Defending Professional Bowlers Association World Champion Parker Bohn III of Jackson, N.J., rolled a pair of 300 games Saturday on his way to earning the top qualifying position for the PBA Cheetah Championship finals at South Point Bowling Center while Colombia native Clara Guerrero became the third woman in PBA history to qualify for a nationally-televised stepladder final.

The Cheetah Championship is the first of five tournaments on the PBA World Series of Bowling V program which continues through Nov. 3.

L-R Parker Bohn III, Pete Weber, Wes Malott and Clara Guerrero.

Bohn, who won the 2012 World Championship during PBA World Series of Bowling IV, fired his 91st and 92nd career 300 games (one behind all-time leader Walter Ray Williams Jr., who has 93 perfect games in PBA competition) for a 14-game total of 3,503 pins and a 250.21 average.

The 33-time PBA Tour champion won the top berth in the Cheetah stepladder finals by 49 pins over fellow PBA Hall of Famer and 37-time Tour champion Pete Weber of St. Ann, Mo.

Wes Malott of Pflugerville, Texas, the 2013 U.S. Open champion, qualified third with 3,452 pins and Guerrero finished her climb from 13th place to claim the fourth berth in the finals with a 3,446 total.

Guerrero will join Kelly Kulick of Union, N.J., and Liz Johnson of Cheektowaga, N.Y., as the third woman to reach the championship round of a PBA Tour event. Kulick went on to win the 2010 PBA Tournament of Champions to become the only woman to capture a PBA Tour title.

The Cheetah Championship finals will be conducted on Saturday, Nov. 2, on lanes installed in South Point's Exhibition Hall B and will air on ESPN on Sunday, Dec. 1, at 1 p.m. ET.

Bohn, who started the semifinal round in fifth place, found his comfort zone and ran away from the field.

"I don't have many issues with the Cheetah lane condition," Bohn said. "My speed allowed me to play it comfortably. The lanes were a little tighter than they were in practice, but once I got my speed dialed in, the ball did what it was supposed to do.

"I'm very, very happy," he added. "Now I get to bowl one game for the title, which is always a good thing. Even better, I'm way ahead of last year when I didn't have one top 16 finish in any of the animal pattern events, but I still won the World Championship."

Guerrero's charge out of 13th place was a surprise to everyone but her. Earlier in the day, she became the second woman in the five-year history of PBA World Series competition to finish among the top 24 in the 238-player, male-dominated event.

Kulick finished 15th in the 2010 Shark Championship, seventh in the 2011 Chameleon Championship and 21st in the 2012 Viper Championship. Guerrero also joined an elite group of women who have won a PBA Regional title when she won her first PBA Southwest Region title in Austin, Texas, last October.

"It would be very nice to win a title here, too," she smiled. "I'd like to finish history the right way."

Guerrero started her final seven-game round with a 189 game, an ominous total in the high-scoring Cheetah contest, but followed with games of 244, 289, 213, 267, 278 and 277 to complete her stunning rally.

"I was a little stiff from the layoff between the first and semifinal rounds, but then I got my rhythm and made better shots," the former Wichita State University All-American said.

"After the 189 start, I didn't think I could make it, but after a couple of big games, I saw I had a chance and in the last couple of games, I really went for it. Things came my way. I finished strong. It was great."

Guerrero, who has been a member of Colombia's national bowling team since 1995 when she qualified at age 13, is now a U.S. citizen, married and living in Pflugerville, Texas.

Earlier Saturday, National Football League all-pro wide receiver Terrell Owens made his professional bowling PBA debut in the Cheetah Championship, and struggled to finish with a 1,178 total, a 168.29 average. But he said he wasn't terribly disappointed.

"I got better as I bowled," Owens said. "I had 194 my last game, which was decent, and I didn't come in last.

"These are best bowlers in the world. By no means did I expect to come in here and crush the lanes," Owens added. "Obviously I have a lot of learning to do. But tomorrow is another day and I can only get better."

World Series competition continues Sunday with the Viper Championship presented by PBA Bowling Challenge. Qualifying squads will bowl seven games at 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. PT, with the top 24 advancing to the seven-game semifinal round at 7:30 p.m. The final two animal pattern events – the Chameleon and Scorpion Championships – will be held on Monday and Tuesday, respectively.

