New Website! www.CaliforniaBowlingNews.com sign up to receive the paper digitaly Thursday September 1, 2016 California B7502 Florence Ave, owlingDowney, CA 90240 • Website: www.californiabowlingnews.com • Email: [email protected] news • Office: (562) 807-3600 Fax: (562) 807-2288 Chip Pettiford $15,000 nd High Competition League Pete Weber Wins 2 Consecutive LAKEWOOD — Less have been talking about it than a two weeks will be as a phenomenal league … the start of the fifth season Is there any other league PBA50 Player of the Year for the HUGELY SUC- around anywhere that pays CESSFUL $15,000 High $7,500 each to the win- Ohio’s Eddie Graham wins Rookie of the Year, Ron Mohr earns PBA60 Player of the Year honors Competition League, with ning team and a minimum CHICAGO – Despite ny Petraglia BVL Open the proposed name change of $300 per person to the missing four of 13 tourna- presented by Brunswick to the CHIP PETTIFORD LAST PLACE team? ments, Pete Weber put to- leading up to his Senior $15,000 High Competition If so please let us know, gether the most dominant U.S. Open win. His sixth League, to honor one of the but until then, we will call season since the Profes- win came in the PBA50 league’s original members this league as the highest sional Bowlers Associa- South Shore Open present- and Southern Cali bowler top prize in bowling! tion started its division for ed by DV8. extraordinaire, who was re- Through our recent players 50 years of age and Weber also had second- cently lost to prostate can- advertisement within the older in 1981. place finishes in the PBA50 cer. bowling papers as well as Weber, who turned 54 on Northern California Classic The league has become the best advertisement of Aug. 21, earned his second presented by MOTIV and quite popular and people continued on page 10 consecutive PBA50 Player the PBA50 Treasure Island of the Year crown thanks to Resort & Casino World winning a record six tour- Championship presented West Coast Senior Tour naments in 2016, including by Storm, and a fourth- a record string of four in a place in the season-open- Gets Huge Boost With TVS row. Among his six wins ing Pasco County Florida were two majors – his sec- Open, which was his lowest ond consecutive Suncoast finish of the season. Television Network Deal PBA Senior U.S. Open pre- “Don’t get me wrong, I by Fred Eisenhammer sented by 900 Global and Bowling in nine tour- lages presented by Radical, threw the ball well this year ANAHEIM – This is a TVS, a syndicator of his second USBC Senior naments, his string of four PBA50 Mooresville Ford but I have to admit I got a promoter’s dream. American sports program- Masters title, his first com- consecutive wins included Open presented by Colum- lot of breaks this year and it “Exactly right,” Dick ming, will tape the step- ing in his rookie season of the PBA50 UnitedHealth- bia 300 and Miller High seemed like my opponents Sanders exclaimed. ladder finals of WCST 2013. care Sun Bowl In The Vil- Life, and the PBA50 John- continued on page 9 Sanders, who is not only tournaments and distribute the promoter but the direc- the content to various TV tor and owner of the West channels and other media Josie Earnest Climbs Ladder to Win PWBA Rochester Open Coast Senior Tour, an- formats. ADDISON, Ill. – To “It means everything,” nounced that he has agreed This will all start when calm herself as she looked Earnest said of winning her on a deal with the TVS the WCST holds a tourna- to capture her first Profes- first PWBA title. “It’s pret- Television Network Com- ment Oct. 8 at Linbrook sional Women’s Bowling ty cliché to say, but I think pany that is expected to Bowl in Anaheim, which Association title, Josie growing up you compete, breathe new life into Sand- will feature a four-person Earnest thought about the you go to college, and you ers’ bowling club. continued on page 8 patches she received as a look forward to bowling youth bowler, the ones that professionally. The icing on reminded her that bowling the cake is winning a title. Bowling news is fun. You want to live out your Monthly The technique appar- dream, and I’m just really Honor Roll ently worked for the Nash- excited I was able to do it Name Score Date