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9th NEW MEXICO OPEN – SOUTHWEST’S BIGGEST AND RICHEST BOWLING TOURNAMENT
Worth record $ 45,645 this year
Rio Rancho:
The 9th New Mexico Open, to be held at Tenpins & More in Rio Rancho August 13-19 (2012) will retain it’s place as the largest and richest bowling tournament, with prize-money of more than $ 45,600, an increase of more than $ 4,000 compared to last year.
The field size is also expected to increase from 189 to more than 210, with bowlers coming in from at least 14 states.
There will be five qualifying squads, each restricted to 48 bowlers, with two on Friday (August 17) and three on Saturday August 18, with the field cut to the top 48 scorers for a semi-final round on Sunday morning.
“We no longer clash, date-wise, with the long-running PBA Killeen Open in Texas, so we could take up to 240 bowlers”, said tournament director, Steve Mackie. “If that were to occur, our prize-money would increase to near $ 50,000″.
The field may include defending champion, Devin Bidwell of Simi Valley, CA as well as other prior winners, Andrew Cain AZ, Chris Klerk AZ, John Young NM, David Haynes NV, Mark French CA and Shawn Lee CO. Cain is the president of the United States Bowling Congress.
Since the event started in 2004, prize-money of $ 210,575 has been paid, with fifteen bowlers each having won more than $ 4,000.
The leading money-winner is John Young at $ 9,350, showing the difficulty of mastering the special lane conditions created for the event by Mike Miller, former touring pro, who has come up with a different “challenge” every year.
In the championship round last year, PBA champion, Mike Edwards OK, almost ran the field, eliminating in order, Marvin Hale CA 191-168, George Gohagan GA 216-204 and Keith Ubert KS 211-178 before losing a high-scoring thriller to Bidwell 285-242.
First prize is a record $ 8,500 in an event that continues to show almost annual growth since it’s inception.
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(Further details available at www.tenpins-more.com or call (505) 858-3409).
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Youth International Challenge Cup – Final Results
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AUSTRALIA DOMINATES SINGLES, WINS CHALLENGE CUP
US bowler wins Masters
Rio Rancho, NM:
Australian youth bowlers turned a two-point deficit, after two days play, into a commanding 11-point lead in singles competition at the Youth International Challenge Cup at Tenpins & More on Friday.
Zac Kemp and Jayden Leming of Brisbane beat Mikey Conway of Rio Rancho and Robbie Garcia Jr of Tijeras 8-0 in the opening matches, while Joshua Kemp and Ben Johns of Brisbane won 5.5-2.5 against Rio Ranchoans, Paul Carper and Josh Helmick.
In women’s action, Janeyl Carper beat Brisbane’s Tamara Harmsworth 3-1, while visiting Madeline Kemp swept Sabrina Vargas 4-0. Adelaide’s Louise Ingoe beat Tanya Paris 3-1 but Sara Vargas took 3-1 over Australian left-hander Tarmeka Tritton.
Scoring was high with Joshua Kemp 198, 257, 279 (734) splitting his match with Paul Carper who rolled 217, 257, 223 (697). Johns fired 257 and 248 in a 691 set against Helmick.
Ingoe bowled 213, 244, 228 (685), while Janeyl Carper struck out to win series from Harmsworth 643-633. Kemp, 15 of Brisbane, the youngest in the 16-person field, had 13 strikes in a row over two games of 232 and 257.
Paul Carper salvaged some pride for the American squad, winning the Masters with a tenth frame strike out from Joshua Kemp and Johns. Carper went 6-2 in match-play, while Kemp had a 5-3 record, causing a 16-pin difference at the end.
Australia beat the US 21-15 in the Masters to win the inaugural Challenge Cup trophy by 78.5-61.5 points.
Individual averages:
US – M Conway 184/9 games, R Garcia Jr 174/9, P Carper 221/17, J Helmick 177/9, J Carper 189/17, T Paris 178/9, Sabrina Vargas 191/17, Sara Vargas 199/17.
