2016 Tony Reyes Memorial Tournament Adult-Youth Tournament At 4th Street Bowl 272 Bowlers & Growing First-Time Participants (l-r) See Story Page 35 Zack Long, Taft & Chris Preble, Photos: Tony Reyes, PBA Fresno Tournament Photos: Bruce Shoji Sponsors: 4th Street Bowl, Off the Sheet Pro Shop, On Track Pro Shop, Frankie’s Pin Up Pro Shop, Skip Pavone Pro Shop, Storm Bowling & Leanne Hulsenberg, Brunswick Bowling, Motiv Bowling, Rocklin Juniors, Yellow Cab of Silicon Valley, Quality Respite and Home Care, Logo Infusion, Cutsey Cup Cakes, Dave Seiler, Jeff Luebbers, Rick Olsen, Fresno State Bowling Team, and The Reyes Family Anthony Simonsen, USBC Masters VOLUME 48 ● #4 ● JANUARY 2016 COVERING THE WORLD OF BOWLING Not really sure where to begin... I’m the 2016 USBC Masters Champion! The amount of text, Facebook messages, and post is overwhelming. I can't thank everybody enough. 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February 2016 - www.bowlingworld.comSee Story Page 6 1 & Andrei Tacorda from Stockton, CA 2 www.bowlingworld.com - February 2016 bowlingworld.com TOURNAMENTS R F S U Las Vegas 4thstreetbowl.com abta1.com belmateobowl.com bowl.com bowlgoldcountrylanes.com Kenny Reynolds wins a title and $1,410.00 at bowlgenesis.com Gold Coast Lanes calbowlingwriters.com Story on page 12 californiaproshop.com calusbc.com classicbowling.com cloverleafbowl.com doubledeckerlanes.com earlanthonysdublinbowl.com gobowlreno.com Locals Back on Top @ SC with a nice 975, was Robert Buckles, another Suncoast granadabowl.com bowler and also a coach with their Junior Bowling pro- SCORES ON TARGET AGAIN gram. Robert took home $325.00, plus some extra from the hammerpins.net Scratch Pot. 1st 'Best 3 of 4' @ Sunset high-roller.com Congratulations to our top 3 finishers and many thanks to With so much going on in town during Super Bowl week- our returning and new members who supported this week's mangotours.com end, we had a smaller than expected turnout at Suncoast... Tour stop. THANKS also to Chris & Dion from DM Collec- mchenrybowl.com but the competition was no less spirited. 9-Tap Tour tion, who has put together a Dye Sublimation shirt catalog, LV also reached another milestone with Membership now including Specials for Tour bowlers roughly $20 per shirt modestousbc.com less than the competition. exceeding 150 members. Based on our 'Target Range' of morganhillbowl.com winning scores (1030 to 1060) that we shared last week, Check out our new LAS VEGAS Facebook page. Please the winning score Saturday was a perfect 1034, which was give us a 'Like' while you're there. nugenerationlanes.com shot in the first squad of the day. Many bowlers in the 5 pm LIFETIME MEMBERSHIPS: Refer 5 'paid' Members and offthesheetproshop.com squad had a chance to take the lead, however, each one earn a 'Lifetime Membership' in the Tour! You'll never had a game under 200 which left them a bit short. Mark have to pay the $25 Annual Membership again! pacificbowl.com Kight was the Winner of the Jackpot Consolation this paddockbowl.com week. His 4-Taps was enough to earn him $100.00 from the 9-Tap Jackpot , leaving the Pot to grow to $1,241.00 for pba.com next week at Sunset Station. presidiobowl.com The locals retook control of the top spots this week, after a Hawaiian & a Brit controlled the Top 2 places last shirts4bowling.com week. Jermal Williams became the 3rd LV Tour Champion skatebowl.com of 2016, taking home a healthy $1,075.00, along with some Bracket money & another $80.00 from the Scratch southpointcasino.com Pot. His strong 1034 series, shot in the first squad, held up stationcasinoslanes.com all day and represented the only 1000+ score of the day. Jermal, a very courteous young man, recently moved stevecooksfiresidelanes.com to Las Vegas to attend college. He enjoys playing poker but stormbowling.com his passion is bowling. Jermal got comfortable on the lanes immediately, throwing 4 solid games. Saving his best for thealbanybowl.com last, Jermal shot a sweet 290 game to close out his series tymetobowl.com like a Champion. He's bowled in every LV Tour Tournament (including Thanksgiving weekend) and his 290 game was valleycenterbowl.com his best yet, topping his previous best game by a huge 49 westlanebowl.com pins. Jermal said THANKS to Corben (Tour Floor Director) for introducing him to the Tour. GREAT BOWLING Jermal. westvalleybowl.com CONGRATS on Title #1. At the urging of his father, David Bass Jr joined the Tour yosemitelanes.com Saturday, along with his partner Heather. He took 2nd place with a strong score of 980, in the final squad, for a well earned $480.00 in prize money. Trailing him by only 5 pins, Continued on page 17 February 2016 - www.bowlingworld.com 3 Features: Sonoma Country ........................................ 