The Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour begins its telecast season Sunday, Nov. 28 at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN with the Brunswick Pro Bowling Cheetah Championship from South Point Bowling Center in Las Vegas.
The Brunswick Pro Bowling Cheetah Championship is one of the five animal pattern events recently conducted during the PBA World Series of Bowling and will be followed by ESPN telecasts of the Pepsi Viper (Dec. 5), Chameleon (Dec. 12), Scorpion (Dec. 19) and GEICO Shark Championships (Dec. 26) also to be aired at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN.
Cheetah Championship stepladder finals qualifiers:
Match 1: No. 5 Lonnie Waliczek, Wichita, KS. vs. No. 4 Michael Haugen Jr., Carefree, AZ.
Match 2: Winner Match 1 vs. No. 3 Norm Duke, Clermont, FL.
Match 3: Winner Match 2 vs. No. 2 Ritchie Allen, Columbia, SC.
Championship Match Winner of Match 3 vs. No. 1 Eugene McCune, Munster, IN.
● Defending Cheetah Championship winner and PBA Hall of Famer Duke will be trying for his 34th PBA Tour title.
● McCune set a PBA 9-game scoring record of 2,468 (274.22 average) to claim the No. 1 qualifying position for a TV final for the first time in his career. He’ll be looking for his second PBA Tour title with his first coming in 2002.
● Waliczek, Haugen and Allen will all be trying for their third career Tour titles. Waliczek’s last title came in 2003, Allen’s in 2006 and Haugen’s in the 2008 Tournament of Champions in Las Vegas.
Tournament Recap: Two 6-game qualifying rounds with top 16 advancing to 9-game match play round. First round leader (after 6 games qualifying): Mike DeVaney, 1,510. Second round leader (after 12 games qualifying): Ritchie Allen, 3,020. Third round leader (after 21 games qualifying and match play): Eugene McCune, 5,612
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