Midwest Qualifiers for the 2011 Women's US Open

Thanks to the sponsorship assistance of Ebonite International, women bowlers in the Midwest will have five qualifyingtournament opportunities to not only win paid entries into Bowling’s 2011 U.S. Women’s Open in Euless, TX, but a series of
high-quality opportunities to test their skills.

The Midwest series will begin with the Hammer Illinois Women’s Open on Sunday, Nov. 28, at Don Carter Lanes in Rockford, IL - the birthplace of the Ladies Pro Bowlers Tour. Additional one-day events will include the:

● Ebonite Joliet Women’s Open at Town and Country Lanes, Joliet, IL, on Sunday, Jan. 2;
● Track Wisconsin Women’s Open at AMF Bowlero, Wauwatosa, WI, on Sunday, Feb. 13;
● Robby’s Lake County Women’s Open at Brunswick Zone-Hawthorn, Vernon Hills, IL, on Sunday, Mar 27;
● Columbia 300 Indiana Women’s Open at Olympia Lanes, Hammond, IN, on Sunday, May 22.

Each tournament will be a one-day event with six qualifying games for all players, followed by eight games 

of match play for the top eight qualifiers (based upon at least 32 entries). Entry fee for each event is $125.

All of the events will begin at 10 a.m., except the Robby’s Lake County Women’s Open (9 a.m. start time).
While all tournaments are open to any USBC adult and youth woman bowler,only players who have not won

national titles under the Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America’s U.S. Women’s Open rules will be 

eligible to win the paid U.S. Women’s Open entry which will be awarded in each event.

In addition to the U.S. Open entry awarded at each tournament, a sixth entry will be awarded to the 

woman who finishes highest in combined earnings for all five tournaments, but does not otherwise win 

one of the five entries.

The tournaments are being organized and conducted by Windy City Bowling News publisher Lisa Vint, a 

former Professional Women’s Bowling Association/LPBT competitor and LPBT Director of Membership 

Services.

“Scratch-level women bowlers across America, let alone in the Midwest, have very few competitive 

opportunities since the PWBA and PBA Women’s Series ceased operations,” Vint said. “The 2011 U.S. 

Women’s Open is going to be an historic event, with nationally-televised finals to be held in Cowboys’
Stadium in Arlington, Texas. It seems like a perfect opportunity to conduct not one, but a series of 

events to help women bowlers get ready to bowl in an environment that will help them prepare for 

the U.S. Open.

“We will conduct these events using the U.S. Women’s Open lane conditions.We are inviting all women

- whether they are national title-holders who are ineligible to win spots or not - to enter and compete 

for the prize money. Even those who win spots can bowl more than once,” she said. “The goal, beyond 

awarded U.S. Women’s Open entries, is to provide women with great competition at an affordable price

and using a simple format that will dramatically reduce any travel expenses.”

Any woman bowler who would like to receive an entry form and additional information is asked to 

contact Lisa Vint by e-mail at: wcbn@wi.rr.com or by telephone at 262-642-3989.

2010 PBA World Series of Bowling Sees Records Fall

Over the course of 52 years, you’d think there would be no barriers left for the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) to break, but during the 2010 PBA World Series of Bowling at South Point Bowling Center, the record book was battered and broken once again.

Beginning on Oct. 25, a field of 252 men and women from around the world began competition on five different PBA “animal pattern” lane conditions. The 12-game-per-day marathon on the PBA’s Cheetah, Viper, Chameleon, Scorpion and Shark lane conditions led to five “animal pattern” championships that will be decided in stepladder finals Friday and Saturday. ESPN will tape the finals for delayed airing, beginning on Sunday, Nov. 28, at 1 p.m. Eastern.

In addition, the 60-game composite scores determined the final qualifying standings for the PBA World Championship, including the top eight players who will return to South Point Jan. 14, 15 and 16 for a first-ever three-day live
stepladder event. ESPN2 and ESPN will air the final stages of that event.

