Local bowlers selected for national web vote.

February 10, 2010

Kennewick, WA

 Spare Time Lanes in Kennewick offers a PBA Experience Showdown League on Tuesday evenings as part of a promotion through United States Bowl Congress (USBC).  League members that bowled the highest scratch series for their first 3 games became the “Joe of the Week”.  After more than six months of qualifying and more than 1,200 entries, a random computer drawing has pared the PBA Experience Showdown field to 18 competitors.

 2 PBA Experience league bowlers from the Tri-Cities area have been selected by to compete in a National Web poll.

Holly Harris of Pasco, Washington has been selected as 1 of the 18 competitors that come from across the nation.  Holly qualified on the Shark pattern rolling a 580 series to earn the “Joe of the Week”. 

Kyle Casey of Kennewick, Washington has been selected as 1 of the 18 competitors that come from across the nation.  Kyle qualified on the Scorpion pattern rolling a 690 series to earn the “Joe of the Week”. 

PBA Experience Showdown field down to final 18; online voting begins Feb. 15 on BOWL.com

Starting Feb. 15, you can visit BOWL.com and vote for your favorite bowler from each of the six patterns: Chameleon, Cheetah, Scorpion, Shark, Viper and Other. You may vote one time (for each oil pattern) per day from Feb. 15 until 11:59 p.m. ET on March 1. The top vote-getter from each pattern will advance to the finals, which will be held at the International Training and Research Center in Arlington, Texas, this April.

Remember, at stake is a trip to the International Bowling Campus and a chance to compete against Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour champions Norm Duke, Rhino Page, Bill O'Neill, Mike DeVaney and Jack Jurek, so start voting right away, and encourage your friends to do the same!

Click here for complete contest rules. If you have questions, please contact the USBC Sport Bowling department at (800) 514-2695, ext. 3177 or e-mail sportbowling@bowl.com

I have meant to post this over a couple of weeks ago... but here it is..

I have been promised a copy of this video, but this will work for now.

Congratulations to my young friend & student, Ryan Harris of Pasco for his perfect game on a tough condition.

Well first of all I need to say ... what a summer & spring. Following are highlights of the spring & summer seasons.

• Washington State Tournament came & went. Scores were pretty high by previous standards.  The pro shop was pretty busy so there wasnt a lot of time to do much of anything. Overall it was a sucess for all centers involved.  
• A new proshop opened at Atomic Bowl, it well be manned by Joe Reyburn.  Good luck to you Joe.
• Went to the regional in Boise and bowled ok but I didn't make the cut.  The trip & the company was good.  Randy Macomber & Evan Nash and one of our youth bowlers (Joe) all had a great dinner at the "Crabshack".
• Summer League started with PBA Experience Baker Doubles.. it was something different and still needs a few kinks worked out, but I think we all had a good time and learned what it takes to depend on your team-mate.
• I bowled the Summer Swiss with Mike & Ashley Finnestad.  I really enjoyed bowling with them.. even though were like the doormats for the 1st half.  I think everyone was up bowling against us.  Crazy me.. I shoot 3 bills on the 1st night.  So woo hoo.. my 11th, and start the league averaging 235.. I took care of that in a hurry.  We made a valiant run the last 4 weeks.. even while I was gone for Nationals - another story, but ultimately fell short bowling against 1st place team and having to sweep to win the half.... and it seemed like they carried everything and we got hosed... upcoming fun night for the prize money!!
• Went to the regional in Mollala on the shark pattern.   A quite little center the is operated & owned by Shawn Copeland.  Randy Macomber and I traveled to Mollala Oregon... my performance was worst outing in 5 years. I had no feel... no leverage and balls were reading the lane to late. I have to fix this... SOON. Randy bowled well.. -12 from the cut with the destiny in his own hands .. 1st strike in the 10th and he is in.... goes high pocket & leaves a 4.  The discussion dwelled on the # 12 for some time, and I can truly relate missing the cut by a small margin.
• LAS VEGAS BABY!!  The trip was super. Spare Time Pro Shop consisted of Dave Gussenhoven, Carrie Dronen, Dave Gifford, Randy Macomber, & myself.  1st time for 2 of us... woo hoo!  Can you imagine.. the singles score was 862!!! The team had fun and our score wasnt great... but FUN.  Doubles & singles the next day knowing that you need to be near perfection for 36 frames... I wasted no time in making sure that I would be no where close to 862.  LoL I just didnt create the right carry angle. Made a few errant shots that I paid the price for.... I was upset that I lost my butt in brackets for the 1st time.

