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Vol. 72 No. 22 August 3 - 9, 2011 50 cents
Paul Stolp and Sean Riccardi Win Open Doubles At Storm Bowlers Journal Championships
By Matt Cannizzaro RENO, Nev. - Casey Murphy of Nixa, Mo., likes to prepare for the United States Bowling Congress Open Championships by competing at the nearby Storm Bowlers Journal Championships presented by USBC. The 32-year-old right-hander enjoys the challenging lane condition because it gives him a chance to get his armswing loose and make sure his skills are as sharp as possible. This year, the extra effort helped him to a $10,000 payday as the event's Open Singles champion. "It feels great," said Murphy, who rolled games of 267, 277, 187 and 259 for a 990 total. "I've worked really hard on my game, and winning this lets me know the hard work is paying off. It's really hard to put into words." Murphy lives just north of Joplin, Mo., where a devastating tornado touched down a little more than a month ago. Murphy and his teammates were just happy to get to Reno without issue. "It really puts everything into perspective," said Murphy, a software engineer for ANPAC, who bowls league at Enterprise Park Lanes. "We heard some of the death toll numbers while we were bowling. We were lucky to get to Reno. The Bowlers Journal really turned my week into a Regular Singles and Regular All-Events, but he's happy to share this success with his friend. "This feels really good," Riccardi said. "We thought 1,800 was a good score, but we didn't think it would hold up. We saw some big names come through and not beat us, so we thought we had a really good chance after all. It's pretty cool. I'm happy to help Paul get a title. He's wanted one for a while, and he bowled really well. " Fresh off another solid performance at the USBC Open Championships, 2007 Regular Team champion Bryon Smith of Roseburg, Ore., took his skills across town to the Grand Sierra Resort and claimed the Classic Singles title at the 2011 Bowlers Journal Championships with a 951 set. He posted games of 264, 193, 236 and 258 to win the $1,600 top prize, and the effort also helped the 2003 USBC Masters winner to a share of the top spot on the Dual Entry prize list along with Brett Wolfe of Tempe, Ariz., the 2002 Masters champion, who rolled a 951 set on the way to a third-place finish in Open Singles. They each received $550 for topping the Dual Entry standings. See Storm
Sean Riccardi and Paul Stolp positive." In the tournament's Open Doubles battle, Paul Stolp of Edison, N.J., and Sean Riccardi of Piscataway, N.J., emerged victorious with a 1,842 effort. Stolp led the duo with games of 257, 277, 228 and 185 for a 947 total, while Riccardi added 247, 193, 221 and 234 for an 895 total and $7,500 prize check. Riccardi rolled a 300 game at the 2009 Open Championships, which helped him to top-10 finishes in
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J o a n Ta y l o r s Te n P i n R a p . . . .
It is hard top believe that Rockaway Lanes is hosted its 11th Annual Pro Image Bowling Camp. I have attached a Star Wars theme to this years sessions. Why? Because fourcount emfour gold level certified coaches were among the 11-member coaching staff, a first for any bowling camp or clinic anywhere. There are only 39 goldlevel coaches on the entire planet! Returning gold coaches Fred Borden (Yoda), Ken Yokobosky (Han Solo) and Jeri Edwards (Princess Leia). New to the team is Wichita State University had coach Gordon Vadakin (Ben Obiwan Kenobi). Any of the other coaches could be Luke Skywalker. They are: Greg Rottengen, Noel Vega, Chip Vincent, Bobby Willis, John Neral, and Al Jones. Borden has written numerous books and produced several videos for coaching. He, along with Edwards, Yokobosky, Ron Hatfield, Alex Hamilton and Andy Parker produce Mybowlingcoach.com. More recently Borden was named USBC Coach of the Year in Grapevine, Texas. Edwards is former head coach and was the first female coach of Team USA. This team of stars spent time on and off the lanes with 31 bowling students, offering guidance for the physical as well as mental game. Three students were women, three students were lefthanders. The oldest was Bob Rutherford, turning 74 next month. My average has been going down, so I wanted to come to camp to improve. My teammate attended the camp last year and recommended it. It must have been worth it because he rolled two 300 games last season, and he went to the camp twice. The youngest was 15-year-old Jake Rollins, Glen Rock who was attending his third camp. Why attend more than once? There is a lot to remember each time, he said. Every time I attended, I improved (my