The same 60 games decided the field of six United States and six international players who will bowl a first-ever USA vs. The World team championship match Saturday at 5:30 p.m. (Pacific). The event will air on ESPN on Sunday, Dec. 26, at 1 p.m. Eastern.

For bowling fans who attend the PBA’s “pattern” championships Friday and Saturday, here are some of the highlights:

● None of the five top qualifiers has ever led the field in qualifying for a TV show before. Brunswick Pro Bowling Cheetah Championship top qualifier Eugene McCune is the only top qualifier who has won a PBA title – and he
has only won once.

● The other four No. 1 qualifiers – Colombia’s Andres Gomez (Pepsi Viper Championship); Scott Norton of Costa Mesa, CA (Chameleon Championship), Jun-Yung Kim of South Korea (Scorpion Championship) and Canada’s Dan MacLelland (GEICO Shark Championship) – are making their PBA Tour television debuts. Obviously, none of them has ever won a PBA Tour title.

● The Cheetah finale will be the only telecast featuring five PBA Tour players who reside in the United States. Every other final has at least one international player.

● McCune won the No. 1 berth for the Cheetah stepladder by setting a PBA nine-game scoring record in match play, posting a 9-0 record and averaging 274.22 for a total of 2,468 pins. His games were 300, 253, 275, 279, 279, 279,
236, 300 and 267, which translates into three consecutive 800 series including a 279 “triplicate.” McCune also bettered the United States Bowling Congress (USBC) nine-game record of 2,463 set by Doug Vergouven in Kansas City, MO,
April 25-26, 2003.

● Norm Duke is the defending Cheetah champion. He is the only defending champion to make a final in his respective discipline. Other defending champions are Rhino Page (Viper), Bill O’Neill (Chameleon), Mike DeVaney (Scorpion) and Jack Jurek (Shark).

● The Scorpion finale will be the first PBA Tour telecast with four international players vs. a single U.S. player (O’Neill).

● Norton and South Korea’s Yong-Jin Gu (Scorpion) are the only left-handers to reach the five PBA pattern championships. Finland’s Kimmo Lehtonen is the only lefty to make the USA vs. The World final.

● The only international players to win PBA Tour titles are Mats Karlsson (Sweden), Amleto Monacelli (Venezuela), Mika Koivuniemi (Finland) and Jason Belmonte (Australia).

● Finland’s Osku Palermaa and Australia’s Jason Belmonte, the two premier two-handed bowlers in the world, both qualified for the GEICO Shark Championship. It will be the first time two two-handed bowlers have appeared on the same television show. They will be joined on the Shark show by reigning PBA World Champion Tom Smallwood of Saginaw, MI, who might be considered a “one-and-a-half” handed bowler. Smallwood, who uses just the tip of his thumb in his grip, uses both hands to hold onto the ball until he enters his down swing.

● O’Neill (Viper and Scorpion); MacLelland (Scorpion and Shark), Palermaa (Chameleon and Shark) and Belmonte (Scorpion and Shark) are the only players to qualify for two of the “pattern” championships. All four will also bowl in the USA vs. The World team match. All but MacLelland are among the eight PBA World Championship finalists who will return to South Point Jan. 14-16 to conclude the World Series. O’Neill is the top qualifier for the World Championship, Palermaa is third and Belmonte is eighth.

● Mika Koivuniemi’s status for the USA vs. The World match was questionable after he injured his back during a practice session last Sunday. He completed his Viper match play round on Monday, but was forced to withdraw from the Chameleon match play round Tuesday after two games. On Wednesday, he insisted he would be ready to bowl in the team match because he was receiving treatments on his back five times a day. Mika’s wife Leena, who traveled to the World Series with him, is a physical therapist.

● Each “pattern” champion will earn a PBA Tour title, with the possible exceptions of Kim and Gu, who are amateurs. Under PBA rules, PBA Tour titles are not awarded to non-members.

Tickets will be available on-site for all six World Series of Bowling finals.
 

