Bowling News

The Brunswick Sweeper Tour final regular-season event was held at Hutchinson this past Sunday.

Lance Stern of Yuma, Ariz., the youth director of the Yuma United States Bowling Congress association, has been selected to receive the 2014 David Dahms Coach of the Year Award.

ARLINGTON , Texas- The University of Maryland Eastern Shore women's bowling team dropped one spot from 14th to 15th in the latest International Bowling Media Association poll.

Kim Heller 229, Gene Fraizer 254, Dawn Fernandez 192, Caren Thompson 190, Rae Coonce 269, Tyler Davis 244, Rodney Alday 234, Kristin Weimer 175, Pete DeVries 213, Nathan Flanagan 223, Larry Valenti Sr. 254, John Eversole 213, Andre Brice 171 Courtney Dahlin 540, Deanna Riley 571, Ray Mayfield 574, Jay Cairncross 594, Gene Wallace 600, Ronnie ... (more)

ARLINGTON, Texas - The Professional Bowlers Association has extended the PBA Experience Win-A-Spot promotion, which provides United States Bowling Congress Sport Bowling members the opportunity to earn a free entry into a PBA regional tournament, through 2014.

Dmitriy Ayzenberg's 27 points powered Shmezel Inc. to a 77-59 Our Island Realty B victory over Lock It Up on Monday night at the CYO Center, Port Richmond.

Sharon Schildroth of Grandville, Mich., has been named the United States Bowling Congress Youth Volunteer of the Year for her more than 30 years of service to youth bowling at the local, state and national levels.

The Edge Sports Complex in Vestal is hosting an indoor winter league through March 22. Games in 10-under and 12-under divisions will be held 5-10 p.m. Fridays and 4-10 p.m. Saturdays.

Former Professional Bowlers Association standout Curtis Odom of Coldwater, Mich., has found regular success at the United States Bowling Congress Open Championships , and it continued Sunday as he moved into the top spot in Regular All-Events at the 2014 edition of the tournament.

The Green Bay Area USBC Women's Bowling Association is encouraged by the huge increase in entries it had this season for its annual tournament that concluded last month.

Since Jason Belmonte, reigning PBA Player of the Year and recent USBC Masters champion and Osku Palermaa have been having success on the Professional Bowling Tour with a two-handed delivery, junior bowlers across the country have been trying to duplicate their success on a local level.

Thomas "Tink" Washer, a Morris County USBC BA Hall of Famer, posted his highest series to date, with 278-297 and 245 for 820, two pins over his previous high only barely a week earlier .

The overall handicap high game, handicap series and scratch series were posted by Jackson.

Terrence Blevins of Chicago rolled the first perfect game of the 2014 United States Bowling Congress Open Championships and catapulted into the lead in Regular Singles and Regular All-Events on Saturday.

A Bradenton team has been confirmed as winner of the four-player event in the 45th annual Florida State Senior Handicap Championship tournament in Spring Hill , according to the recently released final prize list.

Tommy Gann of Sand Springs, Okla., who has been involved with youth bowling on the local, state and national levels for more than 20 years, is the 2014 Kerm Helmer Horizon Award recipient.

If anyone needed a reminder, Alex Ouellette and Co. did their part to reaffirm Bay County as a bowling hotbed in the state of Michigan.

The 2014 Michigan State USBC Men's Bowling Association State Tournament is 11 weekends away from finishing its stay in Muskegon, and rumors are out there one of the host sites, Sherman Bowling Center, will close at the conclusion of the tournament.

When I open the Times each day, I glance at the front page and the Local page before turning to the obituaries.

The event was held Feb. 15 and Holiday Lanes will make a donation of $3,300 to the Northwest Louisiana Susan G. Komen for the Cure.