Anthony Simonsen Wins Flobowling PBA Wolf Open for Second Go
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OCTOBER 25, 2018 CALIFORNIA 7502B Florence Ave, OWLINGDowney, CA 90240 • Website: CaliforniaBowlingNews.com • Email: [email protected] N • Office:EWS (562) 807-3600 Fax: (562) 807-2288 Anthony Simonsen Wins FloBowling PBA Wolf Open for Second Go Bowling! PBA Tour Title of the Season Simonsen beats Andrew Anderson, 239-226, in title match to also win fifth career title OWASSO, Okla. – An- In the semifinal match, thony Simonsen of Austin, Anderson, the 2018 USBC Texas, won the FloBowling Masters winner, beat Kris PBA Wolf Open Tuesday to Prather of Plainfield, Ill., become the fifth two-time who was trying for his first winner this season and add- tour win, 297-227. Ander- ing his name as a candidate son was denied a 300 game for PBA Player of the Year when his final shot in the honors with only three Go 10th frame went high and Bowling! PBA Tour tour- he left the 3-6-10. naments left in the season. In the opening steplad- In the first tournament der match, 18-time tour of the FloBowling PBA winner Tommy Jones of Fall Swing, Simonsen, the Simpsonville, S.C., beat top qualifier for the finals, Darren Tang of San Fran- beat another two-time win- cisco, who was also trying ner, Andrew Anderson of for his first tour win, 227- Holly, Mich., 239-226, in 216. Jones then advanced the title match at The Lanes to the second match where at Coffee Creek to also win he lost to Anderson 230- his fifth career title. PBA Commissioner Tom Clark, Champion Anthony Simonsen & The Lanes at Coffee Creek Proprietor Joe Sparks 191. Simonsen opened in “I didn’t throw a good hands. I had confidence in player of the year Jason old Simonsen. “We’ve got The FloBowling PBA the eighth frame of the shot in the seventh frame my ball reaction and that Belmonte and Jakob But- two more tournaments here Fall Swing continues with title match but still had a so when I left the 2-4-8 in I could buckle down and turff as the season’s other and we wrap up the sea- the Wolf and Bear events. five-pin lead over Ander- the eighth frame, that was throw the good shots I two-time winners. son with the U.S. Open so The entire Fall Swing son heading into the ninth the result of an over cor- needed to make.” “Overall it’s been a good there’s a lot of bowling left was streamed live on Xtra frame. He got back on track rection,” Simonsen said. Simonsen joined An- season for me but I think to determine that.” Frame on FloBowling with a strike in the ninth “I didn’t panic because derson, and other player of there’s a couple guys, in- The 2018 season con- which is providing multi- and the first shot of the 10th with the five-pin lead head- the year candidates 2016 cluding Andrew, who have cludes with the U.S. Open stream coverage of every frame which was enough ing into the ninth I felt player of the year EJ Tack- the edge on the player of the Oct. 24-31 at Northrock lane of competition. For for the victory. the match was still in my ett, four-time and reigning year race, said the 21-year- Lanes in Wichita, Kan. continued on page 2 EJ Tackett Wins FloBowling PBA Bear Open England’s Stuart Williams Wins to Become First Three-Time Winner of FloBowling PBA Tulsa Open 2018 Go Bowling! PBA Tour Season For Second Go Bowling! PBA Tour Title Tackett Beats England’s Stuart Williams 212-197 for 12th career title Williams wins four matches and beats Andrew Anderson 237-215 OWASSO, Okla. – EJ of his career. the strikes in the seventh, OWASSO, Okla. – Stu- ner and finals top qualifier mit to those choices,” the Tackett of Bluffton, Ind., Despite an open in eighth and ninth gave me art Williams of England Andrew Anderson of Holly, 37-year-old Williams said. won the FloBowling PBA the 10th frame, Tackett enough of a cushion and won all four matches and Mich., 237-215, in the title “I was fortunate that I was Bear Open Thursday to be- had struck in the seventh, set me up to be in good averaged 251 in the step- match for his second career able to stay with the same come the first three-time eighth and ninth frames position for the win even ladder finals to win the title and the $30,000 first balls and game plan for all winner of the 2018 Go which gave him enough of though it wasn’t pretty at FloBowling PBA Tulsa prize. four matches and that really Bowling! PBA Tour sea- a lead to clinch the win. the end.” Open Saturday, the pinna- Williams, the No. 4 confirmed I made the right son. Williams, who was trying As the season’s only cle event of the FloBowl- qualifier for the finals, was decisions. In the second tourna- for his second career tour three-time winner, Tackett ing PBA Fall Swing at The in control from the start “On the longer condition ment of the FloBowling title, opened in the seventh becomes a top contender Lanes at Coffee Creek. when Anderson, the 2018 I wanted to throw slower PBA Fall Swing at The frame when he left the 2-4- for PBA Player of the Year In a stepladder final that USBC Masters champion, and use a release where my Lanes at Coffee Creek, 8-10 split and was unable to honors with just the Flo- featured a dual lane condi- opened in the first two hand came more around the Tackett successfully de- close the gap. Bowling PBA Tulsa Open tion pattern – PBA 39-foot frames after leaving splits. ball. For the shorter con- fended his Bear Open title “You hate to win a and U.S. Open left in the Bear condition on the left “Bowling on two differ- dition, I concentrated on from 2016 by beating top match with an open in the season. lane and 33-foot Wolf con- ent conditions in the finals keeping my ball speed up qualifier Stuart Williams 10th frame,” said Tackett, “I’m the first to win dition on the right lane – it was important to go with and getting the ball to roll of England, 212-197, in the the 2016 PBA Player of the three but you can’t be sure Williams beat two-time Go ball choices that I felt the more end over end.” title match for the 12th win Year. “I was fortunate that continued on page 5 Bowling! PBA Tour win- most confident in and com- continued on page 7 PAGE 2 CALIFORNIABOWLINGNEWS.COM OCTOBER 25, 2018 ZACK JELLSEY - Receives High Average Award by Frank Weiler REDLANDS – Zack Jellsey has done it again. Zack Jellsey has shown that what he did in 2015 was no fluke. 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BOOK SWEEPERS/GROUP RESERVATIONS/BIRTHDAYS/CORPORATE PARTIES Stepladder Results Send resume to: Match One – Jones def. Tang, 227-216. 1.888.590.2695 Match Two – Anderson def. Jones, 230-191. RiversideResort.com Buena Lanes – 1788 Mesa Verde Dr. Ventura, CA. 93003 Semifinal – Anderson def. Prather, 297-227. Final – Simonsen def. Anderson, 239-226. RiversideLanes.15Oct2018.BowlingNews.indd 1 10/16/18 3:21 PM OCTOBER 25, 2018 CALIFORNIABOWLINGNEWS.COM PAGE 3 PBA OFFERS $1 MILLION BONUS FOR TITLE MATCH 300 GAME IN FOUR 2019 EVENTS OWASSO – At the members’ gathering in Owasso, PBA CEO-Commissioner Tom Clark announced that PBA players will have four opportunities to bowl for a $1 mil- lion bonus if any of them can roll a 300 game in the title match of four PBA tournaments in 2019.