Center ville, Tennessee, resident as in Season 2.” TOMMY KIENTZY 300 07-27-16 PICKWICK BOWL ROGER DE LOS REYES 300 07-30-16 FOOTHILL LANES MIKE EDWARDS 300 08-01-16 SANDS BOWL Earnest won three matches Earnest’s road to the PETER RUIZ 300 08-03-16 OAK TREE LANES ROGER FERRIS 300 08-04-16 LA HABRA “300” BOWL in the stepladder finals, in- title meant going through SHERRY ICHIKAWA 703 08-04-16 CARTER LANES BRANDON KRAYE 812 08-04-16 LA HABRA “300” BOWL cluding a 229-180 victory a United States Bowling DAVID MCKAY 826/300 08-04-16 IRVINE LANES JASON NEVILLE 300 08-04-16 KEYSTONE LANES competitors on the PWBA USBC Hall of Famer DAN RAIDY 300 08-04-16 FOREST LANES over Shannon O’Keefe of Congress Hall of Famer DANNY HAWORTH 300 08-05-16 LA HABRA “300” BOWL STEVE LEA 300 08-06-16 FOOTHILL LANES O’Fallon, Illinois, in the and a 2016 major title Tour this season. Carolyn Dorin-Ballard of ARMAND MILLER 803 08-07-16 EMPIRE BOWL RODELLE CARREON 825/300 08-08-16 PALM SPRINGS LANES title match, to capture the winner before taking on Earnest started with Keller, Texas. Earnest then JONATHAN HUFF 300 08-09-16 FOREST LANES TONY ODOM 300 08-09-16 PALM SPRINGS LANES a 187-159 victory over continued on page 9 ALICIA FERGUSON 300 08-10-16 CAL BOWL PWBA Rochester Open. O’Keefe, one of the top RACHEL MACIAS 300 08-10-16 DEL RIO LANES TONY ODOM 825/300 08-10-16 PALM SPRINGS LANES CHRIS WORKMAN 814 08-10-16 SANDS BOWL MARIO MARQUEZ 300 08-11-16 PALOS VERDES BOWL Featured Writers BOB SULLENGER 7-10 SPLIT 08-11-16 FOREST LANES JUAN CAMARENA 804/300 08-12-16 CAL BOWL JOE JIMENEZ 300 08-12-16 LA HABRA “300” BOWL This Week JULIA FRIAS 785 08-13-16 WINNETKA BOWL ROB KORDICH 300 08-15-16 CAL BOWL LARRY GRAY 300 08-17-16 CAL BOWL Scribes Page JEROME JORDAN JR. 804 08-18-16 BOWL-O-DROME DENNIS E INGRAM 300 08-19-16 VALENCIA LANES INGER BORTOLAZZO 299 08-21-16 VALENCIA LANES Farhod Azarbaydjani 9 DARYL McCLOUD 300 08-21-16 CAL BOWL AARON THALER 300 08-22-16 MATADOR BOWL NACHO VEGA 300 08-22-16 DEL RIO LANES Dewann Clark 1 DANNY PRADO 300 08-28-16 DEL RIO LANES Fred Eisenhammer 1 ATTENTION ALL BOWLERS Bob Smith (ABTA) 2, 5 BOWL AN HONOR SCORE THIS MONTH? 6 Gamer - $300.00check-in 1st Place E-MAIL IN YOUR NAME, SCORE, DATE & CENTER AND 2:00p.m. YOU WILL BE ON THE FRONT PAGE IN THE NEXT PRINTED EDITION Carol Mancini 4,10 SUNDAY, Sept. 25 at 3PM • Entry Fee: $50 Oil Pattern Used E-MAIL TO: [email protected] Frank Weiler 3,8 OPTIONAL - Sidepots - Blocks $10 • Call Jon at (949)770-0055 for more info. MEN: 300 - 800 & 7-10’S WOMEN: 298,299,300, 700+ & 7-10’S “Bourbon Street” STARS & STRIKES - AUGUST 2016 13 2016 USBC WOMENS CALENDAR OF EVENTS CHAMPIONSHIPS CONCLUDES Aug 1-7 U.S. Womens Open, Stardust Lanes, Addison, IL IN LAS VEGAS Aug. 6-9 PBA50 Pro Bowl West Championship, Pro Bowl West, Fort Wayne, IN Aug 6-12 PBA Intl-World Bowling Tour Thailand, Siam Paragon, Bangkok, Thailand LAS VEGAS The 2016 United States match fellow hall of famers Marie Warmbier, Aug 8-14 Military Team, South Point Bowling Center, Las Vegas, NV Bowling Congress Womens Championships Dorothy Fothergill, Leanne Hulsenberg and Aug 9-11 USBC Senior Championships, Sunset Station, Las Vegas, NV wrapped up at the South Point Bowling Plaza Aleta Sill, along with Michelle Feldman, as the PageAug. 11-13 2 PBA60 Dick Weber NationalNEW Championship WEBSITE!, Pro Bowl West, www.californiabowlingnews.com Fort Wayne, IN NEW WEBSITE! 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In Diamond Team, Logo Infusion of Oregon, Mid-County Bowling & Entertainment Center, Middleton, DE ABTA Labor Day Weekend at West Covina The 2016 tournament kicked off April 9 and Ohio, put together a consistent effort on the Aug.Calender 26-28 PWBA/PBA Lafayette Lanes South Openof, LaFayette Events Lanes, Fayetteville, NC it saw 6,123 four-player teams make their way way to games of 888, 866 and 902 for a 2,656 Sept 1-2 Smithfield PWBA Tour Championship, Uptown Alley, Midlothian, VA 3-Day Event • Friday • Saturday • Sunday to the new $35-million venue over the course total May 19. Sept 4-11 PBA Fall Swing, Allen Park, MI st st of the 94-day event. Logo Infusion was led by 2013 Scratch All- Sept 8-11 PBA Detroit Open, Allen Park, MI $3,000 1 Place Min.