Meet the RailRiders returns to the Hilton Scranton

Event downtown set for April 2 and with live broadcast on WNEP2

MOOSIC, PA (February 27, 2019) – The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, Triple-A affiliate of the New York Yankees, will host their annual “Meet the RailRiders” event on Tuesday, April 2, at the Hilton Scranton and Conference Center and tickets are on sale now. 

Click here to purchase tickets.

“Meet the RailRiders” will begin at 5 P.M. with an autograph session in the Electric City Ballroom.  At approximately 6:30, dinner and the program will begin with a welcome from Josh Olerud, the RailRiders Team President and General Manager, and Jay Bell, the new Scranton/Wilkes-Barre manager for the 2019 season.  After the initial 2019 roster is introduced, dinner will be served in the Hilton’s Casey Grand Ballroom. 

Following dinner, a question and answer session with Bell and several players will take place in the ballroom as well as the presentation on the 2019 SWB Honors Award.  2019 marks the anniversary season for the franchise, which moved from Maine for the 1989 season.

WNEP-TV will broadcast live on WNEP2 with Jim Coles and Landon Stolar leading the fans through introductions to the new and familiar players, features and stories to watch during the upcoming season.    

Adult tickets are $55.00 each while tickets for children 12 and younger are $30.00 apiece.  RailRiders season ticket holders will be extended a discounted promotional rate for the event.  Each ticket includes dinner and select beverages. Autographs will be limited to a one-item-per-person basis and there will also be a cash bar. 

The Hilton Scranton and Conference Center will host the event for the second straight year and will serve as the hotel for International League clubs visiting Scranton/Wilkes-Barre this season.  To purchase tickets or for more information regarding the “Meet the RailRiders” event, please contact the front office at (570) 969-BALL.

Syracuse Mets Announce Details for March 2nd Open House,

Individual Ticket Sales for Inaugural Season, and Major Announcement

SYRACUSE, NY – Opening Day of the Inaugural Season for the Syracuse Mets is almost here, and the Mets are welcoming the community to NBT Bank Stadium for their 6^th annual Open House on Saturday, March 2^nd, from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. This year’s Open House will provide fans the first opportunity to purchase individual game tickets for the 2019 season. The event is free and open to the public and will include a major announcement regarding the 2019 season.

During this year’s Open House, fans can hit in the Mets’ batting cages, take a tour of the team’s clubhouse and stadium, and grab brand new Syracuse Mets gear at the team store. There will also be auditions to sing the National Anthem at a Syracuse Mets game. Those walk-in auditions will run from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., and no appointment is necessary.

At 10:30 a.m. in the Hank Sauer Room of Legends, there will be a Q&A session with Syracuse Mets General Manager Jason Smorol. The session will include information about the 2019 promotional schedule. This is also the time a major announcement regarding the 2019 season will be announced.

“Open House is a fun tradition that we are continuing as the Syracuse Mets,” said Smorol. “It provides a great opportunity to interact with our fans that we have missed all offseason. Our Open House will help build the excitement that so many people are feeling for this historic Inaugural Season of the Syracuse Mets.”

Beginning March 2^nd, fans can purchase individual tickets for Opening Day, as well as the other 69 home games at NBT Bank Stadium. Flex Plans, Flex Plan Plus packages, and season tickets are also available for purchase.

Flex Plans are $85 and include 10 undated vouchers that can be redeemed at the Mets' ticket office for any regular-season Premium Field Box (Level-100) or Reserved Box (Level-200) ticket. Flex Plan Plus packages are $160 and include all the same benefits as the Flex Plan, along with 10 parking passes and a $50 food voucher. On Opening Day, the price of Flex Plans will increase to $100 and the price of the Flex Plan Plus will increase to $175.

Tickets can be purchased at the Syracuse Mets Ticket Office or over the phone, 315-474-7833, during regular business hours (Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.), or online anytime at SyracuseMets.com.

For more information on the Open House or ticket plans, contact the Mets office at 315-474-7833 or email Michael Tricarico at mtricarico@syracusemets.com.

Jason Belmonte Qualifies No. 1 Again in Go Bowling! PBA Indianapolis Open

Australian two-handed star tops qualifying for record-tying third straight tournament

INDIANAPOLIS (Feb. 22, 2019) – Australia’s Jason Belmonte rolled a perfect game to close the fifth round of the Go Bowling! PBA Indianapolis Open Friday at Woodland Bowl to take the lead and he continued his torrid pace in the final round to earn top qualifier honors for a record-tying third consecutive tournament.

