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[email protected] n ews• Office: (562) 807-3600 Fax: (562) 807-2288 Michael Haugen Jr. Wins Fourth Title in PBA Scorpion Championship Arizona veteran edges Sweden’s Martin Larsen, closes ESPN telecast with marriage proposal LAS VEGAS – Michael cause you don’t want to take Haugen Jr. of Phoenix survived anything away from the tour- a 10th-frame mental error to nament winner, so I respected win his fourth Professional that and I was taking really Bowlers Association Tour title good care of things,” Haugen in the PBA Scorpion Champi- said. “But in the ninth frame, onship at the new South Point I started thinking about asking Bowling Plaza, and minutes her to marry me rather than I after his 213-206 victory over need to make two more good Sweden’s Martin Larsen, he shots, and that’s all it takes. It got the girl of his dreams. was a bonehead decision. The Scorpion finals, the “Luckily I was coherent fourth of five PBA Tour title enough to realize I had to get events conducted during one pin on that split (in the GEICO PBA World Series of 10th frame) to force him to Bowling VI, aired Sunday on double. When (Larsen) really ESPN. needed (a strike), he got a little In edging Larsen, Haugen, soft and grabbed on it, which 47, overcame a self-imposed is what usually happens when distraction when he prema- you get nervous and need one.