All qualifying rounds from the World Series are being covered live on PBA's Xtra Frame online bowling channel, and via "live scoring" on pba.com.

 

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PBA Cheetah Championship - Semifinal Round Standings

Players with position, hometown and 14-game total. The top 4 advance to stepladder finals on Nov. 2 at 1 p.m. PT for ESPN telecast on Dec. 1 at 1 p.m. ET. Places 5-24 show earnings.

1, Parker Bohn III, Jackson, N.J., 3,503
2, Pete Weber, St. Ann, Mo., 3,454
3, Wes Malott, Pflugerville, Texas, 3,452
4, Clara Guerrero, Colombia, 3,446

Missed Cut:
5, Craig Nidiffer, Trenton, Mich., 3,426, $4,000
6, E.J. Tackett, Huntington, Ind., 3,416, $3,500
7, Nathan Bohr, Wichita, Kan., 3,413, $3,000
8, Josh Blanchard, Gilbert, Ariz., 3,410, $2,500
9, Mike Fagan, Ft. Worth, Texas, 3,390, $2,200
10, Joe Findling, Mesquite, Texas, 3,351, $2,000
11, Bryon Smith, Roseburg, Ore., 3,350, $1,800
12, Bryan Viator, Friendswood, Texas, 3,341, $1,700
13, Eugene McCune, Munster, Ind., 3,325, $1,650
14, Scott Norton, Mission Viejo, Calif., 3,311, $1,600
15, PJ Haggerty, Roseville, Calif., 3,305, $1,550
16, Lonnie Waliczek, Wichita, Kan., 3,290, $1,500
17 (tie), Dom Barrett, England, and Mike Moore, Oviedo, Fla., 3,256, $1,425
19, Kevin Gallagher, Torrance, Calif., 3,226, $1,350
20, Dave Wodka, Henderson, Nev., 3,207, $1,300
21, Thomas Larsen, Denmark, 3,184, $1,275
22, Ildemaro Ruiz, Venezuela, 3,171, $1,250
23, Travis Anderson, Washington, Ill, 3,141, $1,225
24, Jacob Heger, Spring, Texas, 3,004, $1,200

300 Games (2): Parker Bohn III, Pete Weber.

 

PBA Cheetah Championship - First Round Standings

The top 24 advance to the semifinal round. Places 25-32 show earnings.

1, Josh Blanchard, Gilbert, Ariz., 1,780
2, Craig Nidiffer, Trenton, Mich., 1,762
3, Mike Fagan, Ft. Worth, Texas, 1,754
4, Wes Malott, Pflugerville, Texas, 1,752
5, Parker Bohn III, Jackson, N.J., 1,749
6, Ildemaro Ruiz, Venezuela, 1,744
7, Kevin Gallagher, Torrance, Calif., 1,738
8, Nathan Bohr, Wichita, Kan., 1,732
9, Mike Moore, Oviedo, Fla., 1,730
10, Scott Norton, Mission Viejo, Calif., 1,728
11, Lonnie Waliczek, Wichita, Kan., 1,718
12, Bryon Smith, Roseburg, Ore., 1,711
13, Clara Guerrero, Colombia, 1,689
14 (tie), PJ Haggerty, Roseville, Calif., and E.J. Tackett, Huntington, Ind., 1,688
16 (tie), Joe Findling, Mesquite, Texas, and Jacob Heger, Spring, Texas, 1,686
18, Dave Wodka, Henderson, Nev., 1,685
19, Pete Weber, St. Ann, Mo., 1,684
20, Dom Barrett, England, 1,681
21, Thomas Larsen, Denmark, 1,677
22, Bryan Viator, Friendswood, Texas, 1,675
23 (tie), Eugene McCune, Munster, Ind., and Travis Anderson, Washington, Ill, 1,674