As the no. 1 qualifier, Belmonte will head the five-player stepladder finals field that will air live on FS1 Sunday at 3 p.m. EST. A win Sunday will give Belmonte his second title of the 2019 Go Bowling! PBA Tour season and the 20th of his career.

Belmonte, a 35-year-old two-handed player, posted a 16-8 match play record while averaging 229.69 for 42 games to finish with 10,127 pins, 386 pins ahead of PBA Hall of Famer Norm Duke of Clermont, Fla.

Belmonte became the fifth player in the PBA’s 61-year history to lead qualifying in three consecutive tournaments. He joins Jakob Butturff of Tempe, Ariz., who accomplished the feat in the 2019 season’s first three tournaments; Earl Anthony, who did it in 1976; Johnny Petraglia in 1971, and Walter Ray Williams Jr. in 1993. Petraglia is the only one in the group who won all three tournaments he led.

Belmonte, who won the PBA Tournament of Champions two weeks ago, also led qualifying in the PBA Players Championship last week but lost in the title match to fellow two-hander Anthony Simonsen when he left a pocket 7-10 split in the 10th frame. Regardless of that loss, the Australian star has taken a big lead in the new PBA Playoffs points race and has established himself as an early favorite to win a fifth PBA Player of the Year award.

“We’re in the beginning stages of the season,” Belmonte said of the Player of the Year idea. “There are a lot of majors coming up. It’s way too early. I’m not taking anything for granted.”

But tying the record as top qualifier for a third consecutive tournament was another matter.

“Someone told me about that tonight.,” he said. “That’s pretty cool. It’s fun to lead but it’s a lot more fun to win the tournaments. It’s now a matter of bowling the best game I can on Sunday.”

Reinforcing his lead in the PBA Playoffs points race also is a big deal.

“The Playoffs is a huge event for us,” he said. “I’m going to miss a few events, so it’s important for me to do as well as I can when I have the opportunity. That’s my job; that’s why I fly around the world, to do the best I can and capitalize on the moment. Now it’s one more match. Ten little pins, knock them over 12 times and walk away happy.”

Duke, who ranks third on the all-time PBA Tour titles list with 38 – behind only Williams’ 47 and Anthony’s 43, posted a 14-9-1 match play record and a 9,741 pinfall total. He is trying for his first title since winning the 2015 Mark Roth-Marshall Holman PBA Doubles Championship with partner Wes Malott of Pflugerville, Texas. Rounding out Sunday’s stepladder finals field will be Tom Daugherty of Riverview, Fla., with 9,695 pins; Malott with a 9,672 total, and Rhino Page of Orlando, Fla., with a 9,649 total.

All rounds of the Indianapolis Open, a Tier 2 event in the 2019 PBA Playoffs points competition, are being contested on a mixed lane conditioning environment where the Dick Weber 45 oiling pattern is applied to the left lane and the Mike Aulby 38 oiling pattern is applied to the right lane. The numerical designation refers to the length in feet oil is applied to each lane.

GO BOWLING! PBA INDIANAPOLIS OPEN

Woodland Bowl, Indianapolis, Friday

Final Match Play Standings (after 42 games, including match play records; top five after 42 games advance to Sunday’s live FS1 finals at 3 p.m. EST):

1, Jason Belmonte, Australia, 16-8, 10,127.
2, Norm Duke, Clermont, Fla., 14-9-1, 9,741.
3, Tom Daugherty, Riverview, Fla., 14-10, 9,695.
4, Wes Malott, Pflugerville, Texas, 15-9, 9,672.
5, Rhino Page, Orlando, 13-11, 9,649.

