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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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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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.
Canadian Tenpin Federation adds four players to 2012 Team Canada roster | bowlingdigital.com:
Canadian Tenpin Federation adds four players to 201Canadian Tenpin Federation adds four players to 2012 Team Canada roster
11/15/11Canada
The Canadian Tenpin Federation team selection committee has made their final decisions on the additional team members for 2012 Team Canada.
With the added importance of the 2012 PABCON Championships as a qualifier for the 2013 World Championships, the importance on team performance this year was universally understood. The committee had a challenging task to balance development and leadership on the team.
The six men’s team members who earned their team spots at the 2011 Canadian National Championships held in the Montreal area in May of 2011 resulted in three veteran competitors and three new comers. With this in mind, the committee chose two experienced competitors for the 2012 Men’s team.
Georg Lambert IV (pictured left) formerly of Hamilton, Ontario and now living in Texas, and Michael Schmidt (right), Winnipeg, Manitoba were selected for the men’s team.
Lambert IV has been a member of the Youth or Adult Team Canada since 2000. He has earned numerous medals for Canada and was the 2000 and 2009 Male Bowler of the Year. Lambert IV has also bowled on the Professional Bowlers tour.
Schmidt is one of only two multiple winners of the Bowling World Cup. He claimed the 2005 and 2010 crowns and will defend his title in Johannesburg, South Africa in late November and December.
Jennifer Park (left), Nanaimo, British Columbia and Kim Green, Duncan, BC were selected for the women.
Park is a veteran member of Team Canada and recently won a silver medal at the 2011 Pan American Games. Park will also bowl for Canada at the Bowling World Cup in Johannesburg. Green has had a consistent record in her performance at the 2010 and 2011 Canadian National Championships, finishing seventh and 10th.
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Bowlers, divers steal the show – Top News – New Straits Times:
SIX gold medals brightened Malaysia’s day at the Sea Games as the tenpin bowlers got into the act at the Jaya Ancol Centre in Jakarta on Wednesday.
From left, Alex Liew, Adrian Ang, Jacqueline Sijore and Zandra Aziela with their Sea Games gold medals from the mens’ and womens’ doubles held at the Jaya Ancol Bowling Centre in Jakarta on Wednesday. Pix by Hairul Anuar Abd Rahim.
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Bowl.com | USBC announces 2010-11 high average and series winners:
USBC announces 2010-11 high average and series winners
11/14/11
By Matt Cannizzaro
USBC Communications
Team USA member Liz Johnson enjoyed a successful year on the international stage, and she was able to stay sharp by competing in a USBC Sport Bowling league.
The 37-year-old right-hander, who earlier this year helped Team USA to its first team gold medal at the World Tenpin Bowling Association World Women’s Championships since 1987, captured the women’s 2010-11 USBC Sport Bowling National High Average Award. She averaged 210 for 48 games in the Beverly Sport League at Beverly Lanes in Arlington Heights, Ill.
John Donahue of Shawnee Mission, Kan., topped the Adult Male division with a 230 average for 72 games in the PBA Experience league at Ward Parkway Lanes, while Kyle Sherman of O’Fallon, Mo., and Denver’s Emily Eckhoff led all youth Sport bowlers with 205 and 196, respectively.
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With a per capita GDP of $900, Afghanistan ranks as one of the world’s ten poorest countries. By any measure, challenges are numerous. Aid agencies observe an erosion of women’s rights as foreign troops prepare to leave, the infant mortality rate is among the world’s highest, and despite eradication efforts, 90 percent of the world’s opium is still produced by Afghan farmers. Meanwhile, military fatalities approach 2800 since the war began in 2001. Civilians are afforded no such precision for their casualties, with varying estimates in the tens of thousands being the only accounting. Gathered here are images from the country made in October of the lives of women and children, daily life, and consequences of the conflict in Afghanistan and in the United States. — Lane Turner (37 photos total)
Meena Rahmani, 26, owner of The Strikers, the country’s first bowling center, holds a bowling ball in Kabul. In an Afghan capital scarred by years of war, a young Afghan woman has bet $1 million that the country could use a chance to have a bit of fun. Located just down the street from Kabul’s glitziest mall, it offers a place where Afghan men, women and families can gather, relax, bowl a few games and not be burdened by the social, religious and cultural restrictions that govern daily life in the impoverished country. (Muhammed Muheisen/AP)
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Stars And Strikes: Viral Video
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Bangalore, Nov 4 : A record entry of 86 men and 22 women have been received for the Aircel 23rd National Tenpin Bowling Championship which begins at Star City here on November six.
Record entries for 23rd National Tenpin Bowling Championship [newKerala.com News # 101060]:
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Youth Bowlers wanted
How many of you bowled in youth leagues? Remember how many kids were in those leagues? Now, even with so many different avenues vying for kids’ attention, it appears that bowling is making a comeback in popularity.
According to USBC reports, more than 50,000 high school students and 3,500 college students competed in bowling tournaments in 2010. The BPAA reports that high school bowling has seen double-digit growth in five of the last eight seasons; 2010 saw 47 states recognize bowling at the high school varsity or club level, a dramatic change from only 20 states in 2002.
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