Le Plaza Bowling in Saint Maximin, France (March 5-14, 2010)
2009 World Games champion Krista Pöllänen (l.) from Finland led the 12th qualifying squad with 1477 pinfall total en route to become the top-ranked women in the 298-player field of the Brunswick Euro Challenge. Robert Andersson (r.), Sweden, led fellow World Doubles Champion Martin Larsen in Squad 13 by 4 pins, 1444 to 1440, en route to move into 11th and 1wth place in the overall qualifying standings.
Chad Murphy accepts new post at International Bowling Campus
The Bowling Proprietors' Association of America (BPAA) announces the appointment of bowling industry veteran Chad Murphy (pictured) as its new Director of Youth. As BPAA continues to redefine its strategic priorities, Murphy will assume responsibilities of managing existing programs and developing new proprietor-driven initiatives aimed at growing the sport among young bowlers. Murphy comes to BPAA from Ebonite International in Hopkinsville, Ky., where he served as the Columbia 300 brand manager since 2007.
Kimmo Lehtonen and defending champion Mike Fagan achieve perfection
Anthony Pepe (l.), United States, fired games of, 299, 258, 217, 245, 297 and 256 in Squad 10 on Thursday morning to shoot into the lead in the Brunswick Euro Challenge with 1572 and an average of 262.00. Pepe had the front 11 in the first and fifth game but failed to roll the tournament's first 300. Kimmo Lehtonen (r.) accomplished the feat in the first game of Squad 11 and defending champion, Mike Fagan, United States, matched the feat five games later.
Carolyn Dorin-Ballard and Adian Ang lead Squads 8 and 9
PBA Women's Series exempt player Carolyn Dorin-Ballard (l.) led Squad 8 on Wednesday afternoon to move into 4th place in the overall qualifying standings in the Brunswick Euro Challenge currently underway at Le Plaza Bowling in Saint Maximin, France. Adrian Ang was the best of three Malaysians atop Squad 9 with 1479 to remain in third
position. Nico Joris, Belgium, leads the field since Squad 3 with 1518 six-game total and an average of 253.00.
Go RVing Match Play Championship lineup is set, online "pick the winners" contest now available
Let the games begin: the PBA's first "PBA Bracket Battle" is online and ready to go, giving bowling fans an opportunity to pick all of the winners in the Go RVing Match Play Championship which gets underway Wednesday, March 17, at Norwich Bowling and Entertainment Center in Norwich, Conn. The PBA Bracket Battle will seed the top 58 PBA Tour players and 8 players who emerge from the Tour Qualifying Round on March 17 in a 64-player single-elimination bracket competition.
Top four teams will advance to the 2010 USBC Intercollegiate Team Championships
After finishing their regular season last weekend, the WSU Shockers quickly found out that they will be traveling to Peoria, Ill. to compete in the Peoria Sectional, March 13-14. Both the men and women (pictured) will be competing in the same sectional which features 17 teams in the men's division and 18 in the women's. The top four teams from each will advance to the USBC Intercollegiate Team Championships at the El Paso Convention and Performing Arts Center in El Paso, Texas on April 14-17.
Brunswick Bowling welcomes a new product specialist to its consumer products team. Nick Smith (pictured) has joined the Brunswick team and will support Brunswick consumer products distributors, Complete Bowling Service and Steve Cook's Bowling Supply, and their customers in Alaska, northern California, Idaho, Montana, northern Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, as well as the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia.
North American and Malaysian bowlers dominate Qualifying Squad 7
32-time PBA champion and 2-time PBA Player of the Year, Parker Bohn III (left, 4th) and 20-time PWBA champion and former PWBA Player of the Year, Carolyn Dorin-Ballard (right, 9th), United States, rolled six-game series of 1451 and 1398, respectively, Tuesday night to move into the top 10 in the Brunswick Euro Challenge. Adrian Ang, Malaysia, topped Bohn by 19 pins for the squad lead to overtake 3rd place. Nico Joris, Belgium, held on to the lead with 1518.
National Bowling Stadium in Reno, Nev., United States (Feb. 20 - July 5, 2010)
Barry Zimmerman of Grand Forks, N.D., has been on the verge of perfection at the USBC Open Championships before, and when he got a second chance to add his name to the record books, he took full advantage and rolled the first 300 game of the 2010 event. The 49-year-old right-hander started singles with 12 consecutive strikes and added games of 230 and 236 for a 766 series at the National Bowling Stadium on Monday night, which also moved him into the top spot in Regular Singles. Larry Thompson Jr. of Spring, Texas previously held the lead with 742.