2010 PBA WORLD SERIES OF BOWLING
South Point Bowling Center, Las Vegas, Nev.

BRUNSWICK PRO BOWLING CHEETAH CHAMPIONSHIP
(After 21 games; stepladder finals at 9 a.m. Pacific Friday; finals will air on ESPN at 1 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, Nov. 28)
1, Eugene McCune, Munster, Ind., 9-0, 5,612.
2, Ritchie Allen, Columbia, S.C., 5-4, 5,386.
3, Norm Duke, Clermont, Fla., 7-2, 5,375.
4, Michael Haugen Jr., Carefree, Ariz., 6-3, 5,344.
5, Lonnie Waliczek, Wichita, Kan., 5-4, 5,329.

PEPSI VIPER CHAMPIONSHIP
(After 21 games; stepladder finals at 1 p.m. Pacific Friday; finals will air on ESPN at 1 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, Dec. 5)
1, Andres Gomez, Colombia, 6-3, 4,964.
2, Tommy Jones, Simpsonville, S.C., 7-2, 4,962.
3, Mike DeVaney, Murrieta, Calif., 7-2, 4,908.
4, Bill O'Neill, Southampton, Pa., 5-4, 4,905.
5, Amleto Monacelli, Venezuela, 7-2, 4,893.

CHAMELEON CHAMPIONSHIP
(After 21 games; stepladder finals at 3:30 p.m. Pacific Friday; finals will air on ESPN at 1 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, Dec. 12)
1, Scott Norton, Costa Mesa, Calif., 7-2, 4,932.
2, Wes Malott, Pflugerville, Texas, 6-3, 4,915.
3, Chris Barnes, Double Oak, Texas, 5-4, 4,903.
4, Sean Rash, Wichita, Kan., 6-3, 4,846.
5, Osku Palermaa, Finland, 5-4, 4,843.

SCORPION CHAMPIONSHIP
(After 21 games; stepladder finals at 11 a.m. Pacific Saturday; finals will air on ESPN at 1 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, Dec. 19)
1, Jun-Yung Kim, Korea, 7-2, 4,901.
2, Jason Belmonte, Australia, 4-5, 4,898.
3, Bill O'Neill, Southampton, Pa., 6-2-1, 4,894.
4, Yong-Jin Gu, Korea, 5-2-2, 4,883.
5, Dan MacLelland, Canada, 4-4-1, 4,879.

GEICO SHARK CHAMPIONSHIP
(After 21 games, stepladder finals at 3 p.m. Pacific Saturday; finals will air on ESPN at 1 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, Dec. 26)
1, Dan MacLelland, Canada, 8-1, 5,087.
2, Osku Palermaa, Finland, 6-3, 4,946.
3, Tom Smallwood, Saginaw, Mich., 6-3, 4,921.
4, Jason Belmonte, Australia, 4-5, 4,909.
5, Mike Fagan, Patchogue, N.Y., 7-2, 4,888.

USA VS. THE WORLD TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
(Top six after 60 World Series of Bowling qualifying games; finals at 5:30 p.m. Pacific Saturday; finals will air on ESPN at 1 p.m. Eastern on 

Sunday, Jan. 9)

USA Qualifiers:
1, Bill O'Neill, Southampton, Pa., 13,606.
2, Sean Rash, Wichita, Kan., 13,563.
3, Chris Barnes, Double Oak, Texas, 13,506.
4, Michael Haugen Jr., Carefree, Ariz., 13,425.
5, Wes Malott, Pflugerville, Texas, 13,408.
6, Ronnie Russell, Marion, Ind., 13,375.

The World Qualifiers:
1, Osku Palermaa, Finland, 13,544.
2, Mika Koivuniemi, Finland, 13,496.
3, Jason Belmonte, Australia, 13,405.
4, Amleto Monacelli, Venezuela, 13,365.
5, Kimmo Lehtonen, Finland, 13,269.
6, Dan MacLelland, Canada, 13,267.

