Bowling Museum Houses Nike New Store

Nike will open a new store in the building that formerly housed the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame in St. Louis. The opening is set for Saturday. Yes, the Nike store is expected to generate considerably more... foot traffic.

Jolly Time Popcorn

Jolly Time Popcorn has been named the “official popcorn of Strike Ten Entertainment.” As part of the deal, Jolly Time will carry free game coupons on its packaging, and promote the offer heavily in grocery stores with bowling-themed displays.

PBA Senior Northern California Classic

Dale Traber won his first Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Senior Tour
title by defeating PBA Hall of Famer Wayne Webb, 277-223, in the championship
match of the PBA Senior Northern California Classic Wednesday at Harvest Park
Bowl, Brentwood, CA.

Traber, of Cedarburg, WI, had best finishes of second twice in two seasons on
the Senior Tour including a runner-up finish at last year’s Brentwood stop.

Traber has made a name for himself on PBA’s Regional Tour where he has won
43 titles. His best finish on the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour was a second in
the 1994 PBA National where he lost in the championship match to his brother
David.

“It’s been a pretty lean last three weeks this year not having cashed,” said the
52-year-old Traber who earned $8,000 for the win. “I’ve got the monkey off my
back now which is a relief.

“I was only averaging around 220 the last few tournaments and that wasn’t
going to cut it. The scores weren’t as high at this tournament which was probably in
my favor.”

Traber narrowly made it to the championship match defeating two-time Senior 
Tour titlist Ron Mohr of Eagle River, Alaska, 208-207, in the semifinal. Traber
struck on the final shot of the 10th frame for the win.

Webb, who won the 2008 U.S. Senior Open and was looking for his second
Senior Tour title, defeated Max Shellabarger of Roy, Utah, in his semifinal
match, 238-170, to advance to the final.

Webb will defend his Senior U.S. Open title next week when the 2009 U.S.
Senior Open is held at the Suncoast Bowling Center in Las Vegas May 31-
June 5.

PBA Tour Trials - Round One

Cassidy Schaub of Ashland, OH, averaged 243 on the Lumber Liquidators Professional Bowlers
Association (PBA) Tour’s Cheetah lane conditioning pattern Wednesday to take the first round
lead in the PBA Tour Trials at Thunderbowl Lanes. He leads by seven pins over Ryan Ciminelli of
Cheektowaga, NY.

Schaub, a two-handed player who throws the ball from the left side of his body, is hoping to join
Australia’s Jason Belmonte and Finland’s Osku Palermaa as the third two-handed technician to earn
an exemption for the 2009-10 Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour season.

Eight PBA Tour exemptions are at stake in the five-day, 45-game Tour Trials which continues
through Sunday. The field of 97 U.S. and international players will bowl nine more games each day
over the next four days on the Viper, Chameleon, Scorpion and Shark patterns, respectively,
with total pinfall for 45 games deciding the exempt berths.

“You can’t win the tournament on the first day, but you can try to put a hurtin’ on the field,”
Schaub said after posting his 2,187 total. “I only threw one ball all day. I played out to the gutter
with minimal movement across the house.”

Schaub is happy to have a cushion because he hasn't found the lane conditioning patterns he'll
face the next two days especially friendly during early practice sessions.

“I didn’t have a good look on the Viper or Chameleon patterns earlier, so I am drilling up a few
new balls and will try them (in practice tonight) to see what works,” he said. “We’ll see what part
of the lane works and go from there.“Knowing what you are competing for - the opportunity to bowl
with the greatest bowlers in the world - is really special,” he said of his first Tour Trials experience.
“I’m trying to look around and stay on my own pace and do my own thing, do what’s true to you.”

Nothing would make him happier than expanding the two-handed movement as a full-time touring
player, bowling with Belmonte and Palermaa.

“The two-handed explosion has been awesome,” Schaub said. “I’m happy to jump on that
bandwagon. We have a lot more attention being paid since Jason’s win (in The Bowling Foundation
Long Island Classic) and his appearances on E:60 and Good Morning America. A lot of people are
trying it and talking about it.”

Trailing Schaub and Ciminelli after nine games were Thomas Smallwood of Flushing, MI, with 2,171
pins; Stevie Weber of Chalmette, LA, with 2,152, and newly-crowned Regional Players
Championship titlist Joe Ciccone of Buffalo, NY, with a 2,128 total.

