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Jason Belmonte Earns Sixth Career PBA Player of the Year Honor CALIFORNIA DECEMBER 24, 2020 7502B Florence Ave,O Downey, CA 90240 WLING• Website: CaliforniaBowlingNews.com • Email: [email protected] • Office:EWS (562) 807-3600 Fax: (562) 807-2288 Jason Belmonte Earns Sixth Career PBA Player Ofby Jill Laufer The - FloBowling Year Honor Australia’s Jason Bel- Belmonte, 37, won two monte was voted the 2020 major championships in Chris Schenkel PBA Player 2020 to extend his PBA re- of the Year, announced to- cord to 13 career major vic- day by PBA CEO Colie tories. His win in the U.S. Edison and PBA Commis- Open made him the second sioner Tom Clark on Flo- player in history, after Mike Bowling. Aulby, to complete the Su- Belmonte received the per Slam of all five major vast majority of votes from titles. In the final event PBA membership and vet- before the COVID-19 pan- eran bowling writers, with demic forced a pause to Bill O’Neill coming in a the season, Belmonte won distant second and Kris his third consecutive PBA Prather third. World Championship. This is the second con- With another ground- secutive and sixth career breaking year complete, Player of the Year Award Belmonte has set his goals for Belmonte, tying PBA even higher. Hall of Famer Earl An- “I have my eyes firmly thony for the second-most set on Walter Ray’s record all-time POY awards. Only of seven Player of the Year Walter Ray Williams Jr., Awards and to continue to with seven, has more. build my resume with ma- 2020 Chris Schenkel PBA Player of the Year Jason Belmonte “Being the Player of the jor and national title wins,” onship for his 25th overall tered, Belmonte finished PBA history to advance to ists: Bill O’Neill of Lang- Year is the highest honor a said Belmonte. “More spe- career title. Belmonte is in the top five eight times the championship finals horne, Pa.; Kris Prather of PBA player can have and cifically the U.S. Open. now tied for 10th all-time and led all players in both in four majors in a single Plainfield, Ill.; Sean Rash I’m proud to own that title Winning that event, a sec- with Hall of Famer Brian competition points, aver- season for the third time, of Montgomery, Ill.; Mo.; again,” said Belmonte. ond time will see me hold- Voss. His three titles in age (225.31) and earnings matching his accomplish- Anthony Simonsen of Lit- “It’s the ultimate reward ing the Super Slam twice. 2020 were more than any (a career-best $292,800). ments in 2019 and 2013. tle Elm, Texas, Sweden’s for a year of dedication That would be amazing.” other player aside from By qualifying for all four No other player has done Jesper Svensson, EJ Tack- and travel and leaving After nearly seven Kyle Troup, who also had major championship fi- so more than once. ett of Bluffton, Ind., and loved ones. To equal the months at home, Belmon- three wins. nals telecasts, Belmonte Belmonte was chosen Kyle Troup of Taylorsville, great Earl Anthony with six te returned to the United In the 13 events he en- became the first player in among seven other final- N.C. is amazing and something States and won his third special to me.” PBA Chameleon Champi- Danny Wiseman Honored With PBA Community Service Award by Jill Laufer - FloBowling A special panel of PBA alleviate the financial cost leaders selected Danny of college education.” Wiseman, a 12-time PBA Wiseman’s annual tour- Tour champion and mem- nament continues to grow, ber of the PBA Hall of year after year, in number Brad Miller Fame, as the recipient of of sponsors, donations, and the 2020 PBA Tony Reyes bowlers. Last year’s tour- Community Service Award. nament sold out and maxed Honored With PBA Wiseman, 53, was selected out at 342 bowlers. for his efforts and dedi- “I have a lot of help, a cation to growing youth lot of local support, and I Sportsmanship Award bowling. love what I do,” Wiseman by Jill Laufer - FloBowling “Knowing how Tony said. “It’s all about the Brad Miller, of Lee’s the best I can and play my was, this is a huge honor to kids, their future, further- Summit, Mo., was voted by part. I really love trying to represent his namesake and ing their education, and his fellow PBA Tour com- promote everyone involved this award,” Wiseman said I’m happy to be a part of petitors as the 2020 PBA and I think people have re- about receiving the honors every year since (excluding of this sport,” Wiseman it.” Steve Nagy Sportsmanship alized that.” named after the late Reyes. 2020 due to the COVID-19 said about beginning the In addition to the annual Award winner in recogni- Although the 2020 sea- “When Tony walked into a pandemic) awarding over annual tournament. “The tournament, Wiseman is an tion of his sportsmanship son was interrupted by the room, he lit it up. He loved $185,000 in scholarships biggest part of their future active youth coach, donat- on and off the lanes. COVID-19 pandemic, the coaching and helping peo- to youth bowlers to further is education and I found a ing his time to individual “It’s nice to be accepted 30-year-old Miller still ple, and we all want to be their education. way to help by starting the and league sessions, while within an organization I’m managed to have the best like Tony.” “When my profession- youth scholarship tourna- traveling to tournaments passionate about,” Miller year of his career, qualify- In 2012, Wiseman start- al career started to slow ment. At these events, kids around the country to coach said. “The PBA is the cool- ing for two televised finals ed the annual Danny Wise- down, I knew I wanted to do have an opportunity to use some of his students. est place in the world in my appearances in addition to man Youth Scholarship something and give back to their talent to bowl for Well into retirement as a eyes. I’m just trying to do continued on page 9 Tournament which has run the kids who are the future scholarships that also help continued on page 8 PAGE 2 CALIFORNIABOWLINGNEWS.COM December 24, 2020 Merry Christmas From All of Us at Del Rio Lanes 7502 E. Florence Ave, Downey, CA 90240 Phone: (562) 927-3351 • www.delriolanes.com Keystone Lanes 11459 E. Imperial Hwy, Norwalk, CA 90650 Phone: (562) 868-3261 • www.keystonelanes.com Forest Lanes 22771 Centre Drive, Lake Forest, CA 92630 Phone: (949) 770-0055 • www.forestlanes.com Cal Bowl 2500 E. 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All that you can say to that is thank you to the Bowlero chain and for what they have done for professional bowling in the past couple of years. The format is a bit involved, but also explains why CEO Colie Edison and her folks can offer such a substantial prize. A normal tournament comprises anywhere from 160 to 240 entrants at a particular location. However, by opening up the event to five regional tournaments, the entries are quintupled to a range of 800 to 1,200 competitors. That’s genius! Each regional will be a 28-game event, with the top five in each region advancing to the national finals in Jupiter, Florida. According to the PBA release, the five finalists from each region will roll a separate televised final between January 24th and February 14th, with the sixth telecast featuring the five regional winners competing for all that prize money on Sunday, February 21st, at 12:30 PM on Fox Broadcasting Network. That’s also genius! On more than one occasion we have alluded to the fact that the corona hysteria was actually a blessing in disguise for bowling, because the events could all be conducted in a weekend, and then spread out over a series of weeks, saving an enormous amount of production costs. Frank Esposi- to, a founding member of the PBA and TV Coordina- tor for more than 40 years, once told me, “Bowling is the perfect sport for television, because it is in a controlled space and requires very little set up, and only two cameras!” The $250,000 first place prize brings back memo- ries of my involvement with Seagram’s Coolers and Get Things Rolling! - Advertisements similar to this ran in bowling publications and community newspapers from the US Open in the late 1980’s. When AMF first coast to coast in 1986 brought me to Westbury, New York, to work at the ivy Wine Coolers at all of the AMF Bowling Centers loca- of America (BPAA), and the Seagram’s Coolers U.S.
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