ESPN to Air Seven GEICO PBA Team
Shootout Matches This Sunday

Bowling fans will be treated to three and half hours of televised bowling this Sunday (July 5) when seven matches of the GEICO PBA Team Shootout Hosted by Six Flags will be aired on ESPN beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern.

Team GEICO, with Lumber Liquidators Professional Bowlers Association Tour stars Chris Barnes, Patrick Allen, Mike Wolfe, Mika Koivuniemi, reigning Player of the Year Wes Malott and Brad Angelo, has taken a 2-1 lead after four round-robin matches in the made-for-TV team tournament.

Conducted outdoors on specially-constructed lanes at New Jersey’s Six Flags Great Adventure theme park, three of the best teams ever assembled compete in a Baker Scoring System format which requires five members of the team to roll two frames in one game combining for one score.

Trailing Team GEICO, is Team Bayer (Tommy Jones, Jason Belmonte, Sean Rash, Rhino Page, Michael Fagan and Bill O’Neill) with a 1-1 record and Team Lumber Liquidators (Norm Duke, Mike Scroggins, Pete Weber, Steve Jaros, Parker Bohn III and Walter Ray Williams Jr.) at 1-2.

All three teams bowl in round-robin match play on a variety of lane conditioning patterns leading up to a championship round. The top two teams based on match play record will advance to a championship contest that includes singles, doubles and Baker-style team matches. The championship round will air on ESPN on Sunday, July 12.

GEICO PBA Team Shootout standings (as of June 28)
Team GEICO 2-1
Team Bayer 1-1
Team Lumber Liquidators 1-2

ESPN GEICO PBA Team Shootout Schedule (all times Eastern)

Sunday, July 5
1-1:30 p.m. - Show 5
1:30-2 p.m. - Show 6
2-2:30 p.m. - Show 7
2:30-3 p.m. - Show 8
3-3:30 p.m. - Show 9
3:30-4 p.m. - Show 10
4-4:30 p.m. - Show 11

Sunday, July 12
1-1:30 p.m. - Show 12
1:30-2 p.m. - Show 13
2-2:30 p.m. - Show 14
2:30-3 p.m. - Show 15