6, Josh Blanchard, Mesa, Ariz., 13-11, 9,551, $6,000.
7, Shawn Maldonado, Houston, 12-11-1, 9,546, $5,500.
8, Marshall Kent, Yakima, Wash., 13-11, 9,535, $5,000.
9 (tie), Chris Barnes, Double Oak, Texas, 11-11-2, and Jakob Butturff, Tempe, Ariz., 11-13, 9,527, $4,250.
11, Osku Palermaa, Finland, 15-8-1, 9,526, $3,800.
12, BJ Moore, Greensburg, Pa., 8-16, 9,490, $3,600.
13, Patrick Girard, Canada, 11-11-2, 9,488, $3,500.
14, Kyle Sherman, O'Fallon, Mo., 12-12, 9,422, $3,300.
15, Richie Teece, England, 10-14, 9,411, $3,100.
16, Matt Kuba, Chicago Ridge, Ill., 12-12, 9,394, $3,000.
17, Nicholas Pate, Inver Grove Heights, Minn., 12-11-1, 9,334, $2,900.
18, Matt Sanders, Indianapolis, 14-10, 9,328, $2,800.
19, DJ Archer, Spring, Texas, 10-14, 9,282, $2,700.
20, Martin Larsen, Sweden, 10-14, 9,275, $2,600.
21, Tom Smallwood, Saginaw, Mich., 10-14, 9,261, $2,500.
22, Brad Miller, Lees Summit, Mo., 10-13-1, 9,116, $2,400.
23, Brian Robinson, Morgantown, W.Va., 11-13, 9,106, $2,300.
24, Walter Ray Williams Jr., Oxford, Fla., 6-17-1, 9,033, $2,200.

300 Games: Jason Belmonte, Patrick Girard.

2019 PBA League Draft Set for April 8 at Bayside Bowl in Portland, Maine

Seventh PBA League Elias Cup finals set for live coverage on FS1 July 16, 17 and 18

PORTLAND, Maine (Feb. 22, 2019) – For the past four years, tournament host Bayside Bowl in Portland has given the PBA League team bowling competition a jolt of electricity because of its exuberant fans and unique location.

Now for the first time, Bayside fans will get a chance to see up close how the 2019 teams take shape when the PBA League Draft is held at Bayside Bowl on Monday, April 8. 

The draft will be covered live on FloBowling, PBA’s official online live-streaming outlet, beginning at 4 p.m. EDT.

Adding to the drama for the hometown fans, their own Portland Lumberjacks, managed by Tim Mack, will own the first pick by virtue of their last-place finish in the 2018 Elias Cup tournament.

Choosing second will be L.A. X, followed by the Brooklyn Styles, New York City Kingpins, Motown Muscle, Dallas Strikers, Philadelphia Hitmen and defending champion Silver Lake Atom Splitters. The serpentine draft will then find the Atom Splitters making the first selection of the second round.

In order to be eligible for the draft pool, PBA members must be ranked in the top 40 in the 2019 PBA competition points standings at the conclusion of the 2019 USBC Masters on April 1.

Leading up to the draft, each team manager will be allowed to protect and retain up to three members from current rosters regardless of their PBA Points standing, with those decisions made by March 25. 

April 8 will be a big day for Portland’s enthusiastic PBA fans who are invited to attend the PBAL Draft and stick around for the inaugural round of PBA Playoffs matches that will air later in the evening, live on FS1 at 7 p.m. Eastern. The PBA Playoffs is a new PBA Tour singles competition that will feature the season’s top 24 players in competition points in a single-elimination match play series that will result in eight FS1 telecasts in April and May, leading up to the live FOX telecasts of the semifinal and final rounds on June 1 and 2. Bayside Bowl will host the entire PBA Playoffs series.

PBA League players will then return to Bayside Bowl where all rounds of the 2019 PBA League Elias Cup competition will take place July 16, 17 and 18, airing live for the first time on FOX Sports’ FS1 in prime time.

CURRENT TEAM MAKEUPS

(Managers may protect up to 3 players by March 25)

● Portland Lumberjacks (manager Mack): Ryan Ciminelli, Wes Malott, Kyle Troup, DJ Archer, JoJoe Yannaphon.

● L.A. X (manager Andrew Cain): Jason Belmonte, Stuart Williams, Martin Larsen, Jakob Butturff, Osku Palermaa.

● Brooklyn Styles (manager Johnny Petraglia): Parker Bohn III, Walter Ray Williams Jr., Sean Rash, Matt O’Grady, Jason Sterner.

● New York City KingPins (manager Carolyn Dorin-Ballard): Pete Weber, Marshall Kent, Sam Cooley, BJ Moore, Anthony Pepe.

● Motown Muscle (manager Del Ballard Jr.): EJ Tackett, Francois Lavoie, Anthony Simonsen, Shota Kawazoe, Josh Blanchard.

