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North Carolina’s
Joe Scarborough Rolls First
900 Series In PBA History
Senior ―rookie‖ starts PBA50 Sun Bowl at The Villages with
three consecutive 300 games
THE VILLAGES, Fla. – Joe Scarborough of Charlotte, N.C.,
rolled three consecutive 300 games to start the first round of
qualifying in the PBA50 Sun Bowl at The Villages at Spanish
Springs Lanes Sunday, recording the first 900 series in Profes-
sional Bowlers Association history.
Scarborough, who turned 50 in October 2012, is bowling in
only his second PBA50 Tour event. He qualified 38th in the re-
named PBA Senior Tour’s season-opener in New Port Richey,
Fla., last week, but lost his first best-of-three-game single-
elimination match.
The self-employed electrical contractor threw another strike to
start his fourth game, but his streak ended at 37 in a row when
he left a split on his 38th shot. Three straight sub-200 games
then toppled him out of the lead and into a tie for 12th place with
1,921 pins, 77 pins behind leader PBA Hall of Famer Mark Wil-
liams of Beaumont, Texas, who averaged 249.75 for eight
games to lead the field of 159 bowlers with a 1,998 total.
―I’m pretty surprised,‖ Scarborough said. ―I had the shot, I
took my time and it worked out. To be honest, no, I wasn’t nerv-
ous. I was pretending I was at home practicing, and I blocked
out the crowd and focused on executing every shot.
―After the first three games, I moved to the other end of the
house where the lanes were drier and I just couldn’t get the ball
down the lane the same way. It wasn’t the pressure.
―It’s unbelievable, especially to be the first in the PBA to do
it,‖ he added. Scarborough said his previous high three-game
series was an 838 and he had 14 previous 300 games.
―It’s interesting that I used a different ball to start practice, but
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Walter Ray Williams Jr. Wins
PBA50 Sun Bowl
In The Villages for Fifth Career PBA50 Tour Title
Reigning PBA50 Player of the Year defeats fellow Hall of Famer
and 2012 PBA50 Rookie of the Year Amleto Monacelli 276-216 in
championship match
THE VILLAGES, Fla. – In a stepladder final made up of three
of the Professional Bowlers Association’s all-time greats, Hall of
Famer Walter Ray Williams Jr. of Ocala, Fla., prevailed to win his
fifth career PBA50 Tour title by capturing the Sun Bowl In The
Villages presented by Hammer title Tuesday at Spanish Springs
Lanes.
Williams, the reigning PBA50 Player of the Year, defeated
fellow Hall of Famer and 2012 PBA50 Rookie of the Year Amleto
Monacelli of Venezuela, 276-216, in the championship match to
win the second tournament of the 2013 PBA50 Tour season.
Williams found it necessary to implement the unusual tech-
nique of using a different ball on each lane of the championship
pair in the title match to get the desired ball reaction on each
lane.
―It’s not something I normally do, but I practiced with a few
balls and was able to determine that if I needed to make a
change like that I had the equipment I could do it with,‖ Williams
said. ―It turned out that I made the right decisions at the right time
and Amleto had a couple bad breaks and I was fortunate to get
the win.‖
It was a rematch of the last time Williams and Monacelli, a 19-
time Tour winner, met in a PBA50 Tour championship match
when Monacelli defeated Williams 255-247 to win the 2012 PBA
Senior U.S. Open last June in Las Vegas.
―Anytime you can beat Amleto it’s an accomplishment,‖ said
Williams, who owns 47 PBA Tour titles which tops the all-time list.
―There were so many great players in this tournament I feel very
fortunate to have won it.‖
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Bob Learn Jr. Overcomes
Back Injury to Win
PBA50 Pasco County Suncoast Open Benefiting
Wounded Warriors
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. – Overcoming a back injury suf-
fered in qualifying, Bob Learn Jr. of Erie, Pa., won the PBA50
Pasco County Suncoast Open Benefiting Wounded Warriors
Wednesday at Lane Glo Bowl for his second career PBA50 Tour
title.
In the first tournament of the 2013 PBA50 Tour (formerly Sen-
ior Tour) season, Learn defeated PBA Hall of Famer Wayne
Webb of Columbus, Ohio, 226-206, in the championship match.
Learn, also a five-time PBA Tour winner, injured his back
when he slipped slightly on his approach during the fourth frame
of the first game of Tuesday’s second round of qualifying which
caused a sprain in his lower back. He managed to struggle
through the rest of the round but didn’t know how long he would
last.
With the help of Gulf Coast Spinal Center, one of the tourna-
ment’s sponsors, Learn was able get treatment on Tuesday eve-
ning and Wednesday morning to at least make an effort to bowl
in Wednesday’s match play.
―I thought I might have to withdraw after a couple games in the
second round of qualifying but I managed to struggle through it,‖
said the 51-year-old Learn. ―The treatment helped to the point
where I felt good enough to at least start match play but I had no
idea how far I could go after that. The expectation was not to win
but maybe make it through a match or two.
―I felt about 20 percent yesterday but felt about 80 percent
today,‖ said Learn, who had to win five matches to get to the
championship match. ―I was actually getting better as the day
went on and was probably in my best shape when I had some of
my toughest matches toward the end of the day.‖
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Danville Bowl - May 5th
Dalton Cox $1,108 with Progressive
Gene Hutcherson $300
AMF Pinole - April 28th
Tim Borja $1,108 with Progressive
Tyvon Walker $300
Deanna Dailey $130
AMF Mission Lanes
April 21
Renato Olimpo
$1,140
with Progressive
Carlos Alhambra
$250
Clayton Valley Bowl
April 14
Len Harris $1,240
with Progressive
Dory Massey $250
