Sept. 18:Glover Masters September House Spot Roll-Off Tournament, 2pm, AMF Southwest Lanes (2 spots at this tournament)
Sept. 25-26:4thannual Don Glover Masters Scratch Tournament, AMF Southwest Lanes.Two qualifying squads on Sat. (9am and 1pm).Finals start at 10am on Sun.
Sept. 25:Entry deadline—CUSBC Prince & Princess Tournament,Stockton(10/22-24)
Wow! It’s finally here!! After 35 weeks of the winter league season,
most of the leagues have either finished up over the last couple of weeks or
are finishing up this week and summer leagues are set to hit the floor. Here are a few leagues we’ve highlighted on
their outcome:
Scratch
Draft Trio/PBA Experience League, Monday nights, Regency Bowling Center—
The Roll-Off
for this league took place on Monday night, May 10. Six teams had qualified to be in this
Roll-Off (winner of each PBA pattern round plus a Wild Card team). The first match was 5th seeded
team (Team 5 “Carpenter Rigging”/Kenneth Smith, Alex Garcia & Bill Bumacod)
against the Wild Card (Team 8/Elwood Elliott, Marc Downs & John Downs). Team 8 won 630-486.
Team 8 then
went up against 4th seeded (Team 9 “Robb’s Pro Shop”/Rick Bowman,
Barb Francisco & Diz Francisco).
Team 9 won 528-508. Team 9 then
took on 3rd seeded (Team 11/Randall Carter, Roy Hunter & Richard
Pritzkau) and won again 548-497. Team 9
then took on 2nd seed (Team 7/Randall Bittle, Dennis Jennings &
Bryan Bumacod) where Team 7 won 537-510.
The final match was now between Team 7 and the top seed (Team 6
“Sixxx”/Sheilah Bomar, Dashawn Clark, & Zack
Newman) and the top seed proved why they were number one as
they became the league champions defeating Team 7 612 to 452.
Regency
Men’s Handicap League, Tuesday nights, Regency Bowling Center—
As expected,
there were plenty of ups and downs and very close matches as the top eight
teams hit the floor last Monday night, May 17 for this league’s Roll-Off. Seated in the semi-finals and guaranteed at
least fourth place or better were the two best teams for the entire season—Team
#1 (Zack Newman, Craig Henderson,
Randy Page & Mike Hardwick, and Team #8/AP Architects (John Whisler, Aris Anadilla, Aris C. Anadilla &
Carlie Medina III). The next six teams
(3rd thru 8th) hit the floor in the Single Game Elimination
format. Talk about intense as three
different matches were underway at the same time just lanes apart! After round one, three teams filled the 6th
thru 8th spots—Finishing 6th was Team 11 (Elwood Elliott,
Bill Bumacod, Rick Curran, & Bryan Bumacod); 7th was Team 7 (Don
Snow, Gilbert Alaniz, Greg Knight & Paul Howell);
and 8th was Team 13 (Hector Santiago, Ed Wheeldon, Kent Gray and Mike Maloy). Now with three teams working their way to the
Semi-finals, the high score winner of the first three matches received a “bye”
directly into the Semi’s. Team 9 (Mike Hefley, Doug Heitman, Glenn Yeoman &
Richard Pritzkau) finished the season in 5th place as they were put
on the bench by Team 5. What a show as
the Semi-final matches hit the floor at the same time. As somewhat predicted, the season’s high
qualifiers put away both their opponents.
Team 5 (Billy Weeks, Donnie Apple, Bob Long & Nate Graham) finished
third after a really close match and losing by only a couple of pins and Team 6
(Bill Young, Jackson Hering, Tim Henson & Kenny Branch) finished in
fourth. Showtime as the top two
qualifiers of the season hit the floor for the Final match as they went back
and forth the first five or six frames.