Missed Cut:
25, Fumihiro Yoshida, Japan, 1,670, $800
26, Mik Stampe, Denmark, 1,667, $770
27, Tom Hess, Urbandale, Iowa, 1,665, $850
28, Chris Warren, Grants Pass, Ore., 1,663, $740
29, Eddie VanDaniker Jr., Chatsworth, Calif., 1,662, $730
30, Sean Lavery-Spahr, Denton, Texas, 1,659, $720
31, Mika Koivuniemi, Hartland, Mich., 1,657, $710
32, Michael Machuga, Erie, Pa., 1,656, $700
33, Craig LeMond, Jasper, Ind., 1,655
34, Johnathan Bower, Middletown, Pa., 1,653
35, Jason Belmonte, Australia, 1,649
36 (tie), Dick Allen, Columbia, S.C., and Todd Book, Russells Point, Ohio, 1,643
38, Sean Rash, Montgomery, Ill., 1,640
39, Kris Koeltzow, Wheat Ridge, Colo., 1,633
40, Martin Larsen, Sweden, 1,632
41 (tie), Anthony Pepe, Elmhurst, N.Y., and Gregory Thompson Jr., Dublin, Calif., 1,630
43 (tie), Brad Miller, St. Charles, Mo., and Shawn Maldonado, Houston, 1,626
45, Jason Sterner, McDonough, Ga., 1,621
46, Kim Bolleby, Sweden, 1,617
47 (tie), Paul Moor, England; William Keenan Jr., Orlando, Fla., and Jake Peters, Decatur, Ill., 1,609
50, Jon VanHees, Charlestown, R.I., 1,608
51 (tie), Stuart Williams, England, and Jack Jurek, Lackawanna, N.Y., 1,605
53 (tie), Mike Wolfe, New Albany, Ind., and Will Garber, Modesto, Calif., 1,602
55, Brian Nicodemus, Akron, Ind., 1,601
56, Tetsuya Kobayashi, Japan, 1,600
57 (tie), Luis Rovaina Jr., Venezuela; Mike Scroggins, Amarillo, Texas, and B.J. Moore III, Apex, N.C., 1,597
60, Danny Wiseman, Baltimore, 1,594
61, Craig Auerbach, Sunrise, Fla., 1,590
62, Lennie Boresch Jr., Kenosha, Wis., 1,588
63 (tie), Mike Keily, Golden, Colo., and Walter Ray Williams Jr., Ocala, Fla., 1,585
65, Patrick Girard, Canada, 1,584
66, Tim Mack, Indianapolis, 1,583
67 (tie), Ashley Warren, Australia, and Andrew Cain, Phoenix, 1,580
69, Randy Pedersen, Clermont, Fla., 1,579
70 (tie), Chris Barnes, Double Oak, Texas, and Amleto Monacelli, Venezuela, 1,577
72, Tommy Jones, Simpsonville, S.C., 1,576
73, Pat Nolan, Japan, 1,575
74, Dale Coleman, High Springs, Fla., 1,574
75, Curtis Woods Jr., Santa Rosa, Calif., 1,573
76 (tie), Greg Ostrander, Freehold, N.J., and Timothy Tripp, Santa Clarita, Calif., 1,571
78, Jeff Roche, Dearborn, Mich., 1,570
79, Scott Newell, Deland, Fla., 1,568
80, Mike Williams II, Montgomery, Ala., 1,567
81, Stephen Pavlinko Jr., Sewell, N.J., 1,566
82, Carsten Hansen, Denmark, 1,564
83 (tie), Dan MacLelland, Canada; Julio Cesar Blancas, Mexico, and Tim Gillick, Milford, Conn., 1,563
86, Chad Pojas, Wahiawa, Hawaii, 1,561
87, Manuel Otalora, Colombia, 1,560
88, Eric Forkel, Henderson, Nev., 1,559
89, Osku Palermaa, Finland, 1,558
90, Andres Gomez, Colombia, 1,557
91 (tie), D.J. Archer, Friendswood, Texas, and Lee Vanderhoef, Greenville, S.C., 1,556
93, Brian LeClair, Albany, N.Y., 1,554
94, Vinny D'Ambrosio III, Staten Island, N.Y., 1,553
95, David Knight Jr., Folcroft, Pa., 1,552
96, Tom Baker, King, N.C., 1,551
97, Missy Parkin, Laguna Hills, Calif., 1,548
