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As Brian Voss and Diandra Asbaty were locked in a tight match with Jodi Woessner and Tom Smallwood during Match Play of the PBA Don & Paula Carter Mixed Doubles, Voss stepped up for a critical shot in the 8th frame….
It seems as if Brian’s will to win almost “willed” the 10 pin into the 7. And as we know, win is exactly what they did. Some things are written in the stars!
Robert Smith of Columbus, Ohio, rolled into the first round lead in the 67th Lumber Liquidators U.S. Open at Woodland Bowl Tuesday, averaging 232.67 for his first six games to take a 16-pin lead over Australia’s two-handed star, Jason Belmonte.
Smith, a 36-year-old 13-year PBA Tour veteran, has won seven PBA Tour titles, including the 2000 U.S. Open.
“This is by far my favorite tournament,” he said. “You go into this event knowing you can’t give away the headpin. You’re going to have your good games and your bad games, but you can’t give anything away. It calls for a different mindset.
“I fell into something today, and I basically had two pockets – the 1-3 and the Brooklyn side. It was a good day.”
Smith, one of the strongest players ever to compete on the PBA Tour, has admittedly had an up-and-down career, partly due to injuries caused by his power game. After 13 years of wear-and-tear, he is forcing himself to adapt.
“I feel healthy for the first time in awhile,” he said, “but my game has changed. I’m not the gorilla I thought I was once upon a time. Mentally, I still am, but physically, no. I can’t do what I used to do. I’m learning to deal with it.”
Smith led the field of 352 players with a 1,396 pinfall total. Belmonte, in his first full year as a PBA Tour competitor after winning the Bowling Foundation Long Island Open a year ago, was second with 1,380 pins. Third was Jack Jurek of Lackawanna, N.Y., who won the PBA Shark Championship earlier in the season in Detroit, with 1,374 pins followed by defending U.S. Open champion Mike Scroggins of Amarillo, Texas, at 1,352 and Parker Bohn III of Jackson, N.J., with 1,350 pins.
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Value and Performance have always been synonymous with the Roto Grip brand, and the all new Dark Star stands to continue that tradition.
Our first goal was to develop a stronger Shield Line ball to fit into the Roto Grip line. The team felt that there was too big of a gap between the Nomads and the Planet series balls. The intent was to create more mid-lane read with stronger backend motion, so we developed the Photon Core with a lower RG value and a higher differential.
To enhance this core motion we also added the Ultimate Vision pearl coverstock to this ball. This performance proven coverstock found on the Epic and Illusion series of balls. It boasts a higher coefficient of friction and surface texture for added traction in the oil and superior backend performance.
This combination of core and coverstock was the ideal fit into the line. Our tests showed that it filled the gap between the Nomads and the Planet series balls perfectly.
The Roto Grip shield line has always been known for amazing performance for affordable prices, and this time they’ve stepped the performance up to the highest level yet! The Roto Grip Dark Star is currently selling for $87.99 and is rated at a 168.4 on the Perfect Scale!
At Roto Grip we pride ourselves in providing a complete line of bowling balls in both value and performance.
The recent introduction of the Dark Star created a nice compliment for those medium to drier patterns, but we still needed a strong solid reactive in the Shield Line for those patterns with a bit more volume up front.
The Riot is just what the kingdom ordered. The utilization of the Ultimate Vision solid reactive coverstock is the key to this addition. The increased surface topography and greater coefficient of friction battles those medium to heavier volume patterns with fierce intensity.
The Photon core delivers the energy behind the Riot. This newly designed medium RG (2.58) and medium differential (.040) core creates greater mid-lane read and increased entry angle to the pocket than its predecessors in the Planet series.
It's time to start your Riot in the Bowling Kingdom!
Roto Grip has added another piece to their amazing lineup, and this time you’re getting unbelievable performance at an amazing price. The Roto Grip Riot is currently selling for $87.99 and is rated at a 170.5 on the Perfect Scale!
Congratulations to Brian Voss and Diandra Asbaty for winning the Don & Paula Carter Mixed Doubles on Sunday! Voss and Asbaty climbed the latter from the 5 seed to win the tournament, and didn’t get their first real challenge until the Championship match against Jason Belmonte and Michelle Feldman.
This tournament was almost a mirror of the past 4 years for Brian Voss since his last victory. He’s had to claw his way back onto tour, and in this tournament they had to claw just to make the show. Voss even converted the 7-10 split to keep them in the hunt.
The real key to this victory though was Asbaty. She was the perfect foil to Voss’ intense and sometimes reckless emotion. Diandra was calm and relaxing throughout the entire telecast, and this helped Voss keep his composure. It didn’t hurt that she threw a TON of strikes!
Brian Voss used a combination of the Roto Grip Nomad and Storm Hy-Road, while Asbaty used the new Brunswick C (System)3.5 with success all day.
Congrats!
Most people who play sports can only dream of having a chance to compete against the pros on national television with thousands of dollars at stake.
For 18 bowlers, their chance to compete against some of the best professionals on the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour, including star Norm Duke, is closer to becoming a reality through the PBA Experience Showdown.
The PBA Experience Showdown is a unique competition for United States Bowling Congress Sport Bowling members. Sport bowlers compete in leagues which use many of the same lane conditions that are used on the PBA Tour. For the last six months, the top bowler (highest scratch series) each week in those leagues was eligible to be entered in the PBA Experience Showdown.
More than 1,300 entries were sent to USBC from Sport Bowling leagues. From those qualifiers, 18 competitors were randomly selected as finalists. The entries were divided into six groups based on what lane conditions they bowled on when they qualified, and three finalists were randomly selected from each category.
Now through March 1, bowling fans can visit BOWL.com and vote for their favorite bowler from each of the six lane patterns – Chameleon, Cheetah, Scorpion, Shark, Viper and Other Sport Patterns – and the top vote-getter from each pattern will advance to the PBA Experience Showdown finals. Fans can vote one time (for each oil pattern) per day.
The finals of the PBA Experience Showdown will be held April 6-7 at the International Training and Research Center in Arlington, Texas. The finals will be taped for television and are scheduled to air April 11 on ESPN.
The six finalists will compete in a six-game qualifier, with each game being contested on a different PBA lane pattern. The finalist with the high score earns a spot to compete on TV against the five winners of the 2009-10 PBA Tour Versatility Swing events – Duke, Rhino Page, Bill O’Neill, Mike DeVaney and Jack Jurek.
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RENO, Nev. – Walter Ray Williams Jr. of Ocala, Fla., won his second United States Bowling Congress Masters title Sunday, defeating top seed Chris Barnes of Double Oak, Texas, 290-217, at the National Bowling Stadium.
The victory was Williams’ 47th on the Lumber Liquidators Professional Bowlers Association Tour, extending his record for the most in PBA Tour history, while also moving him up to a tie for second with eight career major titles.
“This is just another little feather, it’s just awesome,” said Williams, who defeated Barnes, 268-239, to win the January 2004 USBC Masters also at the National Bowling Stadium. “It’s hard to explain it better than that. To win any tournament is awesome, and the bigger ones are even better.”
Williams is now tied with Pete Weber and Mike Aulby with eight career major titles, but all three players trail USBC and PBA Hall of Famer Earl Anthony, who won 10 majors and 43 total titles.
“I really don’t envision that I can get to 10, but I’m not giving up yet,” said Williams, who turned 50 in 2009. “I’m going to go out there and plug along as good as I can, and the year that I’m no longer exempt out here, that’s when I will have had enough.”
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