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- December 2016
PBA Announces PBA50 Tour For 2017
By Jerry Schneider
CHICAGO - The Professional Bowlers Association has announced a 14-
tournament PBA50 Tour season for 2017 that will include three majors and
three PBA60 tournaments exclusively for players 60 years of age and older.
The 2017 season will kick off with a PBA50 and PBA60 doubleheader at
Lane Glo Bowl in New Port Richey, Fla., April 15-20. Lane Glo will host the
PBA60 Killer ‗B‘ Open April 15-17 to be followed immediately by the PBA50
Pasco County Florida Open April 17-20.
After the Pasco County events, the PBA50 Tour will once again visit The
Villages, Fla., for the PBA50 Sun Bowl In The Villages presented by Radical
at Spanish Springs Lanes. The tour then heads north for the PBA50 Miller
High Life Classic presented by Columbia 300 at George Pappas‘ Victory
Lanes in Mooresville, N.C., and PBA50 Johnny Petraglia BVL Open pre-
sented by Brunswick at Farmingdale Lanes in Farmingdale, N.Y.
The PBA50 Tour Players Championship makes its debut as the season‘s
first major at long-time PBA host Woodland Bowl in Indianapolis May 13-16.
The senior players then head west for the PBA50 Northern California Clas-
sic presented by MOTIV at Harvest Park Bowl May 28-31. Sam‘s Town in Las
Vegas will host the USBC Super Senior Classic June 1-3, and the season‘s
second major, the USBC Senior Masters June 4-10. Immediately following
the Senior Masters, the PBA50 Tour makes its traditional stop at the Sun-
coast in Las Vegas for the Suncoast PBA Senior U.S. Open presented by
Storm, the season‘s third major June 11-16.
After a five-week break Olympia Lanes in Hammond, Ind., will host the
PBA50 South Shore Open presented by DV8 followed by the PBA50 Dave
Small‘s Championship Lanes Classic presented by Roto Grip in Anderson,
Ind., before wrapping up the 2017 season in Fort Wayne Aug. 5-8 with the
PBA50 Pro Bowl West Championship presented by Ebonite and the PBA60
Dick Weber Championship presented by Hammer Aug. 10-12.
Entries for the 2017 season will be accepted beginning Feb. 27 on pba.com
.
2017 PBA50 TOUR SEASON SCHEDULE
April 15-17 –
PBA60 Killer ‗B‘ Open, Lane Glo Bowl, New Port Richey, Fla.
April 17-20
– PBA50 Pasco County Open, Lane Glo Bowl, New Port Richey,
Fla.
April 22-25
– PBA50 Sun Bowl In The Villages presented by Radical, Span-
ish Springs Lanes, The Villages, Fla.
April 30-May 3
– PBA50 Miller High Life Classic presented by Columbia 300
and Miller High Life, George Pappas‘ Victory Lanes, Mooresville, N.C.
May 6-9
– PBA50 Johnny Petraglia BVL Open presented by Brunswick,
Farmingdale Lanes, Farmingdale, N.Y.
May 13-16
– PBA50 Tour Players Championship, Woodland Bowl, Indian-
apolis.
May 28-31 – PBA50 Northern California Classic presented by MOTIV,
Harvest Park Bowl, Brentwood, Calif.
June 1-3 – USBC Super Senior Classic, Sam’s Town, Las Vegas.
June 4-10 – USBC Senior Masters, Sam’s Town, Las Vegas.
June 11-16 – Suncoast PBA Senior U.S. Open presented by Storm, Sun-
coast Bowling Center, Las Vegas.
July 24-27
– PBA50 South Shore Open presented by DV8, Olympia Lanes,
Hammond, Ind.
July 29-Aug. 1
– PBA50 Dave Small‘s Championship Lanes Classic pre-
sented by Roto Grip, Anderson, Ind.
Aug. 5-8
– PBA50 Pro Bowl West Championship presented by Ebonite, Pro
Bowl West, Fort Wayne, Ind.
Aug. 10-12
– PBA60 Dick Weber Championship presented by Hammer, Pro
Bowl West, Fort Wayne, Ind.
SENIOR CLASSIC
secretary/treasurer Ron Johnson
by Don Phillips
Nov. 1. Hot shot for the week was Doug
Regelin 259/957.
Two more 900's were by John Tremblay
254/930 and Mal Helmuth 248/925. Par roll-
ers were Jim Tanaka 235/875, George Senn
238/872, Jim Russell 235/874, Ray Searles
248/838, Anthony Ripchick 244/852, Mike
Harris 226/876, Steve Adams 255/883, Phil-
lip Moses 225/839, Frank Acuna 252/896,
Larry Hilburn 235/879, Nick DeStefano
228/837, Clyde Nakaishi 245/862, Mo Sny-
der 246/839, Gordon Moore 255/879, Ron
Johnson 231/842, John Miner 253/836 and
Kelly Wright 248/847.