It was anyone’s guess who would be victorious. Then Team 8/AP Architects stepped up and threw
all strikes from the seventh frame on as they put the pressure on and took this
year’s first place spot in the Regency Men’s Handicap league. Team 1 put up a great match only to be denied
from the number one qualifying spot and finished second for the season. Congrats to all the top eight finishers this
season!
An added
note: Team AP Architects (Brenda
Loveall, Donna Fujihara, Nancy Weber
& Bette Addington) also won in the Regency Tuesday Ladies Handicap league.
Heez
& Sheez League, Thursday nights, AMF Southwest Lanes—
One of the
most popular mixed leagues at AMF Southwest Lanes just finished up and the
Champion team was the “Lucky Strikes”/Charlie Sukophand, Rebecca Mercer, David
Howell, Winnie Wilkins & Robb White.
Congratulations!
15TH
annual Summer Mega Ball – Regency Lanes, Tues., 6:30pm
Tonight’s
the night! Mega Ball 2010 starts May 25
with the league meeting before bowling starts at 6:15pm. League is looking good with 20-plus teams so
don’t delay if you want to be part of this league (individuals are welcome
looking for a team). You can call
325-6428 or 324-6303 for more info or to sign up. Teams for this league are mixed trios, runs
for 15 weeks and all bowlers will receive a ball of their choice at the end of
the league.
Dixie League – AMF Southwest Lanes, Fri.
6pm
This league
has teams of mixed four adults and starts on Friday, May 28. For info or to sign up, contact AMF Southwest
Lanes 834-2695.
Super
Ball League – AMF Southwest Lanes, Thurs., 7pm
This league
is comprised of any combo trio teams and bowlers will receive a ball at end of
league. It starts on Thurs., June 3 and
will bowl each Thursday starting at 7pm.
For info, contact AMF Southwest Lanes at 834-2695.
Results of
the April Glover House Spot Roll-Off at AMF Southwest Lanes: Kent Gray
came through with a 217 in the last game of the April 24 Don Glover Masters Scratch house spot
roll-off. Gray finished with a six game
total of 1171 to win the paid spot. Aris
Anadilla finished a close second with 1169.
The winners
of the side pots were: Kent Gray won the first three side pots with games
of 206, 202 and 202. Aris Anadilla won
side pots for games four and five with 196 and 244. Gray picked up the final side pot with his
217 game.
With the
California State Open Championships here in Bakersfield every weekend, the next Glover
House Spot Roll-off is scheduled for Saturday, June 12, starting at 2pm since
that is State Convention weekend.
Bowling High
Scores from Regency
Bowling Center
for Weeks 30-31 of Winter leagues ending May 18, 2010
MEN’S 250+
GAMES
289 -- John
Matteson; 288 -- Phil Cook; 279 -- Bryan Bumacod; 278 -- Elwood Elliott, Aris B. Anadilla, Albert Castellon; 277 -- Buddy
Binkley, Mike Maloy, Glenn Yeoman; 270 -- Tim Henson, Hector Santiago; 269 -- Diz
Francisco, Greg Knight; 268 -- Terry Hickey, Richard Pritzkau; 267 -- Aris C.
Anadilla, Don Apple; 266 -- Zack Newman;
263 -- Ray Nearey; 262 -- Jason Crutchfield; 261 -- Don Williams; 259 -- Mike
Yorba; 258 -- Phil Couser, Ian Byers;
256 -- John Gunsolus; 255 -- Steve VanWinkle; 254 -- Don Snow
MEN’S 700+
SERIES
810 -- Elwood
Elliott; 785 -- Hector Santiago;
772 -- Aris B. Anadilla; 768 -- Jason
Crutchfield; 766 -- Zack Newman; 749
-- Mike Yorba, Phil Cook; 741 -- Bryan Bumacod; 733 -- Don Williams; 724 -- Ian Byers; 718 -- Don Snow; 717 -- Mike Hefley; 713 -- Buddy Binkley; 711 -- Jim Rehana,
Diz Francisco, Richard Pritzkau; 707 -- Mike Maloy; 706 -- Aris C. Anadilla
The first
weekend of bowlers from all around the state coming to Bakersfield
to compete in the 5th annual 2010 CUSBC (Californian United States
Bowling Congress) Open Championships took place this past weekend with squads
of bowlers at both AMF Southwest Lanes and Regency Bowling
Center.