Australia – J Leming 200/9, B Johns 223/17, Z Kemp 197/9, J Kemp 218/17, T Tritton 181/9, M Kemp 202/9, T Harmsworth 206/17, L Ingoe 203/17.
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Youth International Challenge Cup Update
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US/Australia split doubles 20 points each
US retains two point lead, 37-35
Rio Rancho, NM:
The US and Australian youth squads split the 40 available points, 20 apiece, in Doubles competition action Thursday at Tenpins & More.
In the men’s matches, Joshua Kemp/Ben Johns (Australia) dominated Robbie Garcia Jr/Mikey Conway 10-0, with Kemp including 237, 205, Johns 235, 215, 249 (699). Garcia struck out but lost one match 204-205.
Paul Carper (USA) shot 246, 214, 236 (696) to win 2.5-0.5 over Jayden Leming, tying a 214 game, while Zac Kemp beat Rio Rancho’s Josh Helmick 2-1, that included a closing 238-219 win. That match went 7.5-2.5 to the US.
Queensland’s Tamara Harmsworth fired back-to-back 258, 265 in a 679 series to beat Sabrina Vargas 2-1, while local Janeyl Carper won 3-0 over Tarmeka Tritton with 190, 237, 204; the match result 5-5.
The US won 7.5-2.5 in the other women’s match, led by Sara Vargas who threw 215, 217, 267 (699) to beat Louise Ingoe of Adelaide 3-0, in spite of Ingoe’s 203, 198, 212 that would have won points in any other match-up. Australia’s Madeline Kemp included 211 and 204 in beating Tanya Paris 2-1.
The Singles matches at 1.30pm Friday hold a key to the necessary 70.5 points needed to win the Challenge Cup. The US has to line up first, being ahead overall, giving the visitors a chance to change match line-ups used for most of the first two days of play.
Then follows the Masters final at 3.30pm that will pit the top four scorers from each country in an eight-game heads-up contest.
Masters standings after 6 games:
US –
1 Sara Vargas 1,302
2 Paul Carper 1,267
3 Sabrina Vargas 1,169
4 Janeyl Carper 1,162
Australia
1 Ben Johns 1,355
2 Tamara Harmsworth 1,211
3 Louise Ingoe 1,205
4 Jayden Leming 1,201
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Stateside with Steve
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STATESIDE WITH STEVE
by Steve Mackie
BEST TV SHOW EVER
Sunday’s live telecast of the 69th US Open from New Jersey was arguably the most exciting and compelling championship bowling I’ve ever witnessed; and that’s going back more than 50 years!
There’s a number of reasons for this: Firstly, the cast of characters (on what is also Academy Awards night in America).
You had 49-year-old Pete Weber climbing from 13th to fourth in the last eight games of match-play; Ryan Shafer, a perennial bridesmaid in major finals, looking for his first big win; Jason Belmonte, the Australian enjoying a tear-away last few months on lanes around the globe and Mike Fagan, tipped by many as a big and near-future star in the making.
Then, it was a live show, a rare commodity in the Professional Bowlers Association in these tight economic times in this country. Live TV is often unpredictable – the show ran 15 minutes long – but it was superbly produced, and, as the drama unfolded, I can imagine the outside broadcast van crew was just as abuzz as the viewers and the audience at the Center.
Talking about the coverage, Weber was one of the bowlers asked to wear a microphone, a risky business some would say, and he did not disappoint.
Apparently, there was an annoying spectator in the stands to the left of the bowlers. Each time Weber got up on the odd lane, this person was in danger of being “horned out” by him or better yet evicted for unsportsmanlike behavior.
Pity the PBA decided to leave the clown in their seat. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become the only person to win the Open five times, $ 60,000 USD on top and an exemption to the rich Tournament of Champions is a big deal in our sport.
To have all that almost taken away by a nitwit bears some new rule added to the responsibilty of spectators, and dare I say, the tournament director.