PBA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFYING STANDINGS
(Top 8 after 60 World Series of Bowling qualifying games; finals will air live on ESPN/ESPN2 on Jan. 14, 15 and 16 from South Point 

Bowling Center)
1, Bill O'Neill, Southampton, Pa., 13,606.
2, Sean Rash, Wichita, Kan., 13,563.
3, Osku Palermaa, Finland, 13,544.
4, Chris Barnes, Double Oak, Texas, 13,506.
5, Mika Koivuniemi, Finland, 13,496.
6, Michael Haugen Jr., Carefree, Ariz., 13,425.
7, Wes Malott, Pflugerville, Texas, 13,408.
8, Jason Belmonte, Australia, 13,405.

BWAA Picks O'Neill October 2010 Kegel Bowler of the Month

Bill O'Neill of Southampton, PA, has been named the October 2010 Kegel Bowler of the Month by the Bowling Writers Association of America (BWAA).

In the 60-game qualifier for the 2010 PBA World Championship, O'Neill averaged nearly 227 becoming the #1 seed for the television finals.  He also qualified for match play in four of the five match play rounds in the PBA World Series of Bowling, featuring 12 games on each of the PBA's five animal patterns.  In the process, O'Neill became the #3 seed for the Pepsi Viper Championship and #4 seed in the Scorpion Championship for their respective television finals.

This marks O'Neill's fourth Kegel BWAA Bowler of the Month honor in the last 13 months.

Nicknamed "The Real Deal," O'Neill is coming off a breakout season, winning his first PBA title, the Chameleon Championship, at the inaugural PBA World Series and his first major title, the 67^th Lumber Liquidators U.S. Open.

Others receiving votes were Chris Barnes, winner of the 8^th Columbia 300 Vienna Open and #4 seed in the PBA World Championship TV finals, Sean Rash, #2 seed in the PBA World Championship TV finals, Michael Fagan, winner of the Ebonite Lahti Open, and Lynda Barnes, winner of the AMF Australian Masters.

CEO of Lucky Strike Lanes On Undercover Boss on CBS

PBA GEICO Shark Championship Qualifying at WSOB

Dan MacLelland of Windsor, Ontario, Canada closed in on his childhood dream, earning the No. 1 position for Saturday’s GEICO Shark Championship at South Point Bowling Center Wednesday in his quest for his first Lumber Liquidators Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour title.

By topping the Shark Championship field after 21 games of qualifying and match play, the 25-year-old MacLelland became the fifth consecutive player in PBA World Series of Bowling (WSOB) competition to earn the top stepladder position for the first time. Cheetah Championship leader Eugene McCune of Munster, IN; Viper Championship top qualifier Andres Gomez of Colombia; No. 1 Chameleon Championship qualifier Scott Norton, Costa Mesa, CA, and Scorpion Champion leader Jun-Yung Kim of South Korea also clinched spots in the title match of their respective events for the first time earlier in the week.

MacLelland, a three-time collegiate All-American at Saginaw (MI) Valley State, finished the nine-game Shark round with an 8-1 match play record and a 21-game total of 5,087 pins, including match play bonus pins. He entered the match play round in 10th place following last week’s 12-game preliminary round. Finland’s Osku Palermaa was second with 4,946 pins. Also qualifying for Saturday’s stepladder finals were Tom Smallwood of Saginaw, MI; Jason Belmonte of Australia, and Mike Fagan of Patchogue, NY.

MacLelland, Palermaa and Belmonte all qualified for their second World Series of Bowling stepladder final. Palermaa and Belmonte are the first pair of two-handed players to qualify for the same television show. Fagan threw two strikes in the 10th frame to win the fifth seat in the stepladder finals by four pins over reigning PBA Player of the Year Walter Ray Williams Jr. of Ocala, FL.

“I’m overwhelmed,” MacLelland said. “Coming into the round, a lot of people thought we would be bowling for two spots because of the three two-handers in the field (Brian Valenta of Lockport, IL, was the third two-hander; Valenta finished seventh). The two-handed players can open up the lane condition so much, but that wasn’t the case. I was able to stay on top of the conditions and make all of the correct moves at the right time. I didn’t fight the conditions with the wrong bowling balls.”

