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- Aug/Sep 2017
Steve Cook’s Fireside Lanes
Great weekend of bowling for our youth bowlers!!!
Sunday was Jr/Adult YBT and we had several of our
kids winning scholarship money!
Scratch Division - Congrats to James Wakefield for
winning the title with his partner Forrest! Fantastic
bowling James! Taking the 5-8 spots was Madison
Bailey and her partner Brittany Hillman and Andrei
Tacorda and his partner Kimberly Power! Taking the
16th spot to cash was Tyler Betz and Dave Seiler!
Great bowling kiddos!
Handicap Division - Congrats to Tyler Harvey for
taking 2nd place with his partner Jay Motas! Terrific
bowling Tyler!
Next YBT event will be at Earl Anthony Bowl in Dub-
lin in September! Please speak to Marie with ques-
tions and signups.
First YBT Sport Singles happened today and con-
gratulations to our youth bowler Welby Spanton for
winning the gold division! Awesome bowling Welby!
A special congrats to Madison Bailey who finished
6th in the Gold Division! Nice job Maddie!
And guess who's going to Jr Gold Dallas 2018!
Congrats to Josh Lee and Matt Pumphrey who won
their Jr Gold spots today! Great job boys!!!
Junior Scratch Trios are starting in September and we
are getting ready for our draft!! The draft will be taking
place on August 31st at 630pm.
If you cannot make it let Shelby or Brenda know! The
official start of league is September 9th at 9:30 am!
This scratch league will a Junior Gold Qualifier
(3 spots will be awarded)! Sign up now to get in the
draft!
Important Pepsi Dates
U15 Winners Crowned At 2017
Junior Gold Championships
By
WICKLIFFE, Ohio -
Solomon Salama of Beverly Hills,
California, and Jennifer Loredo of Fresno, California,
each showed a flair for the dramatic on their way to
titles in the 15-and-under division at the 2017
resented by the Brands of Eb-
onite International.
Salama, 14, put together a historic performance on his
way to defending his U15 boys title with a 553-380 win
against Anthony Neuer of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania,
and Loredo, 14, rallied in the two-game total pinfall title
match at Game of Wickliffe to claim the girls title over
Sarah Sanes of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 411-395.
The championship round in each division aired nation-
ally on CBS Sports Network on Tuesday.
After winning the U15 boys title in Indianapolis last
year, the expectations were high for Salama. A slow
start forced him to refocus, as he had to work his way
up the standings each day.
"At first, I was kind of nervous and was putting a lot of
pressure on myself to bowl well," said Salama, a two-
hander who attacks the lanes from the left. "I did not
bowl well at all to start qualifying, but I reset my entire
mindset, took it one shot a time and was able to make
my way back."
The U15 boys title match had historic implications.
Team USA members and Professional Women's Bowl-
ing Association Tour standouts Shannon Pluhowsky
(1999-2001) and Stefanie Johnson (2003-2005) each
captured three Junior Gold titles in the girls division,
and Junior Team USA member Breanna Clemmer took
home wins in 2012 (U15) and 2014 (U20), but no one in
the boys division had ever won multiple titles.
That was guaranteed to change as each finalist al-
ready had a Junior Gold title - Neuer won the inaugural
U12 title at the 2014 event in Buffalo, NY, and Salama
was the defending U15 champion.
Salama quickly found the right look in the title tilt, roll-
ing eight strikes on his way to a 254-186 advantage. He
continued to strike as he drew closer to victory, starting
Game 2 with 11 consecutive strikes before leaving a 7
pin on his final shot for a 299.
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