In any case, the ratbag may have been a blessing in disguise as it seemed to motivate the man chasing history as well as his 36th career title to amazing performances under pressure on what is the most demanding and humbling lane condition in professional bowling.
In the opening match, Weber dropped a 10-pin spare attempt in the drain but struck out with a five-bagger to beat Shafer 223-191, in a match much closer than it ended.
Next up, Belmonte, the World Cup champion, who opened with a double, but threw one errant shot towards the end. Jason went double, 8 in the tenth to make Weber throw 9/9 to win. Instead, the Missourian drew on his record 50-odd wins in PBA regional competition to strike again for 225 and a win by 12 pins.
Finally, Mike Fagan, looking to become the first bowler since Norm Duke four years ago, to win back-to-back majors (after winning the USBC Masters last month).
Fagan got the early lead after a 4-9 by Weber and could have made things even more interesting had it not been for his own 4-9 and a washout later on that he needs to forget. You see, he got only two of the four pins after a strike, and that cost him count, and dearly as it turned out.
Fagan’s ninth and tenth frames were as good as it gets. Stone cold 10-pin followed by as cool a tenth frame turkey as you’ll ever see. Weber needed 9/spare/strike to win by a pin!
And that’s what the man, who bowled in Australia as a three-year-old when he toured with his dad, Dick Weber and family, did. Ringing 10-pin/spare/ten in the pit strike.
It doesn’t get any better than that for any bowling afficianado and the new TV commentator was insightful, quiet when necessary and informed.
Weber said “This is the greatest win of my career”, and looking heavenward, thanked his famous dad and the recently-deceased Don Carter, each of whom had four wins in this special tournament. No doubt, plenty of prayers were offered on behalf of Weber, who performance in the hottest cauldron in our sport was nothing short of miraculous.
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Belmonte is World Cup Champion
The stepladder final of the 47th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup in Johannesburg was a thrilling, noisy climax to this year’s tournament. After emerging from qualifying and quarter final rounds in which four of the top eight male bowlers posted perfect games, Ukraine’s Mykhalo Kalika faced in-form Aussie, Jason Belmonte in the first match of the best-of-three game semi-final.
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Stateside with Steve Mackie
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TV COVERAGE FOR BOWLING STARTS SUNDAY HERE ON ESPN
The much-anticipated 2011-2012 season of bowling’s coverage on national television starts in the US on Sunday (December 4) and continues, almost unabated, through April 15.
Opening the taped and live broadcast series will be the finals of this year’s “World Bowling Tour”, pitting the top three men and women points-scorers from various tournaments held around the world since January and concluding with the recent AMF Australian Masters at Rooty Hill RSL in Sydney.
Three men and one woman who recently competed in Australia are featured in the two-hour special; namely Sean Rash, Jason Belmonte, Mika Koivuniemi and Sandra Andersson. Also appearing is Nina Flack and Carolyn Dorin-Ballard, for a prize-pool of
$ 40,000 USD.
Coverage continues every Sunday, except Christmas Day, until March 4, including bonus cover on sister internet station, ESPN3, for finals of the USBC Masters and the 69th US Open.
Four more events, including the season-ending PBA Tournament of Champions, run March 25 through April 18, with a total pay-out of almost $ 1.1 million dollars USD.
Bowling Centers around the US, indeed the whole world, covet TV coverage of the actual sport of bowling as opposed to “bowling sightings” in other forms of the media. Once the sport side grows, everything else really is “gravy”.
* There are other big things happening to grow the sport, such as next month’s Big 3 events scheduled for Sunset Station in Las Vegas from January 22-February 5. More than $ 500,000 USD will be available, including a total of $ 100,000 USD in first place prizes.
Firstly, the aforementioned USBC Masters kicks things off January 22 with $ 50,000 on top followed by the International Mini, offering $ 30,000 USD to the winner and finishing with the new WTBA International Open for $ 20,000 USD to the winner on perhaps appropriately “Superbowl Sunday” (February 5), the finals of the National Football League, America’s most-watched annual sporting event.