average) about 10 pins per year. I am up to a 212 average. This Glen Rock High School sophomore was working on not bending over the foul line, proving there is always something to learn. Every year camp director Ken Yokobosky, along with Fred Borden, tweaked the format and schedule. This year, the new addition was bronze coach Chip Vincent, an employee of the Pro Image Pro shop, sanding cover stock of bowling balls to show how that would affect ball reaction. He said he was giving the ball more surface. It is important to match the surface of the ball with the surface of the lane at that time. Vincent attended the camp five times, and then went through the process to become a certified coach. He is also certified through the Dick Ritger bowling camps. But maybe the best coach on staff is the Pro trainer (C-Three-pio), a comprehensive video device that enables Yokobosky to make videos from the back and side of each student, and add commentary and even draw lines on the video to illustrate a point. He often composed the videos with a pro bowler on one side comparing with the student on the other side. Everything that could be covered in three days was explained, then put into hands-on practice: The physical game, mental game, lane play and equipment. Each section was broken into several components. Perhaps the most significant was spare shooting, which can be key to winning or losing a match or tournament. You would be amazed at how intricate a game of tenpins can be: the start, timing, ball speed, distance, the shape of the shot, the release, the sliding leg, wrist action, hand and finger rotation, and so much more until the ball actually reaches the pins and yields the almighty strike (or spare). Okay, so there was no Darth Vader as such, but the enemy was in the bad bowling habits that coaches eradicated with their own brand of Death Ray. And in the end, goodness triumphed over evil. It should be noted that Jackie Willis held the camp together, keeping coaches and students on track with the full schedule. The 31 students from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia never complained about any sore muscles (a first), but rather couldnt wait to get back onto the lanes to apply what they had learned and to learn even more. The coaches rotated from lane to lane, each one asking either What did coach soand-so have you work on? or What would you like to do? This included three pairs of fathers and sons. Moorestowns Ed Ryan brought both sons, Tyler and Joe for return sessions. They could return home and coach each other now. The epitome of wanting to learn more was Eric Gentilella, attending his fifth bowling camp. He is a student and on the Developmental Team at Wichita State, a great achievement for his first year in college. When asked why he returned to the camp when already experiencing the rigors of the a big part of what I have done so far. And if Im lucky enough to make the Select Team (the premier team at Wichita State) there will always be something to learn. That team only takes 12 male and 12 female students. He was wearing a team tee shirt with the motto Learn-work-win on the back. Then there was Grant Nurse from middle Jersey. This 70-year-old started bowling 18 months ago and felt that the camp would teach him how to do it effectively. He is serious about everything he does. When he took up golf, he attended five golf clinics. On Sunday afternoon the campers participated in a low ball tournament. Picking off a corner pin counted as one. A gutterball counted as a strike, or ten. A gutterball on the second shot counted as a spare. It was not as easy as you would think, either. The four finalists were Joseph Shaparis, Brooklyn, Jake Rollins, Glen Rock (the youngest participant at age 15), Ed Ryan, Moorestown, and Roger Shell, Manhattan. By the way, for people who perceive bowlers as low on the sports totem pole, Mr. Shell is a professional cellist on Broadway and formerly with various pop singers and groups. All four continued the low ball format on two lanes set with mock television lighting, and with spectator chairs lining the outer sides of the lanes. Shaparis and Rollins went to the championship game and it was Joseph Shaparis, 25, who won a free campership for next year, valued at more than $600. As if three days of intense learning werent enough, I overheard one camper ask Ken Yokobosky if he gives private coaching as well, which he does. All of the coaches do. The Jedi warriors were now ready to conquer it alllane conditions, spareshooting, adjustments, and tweaking the surface of their equipment, or buying new equipment (along with a myriad of grades of sandpaper). May the Force be with them!
