04/30/08
United States
Postma becomes first three-time USBC Senior Queens Champion
Skore Lanes in Taylor, Mich. (April 26-30, 2008)
Sandy Postma of Lansing, Ill., swept all three games against challenger Marliss Tapp of Portage, Mich., to become the first three-time United States Bowling Congress Senior Queens champion at Skore Lanes on Wednesday. Postma, the 2004 and 2006 Senior Queens champion, defeated Tapp, 604-556, to win the $3,000 first prize while completing the tournament without a loss in the three-game, double-elimination match play finals.
04/30/08
United States
Postma perfect in bid to become first three-time USBC Senior Queens Champion
Skore Lanes in Taylor, Mich. (April 26-30, 2008)
Sandy Postma (l.) of Lansing, Ill., is in position to become the first three-time USBC Senior Queens champion after sweeping through the three-game, double-elimination match play finals at Skore Lanes on Tuesday without a loss. Postma, the 2004 and 2006 Senior Queens champion, defeated Joan Reilly of Wilmington, N.C., to earn a berth in Wednesday's title contest against
Marliss Tapp (r.) of Portage, Mich. Because Postma won her first five matches, Tapp will have to beat her in two three-game matches in order to win the title.
04/29/08
United States
Powers eliminates defending champion Sandelin to stay alive at USBC Senior Queens
Skore Lanes in Taylor, Mich. (April 26-30, 2008)
Qualifying leader
Sharon Powers (left) of Lakewood, Colo., rallied from the brink of elimination, defeating defending champion
Lucy Sandelin of Tampa, Fla., to remain in contention for the 2008 United States Bowling Congress Senior Queens title at Skore Lanes on Monday. Powers, 56, rolled a 249 in the final game of her three-game match to overcome a 51-pin deficit and hand Sandelin (right) her second loss in the double-elimination match play finals, 589-571.
04/29/08
United States
Powers holds onto top spot at Senior Queens
Skore Lanes in Taylor, Mich. (April 26-30, 2008)
Monday morning's final qualifying round in the United States Bowling Congress Senior Queens was less than stunning, but
Sharon Powers held onto the No. 1 qualifying spot heading into the match play portion of the event. "I bowled like ka-ka today," Powers said. "It was over- and under-reaction all morning for me, and I was trying too hard." Finishing the 15-game qualifying portion of the event with 3,022 pins - 39 pins ahead of Linda Carter of Rockford, Ill. - netted Powers a $225 bonus as high qualifier.
04/28/08
United States
Powers leads USBC Senior Queens Qualifying
Skore Lanes in Taylor, Mich. (April 26-30, 2008)
It only took
Sharon Powers two frames to realize her game plan for the second round of the 2008 United States Bowling Congress Senior Queens had gone astray. "I told myself coming into today's round to stay clean and then I had opens in my first two frames," the 51-year-old Lakewood, Colo., resident said. "But then I relaxed and bowled well." Well enough to race into the 10-game qualifying lead at Skore Lanes here Sunday.
04/27/08
United States
California's Ditch rolls into first-round lead at USBC Senior Queens
Skore Lanes in Taylor, Mich. (April 26-30, 2008)
Janine Ditch almost pulled out of the 2008 United States Bowling Congress Senior Queens before it started, but despite feeling miserable, she coughed and sniffled her way into the tournament lead. The 56-year-old from Chino Hills, Calif., was the only player among the 139 women ages 50 and older to complete the first five games without a single game under 200 for a 1,113 total. After Sunday's second round, the top 50 senior women will advance to a third five-game qualifying round Monday morning. The top 31 will then join defending champion Lucy Sandelin of Tampa, Fla., in the three-game, double-elimination match play finals.
04/22/08
United States
Sandelin eager to defend her USBC Senior Queens title
Skore Lanes in Taylor, Mich. (April 26-30, 2008)
For United States Bowling Congress Hall of Famer
Lucy Sandelin, it would be pretty difficult for life to get much better than it is as she prepares to defend her 2007 USBC Senior Queens title April 26-30 at Skore Lanes in Taylor, Mich. As Sandelin packed clothes and bowling equipment for her trek from her Tampa, Fla., home to suburban Detroit, where she'll face a field of roughly 150 women ages 50 and older in the Senior Queens, she recalled a much darker outlook on life.
05/03/07
United States
Lucy Sandelin wins USBC Senior Queens
By Bill Vint, USBC Communications
Lucy Sandelin (left) of Tampa, Fla., charged out of the contenders bracket Wednesday to race away with the United States Bowling Congress Senior Queens title at Northcross Lanes. In a showdown between USBC Hall of Famers, the once-beaten Sandelin overwhelmed previously undefeated
Virginia Norton of Cypress, Calif., 680-563 and 645-546, to win the double-elimination title contest.
05/03/07
United States
Hall of Famers to battle for USBC Senior Queens title
After 25 years,
Virginia Norton would love to get back into the winner's circle. She'll get that chance Wednesday when she bowls fellow USBC Hall of Famer Lucy Sandelin for the title in the United States Bowling Congress Senior Queens at Northcross Lanes. Norton, who owns nine national professional titles and six USBC Women's Championships title, emerged from the three-game, double-elimination match play finals Tuesday as the last undefeated player in the record field of 161 women ages 50 and older.
05/01/07
United States
Defending champ Postma keeps hopes alive for record third USBC Senior Queens Title
Goodling leads field into USBC Senior Queens match play
Sandy Postma of Lansing, Ill., kept her hopes for a record third United States Bowling Congress Senior Queens title alive at Northcross Lanes on Monday when she won her first two matches in the double-elimination finals. Postma, the only woman to win the USBC Queens (1995) and Senior Queens (2004 and 2006), defeated a pair of USBC Hall of Famers to remain undefeated after two rounds.
04/30/07
United States
Goodling retains lead at USBC Senior Queens
Northcross Lanes in Huntersville, N.C. (April 28 - May 2, 2007)
Linda Goodling of Willow Street, Pa., held onto the second-round lead in USBC Senior Queens qualifying at Northcross Lanes on Sunday. Goodling finished with a 10-game total of 2,030, six ahead of USBC Hall of Famer
Lucy Sandelin of Tampa. The top 50 of 160 women after 10 games advanced to a third five-game qualifying round Monday morning.
04/29/07
United States
Pennsylvania's Goodling leads USBC Senior Queens
Northcross Lanes in Huntersville, N.C. (April 28 - May 2, 2007)
Linda Goodling, a 59-year-old pro shop operator from suburban Lancaster, Pa., used a little luck and a little anger to roll into the first-round qualifying lead in the United States Bowling Congress Senior Queens at Northcross Lanes here Saturday. Goodling fired games of 274, 177, 194, 168 and 244 for 1,057 total, the highest five-game opening round since the Senior Queens shifted to that format in 2005.