LUMBER LIQUIDATORS PBA TOUR TRIALS
Thunderbowl Lanes, Allen Park, MI, May 27

ROUND ONE (9 games, Cheetah pattern)
1, Cassidy Schaub, Ashland, Ohio, 2,187
2, Ryan Ciminelli, Cheektowaga, N.Y., 2,180
3, Thomas Smallwood, Flushing, Mich., 2,171
4, Stevie Weber, Chalmette, La, 2,152
5, Joe Ciccone, Buffalo, N.Y., 2,128
6, Stuart Williams, England, 2,120
7, Sean Riccardi, Piscataway, N.J., 2,083
8, George Frilingos, Australia; George Lambert IV, Hamilton, Ontario, and Tom Hess, Urbandale, Iowa, 2,079
11, Ken Simard, Greenville, S.C., and Won-Young Choi, South Korea, 2,074
13, Billy Oatman, Chicago, 2,062
14, D.J. Archer, Mineral Wells, Texas, 2,057
15, Tae-Hwa Jeong, South Korea, 2,055
16, Andrew Cain, Scottsdale, Ariz., 2,050
17, Tim Mack, Indianapolis, 2,045
18, Anthony LaCaze, Melrose Park, Ill, 2,040
19, Timothy Behrendt, St Louis, 2,037
20, Randy Weiss, Columbia, S.C., 2,029
21, Bill Rowe, Hamilton, Ontario, and Brian LeClair, Athens, N.Y., 2,028
23, Seo Hak Jung, South Korea, 2,023
24, Jason Wojnar, Chicago, 2,021
25, Kelly Kulick, Union, N.J., 2,019
26, Mitch Beasley, Puyallup, Wash., 2,010
27, Thomas Wall III, Fayetteville, N.C., 2,005
28, Gregory Thompson Jr, Dayton, Ohio, 2,004
29, Johnny Petraglia Jr., Youngstown, Ohio, 1,997
30, Jong Soo Park, South Korea, 1,990
31, Dan Patterson, Utica, N.Y., 1,982
32, Dru LaJoy, Cohoes, N.Y., 1,976
33, Eddie Graham, Centerville, Ohio, 1,975
34, Jesse Buss, Wichita, Kan., 1,973
35, Rudy Kasimakis, Baldwyn, Miss., 1,971
36, Brian Kjergaard, Fulton, Ill., 1,970
37, Jason Hurd, St. Petersburg, Fla., and Andres Gomez, Colombia, 1,953
39, Jason Poli, West Des Moines, Iowa, 1,949
40, Lucas Legnani, Argentina, and Jason Mahr, Spring Hill, Fla., 1,947
42, Dave D'Entremont, Middleburg Heights, Ohio, 1,946
43, Michael Norris, Livonia, Mich., and Scott Newell, Deland, Fla., 1,938
45, Matthew O'Grady, South Amboy, N.J., and Mason Brantley, Detroit, 1,927
47, Kyung-Shin Park, South Korea, 1,926
48, Humberto Vazquez, Mexico, 1,922
49, Jim Tomek Jr., Camp Hill, Pa., 1,919
50, Jeffrey Roche, Dearborn, Mich., 1,918
51, Joe Paluszek, Bensalem, Pa., 1,914
52, Bo Goergen, Midland, Mich., and Chris Collins, Savannah, Ga., 1,912
54, Bobby Hall II, Landover, Md., 1,911
55, Curtis Foss, Medina, N.Y., 1,906
56, Robert Piroozshad, Huntington Beach, Calif., 1,903
57, David Williams Jr., Omaha, Neb., 1,899
58, Tom Sorce, Blasdell, N.Y., 1,893
59, Frank Testa, Akron, Ohio, 1,886
60, John Cicero, Colorado Springs, Colo., 1,879
61, Bryan Paul, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1,876
62, Walter Schaub II, Schaumburg, Ill., 1,872
63, Quinton Bohlen, Decorah, Iowa, 1,869
64, Craig LeMond, Jasper, Ind., 1,865
65, Chad Kloss, Greenfield, Wis, 1,859
66, James Wallace, Hicksville, N.Y., 1,858
67, Joe Bailey, Pittsburgh, 1,849
68, David Simard, Granby, Quebec, 1,837
69, Lee Vanderhoef, Greenville, S.C., 1,830
70, Johnathan Bower, Middletown, Pa., 1,828
71, Michael Wall, Fayetteville, N.C., and Nick Weber, St. Charles, Mo., 1,811
73, J.T. (Action) Jackson, Valley Village, Calif., 1,810
74, Dan MacLelland, Windsor, Ontario, 1,798
75, Daniel Freeman, Indianapolis, 1,788
76, Tim Bell, Garden City, Mich., 1,781
77, Jeremy Boyer, Desloge, Mo., 1,778
78, Nick Kokenos, St. Clair Shores, Mich., 1,776
79, Mike Keily, Lakewood, Colo., 1,773
80, Kevin Andes, Somerset, Mass., 1,768
81, Seby Silvestri, Louisville, Ky., 1,767
82, Aaron Halash, Scottsdale, Ariz., 1,763
83, Jason Dee, Brampton, Ontario, Canada, 1,758
84, Ivo Raul Chiriboga, Miami, 1,756
85, Chris Hansen, Chicago, 1,754
86, Jamie Ceasar, Columbus, Ohio, 1,750
87, Paul Pinto, Philadelphia, 1,748
88, Jack Nealon, Bowie, Md., 1,727
89, Shannon Buchan, Waterloo, Iowa, 1,721
90, Steven Lach, Sloan, N.Y., 1,718
91, Matt Freiberg, Somerset, N.J., 1,713
92, Ron Williams, Marana, Ariz., 1,710
93, Geordin Krupski, Newtonville, N.J., 1,688
94, Chris Cundiff, Portage, Ind., 1,657
95, John Wilcox, Woodinville, Wash., 1,653
96, Chris Polizzi, Spring Hill, Fla., 1,578
97, Jim Fenimore, Mishawaka, Ind., 1,540