Idle bowling thoughts. Great job by all involved with the staging of the women's U.S.Open at Cowboy Stadium during Bowl Expo. It had to be the result of many from many bowling groups working well together. And when all the head counting is complete it could well be the largest number of people ever to attend a bowling event. Of all the different balls used in various sports and games the bowling ball has become one of the most sophisticated. And a deep knowledge of bowling balls, their advantages and everything else can be the difference between winning and losing at the highest levels. It won't be long before little kids, and I mean little, will be carrying around sanction cards and proof of their scratch average and their legal handicap average and their bumper bowling average. When are the airlines going to give bowlers a break on luggage costs for bowling balls when they are going to a tournament? I remember being on a flight that ran into weather trouble and was bobbing up and down like a cork on the end of a fishing line. And then a weak voice was heard, "Anybody on board want to buy a bowling ball cheap?" We have been trying to become an Olympic sport almost since the beginning of organized bowling. One bowling official, frustrated by bowling's failed attempts to get into the regular games, proposed bowling for the winter games. It didn't faze him that the winter sports must be played on snow or ice. He suggested bowling lanes and all the rest of the bowling equipment be carved of ice.
Every bowler should think about bowling in a tournament, at least now and then. There is one for every bowler of every average, every age and every sized pocket book. It has been estimated that some 10,000 are conducted around the world every year. Hugh Miller of Seattle, a solid national, regional and senior pro champion, became the 40th person to win more than a million dollars in pro events. That sounds good except when you look at golf where that many golfers make a million or nearly that much in a single year. Don't get frustrated, just don't read the golf and tennis and other high paying lists---and think about the many sports that have folded or still struggle to survive. Though the maximum weight allowed for a bowling ball is 16 pounds, few bowlers need use the limit. The idea is for you to toss the ball comfortably, not have it throw you. Only the late Dick Weber and Johnny Petraglia have won pro titles in six different decades. In addition to the many obstacles preventing such a feat the most obvious one is just keeping healthy enough that long to continue in top flight play. Bowling's biggest need is an all-purpose weekly bowling show that features all type of bowling competition, instruction, up close and personal interviews and a little bit of everything about bowling that can whet the appetite of longtime bowlers and those with casual interest. Bowling still bestows more awards than any other sport. That can only be topped by coming up with another award, an award annually presented to every competitive bowler who never before won an award.
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AT FARMINGDALE
Steve Gonzalez 780
FARMINGDALE, NY Steve Gonzalez topped the scoring in the Tuesday Party League firing games of 289-233-258 for a high series of 780. Fred Catapano rolled 211-245-223-682, and Lloyd Hasluck 256-223669. Thomas Altamura rolled 247-279-700 in the Saturday Friends & Co. League, helping his team Kats take 2nd place in the league.
PBA HIGHLIGHTS
Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour exempt player Brian Kretzer was inducted into the Greater Dayton (Ohio) USBC Hall of Fame Aug. 2. Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour exempt player Kelly Kulick of Union, N.J., has been elected to the United States Bowling Congress Board of Directors as an athlete representative. The other four athlete representatives on the USBC Board are newly re-elected Tony Manna of Omaha; PBA members Andrew Cain of Phoenix and Wendy Macpherson of Henderson, Nev., and Vernon Peterson of Lake Wales, Fla. PBA Media Relations representative Bill Vint of East Troy, Wis., also was elected to the USBC Board while BPAA Past-President and PBA Senior member Jim Sturm of Dunbar, W.Va., was elected to a one-year term as USBC President, effective Aug. 1. Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour exempt player Ronnie Russell defeated Australias Thomas Gross, 254-248, to win the inaugural Brunswick Italia Challenge at Red & Black Bowling in Asti, Italy, and an $11,500 first prize, in late June. Gross defeated fellow PBA Tour exempt player Chris Loschetter, 231-216, in the semifinal round.
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FINAL FRAME
Peter Matteo
Peter Matteo, a Past President of Morris County BA and a former NJ State Travel League member, passed away on July 23rd, 2011. He had retired and was living in The Villages, FL. He had been in poor health this past year. Condolences may be sent to: Mrs. Joan Matteo, 3176 Roswell Road, The Villages, FL 32162..
Ron Papp of Trenton, NJ (center) captured the New Jersey State Championship Tournament All-Events title as well as the H. Wesley Bogle award and here presenting his plaque are tournament comanagers John Colgate on the left and Al Gonsiska.
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