Leisure Bowl
champs Nick Lee & Amber Eddington
Nick Lee and Amber Eddington both put on a show, then kept it up 'on the show', en route to JBT titles in exciting New Mexico-West Texas Conference action at Albuquerque's Leisure Bowl.
An extremely difficult lane condition challenged the bowlers all day long, putting the emphasis on shotmaking and filling frames. A pair of West Texas A&M bowlers squared off in the first match of the scratch stepladder finals, with Dylan Macon getting by Chris Brown 178-136. Dylan then threw one of the best games of the day in a 246-170 win over Tim Baribeau. Paul Carper then stopped Macon 199-160 to reach the title match.
Over in the handicap division, Katie McNeil defeated Micayla Scheer 199-164 to open up the handicap stepladder finals. Tylor MacPhee then defeated Katie 179-171. Tylor's reward for that was to play Katie's sister Kelly, and he made it a McNeil family sweep with a 190-168 win to advance to the title game.
The title matches were filmed by a professional multi-camera film crew, in a trial run for what we may see more of in the future. The intimidating environment was no problem for top seeds Nick Lee and Amber Eddington, who both dominated their respective divisions all day long. Eddington continued to be unstoppable, beating MacPhee 245-140 for the championship, the first of her JBT career. The scratch division match, however, was a well-bowled thriller, ending with Nick just barely sparing a 6-pin on his fill ball for a 209-208 squeaker over Carper for the 7th title of his excellent JBT career.
Wendy Shelton won the day's Women's Series event with a 197-136 win over Kelly McNeil. It's the second of three wins she needs to qualify for the 2012 Girls TPC this summer.
Thanks as always to the terrific crew at Leisure for being great hosts of our Tour. Over $1,400 in scholarships were earned by bowlers of all ages and averages. Want in on the fun? Check out our schedule and come on down, that's all there is to it!
| Leisure Bowl- final results and optional scholarship winners | |||
| 11/13/2011 | |||
| Scratch Division | |||
| rank | name | prize | |
| 1 | Nick Lee | $245 | |
| 2 | Paul Carper | $130 | |
| 3 | Dylan Macon | $120 | |
| 4 | Tim Baribeau | $50 | |
| 5 | Chris Brown | $45 | |
| 6 | Wendy Shelton | $30 | |
| 7 | Dusten Moore | ||
| 8 | Brandon Gill | ||
| 9 | Ryan Scheer | ||
| 10 | Aaron Johnston | $30 | |
| 11 | Ahkeen Williams | ||
| 12 | Marcus Ortiz | ||
| 13 | Jonathan Lawson | $15 | |
| 14 | Timmy Crites | ||
| 15 | Tommy Crites | ||
| 16 | Jeremiah Cruz | $10 | |
| 17 | Roger Johnson | $15 | |
| 18 | Michael Call | ||
| 19 | Jacob Gill | ||
| 20 | Zak Egerton | ||
| 21 | Nick Sanchez | ||
| 22 | Sabrina Vargas | ||
| 23 | Janeyl Carper | ||
| 24 | Amber Robinson | ||
| 25 | Mike Conway | ||
| 26 | Olivia Stedman | ||
| 27 | Ryan Gose | ||
| 28 | Josh Helmick | ||
| 29 | Amanda Johnson | ||
| 30 | Ryan Fast | ||
| 31 | William Yoder | ||
| 32 | Joseph Trujillo | ||
| 33 | Scott Wiley | ||
| 34 | Billy Read | ||
| 35 | Jeremiah Martin | ||
| 36 | Marcos Armijo | $5 | |
| Handicap Division | |||
| rank | name | prize | |
| 1 | Amber Eddington | $200 | |
| 2 | Tylor MacPhee | $153 | |
| 3 | Kelly McNeil | $75 | |
| 4 | Katie McNeil | $60 | |
| 5 | Micayla Scheer | $50 | |
| 6 | Gerilynn Delagarito | $40 | |
| 7 | Priscilla Red | $30 | |
| 8 | Alyssa Williams | $20 | |
| 9 | Dylan Marsh | ||
| 10 | Josh Demick | $38 | |
| 11 | Zach Wojociechowski | $30 | |
| 12 | Olivia Silva | ||
| 13 | Joey Balistreri | $15 | |
| 14 | Brad Harvey | $30 | |
| 15 | Elizabeth Romero | $15 | |
| 16 | Nathaniel Pena | ||
| 17 | Taylor Herson | ||
| 18 | Jennifer Valenzuela | ||
| 19 | Zach Harvey | $15 | |
| 20 | Toby C'Debaca | ||
| 21 | Cerra Strickland | ||
| 22 | Dale Coffee | ||
| 23 | Josie Herson | ||
| 24 | Zac Frias | ||
| 25 | Jacob Lang | ||
| 26 | Shawna Bellman | ||
| 27 | Brittany Leiby | $15 | |
| 28 | Lindsey Sanchez | ||
| 29 | Montana C'Debaca | ||
| 30 | Martinez, Linzi | ||
| 31 | Nick Lloyd | ||
| 32 | Jake Helmick | ||
| 33 | Brandyn MacPhee | ||
| 34 | Kallista Fritts | ||
| 35 | RJ Bellman | ||
| 36 | Jacqueline Valenzuela | ||
| 37 | Audrey Campbell | ||
| 38 | Lacey Shelton | ||
| 39 | Kory Hetmer | ||
| 40 | Ben Stedman | ||
| 41 | Robbie Trujillo | ||
| 42 | Jonah Seawright | ||
| 43 | Kyler Duggins | ||
| 44 | Adel Wahner | ||
| 45 | Allie May | ||
| Scratch High Games | |||
| Robinson 257 | |||
| Baribeau 255 | |||
| Baribeau 246 | |||
| Williams 231 | |||
| Shelton 229 | |||
| Handicap High Games | |||
| Demick 259 | |||
| Williams 254 | |||
| MacPhee 253 | |||
| Eddington 245 | |||
| Balistreri 241 | |||
| Round Leaders | |||
| Scratch | Handicap | ||
| Robinson | MacPhee | ||
| Robinson | Eddington | ||
| Lee | Eddington | ||
| Lee | Eddington | ||
| Lee | Eddington | ||
| Lee | Eddington | ||
| Lee | Eddington | ||
| Lee | Eddington | ||
| Women's Series | |||
| W Shelton -141* | |||
| Kelly McNeil -163 | |||
| Red -168 | |||
| Silva -174 | |||
| Vargas -189 | |||
| TOTAL AWARDED THIS EVENT: $1,471 | |||
