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– DECEMBER 2012
South Point to Host ABTA Las Vegas Open
January 17-18-19-20
$6,000 Min 1st Place up to $12,500 1st with Bonuses Guaranteed
Onsite Entries are welcomed/New Members welcome to join
All Days are separate qualifying boards
NEW Members join up to 209 Average only $10
The ABTA will hold its January Open Event at the Beautiful South Point Jan 17-18-19-20 with a
First Place Guarantee of $6,000.00 and up to $12,500 First Place can be won with the Bonuses
and Cash N Carry Options.
New members up to 209 Average are welcome as this is an Open Event! Membership will only
be $10.00, Seniors Men 55+ and Ladies 49+ receive free Membership in the ABTA Averages
must be completely Verified to enter and Join the ABTA.
Entry Fees for the Big Paying Event are reasonable with First Entry $96 Prepaid by Dec. 29,
$100 Onsite, Re Entries are $93-$83 and all others only $75. Reduced Entries will receive $3,000
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st place and 60 % of all other Prizes, 1st Entry $69, Re entries $59 & $54.
There are Qualifying
Squads all four days and Each Day is a separate qualifying board with 1 in 6 1/2 bowlers making
the board daily and a Special First place in this Event is Guaranteed at $6,000 minimum and with
Bonuses 1st place can be worth up to $12,500.
It all begins Thursday Jan 17 with a $600 Bonus if qualifying on that day, and winning the
event. Squads Thursday are 9:30 PM -11:00 & 12:30 AM with a $600 Bonus. Friday Squads are
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$300 Bonus) 12:00 PM-1:00 PM-2:30-4:00-BREAK-9:30 PM-11:00-12:30 AM. Saturday Jan 19
Squads are 12:00 PM-1:00-2:30-4:00PM-OIL-6:30-8:15-9:15, 10:30 & 11:30 PM taking 1 in 6 1/2
the semi finals. Sunday is the Final Regular day of qualifying squads at 9:00 & 10:15 Am taking 1
in 6 1/2 to the semis then the RE Entry ONLY Squad at 11:45AM taking 1 in 6 1/2 from the Re
entry Squad to the Semifinals at 1:45PM 3-6-9 Roll-off follows the RE Entry at 1:30 PM with the
Semis to follow 1:45 PM and with the top 32 single elim finals to follow! All Semifinalists will cash.
Last Year‟s Event drew 677 Entrants and huge payoffs for our bowlers. We had 131 cashers in the
event as said 1 in 61/2 entrants will cash and or go to the semifinals. Payoffs are made as soon as
possible same day.
Please see Our ad in this paper for more information!
For Information contact the ABTA
562-868-7164,
(CELL)
562-228-3960
or see the Web
Site at
www.abta1.com
We have great room rates Friday and Saturday are $75:00 / $88.48 Tax included and other
nights are $45.00/$50.40 Tax included if You need room it must be booked through the Hotel/
ABTA to secure the rates that we have for our Bowlers, Friends and Families Call
1-866-791-7626
and use Code ABT-0117 Call Mon -Fri 6:00AM-11:00PM Sat/Sun 7:00AM/11:00PM
Deadline for rooms Dec 29 Rooms may still be available afterward but not guaranteed. or price
maybe somewhat higher
The South Point is located at 9777 Las Vegas Blvd (South Strip) and easy to find just take
Interstate 15 to Silverado Canyon Rd go East 1 block to the Center on the right. The phone there
is
702-796-7111.
Onsite entries are welcomed, If You get the urge to try this Big ABTA Event come on down to
the South Point where the Fun and action will be awesome .
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Kent Takes Second At World Cup
ARLINGTON, Texas – Team USA‟s Marshall Kent of Yakima, Wash., reached the title match while
teammate Danielle McEwan of Stony Point, N.Y., finished fourth as the 48th QubicaAMF World Cup
concluded Saturday in Wroclaw, Poland.
Kent, who took the men‟s division lead on Wednesday, maintained his advantage during Saturday
morning‟s match play to earn the top seed in the three-person stepladder finals. In the title match,
Kent faced Malaysia‟s Syafiq Ridhwan Abdul Malek.
Kent started the first game of the best-of-three finals with five consecutive strikes, but Malek stayed
close. When Kent had an open frame in the 10th, leaving the 4-6-7 on his first shot, Malek took advan-
tage for a 236-225 victory.
In a back-and-forth Game 2, Kent started with four strikes but failed to convert a 2-4-8 split in the
eighth. Malek, after opening with two spares, strung together five strikes and pulled away for a 237-
221
victory to capture the title.