● Dallas Strikers: player-manager Norm Duke, Tommy Jones, Bill O’Neill, Rhino Page, Kyle Sherman.

● Philadelphia Hitmen (manager Jason Couch): Dom Barrett, Tom Smallwood, Ronnie Russell, Matt Sanders, Chris Loschetter.

● Silver Lake Atom Splitters (manager Mark Baker): Chris Barnes, Jesper Svensson, Tom Daugherty, Dick Allen, AJ Johnson.

PBA LEAGUE DATES

Monday, March 25: Selection of protected players. 

Monday, April 1: PBA Playoffs point list finalized. 

Wednesday, April 3: Draft declaration deadline (draft pool consists of the top 40 on the PBA Playoff points list; eligible players must declare their intent to enter the draft).

Monday, April 8: 2019 PBA League Draft (4 p.m. EDT, live on FloBowling). 

Monday, April 15: Player trade deadline.

2019 PBA LEAGUE ELIAS CUP FINALS SCHEDULE

Bayside Bowl, Portland, Maine, July 16-18 (live on FS1)

Tuesday, July 16

3:30 p.m. – Bayside Bowl rooftop “tailgate party”

7 p.m. – Quarterfinal Match One: Team #1 vs. Team #8

8 p.m. – Quarterfinal Match Two: Team #5 vs. Team #4

9 p.m. – Quarterfinal Match Three: Team #2 vs. Team #7

10 p.m. – Quarterfinal Match Four: Team #6 vs. Team #3

Wednesday, July 17

9 p.m. – Semifinal Match One: Winner Match One vs. Winner Match Two

10 p.m. – Semifinal Match Two: Winner Match Three vs. Winner Match Four

Thursday, July 18

9 p.m. – Elias Cup Championship: Winner Semifinal One vs. Winner Semifinal Two

PETER FRAMPTON FINALE - THE FAREWELL TOUR PRESENTED BY SIRIUSXM
CONFIRMED FOR BETHEL WOODS ON JUNE 30TH
Tickets On-sale Friday, March 1st at 10AM

BETHEL, NY (February 22, 2019) – Legendary guitarist Peter Frampton has confirmed Peter Frampton Finale – The Farewell tour presented by SiriusXM. The tour stops on June 30^th at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, located at the historic site of the 1969 Woodstock festival in Bethel, NY, and will feature special guest Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening.
 
Tickets go on-sale Friday, March 1^st at 10:00 AM at www.BethelWoodsCenter.org, www.Ticketmaster.com, Ticketmaster outlets, or by phone at 1.800.745.3000. VIP packages will also be available at www.frampton.com. Citi is the official presale credit card for the tour. As such, Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase pre-sale tickets for the newly announced dates beginning Tuesday, February 26 at 10AM local time until Thursday, February 28 at 10PM local time through Citi’s Private Pass program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com.

Tune in tomorrow to CBS “This Morning: Saturday” for an exclusive interview on the tour.

Peter Frampton remains one of the most lauded artists in rock history. Most recently, Frampton performed as part of “I Am the Highway: A Tribute to Chris Cornell” concert as well as receiving the Les Paul Innovation Award at the 2019 NAMM Show’s 34^th annual TEC Awards. He also just celebrated the 43^rd anniversary of his fifth solo album, Frampton Comes Alive!, one of the top-selling live records of all time, with over 17 million copies sold worldwide. 

At age 16, he was lead singer and guitarist for British band The Herd. At 18, he co-founded one of the first super-groups, seminal rock act Humble Pie. His session work includes collaborations with such legendary artists as George Harrison, Harry Nilsson, David Bowie, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ringo Starr, John Entwistle, Mike McCready and Matt Cameron (Pearl Jam), among many others.

Frampton has appeared as himself on television shows “The Simpsons” and “Family Guy.” He also served as technical advisor on Cameron Crowe’s 2000 film Almost Famous as well as appearing in it and writing songs for the soundtrack. In 2007 he won the Grammy Award for “Best Pop Instrumental Album” for Fingerprints and in 2014 he was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame.

Frampton has toured with the likes of David Bowie, Stevie Nicks, Greg Allman, Ringo Starr, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cheap Trick, Steve Miller Band, Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings and many others. Additionally, he took Peter Frampton’s Guitar Circus on the road for two years with special guests B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Vince Gill, Larry Carlton, Robert Randolph, Don Felder (formerly of The Eagles), Dean DeLeo (Stone Temple Pilots), Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Sonny Landreth, Robert Cray and Roger McGuinn (the Byrds).

