The East's Most Read Bowling Weekly Sports Reporter The Nation's Leading Bowling Tournament Newspaper Since 1940 Vol. 72 No. 38 November 23 - 29, 2011 50 cents Parker Bohn III, Alex Aguiar Win Fred Catapano Blasted 300 PBA West Region Doubles Title At Farmingdale Lanes FARMINGDALE, NY – Fred and Tuesday Nite Owls League Wes Malott Won All Regions Evemt Catapano blasted twelve in a row Gary Mertens and Thomas By Bill Vint - PBA for a 300 game while rolling in the Fleissner each shot a 277 game Tuesday Early Birds League at respectively. LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Six-time Professional Bowlers Cincinnati, 428-415, to Farmingdale Lanes. In the Wednesday Early Men’s Association Tour winner Wes Malott of Pflugerville, win the PBA West Earl Holden rolled 258-246- League Mike Maisono shot 223- Texas, defeated rookie Josh Blanchard of Gilbert, Region Member/Non- 204-708. 205-279-707 and Paul Bouchard Ariz., 266-214, to win the PBA All Regions South Member Doubles title In the Wednesday Party League 279. Point Open at South Point Bowling Center. Sunday at South Point Malott, the 2008-09 PBA Player of the Year, col- Bowling Center. lected his 14th career PBA Regional title and a Bohn fired a 224 and Rocco Fortunato Rolled 300 $4,000 prize. Blanchard, who has been a PBA mem- Aguiar a 204 to claim ber for just over a week, earned $2,200. the $4,800 first prize. At Majestic Lanes Malott defeated Chris The victory was Bohn’s HOPELAWN, NJ – Rocco 259-695, Dan Pawelek 219-210- Hayden of Las Vegas, 19th in PBA Regional Fortunato led the scoring in the 248-677, Stephanie Hoff 200-246- 268-228, and Blanchard competition. He also PBA Photo Family League rolling perfect 221-667, James Medoro 266-645, eliminated Mike Fagan Parker Bohn III has 32 PBA Tour titles, with a 300 game between games Kevin Kopko 234-228-623, of Dallas, 251-224, in the sixth best in PBA histo- of 194 and 288 for the session Robert McCracken 222-224-621 semifinal round to set up ry. He and Aguiar upset the top-seeded team of Hyun high series of 782. and Bob Nebus 227-239-620. the championship match. Bum Kim of South Korea and Mika Koivuniemi of Steve Venito rolled 216-220- The All Regions South Hartland, Mich., 420-412, in the semifinal round to Point Open was the first advance to the title match. of two PBA Regional Action resumes in the PBA World Series of Keri May Hit 300 at Rockaway events taking place at Bowling when qualifying begins in the Carmen PBA Photo ROCKAWAY, NJ – Keri May a 733 set. South Point. Wes Malott Salvino Classic where after two six-game rounds, the blasted a twelve banger 300 game Walt Forrester posted a 267 fol- PBA Hall of Famer top 16 players will advance to an additional six-game to take the spotlight bowling in the lowed by Tyroen Waal with a 250, Parker Bohn III of Jackson, N.J., and amateur partner qualifying round to determine the top four players for Mixed League at Rockaway Lanes. Donna Sodano 225, Corey Smith Alex Aguiar of Dartmouth, Mass., defeated Brian the ESPN TV finals which will be conducted in South Tom Colucci shot close to per- 249-680 and Nidia Haneveld 238- Kretzer of Dayton, Ohio, and amateur Jeff Fehr of Point Exhibition Hall. fect with a 298 game on his way to 608. ESPN's 2011-12 PBA Tour Coverage Begins on December 4 New season to conclude with live PBA Tournament of Champions coverage on April 15 SEATTLE - For the 32nd consecutive year, ESPN will 2011-12 ESPN-PBA TOUR SCHEDULE Jan. 29, 12:30 p.m. - USBC Masters, Las Vegas. provide millions of American bowling fans with nationally- (all times Eastern) Feb. 5, 4 p.m. - Chris Paul PBA Celebrity Invitational, televised coverage of the Professional Bowlers Association Dec. 4, 1 p.m. - World Bowling Tour Finals presented by New Orleans. during the 2011-12 season. the PBA (men), Las Vegas. Feb. 12, 3 p.m. - WSOB Chameleon Open, Las Vegas. The PBA Tour's new television season, which includes 18 Dec. 4, 2 p.m. - World Bowling Tour Finals presented by Feb. 19, 3 p.m. - WSOB Scorpion Open, Las Vegas. Feb. Sunday telecasts, will begin with a "doubleheader" on the PBA (women), Las Vegas. Dec. 11, 1 p.m. - WSOB 26, 3 p.m. - 69th U.S. Open, North Brunswick, N.J. Sunday, Dec. 4 with the men's and women's World Bowling PBA World Championship, Carter Division, Las Vegas. March 4, 3 p.m. - WSOB Shark Open, Las Vegas. Tour Finals presented by the PBA airing in back-to-back Dec. 18, 1 p.m. - WSOB PBA World Championship, March 