SOUTH POINT

champs Cortez Schenck & Sergio Torres

        Cortez Schenck and Sergio Torres earned two very different career milestones to wrap up an exciting weekend of Mojave Conference JBT action at the incredible new South Point Plaza.

        For the second straight day, although the cut scores weren't abnormally high, the leaders really tore their respective fields up.  All five scratch division finalists put on a clinic, beginning with Ben Canfield (who earlier shot the only 300 of the day, and his second of the weekend) defeating Teagan Smale (who fired 279-287 in a two game qualifying stretch) 257-232.  Wesley Low, who had a near-miss 299 game in qualifying, then beat Canfield 268-248.  Low was just as strong in the semifinal, stopping Eric Hatchett 258-227 to advance to the title game.

        Top qualifier Schenck fired 750 in the semifinals to leap into the lead, but of course he had his hands full with Low, and the battle of Junior Gold champs did not disappoint.  An eighth frame miss from Wesley turned out to be the difference, as Cortez won the match 257-236.  Not only was that a sweep of the weekend for Schenck, but with the win he earns the 50th title of his JBT career, becoming only the second bowler in history to achieve that mark, with lots of time left to chase down (and maybe lap) Kyle King, who sits at 63.

        Eight bowlers reached the handicap division stepladder, and Paul Colyer and what's left of his thumb won round one with a 241 game that beat Max Hiebl (215) and Michael Rose (197).   A very tight second round ended with Sam Espiritu's 243 escaping from Colyer (240) and Brendan Lindsey (234).  Sam turned it up in the next game, firing 263 to oust Amanda Atkin (232) and Cameron Criss (187) to reach the title match.

        Torres, the runner-up yesterday, was torrid again today, putting up +334 through six games before slowing down.  Against his Nevada High School championship teammate Espiritu, he found the look again, cruising to a 234-171 win, and a long awaited first career JBT title.

        Atkin also made the Women's Series title match, and against top seed Leah Glazer (who also made the regular scratch cut), she got exactly the 9 pins in the tenth she needed for a 223-222 win, and her third girls' title of the season.

        Huge thanks to everyone at South Point for welcoming our Tour to this awesome new facility!  Want in on all teh action for all ages and averages?  Just check out our schedule and come on down, that's all you have to do!

South Point- final results and scholarship winners
3/29/2015    
     
  Scratch Division  
rank bowler

prize

1 Cortez Schenck $215
2 Wesley Low $253
3 Eric Hatchett $70
4 Ben Canfield $60
5 Teagan Smale $65
6 Andrew Guba $30
7 Leah Glazer  
8 Joe Grondin  
9 Kyle Duster  
10 Kennison Andrews  
11 Cerell Cardines  
12 Esteban Becerra  
13 Matt Zweig  
14 TJ Rock  
15 Kirk Chui  
16 Alex Watanabe   
17 Talon Hendrickson  
18 Jamison Peyton  
19 Russ Oviatt  
20 Randi Speiler  
21 Brandon Ramos  
22 Ashley Dunn  
23 KJ Martinez  
24 Tyler Satter  
25 Nick Condon  
26 Oscar Chan  
27 Joe Gerencser  
28 Nick Pollak  
29 Brendan Thomas  
30 Tyler Ottenschot  
31 Max Polhill  
32 Kyle Andrews  
     
  Handicap Division  
1 Sergio Torres $300
2 Sam Espiritu $150
3 Amanda Atkin $100
4 Cameron Criss $134
5 Brendan Lindsey $60
6 Paul Colyer $50
7 Mike Rose $40
8 Max Hiebl $30
9 Kyle Rendon $35
10 Zack Long $14
11 Jopfel Gafate  
12 David Galvan  
13 Daryus Alo   
14 Marguerite Evans $30
15 Sebastian Polhill  
16 Alayna Purdy  
17 Dee Handley $15
18 Katie Kipler $15
19 Devyn Patalina  
20 Brandon Lim   
21 Andrew Chan  
22 Cameron Collins  
23 Abby Franklin  
24 Jarred Starr-Moncayo $20
25 April McDonnell  
26 Veronica Schleicher  
27 Garrett Thompson  
28 Dawson Reese $89
29 Garrett Sulzer  
30 Brandon Criss  
31 Marc Villalobos  
32 Laurren Takahata  
33 Michael Owens  
34 Dante Rohe  
35 LeeAnn Reyes  
36 Alana Wise  
37 David Rocha  
38 Crystalene Pineda  
39 Kendal Bennett-Jordan  
40 Trevor Jhochman  
41 Brett McEachern  
42 Tyler Hedges $15
43 Phillip Sauve $15
44 Nathan Hanuscin  
45 Tyler Greene  
46 Brandon Duffy  
47 Leah Zweig  
48 Staci Villalobos  
49 Zack Velosa  
50 Christine Cibura  
51 Kyle Gilbert  
52 Randall Berkheimer  
53 Tyler Thomas  
54 Dylan Amico  
55 Nate Farmer $5
56 Derick Poole  
57 Jason Lovejoy  
58 Alex Cibura  
     
     
  High Games  
  Scratch Handicap
1 Canfield 300 Galvan 307
2 Low 299 Rose 294
3 Smale 287 Lindsey 291
4 Becerra 279 Torres 289
5 Smale 279 Torres 288
     
  High Female  
1 Glazer +85  
2 Atkin +26*  
3 Speiler -39  
4 Dunn -50  
5 Evans -60  
     
  Round Leaders  
  Scratch Handicap
1 Hatchett Sulzer
2 Hatchett C Criss
3 Smale Lindsey
4 Smale Torres
5 Smale Torres
6 Hatchett Torres
7 Low Torres
8 Schenck Torres
     
TOTAL AWARDED THIS EVENT: $1,760