CANYON LANES

champs Harley Sweigart & Eric Torrence

        On an historically high scoring day, Harley Sweigart and Eric Torrence outpaced their fields en route to JBT titles in exciting So Cal Conference action at Morongo Casino's Canyon Lanes.

        Cortez Schenck began the scratch division finals with a 245-195 win over Austin Thompson.  Schenck then beat KJ Martinez, who had beaten him for a title in Tucson the week before, 235-211.  Martinez continued his hot bowling of late, though, by firing a 300 game in matchplay, the only of the day despite the scoring pace.  Ben Canfield, teh previous day's champion, then stopped Schenck 268-213 to go for the weekend sweep.

        Harley Sweigart topped a field that produced the second highest cut in JBT history, +117, with the second-highest 8-game total in JBT history, a blistering +515 that included a 299 in qualifying.  The talented lefty has been knocking on the door of JBT scratch victory for quite a while now, but he blew the door down here, beating Canfield 248-195 in the title match, and finally earning his first scratch win and fourth career overall JBT title.

        Eric Torrence's +352 eight-game total, an amount usually good enough to lap the field, was only enough to qualify fourth for the handicap stepladder, but he made a great climb up the ladder for the win.  He began with a 243-184 win over Tayor Berry, who had an excellent weekend.  Eric then beat Trevor Thompson 213-188, and followed with a 255-223 win over Kyle Ponzo to reach the title match. 

        Top seed Matthew Green scorched the lanes all day long for the 7th-highest 8-game handicap total ever (+432), but found himself in a tough battle with Torrence in the finale.  Matt's JBT titles prove he can win, but he has also suffered a number of painful second place finishes, and unfortunately it was destined to be more of the same here, as Torrence squeaked out a 216-211 win, good for the 2nd title of his JBT career.

        Renee Gentry won her second JBT women's series title with a 202-190 win over top seed Randi Speiler.   

        Thanks to everyone at Canyon for always doing a great job hosting our events.   Want in on all teh excitement?  Head on over to our schedule page and make your plans to come on down soon!

Canyon Lanes- final results and scholarship winners
2/1/2015    
     
  Scratch Division  
rank bowler prize
1 Harley Sweigart $276
2 Ben Canfield $100
3 Cortez Schenck $92
4 KJ Martinez $40
5 Austin Thompson $36
6 Billy Dacanay  
7 Russ Oviatt  
8 Anthony Cando  
9 Bobby Hornacek  
10 Jordan Eres  
11 Kyle Andrews  
12 Randi Speiler  
13 Joe Grondin  
14 Kennison Andrews   
15 Dallas Leong  
16 Jake Hilton  
17 Chris Tucker  
18 Marc Loera  
19 Kirk Chui  
20 Nick Condon  
21 Brandon Wanders  
22 Ashley Dunn  
23 Clint Strawmyer  
24 Matt Zweig  
25    
26 Brandon Wanders  
     
  Handicap Division  
1 Eric Torrence $216
2 Matthew Green $100
3 Kyle Ponzo $121
4 Trevor Thompson $82
5 Taylor Berry $40
6 Dawson Reese $62
7 Michaela Buhain $20
8 Leah Zweig  
9 Tyler Hedges $78
10 Zack Long $30
11 Tyler Handa $10
12 Samantha Potter $16
13 Jozef Corwin  
14 Andrew Chan $16
15 Marguerite Evans $16
16 Ryan Galland  
17 Bex Boyko  
18 Dante Rohe  
19 Kylie Shishima  
20 John DeForest  
21 Dustin Yauney  
22 Secilia Kalvelage  
23 Austin Veteto  
24 Kyle Reed  
25 Renee Gentry $5
26 James McGough  
27 Marc Villalobos $16
28 Kaitlynn Martin $16
29 Diego Solorzomo   
30 Tre Mitchell  
31 Zack Jellsey  
32 Michael Loera  
33 Jarred Starr-Moncayo  
34 Jacob Murray $5
35 Brandon Lim  
36 Jacob McGough  
37 Brandon Trinch  
38 Abby Franklin  
39 Steven Zajdel  
40 Hunter Brown  
41 Ryland Pimentel  
42 Krystopher Martin  
     
  Scratch Handicap
1 Martinez 300 Berry 305
2 Sweigart 299 Green 304
3 Canfield 280 Ponzo 295
4 Canfield 279 Buhain 292
5 Schenck 279 Torrence 287
  Hornacek 279  
     
  High Female  
1 Speiler +111  
2 Gentry +2*  
3 Buhain -6  
4 Potter -24  
5 Dunn -25  
     
  Round Leaders  
  Scratch Handicap
1 Grondin Berry
2 Sweigart Green
3 Sweigart Green
4 Sweigart Berry
5 Sweigart-Oviatt Berry
6 Sweigart Green
7 Sweigart Green
8 Sweigart Green
     
  Total Awarded This Event: $1,393