Scroggins Big Jump Into Player of The Year Race

With his second victory of the 2009-10 Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour season,
Mike Scroggins of Amarillo, Texas, has turned the Chris Schenkel PBA Player of
the Year race into a three-man sprint heading into the final three events of the
season.

By picking up 16 points with his win in the Etonic Don Johnson Eliminator in
Columbus, Ohio, on Sunday, Scroggins now has 48 points, eight behind leader Bill
O’Neill of Southampton, PA, and four behind Walter Ray Williams Jr. of Ocala,
FL.

In each of the final three events, the top four players will earn 16, 8, 4 and 2
points, respectively. An additional point will be awarded to fifth-place finishers
in the stepladder finals of the GEICO Mark Roth Plastic Ball Championship 
March 28 in West Babylon, NY, and the Lumber Liquidators Marathon Open
April 4 in Baltimore. The Go RVing Match Play Championship, which features
a single-elimination match play format, will award points to the top four finishers
only.

In every other major statistical race other than Player of the Year points,
Williams – at age 50 – is the front-runner. The 47-time PBA Tour champion leads
O’Neill by $95 in earnings with $135,770, holds a 1.7-pin lead over Wes Malott
in the George Young Memorial High Average race with a 221.91 for 465 games, and
tops the Harry Smith Point Leader chase with 193,121 points, more than 12,000
ahead of O’Neill.