19 BOWLING WORLD Tournaments ..........................................................3 (Double Decker Lanes) 2016 Masters ...........................................................6 Monterey Bay Area ................................ 20-21 Volume 48, Issue 5, February 2016 Hall of Fame ..........................................................6 (Monterey Lanes, Valley Center Bowl) National Award Winners ........................................7 Publisher Donna Hazel (Steve Cook’s Fireside Lanes) ―The Bad Boy of Bowling ........................................7 Founder Red Pfeiffer Helen Duval ...........................................................8 Santa Clara…………………. .................. 22-23 (4th Street Bowl, Morgan Hill Bowl, Assisting Staff Joyce Terrell Chuck Pezzano .....................................................8 Homestead Lanes) PBA50 Schedule & PBA .........................................9 Graphic Designer GE ABT Results & Calendar ...................................... 10 San Francisco............................................. 24 Presidio Bowling Center, Yerba Buena) Staff Writers Brother’s Keeper .................................................. 12 (Classic Bowling Center, 9-Pin Tour ............................................................ 12 Helen Duval Chuck Pezzano Tulare/ Modesto .......................................... 25 BVL ...................................................................... 13 (McHenry Bowl, Yosemite Lanes) Two Women Drafted ............................................ 14 Contributing Writers 2014 Stockton ................................................ 26-28 PBA Status Change ............................................. 14 Mary Lynly Brian Lim Erin Vosburgh (Pacific Avenue Bowl, West Lane Bowl) PBA Stats ............................................................ 15 Sacramento................................................. 29 Jim Goodwin Fred Eisenhammer Robert Silk Records Broken ................................................. 15 (Steve Cook’s Fireside Lanes) Chuck Holland Bob Korth Joe Dailey Storm .................................................................... 16 Alameda County .................................... 30-31 Terry Bigham Bill Vint Correen Edgerly TAT Results .......................................................... 18 (Albany Bowl, Granada Bowl, E.A. Dublin Bowl, Cliff Rourke Frank Wieiler Don Phillips Ask Bob ............................................................... 19 Gene’s Pro Shop) Sara Lewinstein Dick Martegani Jim Gordin ABT Release ........................................................ 22 Diablo .......................................................... 32 Darwin Wandersee Bette Addington Aaron Smith SF Super Bowl 50 ................................................ 24 (Paddock Bowl) Matt Cannizaro Lucas Wiseman Wayne Garber Services: Peninsula .................................................... 33 Jason Overstreet Gail Smith Phyll Knoll Albany Bowl ...........................................................2 (Bel Mateo Bowl) Buddy Souza Lee Arnold Jerry Schneider Bowling World’s Advertiser’s Links ........................3 Seniors ........................................................ 34 Gerry Wellbaum Ken Nakatsu Lorie Pargee Classified ..................................................... 34 South Point ............................................................5 Shirts4Bowling .......................................................8 Juniors ........................................................ 35 Mailing Address Bowlers Experience Too ...................................... 13 P.O. 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