MAY 10, 2018 CALIFORNIA 7502B Florence Ave, OWLINGDowney, CA 90240 • Website: CaliforniaBowlingNews.com • Email: [email protected] N • Office:EWS (562) 807-3600 Fax: (562) 807-2288 A Minor Adjustment Turns Silver Lake Atom Splitters, Philadelphia Into a Major Achievement for Craig and Siena Cawelti Hitmen Advance to Elias Cup Finals by Fred Eisenhammer Hitmen win “double overtime” thriller to eliminate two-time defending champion Dallas Strikers WINNETKA – Craig PORTLAND, Maine – Cawelti came up big in The Go Bowling! Silver the biggest tournament in Lake Atom Splitters will which he’s competed. get a chance to become the Craig combined with his first three-time OceanView wife, Siena, to claim the at Falmouth PBA League title of last month’s Win- Elias Cup champions af- netka Bowl Doubles handi- ter a convincing semifinal cap event and the $1,500 round victory, but the two- first-place prize. time defending champion Still, Craig had to give Shipyard Dallas Strikers his wife a huge assist. will be watching from the “I had to eat a little Craig & Siena Cawelti were sidelines after losing a crow,” Craig joked. big winners at the Winnetka thrilling “double overtime” Faced with a challeng- Bowl Doubles event. battle with the Sysco Phila- ing oil pattern, Craig found “Craig was getting up- delphia Hitmen team. Silver Lake, the winner in game one for a 258-235 per Svensson, Dick Allen, himself scuffling in the sec- set and frustrated and I told The best-of-two-game of back-to-back Elias Cups win, and almost duplicat- AJ Johnson, Tom Daugh- ond game of his three-game him he needed to make a semifinal rounds matches, in 2014 and ’15, was domi- ing their first game perfor- erty and Chris Barnes as set. Siena, who carries a ball change,” Siena said. which are part of the 2018 nant in sweeping the Barba- mance in posting a 245-207 a team missed the pocket 170 average and is a tour- “It was one of those hus- Go Bowling! PBA Tour sol Motown Muscle in their victory to complete their twice in two games. nament veteran, then pro- band-wife things. And he schedule, were contested best-of-two-game Baker march to the Elias Cup “That was some pretty vided a timely and helpful said ‘no.’ at Bayside Bowl and aired format match, throwing championship match. stellar bowling,” said Atom suggestion for her husband. continued on page 11 Sunday on ESPN. 10 strikes in 12 attempts The Atom Splitters’ Jes- continued on page 4 A Tall Tale But The Facts Are True by Carol Mancini and Dean Lopez DUARTE – In the 1982 Game One was an above “Looking Back” column average 258. Things were the amazing feat of Steve feeling good and the pins Schnakenberg’s 258 Tripli- were falling. Game Two – cate was reported. same result at 258! “OMG This week Dean Lopez I’m on my way to my first contacted Steve and wan- 800!” “Could I do it?” gled the facts of the bizarre Steve was throwing his event. AMF Angle off the ditch and Steve was bowling the having a pure dead stroke old 700 scratch Vegas league night going. from Five Points Bowl that “I thought I would shoot Brian Voss Wins Second PBA50 moved to Columbia Bowl 800 for sure”. after Five Points closed. Steve decided to go for This was his dads league Al it… and started with the created while he managed front 8, but after a solid Steve Schnakenberg Tour Title in Mooresville Open Five Points. Steve wasn’t in 10 in the ninth Steve’s bid gutter...” he was puzzled but Adrenalin rush keeps new North Carolina resident coming back to competition the league but took over the for 800 was gone. He had then realized he could break MOORESVILLE,N.C. Boresch Jr. of Kenosha, Championship Lanes Clas- final 7 weeks after a member another solid 10 in the tenth Jim Dunn’s old triplicate – Brian Voss, who recent- Wis., 226-223, in the title sic in Anderson, Ind., sur- had passed away, so he was and spared… record of 257 by 1 pin… ly moved into the North match of the PBA50 Tour’s vived a wild final round of only going to bowl 18 games Steve was so upset, “my needless to say, that final Carolina neighborhood, Mooresville Open Tuesday match play to earn the top due to book average issues. book was going to be over ball didn’t even get past the threw two strikes in the at George Pappas’ Victory berth in the stepladder fi- In the 7th week he de- 230 for what? NOTHING arrows!! Another 258!! 