SOUTH PLAINS LANES
champs Brian Collier & Staci Gleason
Brian Collier and
Staci Gleason took two different routes to their first JBT titles in exciting
Texas-New Mexico Conference action at Lubbock’s South Plains Lanes.
The scratch
division stepladder finals opened with Justin Medina squeaking by Stephen Hardy
204-201 when Hardy failed to double in the tenth frame.
It was the same situation in round two, and the same result, as Medina
squeezed by Nathan Shock 220-210.
Justin got hot in the semifinals though, defeating TJ Gaudette 247-191 to
reach the title match.
Collier, who
rolled a 300 in JBT competition a month earlier, was the top seed for the first
time in his JBT career, and struggled on the left lane through the first half of
the title match.
However, a great move mid-game combined with a disastrous tenth frame
open from Medina gave him the edge he needed for a 218-201 win and his first
career JBT victory.
Staci Gleason
squeezed into the #5 seed for the finals, and then got red-hot, beginning with a
241-222 win over Seth Jaramillo in round one.
Gleason then got by Brooklyn Flatt 237-230, and beat another good effort
from her semifinal opponent, winning 245-220 over Tricia Barress, to reach the
finals.
Top seed Joseph
Lunch was enjoying his best JBT event ever, but Gleason kept the pressure on in
the title match, winning 242-213 for her first career JBT title.
| South Plains Lanes- final results and optional scholarship winners | |||
| 3/1/2008 | |||
| NM-TX Conference | |||
| Scratch Division | |||
| rank | name | city, state | prize |
| 1 | Brian Collier | Amarillo, TX | $280 |
| 2 | Justin Medina | Santa Fe, NM | $130 |
| 3 | Troy Gaudette | Abilene, TX | $90 |
| 4 | Nathan Shock | Thornton, CO | $60 |
| 5 | Stephen Hardy | Manchester, NH | $30 |
| 6 | Dan Romero | Santa Fe, NM | $15 |
| 7 | Diego Lucero | Santa Fe, NM | $11 |
| 8 | William Entsminger | El Paso, TX | $20 |
| 9 | Brad Pierce | Abilene, TX | $5 |
| 10 | Bradley Robinson | DeSoto, TX | |
| 11 | Jess Gagliardi | Alamosa, CO | |
| 12 | Ed Farber | Houston, TX | $30 |
| 13 | Stephen Planer | Oklahoma City, OK | |
| 14 | Brendan Smith | Garland, TX | $75 |
| 15 | Zach Barton | Allen, TX | |
| 16 | Brian Burkett | Ennis, TX | |
| 17 | Andy Byer | Albuquerque, NM | |
| 18 | Nathan Hughes | San Jose, NM | |
| 19 | Sam Cuevas | Lubbock, TX | |
| 20 | Katelynn Mulcahy | Canyon, TX | |
| 21 | Andrew Cuevas | Lubbock, TX | |
| 22 | Diego Lucero | Santa Fe, NM | |
| Handicap Division | |||
| rank | name | city, state | prize |
| 1 | Staci Gleason | Lubbock, TX | $200 |
| 2 | Joseph Lynch | Lubbock, TX | $100 |
| 3 | Tricia Barress | Albuquerque, NM | $50 |
| 4 | Brooklyn Flatt | Lubbock, TX | $30 |
| 5 | Seth Jaramillo | Rio Rancho, NM | $26 |
| 6 | Marlee Wall | Lubbock, TX | $10 |
| 7 | Lacey Shelton | Albuquerque, NM | |
| 8 | Tyler Hurt | Lubbock, TX | |
| 9 | Debbie Read | Albuquerque, NM | $11 |
| 10 | Arielle Palma | Roswell, NM | |
| 11 | Joshua Barress | Albuquerque, NM | |
| 12 | Coy Gleason | Lubbock, TX | |
| 13 | Trey Mitchell | Lubbock, TX | $25 |
| 14 | Mike Romero | Santa Fe, NM | |
| 15 | Tyler Houston | Lubbock, TX | |
| 16 | Chelsea Johnson | Lubbock, TX | $22 |
| 17 | Wendy Shelton | Albuquerque, NM | |
| 18 | Dillon Leavelle | Lubbock, TX | |
| 19 | Isiah Johnson | Lubbock, TX | |
| 20 | Katie Rush | Lubbock, TX | |
| 21 | Joseph Palma | Roswell, NM | $60 |
| 22 | Annalicia Martinez | Roswell, NM | |
| 23 | Michael Mayo | Lubbock, TX | $15 |
| 24 | Tevynn Laws | Albuquerque, NM | |
| 25 | Jerrico Palma | Roswell, NM | $30 |
| 26 | Jonah Seawright | Albuquerque, NM | $10 |
| 27 | Michael Hurt | Lubbock, TX | |
| 28 | Dalton Hooker | Lubbock, TX | |
| 29 | Caleb Goehring | Amarillo, TX | |
| 30 | Forrest Lockhart | Lubbock, TX | |
| Ball winner: Jonah Seawright | |||
| Scratch High Games: Medina 258, Lucero 254, Pierce, Shock 247 | |||
| Handicap High Games: C Johnson 270, Read 269, Jaramillo 265 | |||
| TOTAL AWARDED THIS EVENT: $1,345 | |||