“
Unfortunately, the top-seed curse got to me,” Kent said. “I led the tournament but ended up sec-
ond. It was still a solid week overall and was still a good week of bowling. Hopefully, one day I will be
able to earn the spot again to bowl the World Cup and win the Cup for the USA.”
Kent started match play on Saturday morning by going 0-3. He then won his next five matches to
post an 8,339 pinfall total beat Colombia‟s Andres Gomez by 78 pins for the top seed in the steplad-
der finals. Malek, meanwhile, had to win his final match in match play to claim the final spot in the
stepladder finals.
Against Gomez in the semifinals, Malek lost the opening game by two pins but won the final two
games by scores of 224-201 and 258-213 to set up the title match against Kent.
In the women‟s division, McEwan entered Saturday morning‟s match play in fifth place looking to
post wins to earn the 30-pin bonus available in each match and possibly climb into the steplad-
der finals. Despite a solid performance, McEwan went 3-5 in match play and finished with an
8,158
pinfall total, 286 pins out of third place.
“
I started off really well and had some really good games but didn‟t have luck on my side,”
said McEwan. “I lost my first match shooting 258 and that kind of continued. I know I had a
couple of matches I shot 230s, 240s and ended up losing. So those extra bonus pins I needed
didn‟t add up.
“
I think I bowled well today. I have to walk away with my head held high and use this as a
learning experience. It was a fun week and I learned a lot.”
Two-time defending champion Aumi Guerra of the Dominican Republic took the top seed for
the
stepladder finals with an 8,457 pinfall total followed by England‟s Kirsten Penny
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And The Lead Changes Again – To The USA
2012
QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup, Wroclaw, Poland
A superb set of 1236 was not enough for Hareb Al Mansoori of the USA to overtake Kent Marshall of the USA at the top of the men‟s
leader board in the 48th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup in Wroclaw, Poland. Kent‟s total pinfall of 3453 – a 230.2 average – puts him in the
lead with just one set of five qualifying games to go.
We did see a new high game posted. First, Hareb shot 298 and then, in the final squad of the day, home player Pawel Bielski got the first
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but pulled his final shot very wide to leave two pins. Pawel already has one Bowling World Cup perfect game to his credit from Singapore
in 2004. So we are still waiting for the first 300 from the men.
Apart from Hareb, one other player posted a 1200 set: Syafiq Ridhwan Abdul Malek of Malaysia shot 1200 exactly.
In addition we had ten 1100+ sets: Kent Marshall (USA) 1192, Gyorgy Bodis (Hungary) 1178, Andres Gomez (Colombia) 1153, Takashi
Taniai (Japan) 1138, Guy Caminsky (South Africa) 1135, Leonidas Maragkos (Greece) 1135, Mykhaylo Kalika (Ukraine) 1115, Pascal Win-
ternheimer (Germany) 1111, Matt Chamberlain (England) 1110 and Sergey Andreev (Russia) 1110.
At this point the cut for the 24 players to go through to the second round is 3139, a 209.27 average, with Tony O‟Hare of Northern Ireland
just on the cut, 21 pins ahead of Rowan Jay Bautista of the Philippines.
The men will play their final block of five on Thursday afternoon and evening with the second round taking place on Friday.
Greece Misses Out By 1 Pin:
Singapore In The Lead
2012
Qubica AMF Bowling World Cup,
Wroclaw, Poland
The cut for the top 24 players who will go through to the
second round of the 48th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup
has been made and it saw Blanka Hanusikova of the
Czech Republic make it by just one pin ahead of Martha
Karatzoula of Greece.
Blanka becomes the first player ever from the Czech
Republic to advance to the second round of the tourna-
ment. She was delighted and said: "I was so nervous
today, especially in my last two games, but I am so
pleased that I will be playing in the next round. It is an
honour for my country as well."
Shayna Ng of Singapore remains in top spot on 4659,
99
pins ahead of England's Kirsten Penny with defending
champion Aumi Guerra of the Dominican Republic a fur-
ther 50 pins behind in third.
Now in 4th place is Rebecka Larsen of Sweden who
had the high five-game set for the day with 1193, including
the day's high game of 279.
Other women hitting over 1100 were Jane Sin of Malay-
sia (1191), Danielle McEwan of the USA (1170), Krizziah
Tabora of the Philippines (1150), Kirsten on 1148, Milki Ng
of Hong Kong (1123), Aumi (1108) and Janine Gabel of
Germany (1100).