Xtra Frame, pba.com’s exclusive video-streaming service, will be on site at Suncoast Bowling Center in Las Vegas to cover the match play and stepladder finals rounds of the PBA Senior U.S. Open on June 16 and 17.

Xtra Frame will cover the final three eight-game match play rounds on Thursday, June 16, at 5 p.m. ET (2 p.m. Pacific), and Friday, June 17, at 10 a.m. ET (7 a.m. PT) and 3 p.m. (noon PT). Xtra Frame will then cover the four-player stepladder finals beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET (3:30 p.m. PT).

A field of more than 220 of the world’s best professional and amateur bowlers ages 50 and older will begin competition in the Senior U.S. Open at the Suncoast Bowling Center on Monday, June 13. PBA Hall of Famer Mark Williams (right) of Beaumont, Texas, is defending champion.

 

PBA fans can order custom-designed Gemini jerseys at a discount

Professional Bowlers Association fans are invited to order their own custom-designed Gemini bowling jerseys – the same shirts all Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour stars wear in competition – at a discount during a special limited-time promotion.

For details on how to order your own jersey, visit pba.com or g2gemini.com/bowling. Enter the promotional code PBAG2 for a 10 percent discount. Gemini jerseys are available in a variety of styles, starting as low as $36.

 

PBA Regional Roundup: Match play streak helps Shafer win 16th regional title

After qualifying 10th for the match play finals, Ryan Shafer of Horesheads, N.Y., ran off 11 consecutive match play wins on his way to his 16th career PBA Regional title in the PBA East Region Forest Hill Lanes Open in Forest Hill, Md., on June 5.

Shafer (pictured left with Forest Hill Lanes manager Jim Miller), who finished with a 14-2 match play record and a 24-game total of 5,436 pins including match play bonus pins, topped John Szczerbinski of North Tonawanda, N.Y., by 61 pins for the $5,000 first prize. Fellow Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour exempt player Bill O’Neill of Southampton, Pa., finished third and Dan MacLelland of Saginaw, Mich., was fourth.

Wayne Garber of Modesto, Calif., defeated Mike Fagan of Patchoque, N.Y., 238-202, to win his second straight PBA West/Northwest Regional title in the Don Johnson Memorial Regional at 4th Street Bowl in San Jose, Calif., on June 5.

Garber (pictured right with host Tony Reyes, left, proprietor Ken Nakatsu Jr., right) earned $2,500 along with his ninth career regional title. Reigning PBA Rookie of the Year Scott Norton of Costa Mesa, Calif., finished third, losing to J.T. Jackson of Tarzana, Calif., in the second stepladder match. Garber then defeated Jackson, 235-210, to advance to the championship match.

In the PBA Midwest Region, Jason Wojnar of Chicago defeated 2011 USBC Masters champion Tom Hess of Urbandale, Iowa, 242-240, to win the 3-D Bowl Open sponsored by American Family Insurance in Island Lake, Ill., on June 5. The title was Wojnar’s first of the year and the third regional title of his career. He also earned $2,400. Hess defeated Liz Johnson of Cheektowaga, N.Y., 279-168, to advance to the title match.

Also on June 5, Harry Sullins (left) of Chesterfield Twp., Mich., defeated George Hall of Genoa, Ill., 210-184, to win the joint Midwest/Central Wood Dale Bowl Senior Open sponsored by Allstate. The win was Sullins’ second in two weeks and the 17th combined standard/senior regional title of his career. He earned $1,500.

Over Memorial Day weekend, Sullins and Ricky Beck of Box Elder, S.C., were winners in the one-day joint PBA Midwest/Central Senior Regionals at Town and Country Lanes in Joliet, Ill. Sullins defeated Tom Hinz of Joliet, 248-236, to win the $1,200 first prize and his 16th career PBA Regional title in Saturday’s one-day event. Beck topped Dan Miner of Moline, Ill., 213-185, in Sunday’s finale, also earning $1,200 along with his first PBA Senior Regional title. Both were sponsored by Allstate Insurance.

PBA Regional action continues this week with the PBA West Region Saguaro Senior Open Tuesday-Thursday at Johnson Lanes in Sun City West, Ariz., followed by three weekend events. The PBA South Region will conduct its second annual Fran Bohlman Memorial at Avalon Bowl in Milton, Fla., Friday through Saturday, and the Central Region will host the joint Central/Midwest Terre Haute Open at Terre Haute Bowling Center in Terre Haute, Ind.

 

Kulick wins Singapore International Open women’s title

Kelly Kulick (pictured) of Union, N.J., defeated 2011 Collegiate Woman Bowler of the Year Jazreel Tan of Singapore to win the Open Masters women’s division of the 44th Singapore International Open at Orchid Bowl in Singapore on June 4.

Kulick, the only non-Asian woman in the 30-player Masters final, averaged 212.69 over 16 games to earn the No. 1 seed for the stepladder finals, giving her the advantage of having to lose twice to lose the title. Tan, who bowled for Wichita State University, defeated the 2010 PBA Tournament of Champions winner in their first match, 215-196, but Kulick rebounded with a 226-210 win to claim the first prize of approximately $4,880 in U.S. dollars.

 

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