Focused Kyle Troup Wins East Region at 2021 PBA Players Championship
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FEBRUARY 11, 2021 CALIFORNIA 7502B Florence Ave, Downey,OWLING CA 90240 • Website: CaliforniaBowlingNews.com • Email: [email protected] N • Office:EWS (626) 252-2985 Fax: (562) 807-2288 Tom Smallwood Wins Central Region Advances to Players Championship Finals by Jef Goodge JUPITER, FL — Cen- tral Region top seed Tom Smallwood defeated rook- ie Zach Weidman to earn a spot in the PBA Play- ers Championship Finals. Smallwood is the third number-one seed to ad- vance, joining Anthony Si- monsen from the West Re- gion and François Lavoie from the Southwest, with Sandro Jo Shiery Mark Williams the East and South Regions still to be decided. Smallwood, who won Sandra Jo Shiery and the 2018 PBA Players Championship and has finished in the top 15 each Mark Williams of the previous four—now Tom Smallwood five—iterations, will be longer-format shows.” he threw great shots. With the first three frames, with Elected to USBC Hall of Fame looking for his third career As the top seed, Small- the striking pace that high, Smallwood extending his by Matt Cannizzaro major title and fourth over- wood needed to win one I knew I needed my pace string to five to build a ARLINGTON, Texas - overall to be inducted into all PBA Tour title. game to advance, but he to be high. My last three lead. Even after leaving a Sandra Jo Shiery of Cold- the USBC Hall of Fame. “I get in a different had to face Weidman, who shots of practice, I inched solid 8 pin in the eighth, water, Michigan, and Mark Traditionally, the USBC mindset,” said Smallwood bowled an 803 series in a little closer to the dry and Smallwood knew the match Williams of Beaumont, Hall of Fame Induction of major championships. “I defeating PBA Tour cham- my ball finally faced up. If was his to win or lose. Texas, have been elected to Ceremony is part of the don’t care how high or low pions Wes Malott, Ronnie I was going to be close to “(Weidman) made the United States Bowling annual USBC Convention. the scores are, I’m think- Russell and Andrew Ander- the dry, I needed to throw it moves and made great Congress Hall of Fame in With the 2021 Convention ing grind from frame one, son on the way to the final better. After the first two or shots, but the transition the Superior Performance set to be held virtually, it game one. I just don’t give match. three frames, it went high caught him for three or category. was decided that the 2020 up. I don’t give away any “He bowled amazing,” flush, and I knew I had four frames and that’s what Shiery and Williams and 2021 USBC Hall of pins. That’s a big part of said Smallwood of Weid- something going.” got me into the lead,” said were on the ballot of five Fame inductees would be making major shows and man. “In clutch moments, Both players struck in continued on page 4 men and two women voted honored in person during on by a national panel of the 2022 Convention. USBC Hall of Fame mem- Shiery, a 56-year-old bers, veteran bowling writ- right-hander, is a nine- ers and USBC Board mem- time Professional Women’s Focused Kyle Troup Wins East Region bers. Bowling Association Tour Though both fell short champion, which includes of reaching the required one major victory at the 70% of the votes cast, the 1997 USBC Queens. She At 2021 PBA Players Championship USBC Hall of Fame Com- also had a runner-up finish by Lucas Wiseman mittee had the opportunity at the Queens (1989) and JUPITER, Fla. – The top to select them for induc- three top-five performanc- seeds will not be stopped tion, and they will com- es at the U.S. Women’s at the 2021 PBA Players plete the four-person 2021 Open. Championship. USBC Hall of Fame class. One additional win for Kyle Troup became In late October, husband Shiery in the PWBA spot- the fourth top seed in four and wife Bill and Barbara light came in 1989, when shows to make the finals of Chrisman of Pleasant View, she won the South Bend the event, winning the East Utah, the co-founders of Classic as a non-member. Region with a 259-216 vic- Storm Products, Inc., were At USBC’s premier tory over Michael David- elected by the committee event for female members, son at Bowlero Jupiter. in the Meritorious Service the storied USBC Wom- Troup, a six-time PBA category. They will be the en’s Championships, the Tour champion and the seventh husband and wife continued on page 7 only PBA titlist on the