AZ BAKER SHOOTOUT

champs Alexis A5kin, Cameron Smith, Jeremy Glover, Matt Jones, & Ken McElvaney

        Two bowlers finally captured their first career JBT titles, while three others continued their dominance in the team format, in the AZ Baker Shootout hosted by AMF Christown Lanes.

        After 12 Baker team games, the field was cut to the top 12 teams for best 2-of 3 matchplay.  The top seed was the self-named "Lazy But Talented" team, and while we don't know about the lazy part, we see the talented part all the time out of them.   However, the #5 seeded "Ahh Pressure" felt none of it as they ousted the lazy but talented ones in the round of four.  In the other semifinal match, #2 "It Gets Real In The Field" swept #11 "Off Constantly" 2-0 to set up the final match.

        "Ahh Pressure" (Courtney Dutton, Bruan Weyrauch, Chris Weyrauch, Rachel Carr, Adam Jackson) was a veteran team (except for newcomer Jackson) looking for their first win in the Baker format (and the first win ever for former JBT assistant Carr), but their mostly-Californian opponents proved to be too much.  In two quick games, It Gets Real got themselves the championship.  For Ken McElvaney and Matt Jones, it was the second Baker win in seven days, having been on the winning So Cal team last weekend.  It was the 27th win of Cameron Smith's wonderful JBT career, while Jeremy Glover and Alexis Atkin finally tasted JBT victory for the first time.

        Thanks very much to all the adult bowlers and JBT alumni who came out to bowl with today's JBT players, as well as Pat Cook and the whole team at Christown for hosting us.  And- happy birthday Dad! Over $1,400 in scholarships were earned at this extremely fun event- want in on the fun?  Check out our schedule at www.bowljbt.com and come on out to the next JBT event, it's that simple!