PBA Stars Take “A Walk In The Park”

Several of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA)’s top stars will take part in the Six Flags 
Friends second annual “A Walk In The Park” walk-a-thon benefiting Cure Kids Cancer on June 14.

Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour players participating will be 2008-09 Player of the Year Wes Malott
along with Hall of Famers, Walter Ray Williams Jr., Parker Bohn III, Pete Weber and Norm Duke, as
well as two-time PBA Tour champion Rhino Page.

The bowlers will be competing in the GEICO PBA Team Shootout that will be conducted and taped
by ESPN on specially-built outdoor lanes in the Jackson, NJ, theme park June 11-14.

“I look forward to participating in this wonderful charity event especially because it is in my own
backyard,” said Bohn, a 32-time Tour titlist. “With Six Flags Great Adventure as the backdrop, and
some of the greatest bowling fans in the world located here, it should be a lot of fun.”

The goal of each bowler is to raise at least $1,000 through pledges that can be made by visiting 
http://www.walkintheparks.org/sfadventure.php.

Last year the nationwide charity event raised an overall total of more than $250,000.

In addition to the walk-a-thon, seven players will team up with the All-Shore High School bowling
team for a doubles tournament on the tournament lanes at 11 a.m. and six other players will be
participating in a meet-and-greet reception at 1 p.m., weather permitting.

Ogre Urethane

Visionary Bowling announced the June 3^rd introduction
of a new ball called the Ogre Urethane. The hard urethane cover, surrounds an “Ogre” core (RG-2.59, Differential-.034), finished at 1500 and polished.

Ciccone Wins Regional Players Championships

Joe Ciccone of Buffalo, NY, defeated Jim Tomek Jr. of Camp Hill, PA, 184-161, to win the
Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Regional Players Championship and its $9,000 first
prize at Thunderbowl Lanes Monday.

Ciccone, who recently failed to earn enough points to maintain his Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour 
exemption after six years as a touring player, also earned an expenses-paid trip to bowl in the 2010 
PBA Regional Players Invitational where the top seven players will win exemption to bowl on the
national tour for the 2010-11 season. He also won his first trip to bowl in the PBA Tournament of 
Champions, an event for the PBA’s elite champions.

“I’m very happy,” the 34-year-old former Erie Community College and Arizona State University
collegiate star said. “And the Tournament of Champions is a very nice bonus, the icing on the
cake.”

Ciccone is hoping he won’t need to cash in on the Regional Players Invitational package, however.
If he can regain his exemption in the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour Trials later this week, he won’t
be eligible for that regional players-only event.

“I’m here, so I might as well bowl (the Tour Trials),” he said. “(Losing my exemption) wasn’t the
result I was hoping for last season, but a lot of other guys were impacted the same way. There’s
nothing specific about the way I bowled that I can put my finger on, but it would be nice to have
the opportunity to do better next season than I did last. I’ll bowl the Tour Trials and if I don’t make
it, it’s nice to have the RPI to fall back on.”

The PBA Regional Players Championship drew a field of 207 competitors. Most of the players will
now focus their attention on the five-day, 45-game Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour Trials which
runs Wednesday through Sunday at Thunderbowl Lanes. The top eight Tour Trials finishers will earn
exemptions to bowl full-time on the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour next season.


PBA REGIONAL PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP
Thunderbowl Lanes, Allen Park, Mich., May 24

Championship
Joe Ciccone, Buffalo, N.Y. ($9,000), def. Jim Tomek Jr., Camp Hill, Pa. 
($5,000), 184-161.

