AZ DOUBLES
champs Derek Acuff & Eric Hatchett, and Matt Wachter & Madison Holman
A team about as veteran as you can get, and a team of rookies, each found success in Phoenix, capturing titles in the JBT AZ Doubles Classic, hosted by AMF/Bowlmor Christown.
Jerod Walker and adult partner Raymond Johnson opened up the scratch division stepladder finals with a 235-194 win over Cristian Roque and Kyle Duster. Josh Demick then teamed with all-time JBT girls title leader Bryanna Caldwell to defeat Walker and Johnson 216-176. Derek Acuff and Eric Hatchett then turned the tables with a 235-207 win over Caldwell and Demick to move on to the title match.
The top seeds were Randy Cote, a multi-time JBT champ whose Racks on Racks Pro Shop is a major JBT sponsor, and Bryan Van Sickle, perhaps the best bowler on Tour that has yet to win a title. He and Randy were eager to erase that anomaly, but the veteran team of Acuff and Hatchett, with 40 titles and 20 years of JBT experience between them, and still JBT eligible, were not about to let that happen. A late string of strikes keyed a 236-208 win for Hatchett and Acuff, good for the 26th and 16th wins of their JBT careers respectively.
Zach Rapp and Kyle Ponzo escaped the opening match of the handicap division stepladder finals with a 198-196 squeaker of a win over Destiny Johnson and Mathew Adragna. Sebastian Polhill and Aaron Coleman then teamed for a 192-173 win over Ponzo and Rapp. The semifinal match came down to the final ball, as Genevieve LaLonde got the 19 pins in the tenth she and her son Mark Sauve needed to eke out a 151-150 win over Polhill and Coleman, to advance to the title game.
Madison Holman, who has only bowled a few JBT events, teamed up with rookie Matt Wachter, and they bowled like vets all day, cruising to the top seed. They saved their best for last, teaming up for a 280-187 win over Sauve and LaLonde, cruising to their first career JBT titles.
Huge thanks to all the adults and alumni who came out to bowl with today's JBT kids, as well as to Pat Cook and the team at Christown for a great job hosting us for the 20th consecutive season. Want in on all this excitement and fun? Just check out our schedule and come on down!
| AZ Doubles- final results and scholarship winners | ||||||
| 12/19/2015 | ||||||
| Scratch Division | ||||||
| rank | bowler | prize | bowler | prize | total | |
| 1 | Derek Acuff | $155 | Eric Hatchett | $100 | $305 | |
| 2 | Randy Cote | Bryan Van Sickle | $200 | $200 | ||
| 3 | Josh Demick | $100 | Bryanna Caldwell | $100 | ||
| 4 | Jerod Walker | $90 | Raymond Johnson | $90 | ||
| 5 | Kyle Duster | $40 | Cristian Roque | $40 | $80 | |
| 6 | Gillian Coyle | $29 | Alan Wagner | $29 | ||
| 7 | Brian Hirsch | Dylan Hall | ||||
| 8 | Max Polhill | Cedrick Bell | ||||
| 9 | Cortez Schenck | $15 | Mike Calderon | $15 | ||
| 10 | Matt Jones | Sean Trzaskowski | ||||
| 11 | Labriel Leach | Paul Colyer | ||||
| 12 | Heather Penatzer | Aaron Yamamoto | ||||
| 13 | David Sevier | KJ Martinez | ||||
| 14 | Christian Caron | Robert Atherton | ||||
| 15 | Keith Fung | $15 | Lanndyn Carnate | $15 | ||
| 16 | Kevin Jenkins | Annie Hurley | ||||
| 17 | Kirk Chui | Jacob Camacho | ||||
| 18 | Brandi Calderon | Sergio Torres | ||||
| 19 | Alexander Seng | Austin Muldoon | ||||
| Handicap Division | ||||||
| 1 | Madison Holman | $200 | Matt Wachter | $200 | $400 | |
| 2 | Mark Sauve | $244 | Genevieve LaLonde | $244 | ||
| 3 | Sebastian Polhill | $50 | Aaron Coleman | $50 | $100 | |
| 4 | Kyle Ponzo | $90 | Zach Rapp | $60 | $150 | |
| 5 | Mathew Adragna | $40 | Destiny Johnson | $70 | $110 | |
| 6 | William Robbins | Clifford Robbins | ||||
| 7 | Dante Rohe | $30 | Tyler Hedges | $30 | ||
| 8 | Sarah Halligan | $5 | Steve Lawton | $5 | ||
| 9 | Marco Flores | Shaun Seng Jr | ||||
| 10 | Samantha Sellers | Joey Metzer | $14 | $14 | ||
| 11 | Ashley Lamb | Ryan Lamb | ||||
| 12 | Andrew Robson | Geoffrey Boadu | ||||
| 13 | Rachael Berg | $5 | Bella Flowers | $5 | ||
| 14 | Abby Franklin | John VanDrie | ||||
| 15 | Elijah Melchor | Jacob Soulliere | ||||
| 16 | Joshua Mabry | Joshua Molloy | ||||
| 17 | Amanda Atkin | Steven Acuff | ||||
| 18 | Rob McClelon | Chrystal McClelon | ||||
| 19 | Rachel Francone | Tim Simonis | ||||
| 20 | Jeremiah McClelon | $14 | Rob McClelon Sr | $14 | ||
| 21 | Justin Lawrence | Kyle Lawrence | ||||
| 22 | Daniella Johnson | James Hicks | ||||
| 23 | Stacey Lamb | Lyle Lamb | ||||
| 24 | Ryan Perry | Jay Perry | ||||
| 25 | Phillip Sauve | Andy Doll | ||||
| 26 | Ryan Zent | Sandi Hacker | ||||
| 27 | Kristofer Smyth | Mike Smyth | ||||
| 28 | Ryan Riley | Louis Flaim | ||||
| High Games | ||||||
| Scratch | Handicap | |||||
| 1 | Colyer 263 | Coleman 284 | ||||
| 2 | Duster 256 | S Seng 270 | ||||
| 3 | Acuff 255 | Ponzo 267 | ||||
| 4 | Walker 248 | Rohe 262 | ||||
| 5 | Duster 238 | Wachter 257 | ||||
| Round Leaders | ||||||
| Scratch | Handicap | |||||
| 1 | Schenck/Calderon | S Polhill/Coleman | ||||
| 2 | Demick/Caldwell | S Polhill/Coleman | ||||
| 3 | Cote/Van Sickle | Rapp/Ponzo | ||||
| 4 | Cote/Van Sickle | M Sauve/LaLonde | ||||
| 5 | Cote/Van Sickle | Holman/Wachter | ||||
| 6 | Cote/Van Sickle | Holman/Wachter | ||||
| 7 | Cote/Van Sickle | Holman/Wachter | ||||
| TOTAL AWARDED THIS EVENT: $1,902 | ||||||