Further details on Peter Frampton Finale—The Farewell Tour presented by SiriusXM are available atwww.frampton.com.

The pre-sale for Bethel Woods Members begins Tuesday, February 26^th at 10:00 AM. To learn about additional member benefits and pre-sale access, please visithttp://www.bethelwoodscenter.org/supportthearts/membership-opportunities.

A limited number of 2019 Bethel Woods Season Lawn Passes are still available, fully transferrable, and guarantees your place on the lawn for every Pavilion concert. To learn more visithttp://www.bethelwoodscenter.org/performances-festivals/seasonlawnpass.
 
The Museum at Bethel Woods is half price three hours before show time every evening Pavilion or Event Gallery concert day. Valid concert ticket required for this special offer. To learn more, please visithttp://www.bethelwoodscenter.org/the-museum.

 
For more information about Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, please visit www.BethelWoodsCenter.orgor call 1.866.781.2922.

PBA Spare Shots

MARSHALL HOLMAN, AMLETO MONACELLI TO MANAGE “USA VS. THE WORLD” AT WSOB X

With a pair of PBA Hall of Famers guiding them, the USA vs. The World team match will return to the 10th anniversary PBA World Series of Bowling as the fifth consecutive night of WSOB coverage on FOX Sports’ FS1 channel. The team match will air on Friday, March 22 at 8 p.m. EST from the historic Thunderbowl Lanes arena in Allen Park, Mich.

Back to manage the two-time defending champion USA team will be PBA Hall of Famer Marshall Holman. Under Holman’s guidance, the USA won the two most recent matches in 2016 and 2017. The World will be managed for the first time by fellow PBA Hall of Famer and Venezuela native Amleto Monacelli who bowled as a member of the international team when it won the first two matches in 2010 and 2013.

Players from the United States and the international contingent will qualify for their respective teams based on 30-game qualifying pinfall totals for the Cheetah, Chameleon and Scorpion Championships held earlier in the WSOB. The best-of-three-game Baker format team match will conclude FOX Sports’ WSOB coverage that will begin with live telecasts of the Cheetah Championship on Monday, March 18; Chameleon Championship on Tuesday, March 19; Scorpion Championship on Wednesday, March 20, and PBA World Championship on Thursday, March 21. All five shows will air at 8 p.m. Eastern.

ANTHONY SIMONSEN ADVANCES TO FOURTH PLACE IN PBA PLAYOFFS POINTS RACE

Thanks to his victory in the PBA Players Championship Sunday, Anthony Simonsen moved into fourth place in the race to qualify for the inaugural PBA Playoffs.

Finishing second in the second Tier 1 event on the 2019 Go Bowling! PBA Tour schedule helped Jason Belmonte expand his lead in the 2019 PBA Playoffs points lead to 15,550 points while EJ Tackett, moved into second place on the basis of his second straight top five finish in the PBA’s first two major championships of the year.

Under the new PBA competition points structure in play this season, a win in a Tier 1 (major championship) event is worth 7,500 points – triple the value of the base points total for a victory (2,500 points) in a Tier 3 (limited entry and/or modified format) tournament. Tier 2 (standard PBA Tour) events award double the Tier 3 points.

Sean Rash dropped one spot to third, Jakob Butturff fell from third to fifth, and Kyle Troup advanced to sixth. Rounding out the top eight heading into the Go Bowling! PBA Indianapolis Open (a Tier 2 event) were Dick Allen in seventh place and Bill O’Neill in eighth. Marshall Kent and Jesper Svensson dropped out of the top eight to ninth and 10th, respectively.

The race for the 24th-and-final berth in the PBA Playoffs currently involves Kyle Sherman in 24th with Darren Tang, Patrick Girard and Zacharay Wilkins in hot pursuit.

Finishing in the top eight as of the end of the USBC Masters on April 1 means those players will earn a first-round bye in the single-elimination PBA Playoffs. Finishing in the top 24 is a necessity to qualify for a place in the Playoffs; finishing in the top 40 is required for eligibility to enter the 2019 PBA League Draft. To follow the points competition as the season progresses, use this link: https://www.pba.com/SeasonStats/PointsList/132?list=1.