10th frame on the same Lanes. nals where he had the title cided to bowl two games but faded glory”. But... that average haunt- lane where he had left a Voss, who won his only match under control until to end up with 20 games But then… the whole ed him in tournaments for 5 7-10 split only two frames previous PBA50 Tour title his pocket 7-10 let Boresch and not worry about book league chanted “throw it in long years! earlier, to defeat Lennie in the 2016 Dave Small’s continued on page 11 average. the gutter... throw it in the So Congrats! I guess.. PAGE 2 CALIFORNIABOWLINGNEWS.COM MAY 10, 2018 PBA’S “60 MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS” UNVEILING CONTINUES: 16 THRU 25 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, (two weeks worth) on all PBA Network outlets. Last week, “memorable mo- ments” 16 through 25 were unveiled. Here are those ten moments as the countdown continues: 16) In 1978, Mark Roth won a PBA record eight titles during the 35-event season which is still the record for most titles won in a season. 17) In 2009, Jason Belmonte became the first bowler using a two-handed delivery to win a PBA Tour title when he defeated Mike Fagan, 215-201, in The Bowling Foundation Long Island Classic in West Babylon, N.Y. The win kick-started a career that led to a record for the fastest player to reach $1 million in career earnings (131st event in 2017). Wes Malott held the record, reaching the million-dollar milestone when he won the 2013 U.S. Open in his ADULT/SENIOR VIP 180th event. 18) Billy Hardwick became the first player to complete what would later be known as the “PBA Triple Crown,” winning DOUBLES BOWLING the 1969 BPAA All-Star (later re-named as the U.S. Open), the 1963 PBA National Championship and the 1965 TOURNAMENT PBA Tournament of Champions. Hardwick is one of six players in the PBA’s 60-year history to accomplish the feat. 19) The PBA Tour’s 48th season started with a bang when Walter Ray Williams Jr. broke the Tour’s all-time titles record, SATURDAY, JULY 14 earning win No. 42 over Pete Weber, 289-236, in the 2006 Dydo Japan Cup in Tokyo. $25 Per Bowler. Locals & Walk–Ons Are Welcome! 20) In 1993, Mike Aulby rolled a 300 game in the title match of the PBA Wichita Open to defeat David Ozio, 300-279. Entry deadline June 8, 2018. The 579 pinfall total remains a PBA record for highest combined score in a PBA title match. For more information contact: Jesse J. Dotson, Jr. 21) In 1997, the PBA St. Clair Classic was the last Pro Bowlers Tour event televised by ABC Sports, ending a 36-year (909) 628–3966 / Email: [email protected] HOTEL GROUP CODE: B/ASVIP run. The title match between Walter Ray Williams Jr. and Pete Weber was won by Williams, 206-195, and included an emotional farewell video tribute to ABC announcers Nelson “Bo” Burton Jr. and Chris Schenkel who broke down in tears at the end of the telecast. SENIOR FRIENDSHIP 22) By winning a PBA Senior Regional event in Taylorville, Ill. in 2002, Dick Weber became the first player to win PBA titles at any level in six consecutive decades. Weber won his first PBA title in the 1959 Paramus Eastern Open, the CLASSIC HANDICAP second PBA event ever held. It was the first of 23 consecutive top 24 finishes extending into 1962 - a record that TOURNAMENT has never been broken. 23) In the 1994 PBA National Championship at Ducat’s Imperial Lanes in Toledo, Ohio, Johnny Petraglia threw the OCTOBER 1–3 seventh televised 300 game in PBA history, defeating Walter Ray Williams Jr. in the second match and earning a MIXED TEAM–MIXED DOUBLES–SINGLES–ALL EVENTS! $100,000 bonus. For information contact: Vicki Darling (323) 777–2498 or 24) In the last Firestone-sponsored PBA Tournament of Champions, George Branham III became the first African- Donald Fisher (310) 339–2046 GROUP CODE: B/FRNDS American to win a PBA Tour major championship, defeating Parker Bohn III, 227-214, at Riviera Lanes in 1993. 25) With a 266-224 win over Ryan Shafer, Jason Couch became the only bowler in PBA Tour history to win three con- secutive PBA Tournament of Champions and joined Mike Durbin as the second player to win the event three times. Couch’s wins came in 1999, 2000 and 2002 (event was not held in 2001) and they took place in three different centers – Incred-A-Bowl in Overland Park, Kan.; Brunswick Zone-Deer Park in Lake Zurich, Ill., and Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn., respectively.