GOLDEN PIN LANES

champs Harley Sweigart & Keith Ylvisaker with Bryan VanSickle & CJ Todeschi; Abby Franklin & Dawson Reese

        Harley Sweigart and Keith Ylvisaker emerged from exciting title matches as champions of the JBT Arizona Conference event held at Tucson's Golden Pin Lanes.

        Keith Fung opened the scratch division stepladder finals by blasting 11 strikes in a 278-186 win over Lucas Rabb.  Matthew Garrett then doubled in the tenth to edge Fung 205-201.  Sweigart then turned the tables on Garrett with a 230-224 win to advance to the title game.

        Top seed Bryan Van Sickle had been dominant during the day, but the talented Tucsonan who finally won his first JBT title in the AZ Doubles in December wanted to fully erase the asterisk with a singles win.  He did everything he could to do so, bowling a brilliant title game to finish at 258.  However, Sweigart is having a career year, and matched him strike for strike, including a beautiful tenth frame where he crushed all three racks for a 269-258 win and the 31st title of his JBT career.

        Keith Ylvisaker began a climb up the handicap division stepladder finals with a 233-175 win over Gavin Holter.  Keith then poured on the strikes in a 292-231 stomping of William Robbins.  He 'slowed down' to 244 in teh next match, but that was still plenty to get by Main Event champ Kristy Mace's 209 score to move on to the title game.

        Top seed CJ Todeschi enjoyed his best JBT event in quite a while, and the two remained neck and neck in the final game.  In the end, Todeschi needed a strike to win in the tenth. CJ didn't get the hit, and the rapidly improving Ylvisaker finished the ladder climb with a 248-237 win and the first full title of his JBT career.

        Dawson Reese earned the day's U17 subdivision win with a 238-212 win over Brock Bivins, while Abby Franklin took down the Priority Girls Scratch title with a 214-177 win over Kristy Mace.

        Thanks to the team at Golden Pin for another excellent hosting job.  Want in on all this fun for all ages and averages?  Just come on down to the next JBT event, it's that simple!