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SENIOR CLASSIC
secretary/treasurer Ron Johnson
by Don Phillips
Sept. 6. WOW!!! This is the BEST year for the Senior Clas-
sic league.
Would you believe there are 22 teams competing this sea-
son. Currently, there are 15-seniors averaging 210+, 14-
seniors averaging 200+ and 18-seniors averaging 190+. The
pins will be falling all over the place.
Top bowler was Steve Curless 269/909. Nice start Steve!
Par rollers were Jerry Davidson 246/812, Mo Snyder
277/823, Everett Whiteside 224/825, Gary Regallo 268/888,
Frank Acuna 225/810, Mike Schwartz 227/837, Dennis Es-
tes 235/865, Don Sager 216/819, Gary Moore 258/895, Skip
Benham 225/809, John Tremblay 245/854, Monty Lyons
236/819, Bob Bonifacini 247/893, Brent Korff 226/837, Stan
Seeley 237/807, Doug Regelin 256/866, Kelly
Wright 268/880, George Senn 238/833 and Tim Nessler
214/812. Nice singles were by Red Gossett 227, Bob Sloan
286, Ron Pearson 240, Lonnie Hare 235 and Paul Brown
227.
9/13/16. Scores were up! High roller was Steve Curless
297/934.
GREAT!! Other 900's were by Mike Schwartz 268/923,
Monty Lyons 244/919 and Bruce Cantrell 268/912. 800++
shooters were George Senn 264/876, Everett Whiteside
225/827, Gary Regallo 269/891, Gary Moore 236/863, Don
Sager 253/893, Lonnie Hare 237/814, John Tremblay
231/845, Mal Helmuth 226/850, Stan Seeley 237/828, Don
Phillips 265/815, Mike Harris 258/833, Brent Korff 225/813,
Steve Adams 228/850, Bob Bonifacini 220/809, Frank
Acuna 216/811 and Jim Russell 232/861. Good singles were
by Ron Pearson 234, Larry Hilburn 235, Dale Collette 234,
Gordon Moore 258 and Tim Nessler 246.
Sept. 20. Two seniors topped 900 for the week; Gary Re-
gallo 258/918 and Stan Seeley 257/912. NICE!! In the 800
range were Bryant Hicks 234/831, Gordon Moore 238/863,
Clyde Nakaishi 275/886, Bob Bonifacini 221/833, Ron John-
son 245/837, Don Phillips 242/852, Gary Moore 244/862,
John Tremblay 233/847, Tim Nessler 246/888, Don Sager
247/831, Ron Pearson 257/839, Mo Snyder 246/846, Karen
Russell 245/851, Jim Russell 242/841, Ray Searles
246/885, Larry Hilburn 259/853, Craig Hashimoto 226/836
and Mal Helmuth 255/831. Nice singles were by Joe Hole-
sapple 236, Monty Lyons 238, Everett Whiteside 258, Mike
Schwartz 256 and Hank Miles 243.
9/27/16. Mr. Bob Bonifacini 257/949 lead the seniors! OK
Bob. Close was Mike Schwartz 276/948 and then Don Sager
258/931, Steve Curless 248/914 and Everett Whiteside
257/920. Par rollers were Bob Sloan 235/841, Mike An-
dreozzi 235/840, Jim Russell 232/859, Ray Searles 244/876,
Kelly Wright 246/884, Mike Mayer 257/873, Doug Regelin
257/833, Larry Hilburn 256/854, Ron Johnson 234/889,
Hank Miles 268/859, Tim Nessler 257/858, George Senn
249/864, Gary Moore 246/887, Mike Harris 235/842 and
Brent Korff 244/854. Good singles were by Mike Hale 244,
Frank Acuna 258, Anthony Ripchick 238, Art Tourtillott 235
and Don Phillips 236.
SENIOR STARS TO TEAM UP FOR PBA’S
SECOND TEAM CHALLENGE
The latest entry into the second annual PBA Team Challenge, set for Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at South Point Bowl-
ing Plaza in Las Vegas, is a team of ―senior stars‖ who have been taking on all-comers for years. The
―PBA50 Tour‖ team including PBA Hall of Famers
Pete Weber
and
Amleto Monacelli
will be joined by
2016 PBA50 Rookie of the Year
Eddie Graham
, five-time PBA Tour/three-time PBA50 Tour titlist
Bob
Learn Jr.
and former PBA50 Player of the Year
Ron Mohr
, an eight-time PBA50 Tour winner.
The 2016 PBA Team Challenge, which will award PBA Tour titles to each member of the winning team (if
he/she is a PBA member) for the first time, will be covered from start-to-finish on Xtra Frame. All teams will
bowl qualifying rounds on Monday, Oct. 31, with the top qualifiers (number of teams will be based on en-
tries) advancing to round-robin Baker format match play followed by a four-team Baker format stepladder
final on Tuesday.
Entries for the Team Challenge, along with the PBA Xtra Frame South Point Las Vegas Open singles
event that will kick off the PBA Fall Classic Oct. 29-30, are still being accepted. Both events are open to non
-members as well as members.
To enter, contact
Mary von Krueger
(phone: (206) 654-6025; email:
).
ith Mark Roth
The great @MarkRothBowling had triple-bypass surgery; currently recovering in ICU @
St Josephs Health, Syracuse. Everybody's hero.
Fort Worth’s Kerry Fulford
Earns 2016 PBA50 Dick Weber
Sportsmanship Award
By Jerry Schneider
Bowling in his first season full-time on the PBA50
Tour, 64-year-old Kerry Fulford of Fort Worth, Texas
was selected as the winner of the 2016 PBA50 Dick
Weber Sportsmanship award as voted on by his fel-
low players.
―Tom Carter (last year‘s Dick Weber Sportsmanship
recipient) told me that receiving the award was as
good, if not better than winning a title,‖ said Fulford.
―I‘ve never won a title but I would have to agree with
Tom on that.‖
Because of a bad back which was injured while
serving in the U.S. Army in the mid-70s, Fulford has
his good and bad days on the PBA50 Tour.
―I decided that I felt well enough to go full time this
year,‖ said Fulford, who has bowled in PBA50 events
since 2003. ―The best I can be is 90 percent. It‘s
something I just have to deal with. Just to be able to
be out here with all these guys is great. Even though
realistically I can‘t be competitive day-in and day-out,
I go into it thinking I can win, otherwise, why show
up?‖
Despite his back ailment, Fulford did throw a 300
game in the PBA50 National Championship, the final
tournament of the season.
―Until I learned I got the (sportsmanship) award the
300 game was probably the highlight of the season
and to do it in the last tournament of the season was
extra special,‖ said Fulford, who began bowling in
PBA competition in 1986.
―I learned early on how important it was to be re-
spectful of everyone in the sport, from the players, to
the fans, sponsors and proprietors. Without them we
couldn‘t do it.‖
Among other top vote-getters for the award were
Paul McCordic, John Dudak, Warren Burr and Sam
Maccarone.
The Dick Weber Sportsmanship Award is named
after the late PBA Hall of Famer who among his
many accomplishments in the sport won 30 PBA
Tour and six PBA50 Tour titles.
PBA50 Dick Weber Sportsmanship Award Winners
2016 – Kerry Fulford
2015 - Tom Carter
2014 - Chris Keane
2013 - Robert Harvey
2012 - Dave Soutar
2011 - Ray Randall
2010 - Robert Harvey
2009 - Larry Graybeal
2008 - Fred Baldwin