98 (tie), Anthony Colosimo, Pembroke Pines, Fla., and Tom Smallwood, Saginaw, Mich., 1,547
100, Andre Eubanks, Los Angeles, 1,546
101 (tie), Myles Duty, Modesto, Calif., and Gary Faulkner Jr., Memphis, Tenn., 1,545
103, Travis Celmer, Wernersville, Pa., 1,538
104 (tie), Bill O'Neill, Langhorne, Pa., and Patrick Dombrowski, Parma, Ohio, 1,537
106 (tie), Hernan Ramirez, Venezuela, and Brett Cunningham, Clay, N.Y., 1,535
108 (tie), Patrick Allen, Wesley Chapel, Fla., and Wayne Garber, Modesto, Calif., 1,533
110, Hadley Morgan, England, 1,530
111 (tie), Calvin Sellers, Stratford, Conn., and James Wallace, Hicksville, N.Y., 1,526
113, Ryan Ciminelli, Cheektowaga, N.Y., 1,522
114, Kelly Kulick, Union, N.J., 1,521
115 (tie), Tommy Berish, Cordova, Tenn., and Ryan Shafer, Horseheads, N.Y., 1,520
117, Christopher Sloan, Ireland, 1,517
118, Brian Robinson, Morgantown, W.Va., 1,516
119, Clint Land, Richmond, Texas, 1,515
120 (tie), Lee Rathjen Jr., Naples, Fla., and Dino Castillo, Carrollton, Texas, 1,514
122, Jesse Buss, Belvidere, Ill., 1,512
123, Andrew Graff, Las Vegas, 1,511
124 (tie), Bob Markiewicz, San Diego, and Clarence White, Tracy, Calif., 1,510
126 (tie), Douglas Yu, Canada, and Chris Loschetter, Avon, Ohio, 1,509
128 (tie), Anthony LaCaze, Melrose Park, Ill., and Joonas Jehkinen, Finland, 1,508
130, Ronnie Russell, Marion, Ind., 1,507
131 (tie), Chris Cundiff, Lake Station, Ind., and Anthony Lavery-Spahr, Pasadena, Texas, 1,506
133, Robert Lee, Japan, 1,505
134, Gabriel Sanchez, Puerto Rico, 1,501
135 (tie), Matt Villegas, Phoenix, and Austin Hunt, Kennewick, Wash., 1,500
137 (tie), Norm Duke, Clermont, Fla.; Gary Haines, West Babylon, N.Y., and Mike Armstrong Jr., Battle Ground, Wash., 1,498
140, Jim Pratt, Glendale, Ariz., 1,497
141, Jeremy Mooney, West Palm Beach, Fla., 1,496
142, Alan Mojado, Pala, Calif., 1,494
143, Brian Valenta, Lockport, Ill., 1,493
144, Mike DeVaney, Winchester, Calif., 1,491
145, Alejandro Reyna, Costa Rica, 1,490
146, David Haynes, Las Vegas, 1,489
147, T.P. Peterson, Evergreen Park, Ill., 1,482
148 (tie), Marshall Kent, Yakima, Wash.; Shota Kawazoe, Japan, and Tom Daugherty, Wesley Chapel, Fla., 1,480
151, David Beres, Waukesha, Wis., 1,479
152, John Furey, Freehold, N.J., 1,478
153 (tie), Meen Woo Kim, Korea, and David Stouffer, Lehigh Acres, Fla., 1,476
155, John Szczerbinski, North Tonawanda, N.Y., 1,475
156, Raymond Watts, Orange, Calif., 1,474
157, Kelvin Wiggins, Rocky Mt., N.C., 1,472
158, Gustavo Viramontes Jr., Mexico, 1,471
159, Keith Laing, Culver City, Calif., 1,468
160 (tie), Gary Baker, England, and Brian Kretzer, Dayton, Ohio, 1,465
162 (tie), Dustin Sherman, Petaluma, Calif., and Vladimir Sverchkov, Russia, 1,456
164, Robert Piroozshad, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1,455
165 (tie), Randy Weiss, Columbia, S.C., and Kyle Troup, Taylorsville, N.C., 1,454
