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- October 2016
ABT Bay @ E.A. Dublin Bowl , Dublin 9/25/2016
Champion: George Bocobo $500
ABT Bay @ Diablo Valley Bowl, Concord 9/18/2016
Champion: Michael Vergara $500
ABT Bay @ 4th Street Bowl, San Jose 9/11/2016
Champion: Ron Acosta $500
ABT Bay @ AMF Pinole, Pinole 9/4/2016
Champion: Ron Woods $1,000
PBA Spare Shots: Rash Makes Mad Dash to
Colombia, Wins PABCON Singles
Gold in Record Style
By Bill Vint
After qualifying for two PBA Fall Swing television finals over the weekend in
Allen Park, Mich.,
Sean Rash
was forced to make a mad dash to arrive in
Cali, Colombia, late Monday where he joined his Team USA teammates for
the opening event of the Pan American Bowling Championships.
It proved to be a ―golden‖ trip for Rash.
It began on Sunday morning at Thunderbowl Lanes where the PBA, at the
request of Team USA, provided a practice session on the PABCON lane
condition for the players who were going to miss the official PABCON prac-
tice session. Most of the U.S. players then left for Colombia, but Rash still
had TV finals to take care of.
After his final TV appearance Sunday, Rash rushed to the Detroit airport
and flew to Houston. From Houston he flew to Panama. From Panama he
flew to Cali. After arriving in Colombia on Monday, he had an hour-long
drive directly to the bowling center in Cali, arriving just in time to bowl his
PABCON singles event.
Rash started his six-game singles event with a 289, closed with another
289, and in between compiled a PABCON-record 1,482 pins to win the gold
medal by seven pins over teammate and fellow PBA competitor
John
Szczerbinski
. Colombia’s
Manuel Otalora
(also a PBA member) won
bronze with 1,466 pins.
Szczerbinski,
Marshall Kent
and
Ronnie Russell
were among the PBA
members who competed in the PBA Fall Swing before heading to Colombia.
On Tuesday, Szczerbinski and amateur partner
AJ Chapman
combined for
2,786 pins to win the men’s doubles gold medal by 20 pins over teammates
Kent and Russell.
Canada’s Francois Lavoie, a leading contender for PBA Rookie of the Year
honors after qualifying for two PBA Fall Swing telecasts on CBS Sports Net-
work, and teammate
Mitch Hupe
won the doubles bronze medal for Can-
ada with 2,755 pins, and on Wednesday, Lavoie, Hupe and Zach Wilkins
won the trios gold medal with 4,255 pins, 335 pins ahead of the Team USA
trio of Russell, Chapman and Kent.
The PABCON Championships continue into the weekend with five-player
team, all-events and Masters events yet to be contested. Women’s competi-
tion in the same events will be held next week.