25, 2:30 p.m. - WSOB Mark Roth-Marshall one-hour segments. The PBA-ESPN season will conclude Hardwick Division, Las Vegas. Holman PBA Doubles Championship, Las Vegas. with the live finals of the PBA Tournament of Champions Jan. 1, 1 p.m. - WSOB PBA World Championship, April 1, 1 p.m. - WSOB Carmen Salvino Classic, Las from Red Rock Lanes in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 15. Petraglia Division, Las Vegas. Vegas. Supplementing the ESPN telecasts, pba.com's exclusive Jan. 8, 1 p.m. - WSOB PBA World Championship, Aulby April 8, 1 p.m. - WSOB PBA Exempt Players Xtra Frame video streaming service will provide more than Division, Las Vegas. Championship, Las Vegas. 250 hours of live, online coverage of PBA Tour preliminary Jan. 15, 1 p.m. - WSOB PBA World Championship finals, April 15, 1 p.m. - PBA Tournament of Champions, Las rounds as well as start-to-finish coverage of four new Xtra Las Vegas. Vegas. WSOB = PBA World Series of Bowling Frame Tour events during the season. Jan. 22, 3 p.m. - WSOB Bayer Viper Open, Las Vegas. 2 SPORTS REPORTER November 23 - 29, 2011 BELMONTE-RASH MATCH TO KICK OFF MAPLE LANES PBA’S 2011-12 ESPN SCHEDULE ON DECEMBER 4 HIGHLIGHTS By Bill Vint - PBA ADULTS: After finishing fourth and eighth, respectively, in the AMF CHRIS PROCIDA 278 Australian Masters in Sydney, Sean Rash of Montgomery, Ill., and PETE CAVICCHIO 277. Australia’s Jason Belmonte have locked up a head-to-head “grudge JOHN GAITO 276 ANTHONY VASILE 265 match” that will launch the PBA Tour’s 2011-12 television season What do non-bowlers have carry the same kind of average RICH PELLICCIONI 248/716 on ESPN on Sunday, Dec. 4. against bowling? as the best. Long explanations of RICHARD KING 246/706 A Rash-Belmonte re-match has been anticipated since their emo- Nothing, really. Except opin- how lane conditions can cary tional “bottlegate” confrontation during the GEICO PBA Team JUNIORS: ions formed because of their and cause such situations gain Shootout in June in Chicago. During a Team Shootout match, Rash MATTHEW MELIO 185 ignorance of the sport as a com- short attention. angrily responded to Belmonte after he apparently made a noise ANSON CHIN 176 petitive challenge. Almost every- Bowling is the only sport I with his plastic water bottle while Rash was on the approach, JUSTIN DECICCO 162 one bowls or has bowled at one know of in which pros can be preparing to make a key shot. Belmonte later dismissed the inci- ANTHONY MASTROIANNI 158 time or another. It’s a sure thing barred from amateur tourna- dent as an accident, but neither player was apologetic, and both MICHAEL DINEEN 156 that everyone who bowls or has ments which pay more money promised to resolve any differences on the lanes when they meet MICHAEL SPENCER 156 bowled has scored a strike. than the pro tournaments. Read again. DORRIE-ANNE RIZZO 156 A strike in bowling is it. That’s that again. Now make believe That meeting will occur as the first match of the men’s finals of DANNY PIRA 150 the best you can do on a single you’re a sports editor or a radio the World Bowling Tour presented by the PBA, which will air at 1 GIOVANNI REYES 245-604 ball. Yet, a child can roll as per- or TV station sports director p.m. ET on Dec. 4 on ESPN. Rash qualified second in the season- GARY PACHECO 235 fect a strike as any pro. Most who knows nothing about bowl- long WBT points standings behind points leader Mika Koivuniemi MICHAEL BERGAMINI 233/605 people never hit a home run, ing. He finds all this hard to of Hartland, Mich., while Belmonte finished third on the points EMMANUEL VAZQUEZ 228 throw or catch a touchdown believe. And it is only through a list. pass, score a knockout, sink a long process of education that he Hong Kong’s Wu Siu Hong (coached by former PBA touring long one, score any kind of can be convinced, that though player Purvis Granger) won the Australian Masters men’s title and AT RAB’S goal, or actually do any of the bowling might be a little strange a $25,000 first prize with a 226-207, 259-243 victory over Mike one shot things tahte constitute in ways, there is a method to all Fagan of Patchogue, N.Y. Koivuniemi finished third, Rash fourth, Steve Schantz 779 precision or perfection in a madness, and that the final Dan MacLelland of Saginaw, Mich., was fifth, and Belmonte STATEN ISLAND, NY - Steve sport. product today is the result of a eighth. Schantz led game and set scoring Therefore, because they can long, historical march.