Conference Championship to air Sunday, April 10, at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN
Two-time Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour champion Jack Jurek (l.); 2008-09 PBA Rookie of the Year Jason Belmonte (r.) and Chris Barnes, the newest member of the PBA Triple Crown club, advanced to the Conference Championships in the Dick Weber PBA Playoffs after victories in the Lucas Oil Regional Championships The Conference Championships will air Sunday, April 10, at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN.
Defeating Walter Ray Williams Jr. (l.) and Mika Koivuniemi to win the Central Region championship in the Go RVing Regional Championship Round of the Dick Weber PBA Playoffs was an historic accomplishment that wasn't lost on winner Dick Allen (r.). Williams, a PBA Hall of Famer and 47-time Tour title winner, had won at
least one title in 17 consecutive seasons before his streak ended in the
Dick Weber PBA Playoffs.
The Professional Bowlers Association is enhancing its social media efforts through a partnership with Snappd.it – a division of Seattle-based business review site Judy's Book — by incorporating quick response (QR) codes on the organization's collateral and printed promotional materials. Snappd.it provides self-serve creation of a mobile website along with a printable flyer which brings customers to the site via scanning of a QR code on a printed piece.
Lucas Oil Regional Championships to air on ESPN at 1 p.m. Eastern
Chris Barnes (l.) and Bill O'Neill (r.) will try to keep their long-shot bids for PBA Player of the Year honors alive during Sunday's ESPN telecast of the Lucas Oil Regional Championship round of the Dick Weber PBA Playoffs at Woodland Bowl. The ESPN telecast, featuring nine players competing for the final three berths in the April 10 Conference Championships, will air Sunday at 1 p.m. Eastern.
Earns Playoffs Regional Championship berth to be telecast Sunday on ESPN at 1 p.m. EST
After years of success on the Professional Bowlers Association Regional Tour, long-time PBA Midwest Region star Lennie Boresch Jr. (pictured) of Kenosha, Wis., will make his national television debut Sunday when the Lucas Oil Regional Championships round of the Dick Weber PBA Playoffs airs on ESPN Sunday at 1 p.m. Eastern. Boresch, who earned his first PBA Tour exemption by finishing fourth in the 2010 PBA Regional Players Invitational, has won 24 titles at the regional level and was the 1997 and '98 PBA Midwest Region Player of the Year.
Walter Ray Williams Jr.'s record for titles in consecutive seasons ends at 17
Seven-time Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour champion Steve Jaros (l.) of Yorkville, Ill.; 10-time PBA Regional winner Randy Weiss of Columbia, S.C., and two-time PBA Tour titlist Dick Allen (r.), also of Columbia, S.C., advanced to the Conference Championships in the Dick Weber PBA Playoffs after victories in the Go RVing Regional Championships Round at Woodland Bowl. The Conference Championships will air Sunday, April 10, at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN.
Sold-out field to invade Winter Garden for Senior Don Carter Open
The 2011 Professional Bowlers Association Senior Tour season will get underway with a sold-out field of 120 players in the PBA Senior Don Carter Open at Carter Family Bowl in Winter Garden, Fla., April 17-21. Heading up the 120-player field in Winter Garden will be PBA Hall of Famer and 2010 Senior Rookie of the Year Walter Ray Williams Jr. of Ocala, Fla. Qualifying rounds will be conducted April 18-20 and match finals rounds on April 21.
With the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour season winding down, the PBA Regional program is heating up. In Hubbard, Ohio, Ryan Ciminelli (l.) of Cheektowaga, N.Y., defeated Brian Kretzer of Dayton, Ohio, 233-226, to win the joint PBA Central/East Region Hubbard Open at Bell-Wick Bowl . In Grants Pass, Ore., Chris Warren (r.) defeated Kevin Foley of Reno, Nev., 215-196, to win the PBA Northwest Region’s Caveman Bowl Open on Sunday.
