Sunday, August 23, 2009

Shark Championships Qualifying

Bo Goergen, Midland, MI, and Adrienne Miller, Albuquerque, NM, will lead a field of13 men and three women, respectively, who will advance to the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Shark Championship at Thunderbowl Lanes on Friday. 

Goergen posted a seven-game total of 1,509 pins to top a field of 66 in Saturday’s men’s Tour Qualifying Round (TQR) while Miller, who qualified for the Women’s Scorpion Championships earlier in the day, had 1,563 pins to lead the field of 19 women bidding for berths into the PBA Women’s Series presented by BOWL.COM event. 

Advancing along with Goergen were Steve Rogers, Bourbonnais, IL, 1,504; Matt White, Youngsville, PA, 1,498; Christopher Moyer, Saginaw, MI, 1,492; Dave D'Entremont, Middleburg Heights, OH, 1,448; Patrick Dombrowski, Parma, OH, 1,442; Jeffrey Roche, Dearborn, MI, 1,433; Dan MacLelland, Saginaw, MI, 1,423; Tony Campagna Jr., Chesapeake, VA, and Mason Brantley, Detroit, MI, 1,414; Paul Gibson, Brunswick, OH, 1,412; Scott Newell, Deland, FL, 1,400, and Tom Daugherty, Tampa, FL, 1,397. 

Three extra spots in the PBA Shark Championship field were awarded after exempt tour players Tommy Delutz Jr., Danny Wiseman and Dave Arnold withdrew and one additional women’s spots was awarded. 

In addition to Miller, women advancing to Friday’s qualifying rounds are Joy Esterson, Annapolis, MD, and Leslie Bohn, Jackson, NJ, who tied for second with 1,472 totals. Esterson is a former PBA Women’s Series exempt player. Bohn, a Michigan native, is the wife of Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour star Parker Bohn III. 

The 72-player men’s Shark Championship, the sixth event in the PBA World Series of Bowling, will include 59 exempt players who will bowl two seven-game qualifying rounds on Aug. 28 beginning at 8 a.m. The top 28 men and the top eight women will advance to single-elimination best-of-seven game matches on Aug. 29, with the Round of 8 starting at 7:30 p.m. The Shark Championship finals will be taped on Sept. 6 at Thunderbowl Lanes and aired on ESPN Dec. 6 at 1 p.m. Eastern. 

