Amateur
George Gohagan III of Roswell, Ga., defeated former PBA Women's Series champion
Shannon Pluhowsky of Kettering, Ohio, in a one-ball sudden death roll-off, 10-9, that concluded a record-setting PBA All Regions South Point Open at South Point Bowling Center in Las Vegas on Saturday, Nov. 10. Gohagan, who earned $3,500, defeated England's
Dominic Barrett, 300-298, in a nail-biting semifinal round match. Pluhowsky ousted
Tom Daugherty of Wesley Chapel, Fla., 247-236, in the other semifinal match.
All-Pro Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker LaMarr Woodley (pictured) has become the fifth team owner in the new PBA League, the PBA announced today. Woodley joins Los Angeles Clippers star guard Chris Paul, former Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers running back Jerome Bettis, former NFL all-pro receiver Terrell Owens and actor/comedian Kevin Hart as owners in the PBA League which debuts as part of the PBA Detroit Winter Swing Jan. 19-27 at Thunderbowl Lanes in the Detroit suburb of Allen Park, Mich.
After becoming the first Malaysian bowler to win the Qubica AMF World Cup, Syafiq Ridhwan (l.) professed his dream is to continue to improve and one day bowl on the PBA Tour. The 26-year-old Ridhwan, who defeated Team USA member Marshall Kent in the title match in Wroclaw, Poland, told New Straits Time reporter Ajitpal Singh, "I actually want to turn pro, but I am not sure when I can achieve it. It takes a lot of dedication but I believe, if I do turn pro, I can make it as I've beaten many top bowlers before."
A new name, new venues, a season-long points competition leading to an ESPN-televised finale and a crop of new star players will highlight the 2013 PBA50 Tour season, the Professional Bowlers Association announced today. The 2013 PBA50 Tour (formerly PBA Senior Tour) schedule will consist of 11 tournaments with new stops in Welch, Minn., Tampa, Fla. (tentative), and Trussville, Ala. The season-long point competition will qualify the top three players for the ESPN-televised PBA50 Tour Finals. 
Lorraine (Rainy) Stitzlein, arguably the most influential woman in PBA history, died on Friday, Nov. 30 in Akron, Ohio. She was 84. The only woman inducted into the PBA Hall of Fame was PBA founder Eddie Elias' executive assistant and business secretary in the organization's formation years. But she was much more than an office manager. If Elias was the father of the PBA, Stitzlein was the "mother, midwife, nurse, aunt, cousin and hostess," a sports writer once wrote. 
Two-time PBA player Mika Koivuniemi (l.), a native Finn who lives in Hartland, Mich., won his 10th career PBA title in the Round1 Japan Cup Bowling 2012 in Tokyo Sunday, Dec. 2. In the title match at Round1 Stadium Diver City Tokyo Plaza Bowling Center, Koivuniemi flew past Yoshihiro Kaji (r.), Japan, 268-214, to earn the 6.000.000 Japanese Yen top prize, approx. 72,730 U.S. Dollar. Kaji received 3.200.000 Yen for second place.
The countdown to the start of the PBA's 2012-13 debut on ESPN has begun. The finals of the WTBA's Bayer Advanced Aspirin World Bowling Tour men's and women's finals, presented by the PBA, will be the first in a series of 16 telecasts extending through April 7. The two-hour combined men's and women's show will air on Sunday, Dec. 9, at 1 p.m. ET. The next five Sundays in a row will feature GEICO PBA World Series of Bowling IV finals, all 90-minute programs airing at 1 p.m. ET.
PBA and USBC Hall of Famer Parker Bohn III (pictured) of Jackson, N.J. ended a four-year winless streak with victory in the PBA World Championship. The 49-year-old lefthander defeated No. 1 seed, Jason Belmonte (right) of Australia, in the title match, 254-227, to win his 33rd career PBA title and the $50,000 top prize. It was the second career "major" for Bohn, who ranks sixth on the all-time PBA titles list trailing to Walter Ray Williams Jr. (47), Earl Anthony (43), Norm Duke (37), Pete Weber (36) and Mark Roth (34).
In his first television appearance since rolling a PBA-record low 100 game during the 2011 PBA Tournament of Champions finals, Tom Daugherty (pictured) of Wesley Chapel, Fla. defeated all three opponents en route to capture his first career PBA title in the Bowlers Journal PBA Scorpion Championship in Las Vegas. In the title match against three-time PBA champion Osku Palermaa of Finland, Daugherty doubled his low score to defeat the two-hander, 200-182.
Attorney Scott Norton (pictured) of Costa Mesa, Calif., defeated defending champion Jason Belmonte of Australia, 227-223, to win his second career PBA title and the $20,000 top prize in the PBA Chameleon Championship Sunday at South Point in Las Vegas. Norton became the first left-handed title winner since Jason Couch won the Mark Roth Plastic Ball Championship in March, 2011 and ended the longest title drought for left-handed bowlers in 50 years of Professional Bowlers Association Tour competition.
Brad Angelo (pictured) of Lockport, N.Y., doubled in the 10th frame to prevail by one pin over Finnish native Mika Koivuniemi of Hartland, Mich., to win his second career PBA title and the $20,000 top prize in the PBA Viper Championship, the second event of the 4th GEICO PBA World Series of Bowling. Koivuniemi received $10,000 for second place. PBA Player of the Year Sean Rash of Montgomery, Ill. earned $7,000 for third place and Mike Fagan of Dallas garnered $5,000 for fourth place. 
Bill O’Neill (pictured) of Langhorne, Pa. defeated three opponents en route to win the Alka Seltzer Plus Cold Cheetah Championship, Saturday, Nov. 4 at South Point Exhibition Hall in Las Vegas, Nev., for his fourth career PBA title. The multiple World and PABCON Championships gold medalist, who charged out of 16th and last qualifying spot at the start of the six-game semifinal round to earn the fourth spot in the finals, defeated No. 1 seed Mike Wolfe of New Albany, Ind., in the title match, 243-192.