After averaging 256.5 for his first six qualifying games, Chris Barnes (pictured left) of Double Oak, Texas, started Monday night's final qualifying round in the Professional Bowlers Association's Wolf Open at FireLake Bowling Center with a 279 game and never looked back in earning the top berth for Saturday's stepladder finals.

Barnes, a 17-time PBA Tour titlist, completed the 12-game qualifying portion on the 32-foot Wolf lane conditioning pattern with an overall 249 average and 2,989 pins to win the top spot in the finals by 136 pins over Mike Fagan (right) of Fort Worth, Texas.

In 12 games, Barnes had only one open frame – a split he failed to convert in the ninth frame of his final game.

Also advancing to the stepladder finals will be Sweden's Martin Larsen (left) in third place with 2,838 pins, Sean Rash (right) of Montgomery, Ill., in fourth with a 2,835 total and defending Wolf Open winner Chris Loschetter of Avon, Ohio.

Loschetter (below left) rallied to make it into the 18-player second-round field by five pins and then finished the second round with back-to-back 257-258 games to win the fifth seat in the finals by four pins over Tommy Jones of Simpsonville, S.C.

The Wolf Open is the first of five events that comprise Oklahoma's Grand Casino Resort PBA Summer Swing. All five events (Wolf, Bear, Badger and Oklahoma Opens plus the Grand Casino Resort King of the Swing) will be televised by CBS Sports Network on consecutive Tuesday nights at 7 p.m. ET, beginning with the Wolf Open finals on June 3.

Oklahoma's Grand Casino Resort PBA Summer Swing continues Tuesday with the PBA Bear Open on a demanding U.S. Open-type flat 40-foot lane condition. Squad B will bowl six qualifying games at 8 a.m. and Squad A will bowl at 2 p.m. The top 18 players will bowl an additional six-game qualifying round at 7:30 p.m. to determine the Bear Open stepladder finalists.

The first six games on each of the three animal patterns will determine the 18 players who will advance to the Oklahoma Open match play rounds. The King of the Swing field will consist of the Wolf, Bear, Badger and Oklahoma Open winners plus the highest player in points without winning one of the four events.

All preliminary rounds of the PBA Wolf, Bear (Tuesday) and Badger (Wednesday) Opens, plus match play rounds of the Oklahoma Open (Thursday and Friday) will be covered live on PBA's online bowling channel, Xtra Frame.

 

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PBA Wolf Open - Second Round Qualifying

Players with position, hometown and 12-game total; top 5 advance to stepladder finals Saturday at 11 a.m. CT; places 6-18 show earnings

1, Chris Barnes, Double Oak, Texas, 2,989
2, Mike Fagan, Ft. Worth, Texas, 2,853
3, Martin Larsen, Sweden, 2,838
4, Sean Rash, Montgomery, Ill., 2,835
5, Chris Loschetter, Avon, Ohio, 2,756

Missed Cut:
6, Tommy Jones, Simpsonville, S.C., 2,752, $2,000
7, Thomas Larsen, Denmark, 2,751, $1,800
8, Bill O'Neill, Langhorne, Pa., 2,732, $1,600
9, E.J. Tackett, Huntington, Ind., 2,726, $1,400
10, Mika Koivuniemi, Hartland, Mich., 2,703, $1,300
11, Sean Lavery-Spahr, Pasadena, Texas, 2,659, $1,150
11, Ryan Shafer, Horseheads, N.Y., 2,659, $1,150
13, Anthony Lavery-Spahr, Pasadena, Texas, 2,638, $1,000
14, Dom Barrett, England, 2,618, $900
15, Ildemaro Ruiz, Venezuela, 2,615, $800
16, Roger Petrin, BelAire, Kan., 2,593, $700
17, Shannon O'Keefe, Arlington, Texas, 2,565, $600
18, Lee Vanderhoef, Greenville, S.C., 2,557, $500

300 Game - Sean Lavery-Spahr.