146 players - 79 male and 67 female bowlers - from 15 countries participated in the 49th Lee Evans Tournament of The Americas from July 31 - Aug. 6, 2011 50 Adults, 37 Seniors, 14 Super Seniors, 24 Junior A and 21 Junior B competed for medals in Singles, Doubles, Mixed Doubles, Teams, All Events and Country All Events at Sawgrass Lanes in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., United States. The 20-player Team USA dominated the event winning 30 out of 45 gold medals including all gold medals in the Team event and Country All Events.
Team USA continued its strong performance at the Pan American Games on Wednesday by taking the top two spots in men's and women's singles qualifying. The four U.S. players led the top 16 men and top 16 women into Thursday's single-elimination match play finals. Kelly Kulick (l.) led the women's field with a 12-game total of 2644 (220.33 average), while Chris Barnes (r.) led the men's field with 2849 (237.42).
The United States swept the doubles gold medals Tuesday in the opening event of the bowling competition at the 2011 Pan American Games currently underway in Guadalajara, Mexico. Chris Barnes and Bill O'Neill (l.) topped the men's field by 193 pins, while Liz Johnson and Kelly Kulick easily won the women's event by 328 pins at Bolerama Tapatio.
The XVI Pan American Games is taking place in Guadalajara, Mexico from October 14-30, 2011. 36 sports are included in 16th edition of the Pan Am Games. The majority are Olympic sports. Bowling is one of the non-Olympic sports. The bowling competition began today with the official practice at Tapatio Bowling Alley. Competition in Doubles takes place Oct. 24 and 25. Singles will take place on Oct. 26 and 27. 16 countries with two players each participate in two divisions - men and women. 
Canada will be represented at the XVI Pan American Games by its 2010 men's and women's national champions and runner-ups. Caroline Lagrange, Montreal, Quebec and Jennifer Park, Nanaimo, British Columbia, will compete in the women's events. Art Oliver, Jr., Hamilton, Ontario and Mark Buffa, Montreal, QC will be the representatives in the men's competition. The competition will be held at Tapatio Bowling Alley in Guadalajara, Mexico from Oct. 23-27.
48 men and 35 women from 15 countries participated in the second PABCON Senior Championships at Bolera Unidad Deportiva in Medellin, Colombia. In the men's Masters title match, All Events silver medalist Jorge Siegrist (l.), Mexico, defeated All Events champion Arturo Hernandez, Venezuela, 2-1, to wrap up the title. On the women's side Joan Mardomingo (r.), Venezuela, swept Gabriela Salmeron, Mexico, to win the women's crown.
Devin Bidwell of Simi Valley, Calif., became the youngest winner of the New Mexico Open tournament when he claimed the title in the 8th edition in Rio Rancho last weekend. The 22-year-old (r.), a sophomore at Wichita State University, set a new high score in the championship match to beat veteran pro bowler, Mike Edwards of Tulsa, Okla., 285-242, for the record $7,500 first prize. The 2012 New Mexico Open is aiming for either $50,000 in prize money or a berth on the World Bowling Tour and a minimum $100,000 pot.
Two years ago it was mothers helping their children win scholarships, but in 2011 when the final pin dropped at the 36th Annual International Family Tournament (IFT) presented by QubicaAMF and sponsored by Georgia Coffee, it was nearly all men who were found standing atop the leader board. King Pin Lanes in Louisville, Kentucky hosted the bowling competition July 28-30. Some 69 teams representing 26 states competed in two age divisions - Parent/Teen and Parent/Youth - to win their share of $70,000 in scholarship money.
For the fourth time in the past five years, Tommy Jones and Shannon Pluhowsky are the Luci Doubles Champions, winning the 12th annual event July 24th at Palace Lanes in Houston, Texas, named to honor former PWBA champion Luci Bonneau. In the final match, Jones and Pluhowsky defeated Andres Gomez and Clara Juliana Guerrero, 439-399, for the title. Jones and Pluhowsky took home $8000 for their victory, while Gomez and Guerrero earned $4000 for second place.
Puerto Rico's Hector Soto and Neishka Cardona earned the gold medals in Under-20 Masters match play while Carlos Saavedra, Colombia, and Nicole Fung, Panama, captured the titles in the Under-16 division in the final event of the 2011 Pan American Bowling Confederation Youth Championships Saturday afternoon at Cibao Bowling Center in Santiago de Los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. A total of 105 youth bowlers from 15 countries participated in the championhips. 
After leading the 2011 PABCON Youth Championships Under-20 team event at half time by a huge margin, the boys from Puerto Rico (l.) and the girls from the United States (r.) cruised to the gold medals Friday at Cibao Bowling Center in Santiago de Los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. Colombia took gold in the Under-16 Mixed Team event. 
The boys from Puerto Rico and the Junior Team USA girls dominated the first half of the Under-20 four-player Team event while Colombia led the U-16 Mixed Team event in the PABCON Youth Championships Thursday at Cibao Bowling Center in Santiago de Los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, Puerto Ricans Hector Soto, Michael Fonseca, Josh Lee Encarnacion and Cristian Azcona put on a show in the boys division firing games of 939, 908 and 968 to lead the field of ten after three of six games with 2815 total and an average of 234.58.
The Junior Team USA boys (l.) and the Mexican girls (r.) took home the gold medal in the Under-20 Trios event at the 2011 Pan American Bowling Confederation Youth Championships Wednesday night at Cibao Bowling Center in Santiago de Los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. Cristian Azcona of Puerto Rico rolled the first 300 game of the championships.