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PBA Snubs Tri-State Bowlers

The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) has once again snubbed Tri-State area bowlers who over the years have enjoyed and supported PBA stops in the Albany area, Buffalo, Long Island and Norwich, Conn.
The only PBA stop on the East Coast of this United States for the 2011-12 PBA Tour is the U.S. Open February 20-26 at the Brunswick Zone Cavelier at North Brunswick, New Jersey.
The PBA has even done away with the popular Mark Roth Plastic Ball Championship formerly held on Long Island and last year at Cheektowago near Buffalo. This event is now part of their World Series of Bowling.
The PBA World Series of Bowling returns for a third consecutive season, starting a new
season of PBA competition that will culminate with the PBA Tournament ofChampions in Las Vegas in April.
The new season will get underway with the multi-event PBA World Series ofBowling Nov. 4-20 at South Point Bowling Center in Las Vegas and it willend April 8-15 when the PBA Tournament of Champions returns to Red RockLanes. In addition to PBA Regional, Senior, Women’s Series and NationalTour title winners who are eligible for the Tournament of Champions, PBATour event winners during the 2011-12 season will receive exemptions toadvance directly into the 36-player finals field for the 2012 event.
The 2011-12 season will also produce the most extensive online coverageof PBA Tour competition in history, with more than 250 hours of livecoverage on pba.com’s Xtra Frame planned, including four new “Xtra FrameTour” events. Additional details regarding television coverage, tournamentformats and more will be announced soon.
The 2011-12 PBA TOUR SCHEDULE is as follows:
Nov. 4-20 – Third annual PBA World Series of Bowling (Mark Roth PlasticBall Championship, World Bowling Tour Finals presented by the PBA, ViperOpen, Scorpion Open, Chameleon Open, Carmen Salvino Classic, Earl AnthonyTouring Players Championship, Earl Anthony Touring Players Baker DoublesChampionship and PBA World Championship), South Point Bowling Center, LasVegas (Xtra Frame and ESPN).
Jan. 20-22 – PBA Xtra Frame Cheetah Open, Fountain Bowl, Fountain Valley,Calif. (Xtra Frame).
Jan. 23-29 – United States Bowling Congress Masters, Sunset Station, LasVegas (Xtra Frame and ESPN).
Feb. 3-5 – PBA Xtra Frame Shark Open, Thunderbowl Lanes, Allen Park,Mich.. (Xtra Frame)
Feb. 17-19 – PBA Xtra Frame Don Johnson Memorial Open, Sequoia Lanes,Columbus, Ohio (Xtra Frame).
Feb. 20-26 – U.S. Open, Brunswick Zone Carolier, North Brunswick, N.J.(Xtra Frame and ESPN).
March 30-April 1 – Xtra Frame Dick Weber PBA Playoffs, Woodland Bowl,Indianapolis (Xtra Frame).
April 8-15 – PBA Tournament of Champions, Red Rock Lanes, Las Vegas, Nev.(Xtra Frame and ESPN).
Xtra Frame is a paid online Internet service and is available to bowling fans for a monthly fee at the PBA web stie.

Bowling Tip
By Mike Luongo

Welcome back bowlers.
This week's tip was suggested by a league bowler and applies mostly to those bowlers who are using modern bowling balls.
You may not know that the modern bowling ball is porous with several different densities and has numerous chemicals in the cover stocks.
As these balls change temperature, the cover and core will expand and contract. Due to the different materials used for the core, inner core and cover, this fluctuation occurs at different rates.
Leaving the ball in a car when temperatures are severe, very hot or very cold, the expansion and contraction causes severe stress on the cover. This stress is even greater when a cold ball is used to bowl while it is still cold.....this may indeed cause the ball to crack.
So the tip is not only educational but let it serve as a reminder to take care of your bowling ball investment--and if you carry your balls to and from the center, don't leave them in your car.
Mike Luongo is technically certified through IBPSIA as a Pro Shop Operator and Master Instructor. He is also a Silver Level Coach with the USBC and is an Advisor along with being involved with Special Events with the Storm and Roto Brip Bowling Ball Company. If you have any questions or subject you would like covered, he can be reached by telephone at 435-720-7939 or via email at mikel@stormbowling.com

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Outstanding 825
Series & 300
By Kyle Stevens

What a way to start off the 2011-12 league bowling season...... a great 300 game and an outstanding 825 series by Liberty Lanes bowler Kyle Stevens.
Kyle rolled the 300, 246, 279, 825 in the Wednesday Men's league week number 2 at Liberty Lanes.
Congratulations Kyle.

This column is written by Ed Townsend, a public relations consultant to the amateur and professional sport of bowling and to several bowling writers associations. If you have a topic that would make good reading or have league and tournament scores and information, Ed can be reached at 845-439-8177, via email at edwardctownsend@hotmail.com and by fax at 845-205-4474. For an expanded version of bowling news and this bowling column please visit our Web Page at http://bght.blogspot.com/ This column is also available on Facebook.
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