PBA World Series of Bowling Shark Championship Tour Qualifying Round 
Thunderbowl Lanes, Allen Park, MI  - Aug. 22, 2009 
(Top 13 advance to the Round of 72 for Shark Championship qualifying Aug. 28) 
Pos., name, hometown, seven-game total, money 
1, Bo Goergen, Midland, Mich., 1,509 
2, Steve Rogers, Bourbonnais, Ill., 1,504 
3, Matt White, Youngsville, Pa., 1,498 
4, Christopher Moyer, Saginaw, Mich., 1,492 
5, Dave D'Entremont, Middleburg Heights, Ohio, 1,448 
6, Patrick Dombrowski, Parma, Ohio, 1,442 
7, Jeffrey Roche, Dearborn, Mich., 1,433 
8, Dan MacLelland, Saginaw, Mich., 1,423 
9, (tie) Tony Campagna Jr., Chesapeake, Va., and Mason Brantley, Detroit, 1,414 
11, Paul Gibson, Brunswick, Ohio, 1,412 
12, Scott Newell, Deland, Fla., 1,400 
13, Tom Daugherty, Tampa, Fla., 1,397 
14, (tie) Anthony LaCaze, Melrose Park, Ill., and Eddie Graham, Centerville, Ohio, 1,394, $850 16, Ryan Ciminelli, Cheektowaga, N.Y., 1,392, $400 
17, Brian Himmler, Cincinnati, 1,390 
18, Timothy Behrendt, St. Louis, 1,384 
19, Lee Vanderhoef, Greenville, S.C., 1,373 
20, (tie) Johnathan Bower, Middletown, Pa., and Andres Gomez, Bogota, Colombia, 1,367 22, Jesse Buss, Wichita, Kan., 1,361 
23, Jay Futrell, Derby, Kan., 1,358 
24, Matt Freiberg, Somerset, N.J., 1,356 
25, Paul Moor, England, 1,353 
26, Todd Sim, Canada, 1,347 
27, Jason Wojnar, Chicago, 1,338 
28, Randy Weiss, Columbia, S.C., 1,337 
29, Mike Keily, Lakewood, Colo., 1,333 
30, Michael Cimba, Monroeville, Pa., 1,331 
31, Abed Daher, Brownstown, Mich., 1,330 
32, Richard Horodecki Jr., Jackson, Mich., 1,323 
33, (tie) D.J. Archer, Mineral Wells, Texas, and Jason Poli, West Des Moines, Iowa, 1,316 
35, Steven Black, Phoenix, 1,309 
36, Martin Larsen, Sweden, 1,304 
37, Mike Dias, Lafayette, Colo., 1,303 
38, Billy Oatman, Chicago, 1,292 
39, Andrew Cain, Scottsdale, Ariz., 1,291 
40, Chad Kloss, Greenfield, Wis., 1,290 
41, (tie) Jesse Smith, Garfield Heights, Ohio, and Alex Medveditskov, Russia, 1,287 
43, Sean Morgan, Hollidaysburg, Pa., 1,276 
44, Mike Nadolski, Westland, Mich., 1,273 
45, Joe Bailey, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1,272 
46, Ken Simard, Greenville, S.C., 1,271 
47, Nick Weber, St. Charles, Mo., 1,270 
48, Leon Walsh Jr., Plymouth, Mich, 1,247 
49, Keith Nichols, Englewood, Fla, 1,246 
50, Andrew Horodecki, Jackson, Mich., 1,238 
51, Jason Zook, Tampa, Fla, 1,232 
52, Toshifumi Kojima, Japan, 1,219 
53, Darren Comardelle, Gretna, La., 1,199 
54, Joseph Hostetler, Minerva, Ohio, 1,185 
55, (tie) Bryan Paul, Brooklyn, N.Y., and Steve Tobolt, Chicago, 1,184 
57, Tim Keeler, Omaha, Neb., 1,183 
58, Johnny Petraglia Jr., Youngstown, Ohio, 1,177 59, (tie) Brian DiCicco, Agawam, Mass., and Brandon Robertson, Clinton, Conn., 1,173 
61, Nick Kokenos, St. Clair Shores, Mich., 1,171 
62, Corey Miller, Grand Blanc, Mich., 1,170 
63, Ed Campbell, Rochester Hills, Mich., 1,155 
64, Dale Cheer, Commerce, Mich., 1,143 
65, Kevin Bostrom, Muskegon, Mich., 1,128 
66, Jack Nealon, Bowie, Md., 1,096 

PBA Women’s Series Presented By Bowl.Com Shark Championship TQR  
(Top three advance to the Round of 20 for qualifying Aug. 28) 
Pos., name, hometown, seven-game total, money 
1, Adrienne Miller, Albuquerque, N.M., 1,563 
2, (tie) Joy Esterson, Annapolis, Md., and Leslie Bohn, Jackson, N.J., 1,472 
4, Kathy Tribbey, Dundee, Ore., 1,467, $1,000 
5, Lindsay Baker, Waterford, Mich., 1,464 
6, Sun Hee Lee, South Korea, 1,447 
7, Cathy Dorin-Lizzi, Sandusky, Ohio, 1,443 
8, Veronica Lantto, Sweden, 1,429 
9, Christine Bator, Warren, Mich., 1,374 
10, Megan Kelly, Dayton, Ohio, 1,369 
11, Elysia Current, Ephrata, Pa., 1,367 
12, Darlene Dysart, Farmington Hills, Mich., 1,365 
13, Sara Vargas, Orlando, Fla., 1,337 
14, Jessica Helwi, St. Charles, Mo., 1,294 
15, Mi Jung Cha, South Korea, 1,292 
16, Kristy King, Clinton Twp., Mich., 1,283 
17, Andrea Lucente, Youngstown, Ohio, 1,271 
18, Sandra Schultz, Macomb, Mich., 1,189 
19, Crystal Bunton, Portage, Ind., 1,123

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