Around the same time (January 24-29) the new Women’s Bowling Alliance has a $ 10,000 USD first place guarantee for the first of three professional women’s tournaments scheduled thus far for 2012. This first one at Las Vegas’ South Point Casino lanes will guage the response of high-average women to expanded scratch tournament activity going forward; others are set for St. Louis and Las Vegas later in the year.
* Closer to home, in New Mexico, our new High School Bowling season has commenced with more than 35 schools across this sprawling state (fifth largest land mass in the US) contesting 12 weekly tournaments leading up to the 7th annual State High School Bowling Championships scheduled at our Tenpins & More Center in February.
According to the United States Bowling Congress, more than 50,000 high schoolers are now involved in bowling, with another 3,500 college bowlers also competing regularly.
A little-known fact is that many US colleges now offer both female and male athletes full-ride and partial college scholarships for bowling, in some universities saving parents tens of thousands of dollars in tuition and living costs on-campus.
It’s certainly something Australian youth can look in to if they want to further their education – and bowling skills.
* The eight youth bowlers representing Chermside and Strathpine Bowling Centres in Brisbane at the International Youth Challenge Cup series at our New Mexico Center from March 4-12 have been named.
They are: Jayden Leming, Zachary Kemp, Joshua Kemp, Benjamin Johns, Madeline Kemp, Tarmeka Tritton, Tamara Harmsworth and Louise Ingoe.
Intersetingly, their combined team average of 1,553 is two pins higher than the opposing US side, which should make for an interesting match-up.
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How to Take Kids Bowling on a Budget | eHow.com
How to Take Kids Bowling on a Budget | eHow.com
Kids love to throw just about anything at anything. Bowling lets them do that in a controlled setting, and they get to keep score. Shoe rental, food, drinks and the price of each game can be expensive. A parent or caregiver needs a bowling budget to be able to make bowling an affordable outing.
Instructions
Look for and clip coupons for weekly discounted specials. Several of the bowling establishments send out coupons through the mail in bulk mailings. Discounts such as free shoe rental, buy one game get another free, and discounted refreshments may be offered. Often times the coupons will have quick expiration so you will need to keep up with the dates. Sign up online to be on area bowling alleys’ email lists. Being on the lists allows the business to send you information about specials and upcoming events. These events usually include discounted prices that will allow you to stay in your budget. Read more: How to Take Kids Bowling on a Budget | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_2043603_take-kids-bowling-budget.html#ixzz1fGEYqhfo
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WOW Look at us now
WOW Look at us now
Go Bowling Cairns Lights up
Have you seen us lately?
We are totally refurbishing GoBowling Cairns.
Let the (light) show begin these Holidays
(Via Go Bowling Cairns)
Belmonte picture perfect – Local News – Sport – Tenpin Bowling – Central Western Daily
Belmonte picture perfect – Local News – Sport – Tenpin Bowling – Central Western Daily:
ORANGE tenpin bowler Jason Belmonte has become just the 21st person to bowl a 300 game televised live across the United States of America in 50 years of the Professional Bowlers Association World Series of Bowling.
The 28-year-old professional capped off a memorable World Series campaign with the magical game, watched by millions of people across America.
Belmonte was in disbelief at his latest feat.
“To go down in history as the 21st person to have bowled a 300 game on TV in the PBA is just awesome. It’s just been a ridiculously crazy, awesome ride,” Belmonte told the Central Western Daily from Vegas.
International Day of People with Disability Highlands Tenpin
Event Details
Gathering of people with a disability and their carers in the Southern Highlands and surrounding areas for a fun morning of tenpin bowling at Highlands Tenpin. Special Olympics will be there on the day to help launch our disability tenpin bowling program for 2012.
Start date and time:
30th November 2011, 9:30amEnd date and time:
30th November 2011, 1:00pm
(Via www.idpwd.com.au)