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champ Derek Acuff

            Derek Acuff will always have the record for highest score in a JBT title match. He now owns a score near the opposite end of the spectrum, but still a score equally worth a win, in exciting JBT New Mexico-Texas Conference at Big Rock Bowling Center.

            Aaron Foshie opened up the stepladder finals with a big 246-192 win over Wendy Shelton, making her first open scratch finals of the season.  Acuff then turned the tables on Foshie, defeating him 255-150.  Derek then got by 34-time JBT champ Cameron Smith 234-211 to reach the title match.

            Top seed Mason Edmonson made the challenging pattern look easy, averaging nearly 230 to grab the #1 position.  The match figured to be a high scoring one between two of our best lefthanders, but whether it was fatigue (this was the second tournament of the day, which began at 8 PM and the title match started just after 1 AM), changing lanes, or something else, both bowlers struggled quite a bit in the final.  Needing a mark to win, the usually solid Mason left a 2-4-7-10, which he couldn't convert, giving the stunned Acuff a 162-154 win, and his 11th career JBT title.

            Shelton's excellent weekend continued with a 197-195 win over Olivia Silva (handicap regulars who along with Alexis Atkin made the scratch-only cut), her second Women's Series win of the day.

            Special thanks to Big Rock for letting us have the extra Saturday night event, which awarded another $875 to the field.

Big Rock- final results and scholarship winners
4/28/2012    
     
  Scratch Division  
rank bowler prize
1 Derek Acuff $200
2 Mason Edmondson $115
3 Cameron Smith $70
4 Aaron Foshie $270
5 Wendy Shelton $50
6 Riley Dempsey $30
7 Tom Crites $20
8 Paul Carper  
9 Curtis Lindeman $50
10 Cortez Schenck  
11 Nick Lee  
12 Tim Crites  
13 Alexis Atkin  
14 Tyler Albracht $15
15 Joe Lewandowski  
16 Holden Luke  
17 Olivia Silva  
18 Dallas Ehlert  
19 Ahkeen Williams  
20 Josh Helmick  
21 Steven Acuff  
22 Chris Brown  
23 Tim Baribeau  
24 Braxton Williams  
25 KJ Martinez  
26 Adel Wahner  
27 Josh Herschmann  
28 Marcos Armijo $50
29 Austin Thompson  
30 Tyler Satter  
31 Scott Wiley  
32 Zachary Wojciechowski  
33 Nick Sanchez  
34 Michael Conway  
35 Trevor Thompson $5
36 Dale Coffee  
37 Sophie Diaz  
38 Brandon VanRenselaar  
     
  High Games  
  Scratch  
1 Edmondson 299  
2 Smith 270  
3 Lindeman 268  
4 Acuff 259  
5 Tim Crites 257  
     
  High Female  
1 Shelton +92  
2 Silva -16  
     
  Round Leaders  
  Scratch  
1 Tom Crites  
2 Shelton     
3 Foshie  
4 Foshie  
5 Foshie  
6 Edmondson     
7 Edmondson  
8 Edmondson  
     
TOTAL AWARDED THIS EVENT: $875