;30 A.M. and 2 p.m.
Doubles and singles will be bowled on Sunday, March 2 at 9 a.m., 12 noon and 3 p.m., Saturday, March 8 at 1 p.m. amd 4 p.m. and Sunday, March 16 at 9 a.m., 12 noon and 3 p.m.
The location of the tournament is Pin Street Lanes (formerly Frontier Lanes) on Route 94 in Warwick.
Team events are once again four member teams.
Check in time for the tournament is 30 minutes before you are scheduled to bowl.
Entry fee per person per event is $20 and the entry with check or money order can be mailed to Tri-County NY USBC Association, 405 Ave. E., Matamoras PA. 18336.
All events which is optional will be mailed after entries close on 1-31-08.
Entry blanks will be available at all Association bowling establishments.
Information can be obtained by calling Association Manager Michele Bensley at 845-239-0163
Christmas shoppers should remember the bowlers in their famly this holiday by stopping by their local bowling establishment or pro shop for bowling gift ideas.
600 & 500 Club Tournaments
The Orange-Sullivan Women's 600 Club Tournament is scheduled next year on the third Sunday in October. Champions in this year's event were A-Division Cathy VanHorn of Port Jervis, B-Division Anita Bucci of Port Jervis and C-Division Sue Naughton of Callicoon Center.
Champions of the 500-Club Tournament included A-Division Jean Grecco, B-Division Leslie Knickerbocker, C-Division Sandra Short and D Division Linda Millis.
Next years tournament will be November 2, 2008 at Ellenville Lanes.
Kyle Stevens Bowls Three 300 Games
Liberty Lanes left-hander Kyle Stevens has had a hot hand the past several weeks in the Thursday Men's Doubles league.
On November 29 he bowled back to back 300 games in his first two games of the night and finished with a 239 for an 839 series.
In the same league on December 6 he recorded another 300 game.
This column is written by Columnist and Consultant to the professional Sport of Bowling Ed Townsend. If you have a topic that would make good reading or have High Honor roll scores or tournament information or results you can contact Ed at 845-439-8177 or send an e-mail to bowlgolfect1@yahoo.com Our Web page can be read at http://bght.blogspot.com/
HONOR SCORES
300 GAMES
Kyle Stevens, (two back to back 300's) Thursday Men's Doubles league, Liberty Lanes
Kyle Stevens, Thursday Men's Doubles league, Liberty Lanes
Jay Young, Tuesday Service Club league, Pat Tarsio Lanes
Ralph Vitolo, Tuesday Service Club league, Pat Tasio Lanes
John Kittick Jr., Tues. Night Mixed, Pat Tarsio Lanes
Scott Goll, Wed. Bill Tarsio Memorial Men's league, Pat Tarsio Lanes
Robert Feliciano, Thursday Bruce Bryan league, Pat Tarsio Lanes
Jim Looney, Friday Bill Clark Memorial league, Pat Tarsio Lanes
Brian Conklin bowled his first ever 300 game Tuesday Sept. 11 during the second week of the Columbia Ball League and in the Friday Sept. 14 Mixed league bowled his second career 300....and it doesn't end there...... in the Friday Sept. 21 Mixed league he shot his third career 300 game....all at Middletown Lanes.
800 SERIES
Kyle Stevens, 839, Liberty Lanes
Dave Lambert 815, Pat Tarsio Lanes
Jim Looney 814, Pat Tarsio Lanes
Bowling Calendar
Febrluary 10, 10-game Scratch Tournament across 20 lanes--total pins will decide the winner. $2,500 first place based on 108 entries. $120.00 per person. Pat Tarsio Lanes, Newburgh, Tel. 562-5250
April & May, 2008. 27th Annual No-Tap Tournament.. Team and doubles. South Side Bowl, Scranton, Pa. Tel. 570-961-5213, http://www.southsidebowl.com/
April 19-May 4, 56th Annual Idle Hour Lanes Tournament, Scranton, Pa., co-sponsored by The Times-Tribune. Men's Women's Mixed teams and doubles events--5 person teams. Info call 570-489-7526.
April thru July, 40th Annual Lilac City Tournament. The world's 2ed largest Amateur bowling tournament, Team, doubles, singles. Rochester, NY. Info call 1-800-36-LILAC, e-mail information@lilactour.com
April thru July, 32nd Annual Lilac No-Tap Tournament. Handicap tournament for men, women and mixed..featuring singles and doubles events. Reservations call 1-800-36-LILAC, e-mail information@lilactour.com
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