The last thing Kelly Kulick could have imagined as she rolled her way to victory in the PBA Tournament of Champions in January was that her historic victory would lead to a visit to the White House. And beyond simply acknowledging her as the first woman to win a Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour title, Kulick found herself being honored as an American pioneer who had carved out a unique place in the nation's history as the first woman to win a major championship in a male-dominated professional sport.
Republished courtesy of The California Bowling News
Ashley N. Dunn, Palmdale, CA, is no stranger to having success on the lanes at an early age. She has been racking up accomplishments well ahead of her age group since she began bowling at 8 years old. Ashley has now turned 13, but was determined to accomplish as much as possible while she was still 12. On February 8th and 9th Ashley rolled two games of 11 in a row, a 748 and 760 series, a 290 and 298
game, which helped her to a book average of 201 and a league average in session of 205. Not
bad for a 12 year old girl!
Reality Check Foundation, a non-profit organization targeting troubled youths, is holding their First Annual Teen Bowling event on March 27th from 1-4pm at Shore Lanes in Palm Bay, according to Joseph Reilly, vice president of Reality Check Foundation. The purpose is to introduce at-risk teens to fun and positive alternatives to misguided activities that encourage criminal behavior. The organization plans to take 160 teens for the free bowling outing.
Shoots 1495 series to move into second place in qualifying
Yoan Alix (l) played in his own league in sixth qualifying squad of the 2010 Brunswick Euro Challenge Monday evening at Le Plaza Bowling in Saint Maximin, France. The French international came out of the gates quickly with 221 followed by 268 and 236 for 725 after three games. Alix closed out his series with 255, 259 and 256 to jump into second place in the overall qualifying standings with 1495. Nico Joris (r.) continued to lead with 1518.
National Bowling Stadium in Reno, Nev., United States (Feb. 20 - July 5, 2010)
Matt Smith (l.) of Altoona, Iowa, has performed consistently during his USBC Open Championships career, and he excelled again in 2010, taking the lead in Regular Doubles and Regular All-Events at the National Bowling Stadium on Sunday. The 34-year-old right-hander started his 2010 tournament campaign slowly with a 609 series in team, but averaged 244 during doubles and singles on the way to a 2,073 all-events total. Smith partnered with Jason Hale (r.) of Des Moines, Iowa, for a 1,411 doubles total.
Home-state favorite Kretzer fails to capitalize on gift opportunity in 10th frame
Mike Scroggins (l.) of Amarillo, Texas, won his eighth career title and second of the 2009-10 season in the PBA Etonic Don Johnson Eliminator finals at Sequoia Pro Bowl Sunday, surviving a 10th-frame error to edge home-state favorite Brian Kretzer (r.) of Dayton, Ohio, 206-195, in the championship match. The PBA Tour will take a week off before returning to action in ithe Go RVing Match Play Championship March 17-21 in Norwich, Conn.
The International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame (IBMHF) hosted the fourth Annual Dallas/Fort Worth & Beyond Marketplace at the International Bowling Campus (IBC) March 1, 2010. Over 400 professionals from all over North Texas attended the 2010 DFW Tourism Council event to learn first-hand all of the new, exciting things being offered this spring and summer in Dallas/Fort Worth area.
In preparation for upcoming postseason events, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) women's bowling team paid a visit to the International Training and Research Center this week. The Hawks, the No. 2 ranked NCAA team nationally, trained with ITRC and Team USA head coach Rod Ross and assistant head coach Kim Terrell-Kearney (pictured left) at the International Bowling Campus. The team did a combination of classroom work and on-the-lanes training.
After 15 days of online voting, six United States Bowling Congress league bowlers are closer to their chance of going on national television to compete against some of the top bowlers on the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour. Fans cast more than 140,000 votes to determine the six bowlers who advanced in the PBA Experience Showdown, a unique competition for USBC Sport Bowling members. The winner of the qualifier will square off against the five winners of the 2009-10 PBA Tour Versatility Swing.
Mubarak Al-Muraikhi (pictured), one of two Qatari in the finals of the H.H. The Emir's Cup 2010 in Doha, Qatar, won three two-game matches decided by total pinfall en route to win the title and the 75.000 Qatari Riyal top prize (approx. $20,600). Al-Muraikhi, who won the Emir's Cup in 2007, defeated Naif Oqab in the championship match, 449-413. Oqab received 40.000 QAR for second place, Mansoor Al-Awamy, Qatar, pocketed 20.000 for third and Remy Ong, Singapore, garnered 10.000 for fourth.
