This Sunday on ESPN:
PBA Scorpion Championship

The PBA Scorpion Championship is the fourth telecast of the 2010-11 Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour season and will air Sunday, Dec. 19 at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN from South Point Bowling Center in Las Vegas.

The historic stepladder final will be the first ever with four countries represented; Canada, South Korea, Australia and U.S.

The Scorpion Championship is one of the five animal pattern events conducted as part of the PBA World Series of Bowling and will be followed by the final animal pattern tournament – the GEICO Shark Championship (Dec. 26). The “USA vs. The World” team event on Jan. 9 will conclude the WSOB telecasts at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN.

Eugene McCune won the season-opening Brunswick Pro Bowling Cheetah Championship, followed by Bill O’Neill winning the Pepsi Viper Championship and Scott Norton winning the Chameleon Championship.

PBA Scorpion Championship stepladder finals qualifiers:

Match 1:
No. 5 Dan MacLelland, Canada vs. No. 4 Yung-Jin Gu, South Korea
Match 2:
Winner Match 1 vs. No. 3 Bill O’Neill, Southampton, Pa.
Match 3:
Winner Match 2 vs. No. 2 Jason Belmonte, Australia
Championship Match
Winner of Match 3 vs. No. 1 Jun-Yung Kim, South Korea

в—Џ PBA Tour rookie MacLelland, a three-time collegiate All-American at Saginaw State University, will be trying for his first Tour title.
в—Џ Gu will be trying for his first career Tour title.
• Fresh off a recent win in the recent PBA Viper Championship, O’Neill will be trying for his fourth career Tour title.
в—Џ Two-handed specialist and 2008-09 Rookie of the Year Belmonte will be trying for his second Tour title with his first coming in the 2009 Bowling Foundation Long Island Classic.
в—Џ Kim, also of South Korea is the first from that country to be top-qualifier for a PBA Tour event.

Tournament Recap: Two 6-game qualifying rounds with top 16 advancing to 9-game match play round.

First round leader (after 6 games qualifying): Mike DeVaney, Murietta, Calif. 1,487.
Second round leader (after 12 games qualifying): Belmonte, 2,851.
Third round leader (after 21 games qualifying and match play): Kim, 4,901.

Additional PBA Tour coverage may be accessed by visiting pba.com and its Xtra Frame subscription video service.