PBA Tour Trials - Round One

Cassidy Schaub of Ashland, OH, averaged 243 on the Lumber Liquidators Professional Bowlers
Association (PBA) Tour’s Cheetah lane conditioning pattern Wednesday to take the first round
lead in the PBA Tour Trials at Thunderbowl Lanes. He leads by seven pins over Ryan Ciminelli of
Cheektowaga, NY.

Schaub, a two-handed player who throws the ball from the left side of his body, is hoping to join
Australia’s Jason Belmonte and Finland’s Osku Palermaa as the third two-handed technician to earn
an exemption for the 2009-10 Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour season.

Eight PBA Tour exemptions are at stake in the five-day, 45-game Tour Trials which continues
through Sunday. The field of 97 U.S. and international players will bowl nine more games each day
over the next four days on the Viper, Chameleon, Scorpion and Shark patterns, respectively,
with total pinfall for 45 games deciding the exempt berths.

“You can’t win the tournament on the first day, but you can try to put a hurtin’ on the field,”
Schaub said after posting his 2,187 total. “I only threw one ball all day. I played out to the gutter
with minimal movement across the house.”

Schaub is happy to have a cushion because he hasn't found the lane conditioning patterns he'll
face the next two days especially friendly during early practice sessions.

“I didn’t have a good look on the Viper or Chameleon patterns earlier, so I am drilling up a few
new balls and will try them (in practice tonight) to see what works,” he said. “We’ll see what part
of the lane works and go from there.“Knowing what you are competing for - the opportunity to bowl
with the greatest bowlers in the world - is really special,” he said of his first Tour Trials experience.
“I’m trying to look around and stay on my own pace and do my own thing, do what’s true to you.”

Nothing would make him happier than expanding the two-handed movement as a full-time touring
player, bowling with Belmonte and Palermaa.

“The two-handed explosion has been awesome,” Schaub said. “I’m happy to jump on that
bandwagon. We have a lot more attention being paid since Jason’s win (in The Bowling Foundation
Long Island Classic) and his appearances on E:60 and Good Morning America. A lot of people are
trying it and talking about it.”

Trailing Schaub and Ciminelli after nine games were Thomas Smallwood of Flushing, MI, with 2,171
pins; Stevie Weber of Chalmette, LA, with 2,152, and newly-crowned Regional Players
Championship titlist Joe Ciccone of Buffalo, NY, with a 2,128 total.

