California Thursday April 13, 2017 7502B Florence Ave, Downey, CA 90240 • Website:w CaliforniaBowlingNews.comling • Email: [email protected] n • Office:ews (562) 807-3600 Fax: (562) 807-2288 Missy Parkin Wins 2017 PBA50 Tour Season Begins With PWBA Regional PBA50/PBA60 Doubleheader April 15-20 Looking Forward to This Years Ladies Tour NEW PORT RICHEY, FL — The 2017 PBA50 Tour season opens with a PBA50/PBA60 double- header when Lane Glo Bowl in New Port Richey, Fla., hosts the PBA60 Kill- er ‘B’ Open and the PBA50 Pasco County Florida Open back-to-back April 15-20. The inaugural Killer ‘B’ Open, for players ages 60 and over, will take place April 15-17 and will be fol- lowed by the Pasco County Florida Open April 18-20. Pasco County Florida Open Defending Champion Walter Ray Williams Jr. Both events will be cov- defeating fellow PBA Hall Williams’ win total now Bryan Goebel and Brian ered live in their entirety of Famer Norm Duke of stands at 101 after winning Voss. Baker and Eagle will Susie Anthony & Missy Parkin by PBA’s online bowling Clermont, Fla., 245-225, in the PBA50 Fayetteville be doing double duty as DUBLIN April 9th — Columbia 300, Vise Inserts channel Xtra Frame. the title match. Southern Open regional they will also compete in Southern California’s own and High5 Gear”. Defending champion The Pasco County win tournament in Fayetteville, the PBA60 Killer ‘B’ Open. pro Missy Parkin won the Missy gave another Walter Ray Williams Jr. was part of another mile- N.C., in March. Also competing in both 2017 P.W.B.A. at Earl An- shootout to Gary Mage and of Oxford, Fla., highlights stone chapter in the Hall Other PBA50 Tour stars events will be defending thony Lanes, taking home Mama Toni Mage for their the list of approximately of Famer’s more than three expected to compete in PBA60 Player of the Year $1,000.00 and a memorial countless hours running 150 players ages 50 and decade career in which he New Port Richey will be a and two-time PBA50 Play- plaque. 99% of the com- amazing tournaments. over who are entered in the won his record 100th career host of other Hall of Fam- er of the Year Ron Mohr of petition was from North- Missy is definitely get- Pasco County Florida Open overall title in PBA compe- ers including Tom Baker, Las Vegas. Two-time de- ern California and strong ting a good workout before which will be the first of tition (including PBA Tour, 2015 winner Parker Bohn fending PBA50 Player of shooters, but Missy won the upcoming P.W.B.A. 14 tournaments during the PBA50 Tour, PBA regional III, 2014 winner Amleto the Year Pete Weber is not by over 200 pins. Missy al- tour starts. 2017 season. and PBA50 regional wins). Monacelli, Dale Eagle, continued on page 3 ways has good things to say Wesley Low, a new Williams, the PBA He achieved the century about the lanes and enjoys Columbia 300 staffer won Tour’s all-time titles leader mark last December in the the hospitality. the P.B.A. Regional on the with 47 wins, won his 10th Decker Appraisal Services She used a Columbia same weekend at Dublin. career PBA50 Tour title in Trios regional tournament MICHAEL LOERA 300 Tyrant. “Thanks to “Way to go, Wesley”. Pasco County last year by in Harrisonburg, Va. 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The first event in the made-for-Xtra Frame series, which will be available for $2.99 per event, will pit Malott against two of the PBA’s hottest players, 2016 PBA Player of the Year EJ Tackett of Huntington, Ind., and Australia’s Jason Belmonte, who won Player of the Year honors the previous three years, in a three-game total pinfall winner-take-all match. Coverage of the match on Wednesday, April 12, will begin with a pre-game show at 9:30 p.m. Proceeds from each special pay per view event will determine the prize money paid to the King of Bowling winner. The one-time $2.99 special event fee will apply to all viewers, including current Xtra Frame subscribers. To sign up for any of the special on- line video streaming events, visit www.xtraframe.tv. The King of Bowling series will continue throughout the season with the winner defending his crown in an upcoming PBA Xtra Frame King of Bowling Pay Per View event to be announced. Details will be announced later. To recap Malott’s dominant reign in the 2009 series held at the Kegel Training Center in Lake Wales, Fla., the then 32-year-old “Sir Strikes-a-lot” defended his King of Bowl- ing crown five consecutive weeks and became the first bowler in PBA history to bowl two nationally-televised 300 games in defeating Parker Bohn III of Jackson, N.J., 300-223, in the KOB finale. During his run, Malott defeated Chris Barnes, 268-214; Patrick Allen, 258-234; Walter Ray Williams Jr., 300-238, and Rhino Page, 257-233, before closing with his perfect victory over Bohn in the made-for-ESPN2 series. For perspective, Tackett (the winner of the 2016 PBA World Champion and 2017 Fire- Lake PBA Tournament of Champions) was 16 years old when Malott won his last King of Bowling match. Belmonte (the winner of the 2017 Barbasol PBA Players Championship and USBC Masters) had just won his first PBA title in West Babylon, N.Y., on his way to winning 2008-09 PBA Rookie of the Year honors. While the King of Bowling didn’t count for any titles, Malott went on to win three PBA Tour titles and PBA Player of the Year honors for the 2008-09 season.