Professional Bowlers Association Pepsi Viper Championship

The PBA Pepsi Viper Championship is the second tournament of the 2010-11 Lumber 
Liquidators PBA Tour season and will be telecast Sunday, Dec. 5 at 1 p.m. 
Eastern on ESPN from South Point Bowling Center in Las Vegas.

The Viper 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 Chameleon (Dec. 12), Scorpion (Dec. 19), and GEICO Shark 
Championships (Dec. 26) plus the “USA vs. The World” team event on Jan. 9. All 
will be aired at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN.

Eugene McCune won the season-opening Brunswick Pro Bowling Cheetah Championship.

Pepsi Viper Championship stepladder finals qualifiers:
Match 1:No. 5 Amleto Monacelli, Venezuela vs. No. 4 Bill O’Neill, Southampton, PA.
Match 2:Winner Match 1 vs. No. 3 Mike DeVaney, Murietta, CA.
Match 3:Winner Match 2 vs. No. 2 Tommy Jones, Simpsonville, SC.
Championship Match: Winner of Match 3 vs. No. 1 Andres Gomez, Colombia

● Reigning U.S. Open Champion O’Neill and DeVaney will be trying for their third Tour titles. DeVaney’s last title
came in last season’s Scorpion Championship.
● PBA Hall of Famer Monacelli, who now competes part-time on Tour, will be trying for his 20th career Tour title.
His last title came in 2005.
● Jones will be trying for his 14th career Tour title. His last win came in the 2009-10 season-ending DyDo Japan 
Cup in April.
● Gomez, who has won several international titles, will be trying for his first PBA Tour title with his previous 
best finish of fifth in last season’s Chameleon Championship. It will also be his first PBA Tour TV appearance.

Tournament Recap: Two 6-game qualifying rounds with top 16 advancing to 9-game 
match play round.

First round leader (after 6 games qualifying): Greg Thompson Jr., Dublin, CA, 1,417
Second round leader (after 12 games qualifying): Kimmo Lehtonen, Finland, 2,818
Third round leader (after 21 games qualifying and match play): Gomez, 4,964