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Australia's Jason Belmonte Wins Historic PBA World Championship JANUARY 4, 2018 CALIFORNIA B7502 FlorenceOWLING Ave, Downey, CA 90240 • Website: CaliforniaBowlingNews.com • Email: [email protected] N • Office:EWS (562) 807-3600 Fax: (562) 807-2288 Australia’s Jason Belmonte Wins Historic PBA World Championship “Instant classic” includes two sudden-death roll-offs, unprecedented third major title in a single season RENO, Nev. – Aus- IX, presented by Eldorado tralia’s Jason Belmonte Resorts Reno Properties. re-wrote the Professional Belmonte’s 16th career Bowlers Association record PBA Tour title was worth book again, winning his $60,000, and it moved him ninth career major cham- into sole possession of third pionship with a thrilling place on PBA’s list of all- 238-225 victory over top time major titlists behind qualifier Jesper Svens- PBA legends Earl Anthony son of Sweden in the PBA and Pete Weber who both World Championship at the won 10 majors. National Bowling Stadium. In addition to his historic With the win, Belmonte victory, Belmonte was part became the first player in of the first nationally-tele- PBA’s 60-year history to vised PBA Tour event that win three major champion- included two sudden-death ships in a single season. roll-offs, one of which gave The PBA World Cham- the two-handed Australian pionship, the final tourna- star his shot at the title. ment of the 2017 Go Bowl- “That’s going to go down onship to his collection of unprecedented four United Crown (U.S. Open, TOC Slam plus Players Champi- ing! PBA Tour season, as one of the most excit- major titles that includes States Bowling Congress and PBA World Champion- onship). aired Sunday on ESPN as ing shows in a long time,” two PBA Tournament of Masters titles. At age 34, ship, Grand Slam (Triple Since winning his first part of the GEICO PBA said Belmonte, who added Champions, two PBA Play- he is a U.S. Open title Crown plus Masters) and major in the 2011 PBA World Series of Bowling the PBA World Champi- ers Championship and an away from the PBA Triple the “Super Slam” (Grand continued on page 9 Xframe at Action Lanes January 6th QUALIFY AT 4:00 PM AND WIN - GET $500 BONUS $1,000 Min. 1st and up to $2,000 1st with BONUSES WES MALOTT TO DEFEND KING OF BOWLING EL MONTE – Xframe qualify on a separate board. Action Lanes is located Bowlers Tour will be host- First Place as always will at 10534 Lower Azusa Rd CROWN TO KICK OFF TOC WEEK ed by popular Action Lanes be $1,000 Min. and up to in El Monte. FAIRLAWN – Reign- Xtra Frame, PBA’s on- this year’s event. The top in El Monte Saturday Janu- $2,000 will be possible. The phone there is 626- ing King of Bowling Wes line bowling channel, will four vote-getters will then ary 6th in our first event of The $10 Xframe Bonus 350-8831 Malott will defend his title stream the best-of-three- advance to a ballot where 2018. pays in the top 3 places. THE MATCH GAME for the third time in another game exhibition event live fans can vote for one player $1,000 Min. 1st and Bonuses include $500 if CARRIED OVER at CAL special Xtra Frame pay-for- at 6:30 p.m. Eastern on on either pba.com or Twit- up to $2,000 1st with BO- you qualify at 4:00pm and with a (273) and is esti- view showdown that will Tuesday, Feb. 6. ter from Jan. 22-26. The NUSES win the event. mated at $2,500 at Action take place at AMF Riviera Voting will take place in player receiving the most Two Qualifying Squads New members are wel- Lanes. Lanes in Fairlawn, Ohio, two parts. From Jan. 15-19, votes will challenge Malott at 4:00pm ($500 Bonus) come at up to 220 average. January 13th we will prior to the start of the PBA fans will be invited to vote for the title. & 6:00pm with Beat the Men and Women. No mem- return to popular West Co- Tournament of Champions. on pba.com for four play- Fans can purchase a Board Finals to follow at bership fee at this time! vina Lanes in West Covina. Fans will again be invited ers from a list of former one-time subscription to 8:15 PM. All Semi Finalists Senior Men 62+ and Call Bob 562 868-7164. to vote to select his oppo- Tournament of Champions watch the event for $2.99 will cash. Ladies 55+ qualify for the Cell 562-228-3960. or Jeff nent. winners who are entered in continued on page 4 As always women will senior board. 