Fresh off of a win in last week's PBA50 Miller High Life Classic, Lennie Boresch Jr. (pictured left) of Kenosha, Wis., emerged as the qualifying leader Wednesday in the PBA50 Dayton Classic presented by Roto Grip at Capri Lanes in in Kettering, Ohio.

Boresch finished qualifying with a 3,847 16-game pinfall total (240.4 average) bowling games of 205, 257, 236, 239, 234, 249, 227 and 299 in Wednesday's second round. He left the 7 pin on his final shot in the 299 game coming up a little light to the pocket.

"I guess you could say success breeds success," said the two-time PBA50 Tour winner. "It's just one of those things where everything seems to be coming together. I just want to ride the wave as long as I can because you never know what can happen from one tournament to the next."

Boresch led a field of 32 players advancing to Thursday's match play rounds finishing 72 pins ahead of second-place qualifier Bob Learn Jr. (left) of Erie, Pa., the winner of the season-opening PBA50 Pasco County Suncoast Open, with 3,775.

Rounding out the top five after the second round were 2012 United States Bowling Congress Senior Masters winner Mike Edwards of Tulsa, with 3,767; PBA Hall of Famer and 2012 PBA50 Rookie of the Year Amleto Monacelli (right), Venezuela, 3,745, and Hall of Famer Wayne Webb of Columbus, Ohio, 3,728.

Ironically, Boresch wasn't bowling well to start the season and thought about returning home to work on his game but decided to work through it while out on tour.

"I was able find time to work on a few things and I could tell things were coming around after the second round of the Birmingham tournament a couple weeks ago so that gave me some confidence to stick it out," Boresch said.

Defending champion Hall of Famer Johnny Petraglia (left) of Jackson, N.J., who won last year's PBA Senior Dayton Classic to become the first player in PBA history to win a PBA Tour or PBA50 Tour title in six different decades advanced to match play by qualifying eighth with 3,620.

Qualifying 34th after the first round, PBA Hall of Famer and PBA Tour ESPN color analyst Randy Pedersen (right) of Clermont, Fla., bowling in his first PBA50 Tour tournament, rose steadily through the standings to finish qualifying in 13th with a 3,590 pinfall.

PBA Tour veteran and two-time winner Jack Jurek of Lackawanna, N.Y., also making his PBA50 Tour debut, advanced to match play finishing 12th with 3,596.

The 32-players advancing to match play will begin competition Thursday at 9 a.m. ET. The field will eventually be cut to the top four for the stepladder finals scheduled for 7 p.m.

 

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PBA50 Dayton Classic - First Round Qualifying

Players with position, hometown and 16-game total; top 32 advance to match play; a denotes amateur, s-super seniors out of the regular prize fund cashing for $700

1, Lennie Boresch Jr., Kenosha, Wis., 3,847
2, Bob Learn Jr., Erie, Pa., 3,775
3, Mike Edwards, Tulsa, Okla., 3,767
4, Amleto Monacelli, Venezuela, 3,745
5, Wayne Webb, Columbus, Ohio, 3,728
6, Nick Morgan, Sacramento, Calif., 3,654
7, Darryl Bower, Middletown, Pa., 3,631
8, Johnny Petraglia, Jackson, N.J., 3,620
9, Walter Ray Williams Jr., Ocala, Fla., 3,610
10, Dale Csuhta, Wadsworth, Ohio, 3,604
11, Hugh Miller, Seattle, 3,601
12, Jack Jurek, Lackawanna, N.Y., 3,596
13, Randy Pedersen, Clermont, Fla., 3,590
14, Rick Minier, Houston, Texas, 3,588
15, Jeff Schrum, Cherryville, N.C., 3,555
16, Mike Dias, Lafayette, Colo., 3,551
17, Harry Sullins, Chesterfield Twp, Mich., 3,545
18, Dale Traber, Cedarburg, Wis., 3,530
19, Tom Baker, King, N.C., 3,522
20, Charlie Tapp, Kalamazoo, Mich., 3,509
21, Bryan Goebel, Shawnee, Kan., 3,493
22, Ron Mohr, Eagle River, Alaska, 3,483
23, Ron Profitt, Brookville, Ohio, 3,478
24, Mike Henry, Brunswick, Ohio, 3,434
25, Mark Everette, Aliquippa, Pa., 3,411
26, Don Sylvia, Lady Lake, FL, 3,402
27, Les Ash, Washington Court House, Ohio, 3,397
28, Sammy Ventura, Syracuse, N.Y., 3,392
29, Brad Snell, Mount Prospect, Ill., 3,391
30, Brian Cooper, Henderson, Nev., 3,383
31, Kenny Parks, Hammond, Ind., 3,379
32, Mike Tryniski, Fulton, N.Y., 3,377