167 (tie), Michael Haugen Jr., Phoenix, and Chad Lusche, Arvada, Colo., 1,453
169 (tie), Kevin Croucher, Grants Pass, Ore., and Kevin Kullman, Tinley Park, Ill., 1,451
171, Aaron Ramsden, Pleasant Valley, Mo., 1,446
172, Matt Schermerhorn, El Segundo, Calif., 1,443
173 (tie), Kevin Beers, Reinholds, Pa., and Sandra Andersson, Sweden, 1,440
175, Mike Bailey, Allen, Texas, 1,439
176, Shigeo Saitoh, Japan, 1,438
177, Rob Shepherd, Sierra Vista, Ariz., 1,437
178, Kalani Dilliner, Las Vegas, 1,436
179, Miguel Lopez, Wichita, Kan., 1,435
180, Joe Paluszek, Bensalem, Pa., 1,434
181, Stephen Carter, Australia, 1,433
182, Glenn Morgan, Carson City, Nev., 1,430
183 (tie), James McCleland, Venice, Fla., and Junia Yoshida, Japan, 1,428
185 (tie), Marek Talpa, Czech Republic, and Josh Lewis, Asheville, N.C., 1,427
187, Giorgio Clinaz Jr., Venezuela, 1,422
188, Scott Halvarson, Lakewood, Wash., 1,416
189, Kyle Paxson, Orlando, Fla., 1,410
190, Ron Mohr, Las Vegas, 1,407
191 (tie), Matthew Graham, Emeryville, Calif., and Russ Hunt, Kennewick, Wash., 1,406
193, Joseph Costanzo, Bethpage, N.Y., 1,405
194, Matt Watson, Australia, 1,400
195 (tie), Jonathan Sellers, Stratford, Conn., and Brett Spangler, Niles, Ohio, 1,398
197, Rameses Chambers, Kansas City, Mo., 1,387
198, Kim Hyun Bum, Korea, 1,384
199, Cameron Zacher, Australia, 1,381
200, Mykhaylo Kalika, Ukraine, 1,378
201, Frankie Mazzella, Staten Island, N.Y., 1,373
202, Ryan Appel, Cinnaminson, N.J., 1,370
203, Jonathan Hocsman, Argentina, 1,369
204, Kenneth Bland Jr., Lorton, Va., 1,366
205, Nick Morgan, Sacramento, Calif., 1,365
206, Wesley Edwards, Blue Springs, Mo., 1,361
207 (tie), J.T. "Action" Jackson, Sherman Oaks, Calif., and Justin Bychkowski, Fairfield, Conn., 1,360
209, Justin Stevens, Aiea, Hawaii, 1,358
210, Jay Hess, Ocoee, Fla., 1,356
211, Patrick King, Yankton, S.D., 1,354
212, Frank Guccione, Castle Rock, Colo., 1,353
213, Adam Wilson, Reno, Nev., 1,343
214, Jon King, Australia, 1,339
215, Keith Bullock, Moscow Mill, Mo, 1,338
216, Richard Lupo, St. Charles, Mo., 1,336
217, Mark Milasinovich, Macomb, Mich., 1,335
218, David Maycock, Bermuda, 1,331
219, Jon Wheatley, Australia, 1,330
220, Gerald Marrs, Huntley, Ill., 1,322
221, Ariachizu Kamalu, Chicago, 1,312
222, Chris Watson, Australia, 1,271
223, Ken Truong, Canada, 1,262
224 (tie), Scott Dull, Cresson, Texas, and Connor Pickford, Charlotte, N.C., 1,253
226, Jason Miller, San Antonio, 1,234
227, J.D. Sommers, San Jose, Calif., 1,221
228, Steve Ford, Seaside, Ore., 1,218
229, Dave Nebe, Richmond, Va., 1,209
230, Ed Cutter, Manassas Park, Va., 1,208
231, Armando Santacruz, Ecuador, 1,193
232, Alvaro Infante, Venezuela, 1,185
233, Terrell Owens, Studio City, Caif., 1,178
234, Paul Nilsen Sr., Murrieta, Calif., 1,148
235, Vijay Krishnamoorthy, Kennesaw, Ga., 1,132

300 Games (7): Bryon Smith, Lonnie Waliczek, Parker Bohn III, Anthony Colosimo, Tom Hess, Eugene McCune, Eric Forkel.