Three berths in Conference Championships to be decided in Sunday's Go RVing Regional Championships
Walter Ray Williams Jr. (pictured) will try to extend his PBA record for winning at least one title in a season to 18 years during Sunday's ESPN telecast of the Go RVing Regional Championship round of the inaugural Dick Weber PBA Playoffs at Woodland Bowl. The ESPN telecast, featuring nine players competing for three berths in the PBA Playoffs Conference Championships on April 10, will air Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Eastern. Williams must beat Dick Allen and Mika Koivuniemi to keep his titles streak alive.
Reports are sporadic and incomplete, but it appears the bowling community in Japan also is suffering severe ramifications from the powerful earthquakes and tsunami that struck the country on March 11. It may be weeks before a complete assessment is available, but an early report was provided by Eastern Sports Sales Manager Koji Yamamoto. "I'm safe after this tragedy, however many bowling centers in Japan have suffered a great loss from the earthquake."
Five of six top seeds advance to Sunday’s Regional, Conference Championships
Walter Ray Williams Jr. (pictured), trying to extend his PBA record for winning at least one title in a season to 18 years, was among 18 players who advanced to Sunday’s Regional Championships in the Dick Weber PBA Playoffs at Woodland Bowl Friday. Williams, who owns the PBA Tour record for career titles with 47, finished second in the four-player Central Region, to keep his title hopes alive. The Dick Weber PBA Playoffs is the final tournament of the 2010-11 Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour season.
Hall of Famers Amleto Monacelli, Pete Weber eliminated
In the grand tradition of basketball's March Madness, the Dick Weber PBA Playoffs staged its own series of dramatic surprises Thursday night at Woodland Bowl. PBA Hall of Famer Amleto Monacelli (l.) of Venezuela was eliminated from the tournament in Round Two when he finished the six-game round in 10th place. The Dick Weber PBA Playoffs is six-tournaments-in-one, featuring six independent regional groups bowling elimination rounds within their respective regions.
First round concludes Thursday morning with a final five-game session
Kelly Kulick (pictured) of Union, N.J., the only woman ever to win a Lumber Liquidators Professional Bowlers Association Tour title, took command of her regional group Wednesday after the first 10 of 15 games in the opening round of the Dick Weber PBA Playoffs at Western Bowl Wednesday. Kulick averaged 247.2 for 10 games for a 2,472 pinfall total to not only lead the Southwest Region into Thursday's final five first-round games, but to pace the entire tournament field.
How good are the best of the best in Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour competition? During the 18 qualifying games in the 68th Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour, the 53 Exempt Tour players in the field averaged a composite 207.49, led by qualifying leader Bill O'Neill's 227.44 average. For the same 18 games, the 167 amateurs in the field averaged 184.71. ut of the 95 cashers, 41 of the 52 Exempt Tour players earned checks, while only 21 of the 167 amateurs made money.Â
Season's top PBA Tour, regional players ready for dramatic final event
The final event of the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour's 2010-11 season gets underway Wednesday at Woodland Bowl when 156 PBA exempt players and PBA Regional competitors butt heads in a new Dick Weber PBA Playoffs.
The inaugural PBA Playoffs will feature three "elimination" television shows leading into the final live telecast of the 2010-11 Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour season on Sunday, April 17, when the PBA Playoffs championship and its $50,000 first prize will be decided.
Converts 6-7-10 split on the way to his first title since January 2007
Jason Couch (pictured) of Clermont, Fla., won his first Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour title in four years and the 16th of his career by defeating Hall of Famer Parker Bohn III, 219-175, in the championship match to win the PBA Mark Roth Plastic Ball Championship Sunday at AMF Thruway Lanes. Couch's last wins came in January 2007 when he won back-to-back tournaments in Las Vegas and Fountain Valley, Calif.
In May of 2009, PBA Hall of Famer Mark Roth fell victim to a massive stroke that paralyzed his left side and left his family and friends wondering if he'd ever walk on his own again. The thought may have entered Roth's mind, but it left quickly as he began a determined battle to recover use of his body. The first signs of significant progress became apparent when he was able to attend the inaugural PBA Mark Roth Plastic Ball Championship in West Babylon, N.Y., in March of 2010.