Top 5 singles were by Cal Suan 248, Don
Yarwood 242, Gary Moore 246, Bud Oman
245 and Dennis Estes 235.
11/8/16. Doug WHO?? Yeah! Doug Rege-
lin on top again 288/1019. Steve Curless
rolled a nice 268/966 and then Ray Searles
245/917 and Clyde Nakaishi 259/901.
The rest of the top 20 seniors were Monty
Lyons 249/865, Ron Pearson 244/870,
Bruce Cantrell 249/837, Don Sager 232/818,
Dann Dodd 259/865, John Tremblay
236/869, Brent Korff 255/887, Jim Russell
258/841, Ron Johnson 231/857, Gordon
Moore 246/824, Tim Nessler 258/829,
Everett
Whiteside 235/888, Gary Moore 237/873,
Don Phillips 238/859, Larry Hilburn 234/842
and Mike Schwartz 268/848. Five high sin-
gles were by Gary Hobbs 238, Paul Brown
264, Dale Collette 235, Frank Acuna 255,
Art Tourtillott 235 and Mike Harris 245.
Nov. 15. Ok! Larry Hilburn 268/924 high for
the week on his favorite pair 1&2. Ray Sear-
les 236/900 for his 900 series. 800 + rollers
were Dennis Estes 234/823, Steve Adams
247/834, Doug Regelin 255/896,
Bob Bonifacini 265/884, Gary Hobbs
258/871, Tim Nessler 276/898, Ron Pear-
son 237/845, Clyde Nakaishi 227/860,
George Senn 234/853, Mal Helmuth
256/879, Art Tourtillott 268/895, Ron John-
son 268/861, Mike Harris 234/897, Bruce
Cantrell 256/877, John Tremblay 223/832,
Nick DeStefano 244/847, Gary Moore
249/870 and Gordon Moore 277/880. Good
games were by Don Yarwood 229, Bob
Sloan 236, Hank Miles 230, Jerry Davidson
234 and Jim Tanaka 289.
11/22/16. GEE. Only 1 900 this week.
Gordon Moore 247/918. Well, Gary Hobbs
bowled his FIRST PERFECT 300/880!!
Guys in the 800 range were Ray Sear-
les 225/833, Mike Harris 215/852, Bill Lar-
son 235/803, John Tremblay 234/873, Larry
Hilburn 250/877, Dennis Estes 242/
862, John Miner 237/814, Kelly Wright
267/846, Steve Curless 226/819, Joe Hole-
sapple 232/812, Nick DeStefano 224/804,
Doug Regelin 235/878, Gary Moore
247/812, Clyde Nakaishi 242/877, Hank
Miles 235/853, Tim Nessler 247/849, Bruce
Cantrell 214/802 and Bob Bonifacini
256/829.
Top 5 games were by Ron Johnso
n 246,
Brent Korff 238, Dann Dodd 248,
Mike Schwartz 234 and Mo Snyder 236.
Sirs 49ers Bowling League- Wednesday
Steve Cook's Fireside Lanes
Bob Friend, President / Bob Brown, S/T
The Wednesday SIRs league started September 7th at 12:30 at Fireside Lanes
in Citrus Heights with 16 -4man teams. All the teams were full as of November 2nd
at the end of the first 8 weeks. Team #11, the Nuggets with Brent Soulis, Dick
Krause, Chuck Craig, and Wayne Philpot were in first place with 24 points won and
only 8 points lost. They had a 5 point lead over 3 other teams but there is a long
time to go to the end of the first half.
Four Sir bowlers had averages over 200 led by Jim Russell 211, Cal Suan 208,
Joe Chabot 203, and Bill Graham 200. High Scratch games so far are Dick
Martegani 275, Art Tourtillott 268, and Bill Graham 267. High scratch series lead-
ers are Art Tourtillott 695, Joe Chabot 694, and Cal Suan 692. Larry Mustain has
the high handicap game -288 and Ric Nannini the high handicap series of 691.
This USBC sanctioned league bowls at 12:30 PM and is a 100% handicap
league based on 210 average. The weekly fee is $11 and $6 for subs. The league
needs subs and any SIR in good standing at any area branch is invited to come
and bowl with us. Warm ups begin at 12:15. And we welcome all SIR bowlers to
come and join us.
Good bowling everyone.