 

Grand Canyon & Hoover Dam.... lost my butt in brackets ... the casinos were getting more than they needed for me.. so off to Hoover Dam & Grand Canyon.  Mary .. my wife, Randy & Shawna made the 4 hour trip.. a short stop at Hoover Dam to be amazed at this engineering marvel..we made Kingman & stopped for lunch and got a peek at Joe Perrys tour bus..

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• I was welcomed back to Grand Canyon by a torrent mountain rain storm and then beautiful clearing revealing a big hole in the ground.  The views were gorgeous.  I was a little setback by the charge at the entrance... but hey doesnt everything go up... I hadnt been to the canyon in 20 years... Mary, Randy & Shawn... never.  I am glad they made the trip.
  
  
• Ron Hoppe Youth clinic.... Ok you can call this my love & determination to bring more knowledge to the area youth bowlers, opportunities for our youth bowlers who want improve & make themselves better.  I have the famous Ron Hoppe from Marysville WA ( a gold level coach, works with several of the 64 exempt players in the PBA).  A chance for on the lane analysis by a world class coach... right in your own back yard.  Why would'nt you take that opportunity?  Well I had 6 that stepped up and I think got a good look what they needed to do to be better.  A fit analysis was performed, video analysis and explanation for the needed change... and as always I learned more myself. What a wonderful resource.
• 1 Week until the adult session where I will get some of my own work done now as well.... one thing I did discover and I am planning to look at tournaments differently... whether its a PBA regional, a CWO or anything else is not setting myself up to fail... this I learned from Ron.

PBA EXPERIENCE TOURNAMENT

5 games of qualifying, single elimination match play finals (match play finalists depends on the number of entries; 1 for 3 will advance to finals)

Special Door prizes for participation donated by STORM & ROTO GRIP

SHARK PATTERN

SPARETIME LANES, KENNEWICK WA

www.sparetime711.com

_{WASHINGTON); Washington Tri-City USBC BA, Central Washington USBC, Colfax USBC BA, Goldendale USBC, Kittitas County USBC, Lake Chelan USBC, Lower Yakima Valley USBC, Moses Lake USBC BA, Okanogan Valley USBC, Othello USBC, Palouse Regional USBC, Ritzville USBC, Spokane County USBC, Walla Walla Valley USBC BA, Wenatchee Valley USBC (OREGON): Umatilla County USBC, Blue Mountain USBC, (IDAHO): Greater Coeur d'Alene USBC BA, Lewiston-Clarkston-Orofino USBC}

For more information contact PBA member host:

Alan Cook

alan@sparetime711.com / 509-727-7017 (cell) / 509-582-4343 (Sparetime Lanes)

Walk-in entries accepted. Avoid 5$ late fee by contacting me.

Well, Alan finally showed up to bowl the PBA Experience league.   The new season started back in January... but I haven't showed up... well I was there ... but my scores were awful.... averaging less than 190.  But we bowled on the shark this past week. I got in a little groove early. Using my Storm Virtual Gravity with a fresh cover (1000 abralon & a little reacta-clean and the bowl was good to go). Start with 235; clean game, 2nd game - 213 with a open, the 183 - lanes started to break down just a bit and I didn't make all the right moves... but I am happy with the set.  It will raise my average to a level closer to what I expect to be averaging.  3 weeks left in our league... then a break.. before starting PBA X Baker Doubles League.... should be a lot of fun.