LUMBER LIQUIDATORS PBA TOUR TRIALS
Thunderbowl Lanes, Allen Park, MI, May 27

ROUND ONE (9 games, Cheetah pattern)
1, Cassidy Schaub, Ashland, Ohio, 2,187
2, Ryan Ciminelli, Cheektowaga, N.Y., 2,180
3, Thomas Smallwood, Flushing, Mich., 2,171
4, Stevie Weber, Chalmette, La, 2,152
5, Joe Ciccone, Buffalo, N.Y., 2,128
6, Stuart Williams, England, 2,120
7, Sean Riccardi, Piscataway, N.J., 2,083
8, George Frilingos, Australia; George Lambert IV, Hamilton, Ontario, and Tom Hess, Urbandale, Iowa, 2,079
11, Ken Simard, Greenville, S.C., and Won-Young Choi, South Korea, 2,074
13, Billy Oatman, Chicago, 2,062
14, D.J. Archer, Mineral Wells, Texas, 2,057
15, Tae-Hwa Jeong, South Korea, 2,055
16, Andrew Cain, Scottsdale, Ariz., 2,050
17, Tim Mack, Indianapolis, 2,045
18, Anthony LaCaze, Melrose Park, Ill, 2,040
19, Timothy Behrendt, St Louis, 2,037
20, Randy Weiss, Columbia, S.C., 2,029
21, Bill Rowe, Hamilton, Ontario, and Brian LeClair, Athens, N.Y., 2,028
23, Seo Hak Jung, South Korea, 2,023
24, Jason Wojnar, Chicago, 2,021
25, Kelly Kulick, Union, N.J., 2,019
26, Mitch Beasley, Puyallup, Wash., 2,010
27, Thomas Wall III, Fayetteville, N.C., 2,005
28, Gregory Thompson Jr, Dayton, Ohio, 2,004
29, Johnny Petraglia Jr., Youngstown, Ohio, 1,997
30, Jong Soo Park, South Korea, 1,990
31, Dan Patterson, Utica, N.Y., 1,982
32, Dru LaJoy, Cohoes, N.Y., 1,976
33, Eddie Graham, Centerville, Ohio, 1,975
34, Jesse Buss, Wichita, Kan., 1,973
35, Rudy Kasimakis, Baldwyn, Miss., 1,971
36, Brian Kjergaard, Fulton, Ill., 1,970
37, Jason Hurd, St. Petersburg, Fla., and Andres Gomez, Colombia, 1,953
39, Jason Poli, West Des Moines, Iowa, 1,949
40, Lucas Legnani, Argentina, and Jason Mahr, Spring Hill, Fla., 1,947
42, Dave D'Entremont, Middleburg Heights, Ohio, 1,946
43, Michael Norris, Livonia, Mich., and Scott Newell, Deland, Fla., 1,938
45, Matthew O'Grady, South Amboy, N.J., and Mason Brantley, Detroit, 1,927
47, Kyung-Shin Park, South Korea, 1,926
48, Humberto Vazquez, Mexico, 1,922
49, Jim Tomek Jr., Camp Hill, Pa., 1,919
50, Jeffrey Roche, Dearborn, Mich., 1,918
51, Joe Paluszek, Bensalem, Pa., 1,914
52, Bo Goergen, Midland, Mich., and Chris Collins, Savannah, Ga., 1,912
54, Bobby Hall II, Landover, Md., 1,911
55, Curtis Foss, Medina, N.Y., 1,906
56, Robert Piroozshad, Huntington Beach, Calif., 1,903
57, David Williams Jr., Omaha, Neb., 1,899
58, Tom Sorce, Blasdell, N.Y., 1,893
59, Frank Testa, Akron, Ohio, 1,886
60, John Cicero, Colorado Springs, Colo., 1,879
61, Bryan Paul, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1,876
62, Walter Schaub II, Schaumburg, Ill., 1,872
63, Quinton Bohlen, Decorah, Iowa, 1,869
64, Craig LeMond, Jasper, Ind., 1,865
65, Chad Kloss, Greenfield, Wis, 1,859
66, James Wallace, Hicksville, N.Y., 1,858
67, Joe Bailey, Pittsburgh, 1,849
68, David Simard, Granby, Quebec, 1,837
69, Lee Vanderhoef, Greenville, S.C., 1,830
70, Johnathan Bower, Middletown, Pa., 1,828
71, Michael Wall, Fayetteville, N.C., and Nick Weber, St. Charles, Mo., 1,811
73, J.T. (Action) Jackson, Valley Village, Calif., 1,810
74, Dan MacLelland, Windsor, Ontario, 1,798
75, Daniel Freeman, Indianapolis, 1,788
76, Tim Bell, Garden City, Mich., 1,781
77, Jeremy Boyer, Desloge, Mo., 1,778
78, Nick Kokenos, St. Clair Shores, Mich., 1,776
79, Mike Keily, Lakewood, Colo., 1,773
80, Kevin Andes, Somerset, Mass., 1,768
81, Seby Silvestri, Louisville, Ky., 1,767
82, Aaron Halash, Scottsdale, Ariz., 1,763
83, Jason Dee, Brampton, Ontario, Canada, 1,758
84, Ivo Raul Chiriboga, Miami, 1,756
85, Chris Hansen, Chicago, 1,754
86, Jamie Ceasar, Columbus, Ohio, 1,750
87, Paul Pinto, Philadelphia, 1,748
88, Jack Nealon, Bowie, Md., 1,727
89, Shannon Buchan, Waterloo, Iowa, 1,721
90, Steven Lach, Sloan, N.Y., 1,718
91, Matt Freiberg, Somerset, N.J., 1,713
92, Ron Williams, Marana, Ariz., 1,710
93, Geordin Krupski, Newtonville, N.J., 1,688
94, Chris Cundiff, Portage, Ind., 1,657
95, John Wilcox, Woodinville, Wash., 1,653
96, Chris Polizzi, Spring Hill, Fla., 1,578
97, Jim Fenimore, Mishawaka, Ind., 1,540