Missed Cut:
33, Timothy Kauble, Marion, Ohio, 3,373, $900
34, Joe Salvemini, Las Vegas, Nev., 3,366
35, Ernie Segura Jr., Taylor, Mich., 3,358
36, s-Patrick King, Yankton, S.D., 3,340, $700
37, William Peters, Dayton, Ohio, 3,323
38, Randy Rau, Belleville, Ill., 3,318
39, Christopher Keane, Cape Coral, Fla., 3,295
40, s-Dick Gran, Hartville, Ohio, 3,284, $700
41, s-Bob Brady, Santa Monica, Calif., 3,279, $700
42, Tim Pierce, Portland, Ore., 3,274
43, (tie) John Chapman, Canada, and s-Marc Lineberry, Camanche, Iowa, 3,267, $700
45, s-Dave Bernhardt, Romeo, Mich., 3,260, $700
46, (tie) Bill McCorkle, Westerville, Ohio, Brian Miller, Springfield, Ohio, and
Bruce VanMetre, Delphos, Ohio, 3,258
49, (tie) Harv Pallas, Stevensville, Mich., and Patric Donaghue, Honeoye Falls, N.Y., 3,255
51, Larry Popp, Marion, Ohio, 3,251
52, Mike Hastings, Millsboro, Del., 3,248
53, Tommy Kress, Rochester, N.Y., 3,246
54, s-Ted Staikoff, Black Hawk, S.D., 3,239, $700
55, Dave Flemming, Fairborn, Ohio, 3,228
56, Stephen Pavlinko, Sewell, N.J., 3,203
57, a-Peter Minaudo, Chesterfield, Mich., 3,197
58, (tie) Dale Eagle, Tavares, Fla., and Todd Kjell, Roscoe, Ill., 3,189
60, James Blackstone, Dayton, Ohio, 3,181
61, William Keenan, Jr., Orlando, Fla., 3,177
62, Robert Harvey, Boise, Idaho, 3,170
63, (tie) Mark Jones, Amelia, Ohio, and John DiSantis, Wilmington, Del., 3,168
65, William Banks, Laurel Hill, N.C., 3,167
66, Bill Henson, Westerville, Ohio, 3,162
67, Emilio Mora Sr., Defiance, Ohio, 3,160
68, Dale Reh, Menasha, Wis., 3,144
69, a-Timothy Hartley, Englewood, Ohio, 3,140
70, Tim Hagar, Celina, Ohio, 3,124
71, Steve Stein, Staten Island, N.Y., 3,120
72, Keith Sharp, Orlando, Fla., 3,115
73, John Shreve Sr., Elyria, Ohio, 3,111
74, Tom Kennedy, Shepherdsville, Ky., 3,092
75, Randy Robertson, Evansville, Ind., 3,079
76, Bob Kelly, Dayton, Ohio, 3,073
77, Guppy Troup, Taylorsville, N.C., 3,072
78, Tom Carter, Rockford, Ill., 3,065
79, Gary Simon, Bridgeport, W. Va., 3,046
80, Michael Chrzanowski, Shepherd, Mich., 3,043
81, Tom Howison, Chillicothe, Ohio, 3,037
82, Jerry Lau, St. Peters, Mo., 3,018
83, Dave Dunphy, Canada, 3,013
84, Roy Buckley, New Albany, Ohio, 3,011
85, Brendan Bierch, Grafton, Mass., 3,001
86, Ron Glick, Morganville, N.J., 2,982
87, Michael Truitt, Orland Park, Ill., 2,979
88, Dannie Hettinger, Circleville, Ohio, 2,952
89, Walter Sova Sr., South Daytona, Fla., 2,945
90, a-Dave Rossi, Morgantown, W. Va., 2,917
91, Dale Holgate, Silver Lake, Ohio, 2,910
92, Ed Cutter, Manassas Park, Va., 2,833
93, Doug Thompson, Aberdeen, S.D., 2,830
94, James Souder, Greeneville, Tenn, 2,827
95, a-JamiLynn Fox, Toledo, Ohio, 2,809
96, a-Tom Gulman, Portland, Ore., 2,764
97, Allen Meskan, Addison, Ill., 2,714
98, Rich Ashe, Conneaut Lake, Pa., 2,704
99, Steve Easterday, Strasburg, Ohio, 2,640

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