tournament of the 2010-11 Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour season and will be telecast Sunday, Dec. 12 at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN from South Point Bowling Center in Las Vegas.
The Chameleon 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 Scorpion (Dec. 19), and GEICO Shark Championship (Dec. 26), plus the “USA vs. “The World” team event on Jan. 9 also to be aired at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN.
Eugene McCune won the season-opening Brunswick Pro Bowling Cheetah Championship and Bill O’Neill won the Pepsi Viper Championship televised on Dec. 5.
Chameleon Championship stepladder finals qualifiers:
Match 1: No. 5 Osku Palermaa, Finland vs. No. 4 Sean Rash, Wichita, KS.
Match 2: Winner Match 1 vs. No. 3 Chris Barnes, Double Oak, TX
Match 3: Winner Match 2 vs. No. 2 Wes Malott, Pflugerville, TX
Championship Match Winner of Match 3 vs. No. 1 Scott Norton, Costa Mesa, CA
● Rash will be trying for his fifth career PBA Tour title with his last coming in the 2007 USBC Masters conducted in Milwaukee’s Miller Park.
● Palermaa, considered Europe’s best two-handed delivery player, will be trying for his first Tour title. His previous best finish was third in the 2010 Etonic Don Johnson Eliminator last March.
• Barnes will be trying for his 13th Tour title with his last coming in the 2009 GoRving Match Play Championship.
● Malott, the 2008-09 PBA Player of the Year, will be trying for his seventh career Tour title with his
last coming in the 2009 Etonic Marathon Open.
● Norton, a PBA Tour rookie this season and the winner of the 2010 PBA Regional Players Invitational, will be trying for his first Tour title. Norton, a practicing attorney who owns his own law firm, is the son
of USBC Hall of Famer Virginia Norton.
Tournament Recap: Two 6-game qualifying rounds with top 16 advancing to 9-game match play round.
First round leader (after 6 games qualifying): Brian Kretzer, Dayton, Ohio 1,465.
Second round leader (after 12 games qualifying): Malott, 2,809.
Third round leader (after 21 games qualifying and match play): Norton, 4,932.
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