The PBA Playoffs begin on Monday, April 8, with live coverage of the opening Round of 24 matches on FS1 at 7 p.m. Eastern from Bayside Bowl in Portland, Maine.

PBA REGIONAL UPDATE: AUERBACH WINS FIRST REGIONAL TITLE IN SPARTANBURG

Craig Auerbach of Sunrise, Florida, defeated Troy McKinney of Yorktown, Va., 214-197, to win the PBA50 Dave Edwards Toyota Spartanburg South Open presented by Global 900 at Paradise Lanes in Spartanburg, S.C., Sunday.

Auerbach won $2,000 and his first PBA Regional title. He won a PBA Regional in Brunswick, Ga., in 2008, but didn’t get credit for a title because he was a non-PBA member at the time.

The championship match was close in the first half of the game, but after McKinney left a 6-7-10 split in the seventh frame and failed to convert, Auerbach stayed clean and doubled in the ninth and 10th frames to lock it up.

In the semifinal round, Auerbach def. Mac Sanders of Taylors, S.C., 246-194, while McKinney disposed of Hall of Famer Walter Ray Williams Jr. of Oxford, Fla., 241-208.

• The PBA Central and Midwest Regions will participate in the joint PBA50 Plaza Lanes Central/Midwest Open in Crawfordsville, Ind., over the Feb. 22-24 weekend. Over the same weekend, South Point Bowling Plaza in Las Vegas will host a doubleheader including the South Point West Challenge on Friday, and the South Point Member/Non-Member Doubles, both presented by Radical.

● For complete PBA Regional schedules, rules and entry information, visit pba.com, open the “schedules” tab and click on PBA Regional Tours to find the event(s) in your area…and remember, you can follow “live scoring” for all PBA Regional events on pba.com (easily accessible for Apple and Android device users using the PBA app).

QUICK NOTES:

• PBA and FOX Sports reporter Kimberly Pressler will appear on FOX59’s Morning News show in Indianapolis Saturday at 8:20 a.m. to help promote Sunday’s Go Bowling! PBA Indianapolis Open telecast live on FS1 Sunday at 3 p.m. EST.

• How a player ranks in the 2019 Go Bowling! PBA Tour competition points race won’t necessary determine who wins Rookie of the Year honors, but it’s an important part of the 2019 Bowl4life PBA Rookie Watch because the 2019 PBA Rookie of the Year will earn a $2,500 bonus from Chuck Gardner’s Bowl4Life Foundation and the foundation will donate an additional $2,500 to a youth bowler scholarship in the Rookie of the Year’s name. After the PBA Players Championship, the three top rookies on the PBA Playoffs points list are Jake Rollins of Glen Rock, N.J.; AJ Rice of Salem, Ala., and Patrick Hanrahan of Wichita, Kan.

• The unofficial FloBowling PBA Power Rankings top 10 following the PBA Players Championship include: Jason Belmonte (retaining his No. 1 ranking from the previous week); 2, EJ Tackett (2); 3, Sean Rash (5); 4, Jakob Butturff (3); 5, Dom Barrett (4); 6, Jesper Svensson (8); 7, Kyle Troup (12); 8, Kris Prather (7); 9, Rhino Page (6) and 10, Anthony Simonsen (unranked). Visit FloBowling.com for a complete list along with Flo’s rationale for its rankings.

• Australia’s Jason Belmonte and 10-time PBA Tour titlist Bill O’Neill of Langhorne, Pa., will make an appearance on March 9 at the Detroit Athletic Club to help promote the 10th anniversary PBA World Series of Bowling which will take place March 11-21 at Thunderbowl Lanes in Allen Park, Mich.

• World Bowling announced Friday that it has learned the Paris 2024 Olympic Organizing Committee has rejected bowling’s bid to become one of the new sports to be included in the 2024 Games. Paris 2024 has named breakdancing, climbing, surfing and skateboarding as the additional sports it will ask the IOC Executive Committee to include in the 2024 Olympic Games.

• BJI Cyber Report has reported that Reg Pearson, one of the “architects” of the National Bowling Stadium and the facility’s manager from its opening in 1995 until 1998, died on Jan. 28. He was 82.

• Two-time PBA Tour titlist Mike Machuga of Erie, Pa., has been named as the first women’s bowling coach at Mercyhurst University in his hometown. Mercyhurst will launch its women’s collegiate bowling program in the 2019-20 season.