show, looked focused and sharp as he built a big early The 2021 California Pepsi lead and never looked back. He joins Anthony Simon- sen, Francois Lavoie, Tom USBC Youth Championships Smallwood and one to-be- Kyle Troup determined other player in keep up, leaving 10 pins in The show started with in his next three frames as Has Been CANCELLED the finals on Feb. 21. the second, fifth and eighth fireworks as Via was per- Davidson pulled ahead and With majority of centers starting in August will be Troup started the final frames to finish as the run- fect for 17 straight shots took the win. still closed as of February back to normal – keeping match by ringing a 10 pin ner-up in the East. before he finally missed. The regional finals for 1st, we unfortunately have our fingers crossed. and making it before rat- Entering the stepladder He fired a perfect game to the PBA Players Champi- to cancel this event for the Stay safe out there and tling off seven consecutive as the No. 3 seed, Davidson open the show, defeating onship will wrap up next 2nd year in a row. we hope to see everyone strikes to build a 53-pin beat Chris Via, 244-242, Tim Foy Jr., 300-235, and weekend with the South With vaccines rolling very soon out on the lanes! lead. in his first match and then then started the next match Region show on Feb. 14 at out, we are hoping that the Visit us at CalUSBC.com Davidson, making his took down Brandon Novak, with five in a row. 10 a.m. on FS1. upcoming 2021-22 season for further information. PBA TV debut, couldn’t 245-213. Via then failed to strike PAGE 2 CALIFORNIABOWLINGNEWS.COM February 11, 2021 TEAM USA’S CAMERON CROWE READY FOR MEMORABLE 2021 by Matt Cannizzaro ARLINGTON, Texas – On the way to winning the men’s title at the 2020 Unit- The Lindenwood men and Campbellsville women ed States National Amateur Bowling Championships, jumped out to big leads on the way victories last Cameron Crowe of Orland weekend at the Thomas More Classic in Erlanger, Park, Illinois, earned a Kentucky. The event was held at Super Bowl and place in Junior Team USA featured 10 varsity men’s and eight varsity women’s and Team USA history. teams. All teams bowled five traditional games and Crowe, now 19, also was the only player to make both 12 Baker games, with total pinfall determining the teams for 2020. He has that winner in each division. distinction again in 2021, with all team members be- On the men’s side, Lindenwood posted a wire-to- ing awarded another year wire victory, averaging nearly 220 as a team during due to the pandemic forcing the temporary suspension the traditional block to build a lead of more than 540 of the program. pins. The Lions finished with a 7,987 total to take the Along with a chance to top spot in the standings. Pikeville averaged more train with, and learn from, than 222 in Baker competition to take second place some of the best bowlers and coaches in the world, Crowe turity with how he carried himself during the whole event with 7,472, while Thomas More finished third with will have double the opportunities to be selected to repre- and in some big moments. sent the United States in international competition. “On the last day, I really got a chance to watch him 7,288. Pulling on a Team USA jersey and stepping onto the bowl, and it was remarkable. As someone who has been approach is an honor that comes with great tradition and the young guy making it for the first time, and because we Andrew Sacks averaged more than 236 to help responsibility, though that responsibility goes well beyond live in the same area, I wanted to be one of the first ones to Lindenwood to the win and earned top individual just the just red, white and blue. congratulate him and welcome him to the team.” honors with a five-game total of 1,182. Midway team- In making the teams, Crowe also is representing a Previously a top performer in high school and youth handful of other demographics, - youth, left-handers, two- events in the Midwest, Crowe’s 2020 also included a suc- mates Zackery Halstead (1,155) and Austin Hens- handers, collegiate bowlers, non-professionals and the Af- cessful freshman campaign at St. Ambrose University. ley (1,129) were next in the standings, followed by rican American community. Unfortunately, when COVID-19 brought the world to a Lindenwood’s Kaleb East (1,114) and Brandon Cruz The latter comes at a time when the Team USA program halt in March, it forced an early end to the USBC Collegiate (1,103).