10
- October 2017
The Orleans hosted the LV Tour's 3rd Quarter Championship with
$250.00
in
added prize money provided by the Tour! The Top qualifier
from Saturday's competition was
David Lankford,
he received a
Storm Bowl-
ing Ball courtesy of Storm.
David's AWESOME score of 1057 held up to also
be the Top Qualifier for the weekend and he will receive a Tour TQ
jacket. Congratulations David! And thanks to
Storm Bowling Products
for
providing such a great prize!
The weekend kicked off with our
Crazy 8s Contest
breaking last week's re-
cord of 16 entries with 18 this time around. The 3 Lucky winners were
Lola
Anderson and David Lankford
winning their way in to Main Event and
Jim
Eckerson
picked up
$40
toward his entry by finishing in third place.
Crazy
8s
is a great way to "Win Your Way In" for only five bucks! Give it a try in two
weeks at Silver Nugget! The next exciting event was
Dennis Huston's
"Golden
Shot" for
$2,188.00.
Unfortunately he did not get his 7th nine tap in a row but
was rewarded with a COOL
$500.00
from the Jackpot!
Saturday's format was different from our previous quarterly championships as
Members were qualified by squad for the Sunday Finals. After the 3 squads
were completed 8 bowlers were on their way to the Finals. The scoring was a
bit juiced as 5 bowlers broke the 1000 mark and low to qualify was a 969. The
two 'Last Chance' squads on Sunday qualified 3 more Members for the Fi-
nals. There was a little added excitement as there was a tie for the third spot
between
Henry Murphy and Orrie Smith
who each had a 981 series. After a
two frame roll-off, Orrie moved on to the Finals with Troy Rawling (995) and
Alex Watanabe (993). So with the 11 man field set for the Finals, we held one
Monster round and eliminated 3 members to get to the Elite Eight. As always,
all Finalists made the "Cash List" to share in the
$3,922.00
paid out.
Advancing after the completion of the Monster round were
Dennis Huston,
Troy Rawling, Lenny Riley, Orrie Smith, Tony Madolora, Norris Monta-
gue, Alex Watanabe, and Okbum Shin. This group had a collective 14 ti-
tles between them and one Member, Orrie Smith, in search of his first ti-
tle. The eliminated finalists: David Lankford, Jim Eckerson, Greg
Mamac
settled for a 9th-11th place finish good for a
$75.00
payday. After the
Elite 8 Round, Members
Lenny Riley, Alex Watanabe, Okdum Shin and Den-
nis Huston
were eliminated and received
$125.00 each.
The Final Four
Troy Rawling, Norris Montague, Orrie Smith, and Tony Madolora
With the Final Four set, Troy was making a record third appearance this year in
a Quarterly Championship. Orrie was chasing his first Title and Norris and Tony
were looking to pick up their second Title. Both of the semi-final matches were
very exciting as the winners were not determined until the final two frames were
completed! Moving on to the Final Match was
Norris Montague
and
Orrie
Smith.
Both Tony and Troy each took home
$230.00!
In the championship match,
Orrie Smith
went up against
Norris Monta-
gue.
Norris had a 7 pin handicap advantage over his close friend of 12
years. Both Orrie at 81 years young and Norris at 70 years had 3 games of
bowling behind them before starting the final match of the day. The match was
even during the first five frames or so until Orrie faltered a bit and Norris contin-
ued to strike. The final score was 238 to 211 giving Norris his second Tour Title
as 3rd Quarter Champion of 2017! Orrie would get a very nice check
for
$390.00
and Norris pocketed an AWESOME
$952.00.
Congratulations to
both Norris and Orrie for a weekend of great bowling and achievements!
Norris Montague
joined the 9-Tap Tour LV back in our first tournament in Nov
of 2015. He is one of the original 50 Members with membership #22. For this
tournament, Norris used his
Columbia Full Tilt
ball drilled up by
David
Haynes
. A retired school teacher who is showing no signs of slowing down,
plans on bowling 4 leagues this winter at 4 different centers. He won his first
title at Gold Coast in March 2017 and thanks his wife, Susan for supporting his
tournament bowling passion.
Cheering him on to victory were fellow Members
Brian Blackman
and
Tony
Madolora.
He commented that "he had the bowling gods with him" this week-
end to help with his victory. As for the money.....its going in the bank!
9-Tap Tour Schedule of Tournaments
10/28 Texas Star Lanes
11/4 Santa Fe Bowling Center
11/11 Gold Coast Lanes
11/18 Sam’s Town Bowl
11/25 Silver Nugget
Call David: 904-236-9223