The United States Bowling Congress has recently received several inquiries as to the overall financial status of the SMART scholarship funds. "We are issuing this statement to reassure all SMART providers and recipients that the funds are completely safe," USBC Executive Director Stu Upson (right) said.
2009 World Games champion K
rista Pöllänen (l.) from Finland led the 12th qualifying squad with 1477 pinfall total en route to become the top-ranked women in the 298-player field of the Brunswick Euro Challenge. Robert Andersson (r.), Sweden, led fellow World Doubles Champion Martin Larsen in Squad 13 by 4 pins, 1444 to 1440, en route to move into 11th and 1wth place in the overall qualifying standings. 
The Bowling Proprietors' Association of America (BPAA) announces the appointment of bowling industry veteran Chad Murphy (pictured) as its new Director of Youth. As BPAA continues to redefine its strategic priorities, Murphy will assume responsibilities of managing existing programs and developing new proprietor-driven initiatives aimed at growing the sport among young bowlers. Murphy comes to BPAA from Ebonite International in Hopkinsville, Ky., where he served as the Columbia 300 brand manager since 2007.
Anthony Pepe (l.), United States, fired games of, 299, 258, 217, 245, 297 and 256 in Squad 10 on Thursday morning to shoot into the lead in the Brunswick Euro Challenge with 1572 and an average of 262.00. Pepe had the front 11 in the first and fifth game but failed to roll the tournament's first 300. Kimmo Lehtonen (r.) accomplished the feat in the first game of Squad 11 and defending champion, Mike Fagan, United States, matched the feat five games later. 
PBA Women's Series exempt player Carolyn Dorin-Ballard (l.) led Squad 8 on Wednesday afternoon to move into 4th place in the overall qualifying standings in the Brunswick Euro Challenge currently underway at Le Plaza Bowling in Saint Maximin, France. Adrian Ang was the best of three Malaysians atop Squad 9 with 1479 to remain in third
position. Nico Joris, Belgium, leads the field since Squad 3 with 1518 six-game total and an average of 253.00. 
Let the games begin: the PBA's first "PBA Bracket Battle" is online and ready to go, giving bowling fans an opportunity to pick all of the winners in the Go RVing Match Play Championship which gets underway Wednesday, March 17, at Norwich Bowling and Entertainment Center in Norwich, Conn. The PBA Bracket Battle will seed the top 58 PBA Tour players and 8 players who emerge from the Tour Qualifying Round on March 17 in a 64-player single-elimination bracket competition. 
After finishing their regular season last weekend, the WSU Shockers quickly found out that they will be traveling to Peoria, Ill. to compete in the Peoria Sectional, March 13-14. Both the men and women (pictured) will be competing in the same sectional which features 17 teams in the men's division and 18 in the women's. The top four teams from each will advance to the USBC Intercollegiate Team Championships at the El Paso Convention and Performing Arts Center in El Paso, Texas on April 14-17.
Brunswick Bowling welcomes a new product specialist to its consumer products team. Nick Smith (pictured) has joined the Brunswick team and will support Brunswick consumer products distributors, Complete Bowling Service and Steve Cook's Bowling Supply, and their customers in Alaska, northern California, Idaho, Montana, northern Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, as well as the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia.
32-time PBA champion and 2-time PBA Player of the Year, Parker Bohn III (left, 4th) and 20-time PWBA champion and former PWBA Player of the Year, Carolyn Dorin-Ballard (right, 9th), United States, rolled six-game series of 1451 and 1398, respectively, Tuesday night to move into the top 10 in the Brunswick Euro Challenge. Adrian Ang, Malaysia, topped Bohn by 19 pins for the squad lead to overtake 3rd place. Nico Joris, Belgium, held on to the lead with 1518.
Barry Zimmerman of Grand Forks, N.D., has been on the verge of perfection at the USBC Open Championships before, and when he got a second chance to add his name to the record books, he took full advantage and rolled the first 300 game of the 2010 event. The 49-year-old right-hander started singles with 12 consecutive strikes and added games of 230 and 236 for a 766 series at the National Bowling Stadium on Monday night, which also moved him into the top spot in Regular Singles. Larry Thompson Jr. of Spring, Texas previously held the lead with 742.