Opening
Ceremonies kicked off the event and took place at noon on Saturday, May 8, at
AMF Southwest Lanes. On hand were Mayor
Harvey Hall along with Don Cohen, Director of the Bakersfield Convention and
Visitor’s Bureau. Representing CUSBC was
President Al Hoffmann and Association Manager Larry Peppers along with
Tournament Director Ferenc Schulz. AMF
Southwest Lanes was represented by Manager Darlene Sharp, and Regency was
represented by Manager Mike Morris.
Representing our GEUSBC (Golden Empire United States Bowling Congress)
was President DC Williams. Bakersfield
High’s ROTC was the color guard and led the ceremony into the presentation of
our National Anthem. Then, bowling
participant, Wayne Tanaka, of Ridgecrest,
was selected as “Joe Bowler” and threw out the first ball to start the
tournament.
With Sunday
being Mother’s Day, GEUSBC recognized every mom that was participating by
giving them a rose.
This
tournament will run for the next nine weekends (skipping Convention weekend
Jun.12-13) through July 24-25. Team
event is at AMF Southwest Lanes and Doubles & Singles is at Regency Bowling Center. Admission is free for spectators and although
entries are closed, local bowlers who are not entered can still sign up at
either center to be a sub as subs will be needed throughout the tournament. Squad times at both centers are: Team/AMF Southwest Lanes on Saturdays at
12:30 & 3:45; Sundays at 9 & 12:30.
Doubles &
Singles/Regency Bowling
Center on Saturdays and
Sundays at 9:30, 12:30 and 4.
Bakersfield bowlers are ones to get behind BVL
(Bowlers to Veteran’s Link) each year when our annual BVL City Roll-Off comes
around in early November. Out of this
tournament comes division winners who then go on to represent Bakersfield at the State BVL Classic
tournament in April each year. We have
been fortunate enough to have winners come back from this tournament over the
last several years and this year was no different!
Morgan
Anderson, representing the Women’s “E” division, Cody Lewis, representing the
Youth Boys “B” division, and Gabriella Mayfield, representing the Youth Girls
“Classic” division all won!!
For their
win, they will each receive a jacket, watch and medal. Congratulations on this great feat!
--Congratulations
to Elwood Elliott for his second ‘800’ series, an 810, bowled on Friday May 7,
in the Primetimers league at Regency.
--Bowling on
her Thursday night “Marge’s Royal Mixed Five” league on May 13, Joan Mattos
bowled her first ever ‘500’ series, a 505.
--Perfecto
congrats to Bill Young as he accomplished quite a feat this season bowling a
300 game in each of his three leagues at Regency. First one was back in November in the Sunday
night Recovery league, then he rolled one in the Regency Men’s Handicap league
and this past Thursday night, May 20, he topped it off by rolling a 300 in the
Social Group league!!
--Also on
Thursday night in Marge’s Royal Mixed Five league at Regency another occurrence
to note. Four (267) games were rolled by
four different individuals bowling against one another all in the same
game!! First one out was shot by Amy
Rogers who was bowling in position round against Buddy Binkley who shot the
second 267. Then two lanes down, Sheilah
Bomar fired a 267 for her team against Terry Hickey. Wow!
--And, last
but not least, Javier Campos rolled his first ever 300 game on Friday, May 21,
bowling Sweepers in the African-American league at Regency. Campos,
who bowled in just this league this season, averaged right at 200 and ended
this season with games of 222, 236 and 300!
These days
“Friction Factor” is the subject around the bowling world as most ball
manufacturers have tried just about every conceivable weight block shell
combination available.
