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