KEARNY MESA BOWL

champs Cerell Cardines & Peter Ruiz; Garrett Lee, Katelyn Abigania, Brian Erickson

        Cerell Cardines and Peter Ruiz earned JBT titles in terrific JBT Southern California Conference action at San Diego's Kearny Mesa Bowl.

        After qualifying bowlers competed in two game head-to-head matches.  In the scratch semifinal matches, Solomon Salama beat Gael Egana 232-207, and Cerell Cardines, who earlier fired the first 300 game of the new season, beat previous day's champ Marco Flores 180-175.  That set up a title game we may well see a lot more of this season.  The two greats put on a high quality show, but in the end Cerell squeezed by Solomon 223-215, good for the 11th title of his JBT career.

        Four JBT non-winners made it to the handicap division final four, ensuring a new champ would emerge.  In one semifinal, Brian Erickson got past Noah Hernandez 224-211, while in the other Peter Ruiz outscored Elias Luna 235-226.  In the resulting finale, Ruiz came up with his best game of the day to beat Erickson 276-205, and earn that coveted first career title.

        Garrett Lee won his first U17 event of the new season with a 244-203 win over Salama, while Katelyn Abigania, fresh off her Junior Gold U12 national championship, beat Jaclyn Azvedo 204-193 for the Priority Girls Scratch win. 

        Thanks as always to Nick, Johnny, and the team at Kearny for a great job hosting our Tour.  Want in on all the fun for all ages and averages?  Just check out our schedule and come on down!