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VOLUME 49 ● ISSUE 3 ● DECEMBER 2016 COVERING THE WORLD OF BOWLING Photos: Kimberly Power, See Story PageDecember 17 2016 - www.bowlingworld.com 1 2 www.bowlingworld.com - December 2016 bowlingworld.com TOURNAMENTS R F S U 36Th Annual Big Swiss @ E.A. 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Our desire is to Advertise Your Event Today help make the sport better for all concerned. Deadline for copy is the 18th of the month. E-Mail articles due by the 20th. 4 www.bowlingworld.com - December 2016 December 2016 - www.bowlingworld.com 5 SERVING THE BOWLING INDUSTRY SINCE 1967 PBA, PWBA Renew Pepsi Partners With PWBA work will televise 13 of the 14 events, including live cover- age of the four major events on the 2017 PWBA Tour. Partnership Agreement For 2017 “The PWBA is an opportunity for Pepsi to help support a ARLINGTON, Texas – The Professional Bowlers Pepsi will be the official soft drink of the Professional growing pro women’s sport and enhance our connection Association (PBA) will provide regional competi- Women’s Bowling Association (PWBA) Tour and the title with the bowling community,” Todd Elliot, Vice President, tions and player services, plus live event cover- sponsor of the PWBA Tour stop in Lincoln, Nebraska, in National Foodservice Sales/Pepsico said. “Pepsi has a age of the Professional Women’s Bowling Asso- 2017. longstanding relationship with the BPAA and its member ciation (PWBA) through Xtra Frame, its online The Pepsi PWBA Lincoln Open will be the sixth stop of the centers, and looks forward to continuing its relationship video streaming service, after renewing its strate- 2017 PWBA Tour season and will take place June 8-10 at with the PWBA.” gic partnership agreement with the PWBA. Sun Valley Lanes, the third consecutive year the center The 2017 PWBA Tour season starts April 27 with the The PBA plans to conduct seven PWBA re- will play host to a PWBA Tour stop. PWBA Sonoma County Open at Double Decker Lanes in gional events in 2017, and the women-only com- Shannon O’Keefe of O’Fallon, Illinois, won her third career Rohnert Park, California. The 14-event tour will conclude petitions, which will be operated by PBA’s re- PWBA title at the 2016 Pepsi PWBA Lincoln Open. with the PWBA Players Championship, scheduled for Aug. gional managers, will complement the PWBA “Pepsi is the official soft drink of bowling and a valued 31-Sept. 3. Tour schedule to provide more competitive op- partner of the Bowling Proprietors’ Association of Amer- “Continuing to have Pepsi as an official sponsor means so portunities for women bowlers. ica,” BPAA President Nancy Schenk said. “We’re excited much to the PWBA Tour because the Pepsi brand is rec- “The