Ryan Ciminelli, Parker Bohn III and Tom Smallwood round out top four
Fifteen-time Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour champion Jason Couch (l.) and hometown star Ryan Ciminelli (r.) earned the No. 1 and 2 seeds for Sunday's stepladder finals of the PBA Mark Roth Plastic Ball Championship at AMF Thruway Lanes. Opening up Sunday's stepladder final will be No. 3 qualifier Parker Bohn III (left) of Jackson, N.J. and No. 4 qualifier Tom Smallwood (right) of Saginaw, Mich.
Fifteen-time PBA champion Jason Couch (l.) and hometown star Ryan Ciminelli (r.) hold down the top two positions after three rounds in the PBA Mark Roth Plastic Ball Championship Friday at AMF Thruway Lanes. Couch and Ciminelli both had 7-2 records in the first round of match play Friday and are among the 16 players who will advance to this evening's final match play round which will determine the top four who will advance to Sunday's finals.
Four-time Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour champion Sean Rash (pictured) of Montgomery, Ill., averaged 236.14 to lead after two rounds in the PBA Mark Roth Plastic Ball Championship Thursday at AMF Thruway Lanes.The Mark Roth Plastic Ball Championship, which requires players to use identical "throwback" polyester (plastic) ball technology, is named in honor of the PBA Hall of Famer who dominated the plastic ball era in the 1970s. The field of 64 has been cut to 32 players who advance to Friday morning's match play round.
Two-time Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour champion Jack Jurek (l.); 2008-09 PBA Rookie of the Year Jason Belmonte (r.) and Chris Barnes, the newest member of the PBA Triple Crown club, advanced to the Conference Championships in the Dick Weber PBA Playoffs after victories in the Lucas Oil Regional Championships The Conference Championships will air Sunday, April 10, at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN.
Defeating Walter Ray Williams Jr. (l.) and Mika Koivuniemi to win the Central Region championship in the Go RVing Regional Championship Round of the Dick Weber PBA Playoffs was an historic accomplishment that wasn't lost on winner Dick Allen (r.). Williams, a PBA Hall of Famer and 47-time Tour title winner, had won at
least one title in 17 consecutive seasons before his streak ended in the
Dick Weber PBA Playoffs. 
The Professional Bowlers Association is enhancing its social media efforts through a partnership with Snappd.it – a division of Seattle-based business review site Judy's Book — by incorporating quick response (QR) codes on the organization's collateral and printed promotional materials. Snappd.it provides self-serve creation of a mobile website along with a printable flyer which brings customers to the site via scanning of a QR code on a printed piece.
Chris Barnes (l.) and Bill O'Neill (r.) will try to keep their long-shot bids for PBA Player of the Year honors alive during Sunday's ESPN telecast of the Lucas Oil Regional Championship round of the Dick Weber PBA Playoffs at Woodland Bowl. The ESPN telecast, featuring nine players competing for the final three berths in the April 10 Conference Championships, will air Sunday at 1 p.m. Eastern.
After years of success on the Professional Bowlers Association Regional Tour, long-time PBA Midwest Region star Lennie Boresch Jr. (pictured) of Kenosha, Wis., will make his national television debut Sunday when the Lucas Oil Regional Championships round of the Dick Weber PBA Playoffs airs on ESPN Sunday at 1 p.m. Eastern. Boresch, who earned his first PBA Tour exemption by finishing fourth in the 2010 PBA Regional Players Invitational, has won 24 titles at the regional level and was the 1997 and '98 PBA Midwest Region Player of the Year.
Seven-time Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour champion Steve Jaros (l.) of Yorkville, Ill.; 10-time PBA Regional winner Randy Weiss of Columbia, S.C., and two-time PBA Tour titlist Dick Allen (r.), also of Columbia, S.C., advanced to the Conference Championships in the Dick Weber PBA Playoffs after victories in the Go RVing Regional Championships Round at Woodland Bowl. The Conference Championships will air Sunday, April 10, at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN.