The last thing Kelly Kulick could have imagined as she rolled her way to victory in the PBA Tournament of Champions in January was that her historic victory would lead to a visit to the White House. And beyond simply acknowledging her as the first woman to win a Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour title, Kulick found herself being honored as an American pioneer who had carved out a unique place in the nation's history as the first woman to win a major championship in a male-dominated professional sport.
Ashley N. Dunn, Palmdale, CA, is no stranger to having success on the lanes at an early age. She has been racking up accomplishments well ahead of her age group since she began bowling at 8 years old. Ashley has now turned 13, but was determined to accomplish as much as possible while she was still 12. On February 8th and 9th Ashley rolled two games of 11 in a row, a 748 and 760 series, a 290 and 298
game, which helped her to a book average of 201 and a league average in session of 205. Not
bad for a 12 year old girl!
Reality Check Foundation, a non-profit organization targeting troubled youths, is holding their First Annual Teen Bowling event on March 27th from 1-4pm at Shore Lanes in Palm Bay, according to Joseph Reilly, vice president of Reality Check Foundation. The purpose is to introduce at-risk teens to fun and positive alternatives to misguided activities that encourage criminal behavior. The organization plans to take 160 teens for the free bowling outing. 
Yoan Alix (l) played in his own league in sixth qualifying squad of the 2010 Brunswick Euro Challenge Monday evening at Le Plaza Bowling in Saint Maximin, France. The French international came out of the gates quickly with 221 followed by 268 and 236 for 725 after three games. Alix closed out his series with 255, 259 and 256 to jump into second place in the overall qualifying standings with 1495. Nico Joris (r.) continued to lead with 1518.
Matt Smith (l.) of Altoona, Iowa, has performed consistently during his USBC Open Championships career, and he excelled again in 2010, taking the lead in Regular Doubles and Regular All-Events at the National Bowling Stadium on Sunday. The 34-year-old right-hander started his 2010 tournament campaign slowly with a 609 series in team, but averaged 244 during doubles and singles on the way to a 2,073 all-events total. Smith partnered with Jason Hale (r.) of Des Moines, Iowa, for a 1,411 doubles total.
Mike Scroggins (l.) of Amarillo, Texas, won his eighth career title and second of the 2009-10 season in the PBA Etonic Don Johnson Eliminator finals at Sequoia Pro Bowl Sunday, surviving a 10th-frame error to edge home-state favorite Brian Kretzer (r.) of Dayton, Ohio, 206-195, in the championship match. The PBA Tour will take a week off before returning to action in ithe Go RVing Match Play Championship March 17-21 in Norwich, Conn.
The International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame (IBMHF) hosted the fourth Annual Dallas/Fort Worth & Beyond Marketplace at the International Bowling Campus (IBC) March 1, 2010. Over 400 professionals from all over North Texas attended the 2010 DFW Tourism Council event to learn first-hand all of the new, exciting things being offered this spring and summer in Dallas/Fort Worth area.
In preparation for upcoming postseason events, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) women's bowling team paid a visit to the International Training and Research Center this week. The Hawks, the No. 2 ranked NCAA team nationally, trained with ITRC and Team USA head coach Rod Ross and assistant head coach Kim Terrell-Kearney (pictured left) at the International Bowling Campus. The team did a combination of classroom work and on-the-lanes training.
After 15 days of online voting, six United States Bowling Congress league bowlers are closer to their chance of going on national television to compete against some of the top bowlers on the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour. Fans cast more than 140,000 votes to determine the six bowlers who advanced in the PBA Experience Showdown, a unique competition for USBC Sport Bowling members. The winner of the qualifier will square off against the five winners of the 2009-10 PBA Tour Versatility Swing. 
Mubarak Al-Muraikhi (pictured), one of two Qatari in the finals of the H.H. The Emir's Cup 2010 in Doha, Qatar, won three two-game matches decided by total pinfall en route to win the title and the 75.000 Qatari Riyal top prize (approx. $20,600). Al-Muraikhi, who won the Emir's Cup in 2007, defeated Naif Oqab in the championship match, 449-413. Oqab received 40.000 QAR for second place, Mansoor Al-Awamy, Qatar, pocketed 20.000 for third and Remy Ong, Singapore, garnered 10.000 for fourth.
The United States Bowling Congress has recently received several inquiries as to the overall financial status of the SMART scholarship funds. "We are issuing this statement to reassure all SMART providers and recipients that the funds are completely safe," USBC Executive Director Stu Upson (right) said.