909 – 702-3369 PAGE 2 CALIFORNIABOWLINGNEWS.COM January 4, 2018 CALIFORNIAN’S Disappoint by Bette Addington at PBA World Championship Bowling Calendar by Frank Weiler RENO – JASON BELMONTE won the PBA WORLD JANUARY 6 – EBI Harley’s Valley Bowl Scratch 6 Gamer, 5:30pm, Harley Valley Bowl, Simi Valley CHAMPIONSHIP, his sixteenth national title and his ninth 6 – Xframe Tournament, Actin Lanes, El Monte, 562/228-3960 major. Amazing stuff. More amazing though was the dis- 6-2/4 – 53rd Livermore Valley Tourn. (LVT), Granada Bowl, granadabowl.com appointing performance of our CALIFORNIA bowlers. 7 – San Joaquin Bowling Club Trios Tourn., 9am, KC Bowl, Hanford, 559/385-8837 My wife Therese and myself were there in person to 7 – Scratch 6-Gamer TOC, 12 noon, Yosemite Lanes, Modesto, 209/524-9161 13 – Xframe Tournament, West Covina Lanes, West Covina, 562/228-3960 watch in amazement when we had no Californian to cheer 13-14 – 5th Tony Reyes Memorial Adult-Youth Tourn., 4th Street Bowl, San Jose for in the finals. Worse yet only one Californian (DAR- 13-26 – Pepsi Youth League Level Qualifying REN TANG of San Francisco) made the cut into the cash- 14-18 – BPAA Bowling Summit 2018, Buttes Marriott, Phoenix, AZ, bpaa.com er’s round of the Top 49! 15 – CUSBC 2018 Award Applications for Annual State Awards due, calcusbc.com 20 – Central Valley Masters Singles Handicap Tournament, 10am & 2pm, West Valley Bowl, Tracy, centralvalleymasters.com Darren finished thirty-ninth, winning $2,600. He aver- 20-21 – USA Bowling Pacific Southwest Regional Youth Qualifying, Cloverleaf Family Bowl, Fremont aged 223 for sixty games of qualifying. The qualifying 21 – HammerPins Open/Scratch 8-Gamer, 10am, Travis AFB, hammerpins.net was competed on the four original animal patterns (Cha- 26-28 – CBT Las Vegas Doubles, $3k, Gold Coast, Las Vegas, cbtbowling.com meleon, Cheetah, Scorpion and Shark). During the Shark 26-28 – IGBO Women’s Invitational Tourn. of So. Cal., Kearney Mesa Bowl, San Diego 27-28 – CCUSBC Women’s Open Championships, Freeway Lanes, Selma, 559/323-9402 qualifying rounds Darren rolled a 300 game, one of only 28-2/4 – True Amateur Tour. Nationals, The Orleans, Las Vegas, 1/844-321-8100 nine bowled on that pattern. Why didn’t Californian’s do better at the World Cham- Calendar brought to you by California Bowling Writers (www.calbowlingwriters.org pionship? I think it comes down to experience and migra- tion. Most of bowlers from California were young and inexperienced. Most of our bowlers had just a year or ESTABLISHED 1940 FOOT SURGERY two of PBA experience. Second, many of our best have CALIFORNIA DIABETIC FOOT CARE emigrated to reside in other states. For example, Josh Blanchard and Mike Haugen live in Arizona and Walter Ray Williams in Florida. BOWLING NEWS ROBERT A. ABRAMS, D.P.M., A.B.P.S. There may be other physical, mental or technical rea- A PODIATRY CORPORATION MAILING ADDRESS EDITORIAL OFFICE sons behind our disappointing performance in Reno but I 7502 Florence Ave. 11459 Imperial Hwy. Diplomate, American Board of Podiatric Surgery am not privy to any insider information that I can share Diplomate, American Board of Podiatric Medicine Downey, CA 90240 Norwalk, CA 90650 with you. 1135 S. 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Winnetka CA 91306 11a.m. to 8 p.m. SPELLING emailed for publication. Published 52 weeks. Inside Winnetka Bowl 818 340-5190 Sat. 10 a.m to 5 p.m. January 4, 2018 CALIFORNIABOWLINGNEWS.COM PAGE 3 La Habra Bowl Presents EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 7PM PAGE 4 CALIFORNIABOWLINGNEWS.COM January 4, 2018 King of the Hill continued from page 1 beginning by visiting www.xtraframe.tv. Malott won the original King of Bowling in 2009 in Lake Worth, Fla. and successfully defended his title when the event was revived after an eight-year absence in April in Portland, Maine. Malott, 40 years old and a 10-time, Hall of Fame-eligible PBA competitor when the special event was revived in Maine, rolled games of 238, 256 and 227 for a 721 three-game total pinfall series and a convinc- ing victory over 2016 PBA Player of the Year EJ Tackett of Huntington, Ind., and Jason Belmonte of Australia, who recorded 664 and 640 series, respectively.
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