Red Rock Lanes
champs Rebeca Reguero & Samantha Meyers
The 2009-10 Mojave Conference season opened with the girls reminding the boys just who's boss around JBT-land, as Rebeca Reguero and Samantha Meyers captured titles at the fantastic Red Rock Lanes.
The highest scoring day of the still-young JBT season produced 19 games of 260 or higher, showing that our bowlers can strike on a house shot just as well as they can grind it out on the hard patterns. Steven Manier opened up the scratch division stepladder finals with a 256-224 win over April Urban. Rebeca Reguero, who along with April made it a rare occasion with two females in the top 5, then beat Manier 234-200. Next up was Brad Hansen, who in game 1 rolled the high game of his career, a 299. That personal record only lasted six games though, as in game 7 he blasted a perfect 300, which despite the high scores turned out to be the only 300 of the day. However, Rebeca had been stringing them too (she had a 298 during qualifying), and came up with another monster number, defeating Hansen 266-202 to reach the title match.
Reguero, a former handicap division all-conference Bowler of the Year, came oh so close to a scratch win last season, but instead watched as many of our other talented females broke through for scratch wins. To erase that anomaly though, she'd have to get by top seed Devin Bidwell, who had a shot at our all-time 8-game scoring record en route to his third JBT title match in seven days! In the finale though, Devin suddenly lost the look he had all day, while Rebeca just kept on going, and her 235-164 win was good for that long awaited 1st scratch title, and the 5th title of her terrific JBT career. So, I guess R.R. likes R(ed)R(ock).... hmm!
Dylan Lucas began the handicap division finals with a 240-215 win over Kenny Herbster. Meyers then took over, defeating Lucas 239-217, and following with a 241-231 thriller over Justin Villa to reach the title match.
Top seed James Gabour was enjoying his best JBT event ever, as he led after every single game, en route to the top seed. However, his last two games of the semifinals were his lowest (and only ones under 200) of the day, and unfortunately for James, the trend continued for him in the finals, as he struggled to get lined up until the match was already out of hand. If it's any consolation for Gabour, even a good game from him wasn't going to be enough, as Samantha came up with a 258 scratch effort for a 283-212 win, and a very long awaited first career JBT title. The dual-female win is indeed rare, but not as rare as you might think- it happened three times last season, including once here in the Mojave Conference (April Urban & Katelyn Scott).
Thanks to everyone at Red Rock for a great job hosting us- what an amazing facility this place is! Over $1,700 in scholarships were awarded to all ages and averages- want in on the fun? Come on out to the next JBT event, it's as simple as that!
Red Rock Lanes- final results and optional scholarship winners 9/19/2009 Mojave Conference Scratch Division rank name prize 1 Rebeca Reguero $215 2 Devin Bidwell $190 3 Brad Hansen $120 4 Steven Manier $70 5 April Urban $30 6 Dan Hansen $20 7 Cameron Smith $15 8 Brandon Kraye $30 9 Jon Dukes $15 10 Charlie Goulet $15 11 Zack Hattori 12 Zachary Ford 13 Alyssa Madrid 14 DJ Sloan 15 Kyle King $110 16 Allie Ijams $15 17 Riley Dempsey 18 Brandon Watts 19 Brandon Owen 20 Ryan Howard 21 Matthew Robbins 22 Teo Cipriaso 23 Jeff Williams 24 Kaitlin Mayall 25 Tony Rose 26 Jared Billman 27 Cory Keraly 28 Tim Ursillo 29 Jordan Ferrer 30 Erik Matthewson 31 Kris George Handicap Division rank name prize 1 Samantha Meyers $455 2 James Gabour $130 3 Justin Villa $75 4 Dylan Lucas $40 5 Kenny Herbster $45 6 Kennison Andrews $80 7 Tyler Ottenschot $5 8 Dakota Nitz 9 Alicia Sullivan $15 10 Teddy Lucente 11 Shane Courtney 12 Brett Hirsch 13 Trevor Roberts 14 Aaron Watkins 15 Donovan Koff 16 Jon Gutierrez $30 17 Jordan Cook 18 Ian Hanuscin 19 Isaiah Chavez 20 Randi Speiler 21 Vincent Nolan 22 Alyssa Arvizu 23 Jacob Potts 24 Gavin Hirsch 25 Drew Stern 26 Kyle Andrews 27 Nick Wade 28 Emily Arvizu 29 Taylor Ray 30 Kimberly Dukes Scratch High Games: B Hansen 300 B Hansen 299 Reguero 298 Reguero 279 Manier 279 Handicap High Games: Meyers 283 Ken. Andrews 282 B Hirsch 282 Gabour 265 Meyers 264 High Females: Reguero +154 Urban +116 Ijams +97 Madrid +58 Sullivan +42 Round Leaders (5 pts. Each) Scratch Handicap 1 B Hansen Gabour 2 B Hansen Gabour 3 Bidwell Gabour 4 Bidwell Gabour 5 Bidwell Gabour 6 Bidwell Gabour 7 Bidwell Gabour 8 Bidwell Gabour TOTAL AWARDED THIS EVENT: $2,355