Junior Team USA dominated Under-20 Masters match play Saturday sweeping the boys and girls gold and silver medals while also taking a boys bronze in the 2009 Pan American Bowling Confederation Youth Championships.
Puerto Rico swept the gold medals in the Under-16 Masters competition.
Kristie Petravich (r.) of West Palm Beach, Fla., defeated
Christine Bator of Warren, Mich., 2-0, to take the girls title, while
Jake Peters (l.) of Decatur, Ill., beat
Daniel Spink of St. Louis, Mo., 2-1, to take the boys gold medal.
The Pan American Bowling Confederation (PABCON) and the Puerto Rico Bowling Federation (FEBOPUR) have released Bulletin No. 1 for the 2013 PABCON Youth Championships. The championships will be held at 24-lane Bowling Center Caribe in Ponce, Puerto Rico from July 6-13, 2013. Each PABCON member federation is allowed to send up to four boys and
four girls in the Under-20 division and up to two boys and two girls in
the Under-16 division. 
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.
The Junior Team USA boys pairing of EJ Tackett and Andrew Koff (l.) and the girls duo Kristie Lopez and Neisha Cardona (r.) earned the gold medals in boys and girls doubles on Tuesday night at the 2011 PABCON Youth Championships. Colombia's Alexandra Mosquera and Sebastian Charry teamed to win the Under-16 Mixed Doubles. Live streaming of the U-20 Trios begins at 12:30 p.m. EST. 
Kevin Belandria (l.) of Venezuela and Colombia's Juliana Franco (r.) took the boys and girls singles gold medal in the opening event of the 2011 Pan American Bowling Confederation Youth Championships in the under 20-divison. Belandria led the U-20 boys with 1251 and Franco cruised to the girls gold with the highest total of 1291, an average of 215.17. In the under-16 division, Lorenzo Young of Panama and Aruba's Abigail Dammers captured the first gold medals of the championships. 
The Under-16 Mixed Foursome team from Puerto Rico captured the gold medal in the Team event in the PABCON Youth Championships Friday at Sport Complex Salitre in Bogota, Colombia. Kristie Lopez, Valerie Bermudez, Cristian Azcona and Josh Lee Encarnacion had games of 811, 777 and 796 or a total of 2384 on Day Two to leap one spot and to win the title with 4613 six-game total and an average of 192.21. Lopez and Azcona led the team with 1223 and 1240 six-game total en route to win the girls and boys All Events title.
The Junior Team USA girls earned gold medals Friday in Team and All Events, while the Venezuelan boys cruised to the title in Team and Mexico took the gold in boys all Events in the Sub-20 Division at the 2009 Pan American Bowling Confederation Youth Championships. The top 16 players in the final All Events standings advanced to the Masters on Saturday.
The Junior Team USA girls (l.) and the Puerto Rican boys (r.) in the Under-20 division and Guatemala's sub-16 Mixed Foursome rolled into the lead after the opening day of the four-player team event Thursday at the 2009 PABCON Youth Championships. All teams bowl three final games Friday to determine the medal winners. 
The Junior Team USA girls and the Mexican boys claimed the Under-20 trios titles at the 2009 PABCON Youth Championships. The U.S. trio of Jenn Boisselle, Kristie Petravich and Christine Bator (left) earned the gold medal with a six-game total of 3,765, topping host Colombia by 102 pins. Mexicans Andre Fors Farias, Jorge Ramos and Alejandro Montijo
(right) finished with 3,975, topping Junior Team USA's 3,791.
The United States swept the doubles gold medals while also earning a boys silver and girls bronze Tuesday in the Under-20 divisions at the 2009 Pan American Bowling Confederation Youth Championships. Jake Peters and Chris Pierson won the boys gold with 2,508 six-game total. Brittni Hamilton and Christine Bator combined to shoot 2,499 and breezed to the girls title by nearly 150 pins. 
Junior Team USA's Christine Bator (l.) of Warren, Mich., held on to win the singles gold medal Monday night in the girls Under-20 division at the 2009 PABCON Youth Championships. Bator totaled 1,346 for six games, an average of 224.33, at Salitre Bowling Center to beat out Colombia's Laura Fonnegra for the gold medal by five pins. On the boys side, Colombia's Juan Gomez (r.) finished with 258 and 268 to win the gold medal with 1,401 pinfall total (233.50). The gold medals in the Under-16 divisions went to Jose Morales, Guatemala, and Juliana Franco, Colombia. 
Bowlers from 17 countries were celebrated Sunday before a standing-room only crowd at Salitre Bowling Center during the opening ceremonies of the 2009 Pan American Bowling Confederation Youth Championships. More than 120 bowlers will compete in the PABCON Youth Championships, which features two divisions, one for bowlers 20 and younger and the other for bowlers 16 and younger. The competition begins with singles on Monday morning and continues with action in doubles and team and concludes Saturday with Masters. Medals will also be awarded in all-events.