We talked
last time about needing a polished ball or sanded ball for different oil
patterns. Now let’s look at different
sanded grit finishes or polishes needed based on the thickness of the oil or
the “friction factor” of the lane surface itself. The trick to gaining the highest scores
available for a given condition is having the right ball finish and ball layout
so that the ball gives you the best strike percentages. If you don’t, someone bowling against you
will have it and good luck beating them that day!
Let’s say
you are using a ball with 2000 polish and it’s rolling out of the hook right
before it reaches the pocket. For the
best striking power you might need a 2500 or 3000 polish so that the ball gets
a couple more feet of length and hooking power as it goes through the
pocket. Keep in mind just the opposite
will apply if the ball is sliding too long before getting into a roll and
hooking. You may need to go one or two
steps rougher for a finish to insure its hooking and pulling hard as it goes
through the pocket!
Keep good
notes on what changes you like and don’t be afraid to try different finishes. Remember, it doesn’t hurt to change the ball
surface back and forth with different finishes.
School’s
in and yes, bowling ball maintenance can be described as a technological window
that just keeps opening!And, at record
pace as ball manufacturers look for the advantage over one another and new ways
to knock down more pins.One thing for
sure, as the reactive resins become more refined and ball chemical engineers
learn more about keeping oil from sticking to the surface of the ball, scores
will continue to soar.
When
bowling balls no longer attract oil to their surface, no longer will oil carry-
down to the pin decks be a factor, for ball deflection due to loss of traction
or slip going through the pocket.This,
in turn, will greatly help the striking percentages as the bowling ball holds
traction and pocket, touching the very three or four pins that are so important
to carry strings of strikes!
Ball
manufacturers agree that ball surface (rough or sanded) or the lack of surface
(shiny or polished), is the single most important factor in how the ball
reacts.With a lack of surface
(polished) on the ball, you may never get enough hook and correct angle at the
pocket on oily conditions.With too much
surface (sanded too rough) you could get just the opposite reaction in a ball
that hooks too early and runs out of energy before ever hitting the pins.
Keeping
your own records on what polish or sanded surface works for you on each ball
you own is very important in keeping them tuned up and ready.Bowling balls should always be cleaned with a
reputable company’s cleaner after each use even if only used one game that
session!Bowling balls generally need
some type of maintenance (sanding, scuffing, polishing, etc.) after as little
as three games on dry lanes, and up to nine games on oily conditions, but
cleaning is a must after each session regardless of maintenance!!
Resurfacing
Needed—and that’s the bad news because high performance bowling balls require
costly high performance maintenance, and at a rate of about every 25 to 50
games, you can expect to have it resurfaced on a machine to keep it round and
take the visible flattening track out.Remember that “like new ball” carry is also because the ball is clean,
round and only touching about 1/32” to 1/16” of track on the lane.Some ball manufacturer’s talk about
directional sanding and some don’t….we’ll save that for a later date.
The
new two-handed release in bowling is the super “power game” with lots of
revolutions, lots of speed and just as much accuracy as any release in the
game.
With
the PBA (Professional Bowlers Association) in a new season already, it will be
interesting to see how the new super power release of Jason Belmonte and Osku
Palermaa stack up against the competition on tour.
Even
a non-bowler spectator can quickly see the pin punishing power most of these
two-handed bowlers crush the pins with! Judging
by the amount of junior bowlers using this new release at junior tournaments
across the country, it’s going to be very interesting to see how quick actual
instruction and teaching hits bowling camps.
It will also be interesting to see how USBC (United States Bowling
Congress) will apply rules to the new release.
Obviously with the PBA already accepting and endorsing the release, USBC
should have no problem with it.
Junior
bowlers with smaller and thinner body size have quickly leveled the playing
field once dominated by the bigger and more powerful kids. Bowling now has a power game for bowlers of
any size!!
