It's No Surprise That Johnnie Englehart Is a Hall-Of-Famer
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APRIL 5, 2018 CALIFORNIA 7502B Florence Ave, OWLINGDowney, CA 90240 • Website: CaliforniaBowlingNews.com • Email: [email protected] N • Office:EWS (562) 807-3600 Fax: (562) 807-2288 TISHLAS VEGAS –JOHNSON United Naccarato, who claimed WINS 2018 USBC SENIOR QUEENS States Bowling Congress her third career title at the Hall of Famer Tish John- National Golden Ladies son of Colorado Springs, Classic earlier in the week, Colorado, finally claimed put herself in position to the USBC Senior Queens win a second title in Las tiara she’s coveted, defeat- Vegas but saw her chance ing fellow USBC Hall of slip away after back-to- Famer Jeanne Naccarato at back opens in the fifth and Gold Coast. sixth frames against John- Johnson, a 55-year-old son. left-hander, capped a domi- Between the USBC nating performance this Queens and Senior Queens, week with a 267-191 title- Johnson failed to secure a match victory over Nacca- tiara in nine championship- rato of Tacoma, Washing- round appearances prior to ton. Johnson earned $8,000 her win. for the win, while Nacca- When she saw the look rato’s second-place finish she wanted during practice netted her $6,400. on the championship pair Johnson, who recorded and caught a few early hits four consecutive runner- against Naccarato, the 25- up finishes at the Senior time Professional Women’s Queens from 2013-2016, Bowling Association Tour Hall of Famer Tish Johnson is the 2018 USBC Senior Queens Champion left no doubt in 2018, strik- titlist knew it was her time. but the championship pair made it incredible.” Naccarato advanced to ing. ing on nine of her first 10 “I saw a lot of different played just like qualify- Johnson earned the top the title match with a dra- Naccarato, the No. 3 deliveries in the final. looks during match play, ing for me,” said Johnson, spot through qualifying matic finish against Pow- seed, used a late run of four who also is a member of (234.47 average for 15 ers, delivering three strikes consecutive strikes to best the PWBA Hall of Fame. games) and rolled through in the 10th frame to win, Michele Carter of National “Right away, I had a game match play leading up to 204-203. Powers, who City, California, 228-212. It’s No Surprise That plan, and anytime I can go her title tilt against Nac- qualified second, had the In the opening match away from the pocket, I can carato. She averaged more chance to shut out Nac- of the stepladder, Carter be pretty dangerous. You than 240 in her five wins carato, but she left a 2-4-5 started with six consecutive Johnnie Englehart lead (the Senior Queens) in match play, including a combination on her fill ball strikes and outdistanced enough and start to won- 782-603 victory over Sha- to give Naccarato the open- continued on page 11 der if it’s ever going to be ron Powers of Lakewood, your turn. After getting a Colorado, to claim the top Is a Hall-of-Famer messenger in the first, trip- seed for the stepladder fi- by Fred Eisenhammer ping out the 6-8 and see- nals. WINNETKA – When ing Jeanne miss a couple As the top seed in Johnnie Englehart arrived of spares, which she never the true double-elimi- at Country Club Bowl in does, I started to think it nation format, Nacca- San Rafael last May for was going to be my time. rato would’ve had to beat the 2017 California United Being able to have my fam- Johnson twice to claim her States Bowling Congress ily and a lot of friends here first tiara. state championship tourna- ment, he remembered that he had bowled there once BOWLING NEWS before. HONOR ROLL Name Score Date Center That was 30 years earlier – JESUS TEJEDA 300 03-04-18 DEL RIO LANES JUSTIN PLUCHINO 857/300/300 03-05-18 WINNETKA BOWL and it also was at the state ZARCOFF BOUTELL 820 03-07-18 HARLEYS SIMI BOWL NANCY KATO 716 03-07-18 WINNETKA BOWL championship event. ANDREW CHETWYND 300 03-07-18 HARLEYS CAMARILLO Johnnie Englehart will be JON BRANDON 300 03-08-18 HARLEYS CAMARILLO It also was the year that RON MICKLES 807/300 03-08-18 WEST COVINA LANES inducted into the Califor- ROGER STITES 300 03-08-18 LA HABRA 300 BOWL Englehart claimed the all- STONEY BAKER 300 03-09-18 ARROWHEAD LANES nia United States Bowling COLBY MICHAELS (YOUTH) 300 03-10-18 WINNETKA BOWL events scratch champion- JOHN ENGLISH 300 03-12-18 KEYSTONE LANES Congress Hall of Fame BLAKE McBRIDE 300 03-14-18 HARLEYS SIMI BOWL ship. KEVIN FATHEREE 814 03-14-18 WINNETKA BOWL for superior performance. KEN McBRIDE 300 03-14-18 HARLEYS SIMI BOWL “Wouldn’t it be great if I JEFF HART 300 03-16-18 KEYSTONE LANES Photo by Fred Eisenham- JULIA FRIAS (YOUTH) 706 03-17-18 WINNETKA BOWL won it again? But let’s get DOUG VALENTINE 300 03-18-18 HARLEYS CAMARILLO mer CHRIS HEFNER 800 03-19-18 KEYSTONE LANES real,” Englehart thought to KAITLIN MAYALL 740 03-19-18 HARLEYS SIMI BOWL KENNY CAUTHEN 300 03-20-18 PARKWAY BOWL himself. firsts, two seconds and one CHRIS DRITZ 803 03-25-18 HARLEYS SIMI BOWL DANNY HIROTA 300 03-25-18 HARLEYS CAMARILLO Englehart wound up turn- third). CORT McPHERSON 300 03-26-18 HARLEYS SIMI BOWL DAVE DICKEY 300 03-27-18 WINKS SILVER STRIKE ing that dream into reality Repeating as the state all- JUSTIN PLUCHINO 802/300 03-27-18 WINNETKA BOWL events champion 30 years THOMAS EVERITT 807/300 03-28-18 WINNETKA BOWL by winning the all-events ATTENTION ALL BOWLERS Bert Strain and friends gathered at Keystone Lanes on scratch title again – giv- apart is just one of the many BOWL AN HONOR SCORE THIS MONTH? Saturday March 24th to remember Keith Kenworthy. Sto- ing him five career finishes memorable achievements E-MAIL IN YOUR NAME, SCORE, DATE & CENTER AND ries and pictured were shared. Keith would have enjoyed YOU WILL BE ON THE FRONT PAGE IN THE NEXT PRINTED EDITION every minute. Farewell Dear Friend... (L-R) Barbara in the top three in the all- in Englehart’s lengthy E-MAIL TO: [email protected] MEN: 300 - 800 & 7-10’S WOMEN: 298,299,300, 700+ & 7-10’S Burgess, Lydia Martinez, Rose Caldwell, Juanita Benson, events competition (two continued on page 11 Bert Strain (center). Every Tues. Get The Digital Version of The California Bowling News Go to CaliforniaBowlingNews.com and sign up!! PAGE 2 CALIFORNIABOWLINGNEWS.COM APRIL 5, 2018 PBA’S “60 MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS” UNVEILING CONTINUES: 41 THRU 45 The countdown to unveil the complete list of the PBA”s “60 most memorable moments” in its 60-year history con- tinues, one a day, Monday through Friday, on all PBA Network outlets. Last week, “memorable moments” 41 through 45 were unveiled. 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