Newly-crowned PBA World Champion Mike Fagan (pictured left) of Fort Worth, Texas, held the second round lead in the DHC PBA Japan Invitational Friday at Tokyo Port Bowl, posting an 11-5 record for a 16-game match play total of 3,930 pins.

First round leader Stuart Williams (right) of England, who had an 8-0 record for his first-round matches, was second with 3,860 total pins, 70 behind Fagan.

Rounding out the top five in the race for Sunday's stepladder finals were Japan's Daisuke Yoshida (below left) at 3,778 pins followed by Ronnie Russell of Marion, Ind., at 3,773 and Liz Johnson (below right) of Cheektowaga, N.Y., at 3,731. Johnson is one of two women in the elite 32-player field.

Fagan won the PBA World Championship on Sunday at South Point Bowling Plaza in Las Vegas, defeating top qualifier Wes Malott of Pflugerville, Texas, 252-212, in the title match.

The tournament includes a field of 11 PBA players who qualified based on 2014 PBA World Championship qualifying scores, three PBA members invited by the sponsoring DHC Corporation, one Korean PBA member and 16 Japan bowlers. Johnson and Japan's Yuka Tsuchiya are the only women in the tournament.

The Japan Invitational is being video-streamed internationally, live on PBA's exclusive online bowling channel Xtra Frame. The final two rounds of match play, which will determine the stepladder finalists, will air on Xtra Frame today at 5:40 p.m. and 10:40 p.m. Eastern Time.

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DHC PBA Japan Invitational - Standings after Round Two

Players with position, hometown/country, 16-game total including match play bonus (30 bonus pins for matches won, 15 for a tie)

1, Mike Fagan, Fort Worth, Texas, 11-5, 3,930
2, Stuart Williams, England, 11-4-1, 3,860
3, Daisuke Yoshida, Aichi, Japan, 13-3, 3,778
4, Ronnie Russell, Marion, Ind., 10-5-1, 3,773
5, Liz Johnson, Cheektowaga, N.Y., 11-5, 3,731
6, Shusaku Asato, Gifu, Japan, 10-5-1, 3,707
7, Chris Barnes, Double Oak, Texas, 9-7, 3,699
8, Dom Barrett, England, 10-6, 3,661
9, Eddie VanDaniker Jr., Chatsworth, Calif., 9-7, 3,653
10, Wes Malott, Pflugerville, Texas, 7-9, 3,617
11, Jason Belmonte, Australia, 7-9, 3,583
12, Mika Koivuniemi, Hartland, Mich., 8-7-1, 3,580
13, Manae Kameshima, Wakayama, Japan, 8-8, 3,552
14, Sean Rash, Montgomery, Ill., 8-8, 3,541
15, Shawn Maldonado, Houston, 7-9, 3,525
16, Cho Young Seon, Korea, 8-8, 3,522
17, Scott Norton, Mission Viejo, Calif., 7-9, 3,514
18, Todd Book, Russells Point, Ohio, 9-7, 3,512
19, Yuki Akiyoshi, Chiba, Japan, 8-8, 3,497
20, Koichi Takahashi, Hokkaido, Japan, 9-7, 3,494
21 (tie), Shogo Wada, Wakayama, Japan, 7-9, and Ryogo Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan, 8-8, 3,463
23, Mayumi Naito, Aichi, Japan, 9-7, 3,436
24, Patrick Girard, Canada, 8-8, 3,427
25, Yuka Tsuchiya, Kanagawa, Japan, 5-10-1, 3,349
26, Takashi Fujimura, Shizuoka, Japan, 6-10, 3,305
27, Yang Hyeong Kyoo, Aichi, Japan, 8-8, 3,294
28, Takashi Yamazaki, Aichi, Japan, 4-11-1, 3,275
29, Hiroko Shimizu, Chiba, Japan, 4-12, 3,197
30, Miku Urano, Chiba, Japan, 3-11-2, 3,166
31, Yumi Nakajima, Chiba, Japan, 6-10, 3,124
32, Naoshi Ishimine, Nagano, Japan, 4-12, 3,027