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TOURNAMENTS
Spring National
Sign up NOW!!!
Sign Up NOW for the 2014 Spring
Nationals. The room block at Sam's
Town closes on March 1st so make
your reservations and buy your Unlim-
ited Pass or Premier Pack NOW!!!.
Results from the 2014 Winter Nation-
als can be seen under the "Major
Events" tab on the national website
.
The Winter Doubles had over 220
entries and paid out over $17,000 in
prize money. $5,000.00 was paid to
first Place. During the Spring event,
first place is GUARANTEED at
$10,000.00, with the same low gold
member entry fee of only $50.00 per
bowler. The Main event this spring has
a guaranteed 1st place of $25,000, with
Mega and local branch entry bonus,
with a low to cash of $1,000 when you
make the match play finals. Make sure
to get your reservations in ASAP, we
don't expect any grace period on the
Spring Room Block.
The Storm Bounty Ball for the Spring
event will be the NEW Zero Grav-
ity. The Bounty pays $1,000 to the
highest finishing Finalist using the Zero
Gravity. ABT will also pay a $500 bo-
nus to the highest finishing finalist in
the main event wearing the Special
ABT Randy Pedersen Jersey, embroi-
dered by Twisting Stitch our national
embroidery company. Order your Jer-
sey today through the ABT National
Office.
2014 USBC
Women's
April 11 - June 29 (last day of
team competition) Reno-Sparks
Convention Center Reno, Nev.
Each year, more than 30,000
bowlers compete at the USBC
Women's Championships, the
world's largest participatory sport-
i n g e v e n t f o r w o m e n .
From a convention and tourism
perspective, the influx of approxi-
mately 600 bowlers plus family and
friends each day provides an esti-
mated economic boost of more
than $40 million to the host city
during the course of the event.
WTBA NEWS:
Kulick, Rash
Lead WBT
Standings after USBC
Masters, Emir Cup
By Kevin Dornberger
ARLINGTON, Texas - The United
States' Kelly Kulick and Sean Rash
continue to lead their respective divi-
sions in the World Bowling Tour-
points standings after the recently
concluded United States Bowling
Congress Masters and the H.H. Emir
Cup in Qatar.
Kulick, who picked up double points
for her first-place finish among
women at the USBC Masters, has
opened up a huge lead on the rest of
the field. She sits in first place with
740 points, while fellow American Liz
Johnson is second with 505 points.
Missy Parkin of the United States is
third with 495points, while Singa-
pore's Jazreel Tan picked up 35
points in Qatar and has moved into
fourth place with 360 points. Swe-
den's Sandra Anderson is fifth with
350 points.
Rash continues to lead the men's
division by a narrow margin over
Mika Koivuniemi of Finland. Rash
has earned 648 points, while Koi-
vuniemi has 603 points.
Australia's Jason Belmonte won the
USBC Masters to earn100 points and
move up to third place with 558
points. Tommy Jones of the United
States is fourth with 522 points, while
Dom Barrett is fifth with 493points.
Chris Barnes of Team USA sits in
seventh place with 409points after
earning 50 points for his victory in the
H.H. Emir Cup over the weekend.
The H.H. Emir Cup in Qatar was the
first event in the second Gulf Coop-
eration Countries (GCC) Swing of the
2014 World Bowling Tour.
The Kingdom of Bahrain Open is
currently underway in Oman, Bah-
rain, and it is the first time the coun-
try of Bahrain has hosted a World
Bowling Tour Event. The second
GCC Swing wraps up with the Kuwait
Open in Kuwait city from March 10-
14. For information on the Kuwait
Open, visit KuwaitBowling.com.
The World Bowling Tour will then
head back to Europe for the Bruns-
wick Euro Challenge in Munich, Ger-
many, from March 15-23. For more
information, visit BrunswickEuroChal-
lenge.com.
PBA Jackson
Rancheria Casino
Resort
Championship
At Gold Country Lanes
The 11th annual PBA Jackson
Rancheria Casino Resort Champion-
ship was held last weekend at Gold
Country Lanes, in Sutter Creek.
Fifty-eight bowlers, almost all mem-
bers of the Professional Bowlers Asso-
ciation, as well as some local favorites,
competed for first-place money of
$2,300.
When all was said and done, early
Sunday afternoon, David Haynes, who
drove with his wife, Tisha, for nine
hours, from Las Vegas, Nev., to
Amador County for the event, held the
massive champion’s trophy. The final
game win, 268 to 196, over senior star
Kevin Foley, gave Haynes his eighth
regional title.
Local standout bowler Robert
Porovich came within a scant six pins
of making the cut for the Sunday finals,
averaging more than 231 for the eight
games of qualifying on Saturday.
For the tournament, the PBA had
Gold Country Lanes lay down an oil
pattern named No. 10, which made for
extremely high scoring. During qualify-
ing, the highest average for eight
games was registered by Adam Wil-
son, of Sparks, Nev., who averaged
just over 253. The lowest average for
qualifying was 232.
One young lady was in the field of 58,
and she very nearly won the title. Kris-
tin Warzinski, who recently moved from
Texas to Lincoln, Calif., to be with her
boyfriend, Brunswick Consumer Prod-
uct Specialist Nick Smith, qualified
eighth on Saturday, then made it all the
way to the semifinals, where she came
within one stubborn seven pin of keep-
ing Haynes out of the title game.
“She’s been bowling great,” said Gold
Country Lanes proprietor John Swift,
“and she’s captured everyone’s heart.”
“Gold Country Lanes is a great friend of
the Rancheria,” said Jackson Ranche-
ria Casino Resort CEO Rich Hoffman.
“This tournament is one of those things
the Rancheria is involved with that
really feel good.”
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