Kay Lanes team captures victory

YOUNGSTOWN

Kay Lanes won the team event for the 1,000-over average category as the 78th annual city bowling championships came to a conclusion.

Comprising Kay were Mike Lepor, Lance Koss, Rich Thompson, Tom Olesky and Adam Barta with 3642.

The singles winner among 200-over average bowlers was Marty Letscher with 885, while Joe Sefcik and Rob Harvischak rolled 1494 to claim doubles for the 400-over average category.

Mark Lawrence won all-events for 200-over averages with 2273.

Boardman Lanes was the team actual champion with 3284 based on the effort of Dan Guerrieri, Rob Theis, Fred White, Joe Nuzzo and Rich Skelton IV.

By rolling 735, Skelton also won the singles actual title, while Tom Barron and Frank Corso were doubles actual winners for their score of 1353.

Bill

Out of Arlington, Texas comes an e-mail about Bill Matovina of Clearwater, Fla., formerly of Hubbard, who is one of six U.S. Bowling Congress league bowlers with a chance to go on national TV to compete against some of the top bowlers on the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour.

Recently, fans cast more than 140,000 votes online to determine six bowlers who advanced in the PBA Experience Showdown, a unique competition for USBC Sport Bowling members.

Matovina qualified on the Scorpion lane pattern at Seminole Lanes. He’ll join the other five finalists for a six-game qualifier at the International Training and Research Center in Arlington, Texas on Tuesday with each game contested on a different PBA lane pattern.

The winner of the qualifier will square off against the five winners of the 2009-10 PBA Tour Versatility Swing presented by BOWL.com events — Norm Duke, Rhino Page, Bill O’Neill, Mike DeVaney and Jack Jurek.

The finals will be taped Wednesday and are scheduled to air on April 11 on ESPN.

In addition to Matovina, the other finalists, their bowling center and the lane pattern on which they qualified, are: Joseph Petrowski, East Syracuse, N.Y., Bowl-Mor Lanes, Chameleon; Kevin Reuer, Hoffman Estates, Ill., Beverly Lanes, Viper; Patti Riddle, Palatine, Ill., Brunswick Zone-Hawthorn, Cheetah; Brent Watson, Parkersburg, W.Va., Emerson Bowling Lanes, Shark and Bobby Wenger, Wooster, Triway Lanes, Other Sport Pattern.

The PBA Experience Showdown started in August 2009 for bowlers who were competing in Sport Bowling leagues. Those leagues use many of the same lane conditions that are used on the PBA Tour. For almost six months, the top bowler (highest scratch series) each week in those leagues was eligible to be entered in the PBA Experience Showdown and more than 1,300 entries were sent to USBC from Sport Bowling leagues.

From those entries, 18 competitors were randomly selected as finalists and were divided into six groups based on the lane condition on which they bowled to qualify. Three finalists were randomly selected from each category and bowling fans went online to vote for their favorite bowler from each of the six lane patterns.

Locally

Rob Harvischak had 300-804 and Jim Dodge 300-768 in Belchyk/Action Plumbing Classic at Holiday.

Julie Tufaro’s 279-776 and Erin Whitehouse’s 278-725 led Thursday Matchplay Ladies at Amron on March 25.

Teri Haefke’s 247-719 and Susan Mineo’s 288-716 topped the C & G Pro Shop/Wedgewood Ladies Trio on March 23.