With the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour season winding down, the PBA Regional program is heating up. In Hubbard, Ohio, Ryan Ciminelli (l.) of Cheektowaga, N.Y., defeated Brian Kretzer of Dayton, Ohio, 233-226, to win the joint PBA Central/East Region Hubbard Open at Bell-Wick Bowl . In Grants Pass, Ore., Chris Warren (r.) defeated Kevin Foley of Reno, Nev., 215-196, to win the PBA Northwest Region’s Caveman Bowl Open on Sunday.
In the grand tradition of basketball's March Madness, the Dick Weber PBA Playoffs staged its own series of dramatic surprises Thursday night at Woodland Bowl. PBA Hall of Famer Amleto Monacelli (l.) of Venezuela was eliminated from the tournament in Round Two when he finished the six-game round in 10th place. The Dick Weber PBA Playoffs is six-tournaments-in-one, featuring six independent regional groups bowling elimination rounds within their respective regions. 
Kelly Kulick (pictured) of Union, N.J., the only woman ever to win a Lumber Liquidators Professional Bowlers Association Tour title, took command of her regional group Wednesday after the first 10 of 15 games in the opening round of the Dick Weber PBA Playoffs at Western Bowl Wednesday. Kulick averaged 247.2 for 10 games for a 2,472 pinfall total to not only lead the Southwest Region into Thursday's final five first-round games, but to pace the entire tournament field. 
How good are the best of the best in Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour competition? During the 18 qualifying games in the 68th Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour, the 53 Exempt Tour players in the field averaged a composite 207.49, led by qualifying leader Bill O'Neill's 227.44 average. For the same 18 games, the 167 amateurs in the field averaged 184.71. ut of the 95 cashers, 41 of the 52 Exempt Tour players earned checks, while only 21 of the 167 amateurs made money. 
Jason Couch (pictured) of Clermont, Fla., won his first Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour title in four years and the 16th of his career by defeating Hall of Famer Parker Bohn III, 219-175, in the championship match to win the PBA Mark Roth Plastic Ball Championship Sunday at AMF Thruway Lanes. Couch's last wins came in January 2007 when he won back-to-back tournaments in Las Vegas and Fountain Valley, Calif. 
In May of 2009, PBA Hall of Famer Mark Roth fell victim to a massive stroke that paralyzed his left side and left his family and friends wondering if he'd ever walk on his own again. The thought may have entered Roth's mind, but it left quickly as he began a determined battle to recover use of his body. The first signs of significant progress became apparent when he was able to attend the inaugural PBA Mark Roth Plastic Ball Championship in West Babylon, N.Y., in March of 2010.
Fifteen-time Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour champion Jason Couch (l.) and hometown star Ryan Ciminelli (r.) earned the No. 1 and 2 seeds for Sunday's stepladder finals of the PBA Mark Roth Plastic Ball Championship at AMF Thruway Lanes. Opening up Sunday's stepladder final will be No. 3 qualifier Parker Bohn III (left) of Jackson, N.J. and No. 4 qualifier Tom Smallwood (right) of Saginaw, Mich. 
Fifteen-time PBA champion Jason Couch (l.) and hometown star Ryan Ciminelli (r.) hold down the top two positions after three rounds in the PBA Mark Roth Plastic Ball Championship Friday at AMF Thruway Lanes. Couch and Ciminelli both had 7-2 records in the first round of match play Friday and are among the 16 players who will advance to this evening's final match play round which will determine the top four who will advance to Sunday's finals. 
Four-time Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour champion Sean Rash (pictured) of Montgomery, Ill., averaged 236.14 to lead after two rounds in the PBA Mark Roth Plastic Ball Championship Thursday at AMF Thruway Lanes.The Mark Roth Plastic Ball Championship, which requires players to use identical "throwback" polyester (plastic) ball technology, is named in honor of the PBA Hall of Famer who dominated the plastic ball era in the 1970s. The field of 64 has been cut to 32 players who advance to Friday morning's match play round. 