GEICO PBA Team Shootout

The GEICO PBA Team Shootout Hosted by Six Flags heads down the
homestretch this Sunday when the championship rounds of the made-for-TV
event air beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN.  The winning team will share in
a $108,000 first prize.

After week 3, Team GEICO (Chris Barnes, reigning PBA Player of the Year Wes
Malott, Patrick Allen, Mika Koivuniemi, Mike Wolfe and Brad Angelo) clinched a
berth in the championship round with a 5-2 match play record.

Sunday’s opening telecast will be the final round-robin match that will
determine whether Team Lumber Liquidators (Parker Bohn III, Walter Ray
Williams Jr., Pete Weber, Norm Duke, Steve Jaros and Mike Scroggins) or Team
Bayer (Tommy Jones, Rhino Page, Michael Fagan, Bill O’Neill, Sean Rash and
Jason Belmonte) will advance to the championship round to battle Team GEICO
in a series of singles, doubles and Baker-style team matches.

Team Lumber Liquidators goes into the final round robin match vs. Team
GEICO with a 3-4 record while Team Bayer has concluded the round robin
portion of the event with a 3-5 record. Team Lumber Liquidators would advance
to the championship round with a win over Team GEICO. Should Team Lumber 
Liquidators lose that match, thus leaving them with an identical 3-5 match play
record as Team Bayer, a total pinfall tie-breaker will be used. In that instance,
the team with the highest actual team pinfall over the round robin portion of the
event will advance to the championship round.

Throughout the tournament, all three teams bowled on a variety of PBA lane
conditioning patterns with the top two teams based on match play record
advancing to the championship rounds.

Conducted outdoors on specially-constructed lanes at New Jersey’s Six Flags 
Great Adventure theme park, three of the best teams ever assembled competed
in a Baker Scoring System format which requires five members of the team to roll
two frames in one game combining for one score.