Semifinal Round (losers earned $2,800)
Ciccone def. Stuart Williams, England, 245-179
Tomek def. Mitch Beasley, Puyallup, Wash., 225-180

Round of 8 (best of three games, losers eliminated, $1,700 each)
Williams def. Michael Marsico, Huntingtown, Md., 2-0
Beasley def. Joe Paluszek, Bensalem, Pa., 2-0
Ciccone def. Richard Kidd, El Paso, Ill., 2-0
Tomek def. Chad Maas, Brookfield, Wis., 2-0

Round of 16 (best of three games, losers eliminated, $1,100 each)
Paluszek def. David Traber, Hebron, Ill., 2-0
Kidd def. Ed Carter, Akron, Ohio, 2-0
Williams def. Thomas Smallwood, Saginaw, Mich., 2-0
Marsico def. Tim Mack, Indianapolis, 2-0
Beasley def. D.J. Archer, Garland, Texas, 2-0
Maas def. Lennie Boresch Jr., Kenosha, Wis., 2-1
Ciccone def. Bo Goergen, Midland, Mich., 2-1
Tomek def. Brian Kjergaard, Fulton, Ill., 2-1

Round of 32 (best of five games, losers eliminated, $800 each)
Smallwood def. Brett Cooper, N. Richland Hills, Texas, 3-0
Goergen def. Joe Bailey, Pittsburgh, Pa., 3-2
Paluszek def. Bobby Hall II, Landover, Md., 3-1
Kidd def. Harry Sullins, Chesterfield Twp., Mich., 3-2
Traber def. David Anthony, Austin, Texas, 3-1
Archer def. Sean Swanson, Springfield, Mo., 3-2
Williams def. Jodi Woessner, Oregon, Ohio, 3-1
Boresch def. Tom Sorce, Blasdell, N.Y., 3-2
Mack def. Chad Kloss, Greenfield, Wis., 3-0
Kjergaard def. George Lambert IV, Wichita, Kan., 3-2
Marsico def. Brian Valenta, Lockport, Ill., 3-0
Beasley def. Dave D'Entremont, Middleburg Heights, Ohio, 3-1
Maas def. Lindsay Baker, Waterford, Mich., 3-2
Ciccone def. Terry Wiley, Vienna, Va., 3-1
Carter def. Eddie Graham, Centerville, Ohio, 3-0
Tomek def. Matt Freiberg, Somerset, N.J., 3-1

Round of 64 (best of five games, losers eliminated, $650 each)
Smallwood def. John Conroy, Mahopac, N.Y., 3-1
Goergen def. Jason Wojnar, Chicago, 3-0
D'Entremont def. Tony Campagna Jr., Hendersonville, Tenn., 3-2
Paluszek def. Larry Verble, Mason, Mich., 3-1
Kidd def. Brian Thompson, Flat Rock, Mich., 3-1
Valenta def. Robert Lawrence, Del Valle, Texas, 3-2
Lambert def. Joe Green, Maplewood, Ohio, 3-2
Traber def. John Slavich IV, Schaumburg, Ill., 3-2
Archer def. Patrick Dombrowski, Parma, Ohio, 3-0
Wiley def. Jeff Zaffino, Warren, Pa., 3-1
Williams def. Chris Hansen, Chicago, 3-1
Sorce def. Duane Benn, Lynnwood, Wash., 3-0
Boresch def. Bill Spigner, Vernon Hills, Ill., 3-1
Woessner def. Kenneth Jessee, Huber Heights, Ohio, 3-1
Graham def. Kurt Pilon, Warren, Mich., 3-0
Mack def. Walter L. Schaub II, Schaumburg, Ill., 3-1
Kjergaard def. Kevin Taber, Toledo, Ohio, 3-2
Marsico def. Randy Weiss, Columbia, S.C., 3-1
Sullins def. Jason Hurd, St. Petersburg, Fla., 3-0
Bobby def. Steve Rogers, Bourbonnais, Ill., 3-1
Beasley def. Chris Kliczinski, Pinckney, Mich., 3-0
Bailey def. Michael Clark Jr., Lakewood, Ohio, 3-0
Maas def. Brian Himmler, Cincinnati, 3-1
Cooper def. Mason Brantley, Detroit, 3-1
Freiberg def. Ken Abner, Cincinnati, 3-1
Anthony def. Ray Edwards, Middle Island, N.Y., 3-2
Swanson def. Dan Patterson, Buffalo, N.Y., 3-2
Ciccone def. Tom Hess, Urbandale, Iowa, 3-1
Carter def. Christopher Sand, 3-2
Kloss def. Jeff Roche, Dearborn, Mich., 3-1
Tomek def. Tim Behrendt, St Louis, 3-1
Baker def. Chris Collins, Savannah, Ga., 3-1

Other Cashers (after 16 games, $500 each)
65, Gregg Zicha, Glen Ellyn, Ill., 3,223
66, Michelle Feldman, Auburn, N.Y., 3,222
67, Tommy Gollick, Oberlin, Pa., 3,218
68, Dan Higgins Jr., Westerville, Ohio, 3,215
69, Stevie Weber, Chalmette, La., 3,212