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[email protected] n ews• Office: (562) 807-3600 Fax: (562) 807-2288 Chris Barnes & Missy Parkin Kick Off 2012-13 PBA Season with World Bowling Tour Titles Two-year international journey ends with victories during PBA World Series of Bowling IV LAS VEGAS – Chris earning points in World Ten- Barnes of Double Oak, Tex- pin Bowling Association-PBA as, and Missy Parkin of Lake International Tour events over Forest, Calif., successfully a span of two years, aired Sun- concluded two years of inter- day on ESPN. Both champions national travel when they cap- earned $20,000. tured Bayer Advanced Aspirin Barnes, who won the Co- World Bowling Tour men’s lumbia 300 Vienna Open in and women’s finals titles to Austria in October to lock up kick off the 2012-13 Profes- his berth in the WBT men’s sional Bowlers Association finals, edged Mike Fagan of television season at South Dallas, 258-244, in the semi- Point Hotel and Casino. final match before closing Barnes, a 14-time PBA Tour with a string of six strikes for champion, defeated reigning a come-from-behind victory WBT men’s champion Mika over his close friend, Koivuni- Koivuniemi of Finland, 244- emi, in the title match. 228, while Parkin defeated “Any win feels good,” Liz Johnson of Cheektowaga, Barnes said. “Mika and I al- N.Y., 238-190, in the women’s ways have good matches.