Seven-year-old Dylan Russo, center, joins Bowling Highlights Columnist Ed Townsend, left, of Livingston Manor and his grandson, Rodney "Taylor" Jester, right, of Neversink, at the Cheektowaga Pro-Am Tournament.
PBA Professional Walter Ray Williams Jr. with seven=year-old Dylan Russo at the Cheektowaga Pro-Am Tournament. 
Jason Belmonte Seven-Year-Old Bowler Perfecting 2-Handed Bowling
Seven-year-old Dylan Russo is following in the footsteps of Australian bowling sensation Jason Belmonte (Orange, New South Wales).
We met Dylan while bowling in the Cheetah Pro-Am Championship several weeks ago at the AMF Thruway Lanes in Cheektowaga, NY and Dylan became the fan favorite in our group of eight bowlers.
My grandson, Rodney "Taylor" Jester, 13, an eight-grade student at the Tri-Valley Central High School was also bowling in our group and was amazed at the accuracy this seven-year-old displayed. Taylor bowls regularly in a Saturday afternoon Teenage league at Liberty Lanes.
Dylan is in the second grade and has been bowling four years.
His parents, Brian and Erin Russo, of Grand Island, NY said that Dyland started bowling this way because the weight of the bowling ball was too heavy and he decided to stay with the two-handed bowling style.
Professional Bowling Association Pro Walter Ray Williams also bowled in our group and noted that Dyland is doing a fine job with this style of bowling. Walter Ray is known from time to time to fool around with the two-handed style of bowling and felt that "Dylan is better at it then I'm."
This pro-am tournament is the third for Dylan who also has a brother, Evan, 3, who also bowls but uses the standard one-handed method.
Dylan and the Russo family are able to get in a lot of bowling as members of the Russo family own the Manor Lanes in Tonawanda and the Manor Lanes II in Amherst.
Australian amateur bowling sensation Jason Belmonte was granted a commissioners exemption and bowled in the PBA Cheetah Championship at Cheektowaga but was eliminated in the round of 64.
Young Russo presently averages 78 and bowled a 153, 123, 174 for a 450 series in this No-tap format tournament.
Belmonte, famous for his unorthodox two-handed style remarked, "to be awarded these exemptions makes me feel very honored. The opportunity the PBA has given me is something I will take with both hands (excuse the pun). The PBA is the greatest bowling tour in the world, it's where I want to be. This is just a small chance I get to prove to myself that it's where I belong as a bowler."
Belmonte was granted a Commissioners Exemption into the tournaments. “Jason’s unique abilities and transcendent personality justify thissomewhat unusual action,” said PBA Commissioner and CEO Fred Schreyer. “Bowling fans worldwide are eager to see how he will measure up onbowling’s biggest stage against the greatest bowlers in the world.”
The 25-year-old Belmonte has enjoyed success on stateside lanes: he ledqualifying at the PBA World Championship by 240 pins after 27 games inOctober 2008 where he went on to finish 10th.
Internationally, Belmonte has made a name for himself with wins on boththe European and Asian Bowling Tours. In 2006 he became the firstnon-European to lead the EBT rankings midway through the season and he isthe first bowler to have qualified for the World Ranking Masters in twoseparate zones (Europe and Asia) finishing seventh in both. He was alsonamed the 2007 World Bowling Writers Bowler of the Year.
Seven-year-old Dylan Russo is following in the footsteps of Australian bowling sensation Jason Belmonte (Orange, New South Wales).
We met Dylan while bowling in the Cheetah Pro-Am Championship several weeks ago at the AMF Thruway Lanes in Cheektowaga, NY and Dylan became the fan favorite in our group of eight bowlers.
My grandson, Rodney "Taylor" Jester, 13, an eight-grade student at the Tri-Valley Central High School was also bowling in our group and was amazed at the accuracy this seven-year-old displayed. Taylor bowls regularly in a Saturday afternoon Teenage league at Liberty Lanes.
Dylan is in the second grade and has been bowling four years.
His parents, Brian and Erin Russo, of Grand Island, NY said that Dyland started bowling this way because the weight of the bowling ball was too heavy and he decided to stay with the two-handed bowling style.
Professional Bowling Association Pro Walter Ray Williams also bowled in our group and noted that Dyland is doing a fine job with this style of bowling. Walter Ray is known from time to time to fool around with the two-handed style of bowling and felt that "Dylan is better at it then I'm."
This pro-am tournament is the third for Dylan who also has a brother, Evan, 3, who also bowls but uses the standard one-handed method.
Dylan and the Russo family are able to get in a lot of bowling as members of the Russo family own the Manor Lanes in Tonawanda and the Manor Lanes II in Amherst.
Australian amateur bowling sensation Jason Belmonte was granted a commissioners exemption and bowled in the PBA Cheetah Championship at Cheektowaga but was eliminated in the round of 64.
Young Russo presently averages 78 and bowled a 153, 123, 174 for a 450 series in this No-tap format tournament.
Belmonte, famous for his unorthodox two-handed style remarked, "to be awarded these exemptions makes me feel very honored. The opportunity the PBA has given me is something I will take with both hands (excuse the pun). The PBA is the greatest bowling tour in the world, it's where I want to be. This is just a small chance I get to prove to myself that it's where I belong as a bowler."
Belmonte was granted a Commissioners Exemption into the tournaments. “Jason’s unique abilities and transcendent personality justify thissomewhat unusual action,” said PBA Commissioner and CEO Fred Schreyer. “Bowling fans worldwide are eager to see how he will measure up onbowling’s biggest stage against the greatest bowlers in the world.”
The 25-year-old Belmonte has enjoyed success on stateside lanes: he ledqualifying at the PBA World Championship by 240 pins after 27 games inOctober 2008 where he went on to finish 10th.
Internationally, Belmonte has made a name for himself with wins on boththe European and Asian Bowling Tours. In 2006 he became the firstnon-European to lead the EBT rankings midway through the season and he isthe first bowler to have qualified for the World Ranking Masters in twoseparate zones (Europe and Asia) finishing seventh in both. He was alsonamed the 2007 World Bowling Writers Bowler of the Year.
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