Monday 3 August 2015

Next Up On Xtra Frame: PBA Tour and PBA50 Tour Join Forces for PBA/PBA50 South Shore Doubles Championship


The PBA’s top senior and contemporary stars will showcase their talents together in a doubles format Aug. 5-8 at Olympia Lanes in Hammond, Ind., for the Xtra Frame PBA/PBA50 South Shore Doubles Championship presented by DV8.
The competition, which will award a PBA Tour title to the Tour players and a PBA50 title to the PBA50 players, will be covered live from start-to-finish exclusively on PBA’s Xtra Frame online video-streaming service. For Xtra Frame subscriptions, visit pba.com and click on the Xtra Frame link. Subscriptions are available for three days for $3.99, a full month for $7.99 or a full year for $64.99.
The revival of the doubles event after a 14-year absence, will feature some of the PBA’s most highly-decorated champions, including Hall of Famers Walter Ray Williams Jr., Norm Duke, Amleto Monacelli, Parker Bohn III, Tom Baker, and legend Carmen Salvino.
Monacelli is coming off a thrilling USBC Senior Masters title match victory Sunday in Green Bay, Wis., where he defeated top qualifier and fellow Hall of Famer Pete Weber twice - 192-190 and 254-243 - for his third PBA50 major victory and fifth title overall.
On the PBA Tour side, a host of PBA Tour champions are entered including Sean Rash, Tommy Jones, Ronnie Russell, and from nearby Munster, Ind., Eugene McCune, just to name a few.
The tournament’s unique tournament format will determine doubles pairings based on qualifying order in the respective PBA and PBA50 Tour fields.
Qualifying begins on Thursday at 8 a.m. ET and will continue on Friday. Match play will get underway on Saturday morning with the Baker format finals scheduled for 7 p.m.
For admission and pro-am entry information contact Olympia Lanes at www.olympialanes.com or by calling (219) 933-6677.
PBA/PBA50 XTRA FRAME SOUTH SHORE DOUBLES 
Olympia Lanes, Hammond, Ind., Aug. 5-8
Wednesday, Aug. 5 
8 a.m. - PBA50 practice session
11:30 a.m. - PBA Tour practice session
2, 4 and 6 p.m. – Pro-Am squads
Thursday, Aug. 6 
8 a.m. - PBA50, 8 qualifying games
3 p.m. – PBA Tour, 8 qualifying games
Friday, Aug. 7 
8 a.m. - PBA Tour, 8 qualifying games
3 p.m. – PBA50, 8 qualifying games
Saturday, Aug. 8
8 a.m.  Baker format match play for 18-team match play field. For 16-team match play field competition will start at 11 a.m.  7 p.m. – Semifinal Round, one-game Baker format matches
Immediately following – Championship match, one-game Baker format
INFO :  PBA NEWS

Sunday 2 August 2015

Monacelli Wins 2015 USBC Senior Masters for Third Career PBA50 Tour Major Title


Amleto Monacelli capped off a week of throwing big shots when he needed them by delivering a strike in his final frame to claim the 2015 USBC Senior Masters title Sunday at The Ashwaubenon Bowling Alley.
The USBC and PBA Hall of Famer defeated top seed Pete Weber twice - 192-190 and 254-243 - for his third PBA50 major victory and fifth title overall.
Monacelli earned $16,000 for the win, which was his second of the season, while Weber took home $8,000 as the runner-up.
Weber, 52, had a chance to lock up his second USBC Senior Masters title in three appearances with a double in the 10th frame, but a 7-10 split gave Monacelli a chance to mark for the win.
A format change for the 2015 tournament meant the event would feature a true double-elimination format and Weber would have to be defeated twice to deny him from becoming the sixth two-time Senior Masters champion.
"To beat Pete Weber twice for the title, especially with the way he bowled all week, was incredible," said Monacelli, a 53-year-old right-hander, who won the Senior U.S. Open in 2012 and 2013. "Two times this week I was close to not making it through, but I knew I was bowling well and just needed to stay strong mentally. I did that, and I was able to fight my way back."
A missed 10 pin to finish his fourth match in the winners bracket sent Monacelli to the elimination bracket, where both of his opponents forced him to double in the 10th frame. He escaped with two- and three-pin victories, to earn a spot in the four-player shootout round, where he used a 300 game to propel him to the No. 3 seed for the stepladder.

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"When I shot the 300, I felt like I had a good cushion to get there, and I was able to keep up with the changes and make it," said Monacelli, who also owns 19 PBA Tour titles. "This was an incredible week against a very talented field, especially today on the show, and to come out on top is amazing."
In the first game of the title tilt, Monacelli took the lead with a strike in the ninth frame and was able to hold on to force a second game, despite leaving, and failing to convert, a 4-6-7 split in the final frame. Weber, who finished first, left a 4-9 split in the 10th frame and missed both pins on the spare attempt.
Weber, who has 37 PBA Tour victories, including 10 majors, and four PBA50 wins, including the Suncoast Senior U.S. Open in June, led all three rounds of qualifying and compiled a 6-0 record in match play to claim the No. 1 seed for the finals.
On the way to the championship match Monacelli struck six times in his first seven frames against No. 2 qualifier Brian Voss of Centennial, Colorado, and cruised to a 238-204 victory. Voss finished third and pocketed $6,000.
Monacelli's first match against Rick Steelsmith wasn't as smooth, as both players left three frames open. An eighth-frame ball change on the right lane helped Monacelli sandwich three consecutive strikes between a pair of splits, which proved to be enough to escape with a 179-173 win over the 1987 USBC Masters champion.
In the opening match Sunday, Steelsmith used a pair of doubles to outlast defending champion Walter Ray Williams Jr., 217-186.
Williams never found any momentum, and a 4-6-7 split in the 10th frame ended his chances of becoming the first back-to-back winner at the Senior Masters since Tom Baker of King, North Carolina, in 2007, and first bowler to win the Masters (2004 and 2010) and Senior Masters twice.
The Senior Masters will be followed by the International Training and Research Center Super Senior Classic, the premier event for USBC members age 60 and older.
All qualifying and match-play rounds at the Super Senior Classic will be broadcast live on BowlTV beginning Monday at 3:30 p.m. Eastern.
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2015 USBC SENIOR MASTERS
At The Ashwaubenon Bowling Alley, Green Bay, Wisconsin
Sunday's Results
Final standings
1, Amleto Monacelli, Aventura, Fla., 863 (four games), $16,000
2, Pete Weber, St. Ann, Missouri, 433 (two games), $8,000
3, Brian Voss, Centennial, Colo., 204 (one game), $6,000
4, Rick Steelsmith, Wichita, Kan., 390 (two games), $4,000
5, Walter Ray Williams Jr., Oxford, Fla., 186 (one game), $3,000
Stepladder results
Match One - Steelsmith def. Williams, 217-186
Match Two - Monacelli def. Steelsmith, 179-173
Semifinal - Monacelli def. Voss, 238-204
Championship - Monacelli def. Weber, 192-190 (second match needed). Monacelli def. Weber, 254-243
INFO :  PBA NEWS

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