MacLelland, who has returned to Saginaw Valley State to complete his senior year and earn a degree in sociology, has dreamed of a PBA title “since I started bowling as a little kid. I have always wanted to be one of the best on tour.”

He tried to earn an exemption to bowl full-time on the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour last season, but fell 74 pins short of qualifying in a similar event – the PBA Tour Trials which were contested over five days on the same five PBA “animal pattern” lane conditions.

“I was minus 60 (pins below a 200 average) on the Cheetah pattern,” he said. “While everyone else was bowling high scores, I was struggling. I almost made it back, but I knew someday I’d get out here and live my dream.”

The GEICO Shark Championship stepladder finals will be conducted at 3 p.m. Pacific on Friday at South Point Bowling Center for delayed airing on ESPN on Sunday, Dec. 19, at 1 p.m. Eastern. The concluding event of the World Series
will be a televised USA vs. The World Team Championship which will be conducted at 5:30 p.m. Saturday for airing on ESPN on Sunday, Dec. 26, at 1 p.m. Eastern.

GEICO SHARK CHAMPIONSHIP
South Point Bowling Center, Las Vegas, Nev., Wednesday

GEICO SHARK CHAMPIONSHIP

(After 21 games, including match play bonus pins; top five advance to stepladder 
finals at 3 p.m. Pacific Saturday; finals will air on ESPN at 1 p.m. Eastern on 
Sunday, Dec. 19)
1, Dan MacLelland, Canada, 8-1, 5,087.
2, Osku Palermaa, Finland, 6-3, 4,946.
3, Tom Smallwood, Saginaw, Mich., 6-3, 4,921.
4, Jason Belmonte, Australia, 4-5, 4,909.
5, Mike Fagan, Patchogue, N.Y., 7-2, 4,888.

Other Cashers:
6, Walter Ray Williams Jr., Ocala, Fla., 5-4, 4,884, $2,500.
7, Brian Valenta, Lockport, Ill., 3-6, 4,830, $2,300.
8, Ryan Shafer, Horseheads, N.Y., 4-5, 4,813, $2,200.
9, Dino Castillo, Carrollton, Texas, 5-4, 4,807, $2,150.
10, Jesper Agerbo, Denmark, 5-3-1, 4,805, $2,100.
11, Dave Wodka, Chatsworth, Calif., 5-4, 4,717, $2,050.
12, Joe Ciccone, Buffalo, N.Y., 2-7, 4,661, $2,000.
13, Wes Malott, Pflugerville, Texas, 3-5-1, 4,588, $1,950.
14, Patrick Girard, Canada, 3-5-1, 4,542, $1,900.
15, Kelly Kulick, Union, N.J., 3-6, 4,516, $1,850.
16, Ronnie Russell, Marion, Ind., 1-7-1, 4,431, $1,800.

South Korean's Qualify for Scorpion Championship Finals

South Korea’s Jun-Yung Kim and countryman Yong-Jin Gu became the first Korean bowlers to reach the television finals of a Professional Bowlers Association (PBA)Tour event on American soil Tuesday when they qualified first and fifth for Saturday’s stepladder finals in the Scorpion Championship at South Point Bowling Center.

Kim, a 30-year-old amateur bowling in his first professional event, became the fourth consecutive bowler in the PBA’s five-event World Series of Bowling to reach the television finals as the No. 1 qualifier for the first time. Previously, Eugene McCune of Munster, IN; Andres Gomez of Colombia, and PBA Tour rookie Scott Norton of Costa Mesa, CA, qualified No. 1 for the first time in their careers in the Cheetah, Viper and Chameleon Championships, respectively.

The Scorpion Championship, the fourth of five PBA “lane condition” championships being contested during the PBA World Series of Bowling, will feature the first stepladder finals field with four international players and one United States player. Australia’s Jason Belmonte qualified second, Bill O’Neill of Southampton, PA, qualified third and Canada’s Dan MacLelland qualified fourth.

O’Neill is the first World Series competitor to qualify for two television finals. He also qualified fourth for Friday’s Pepsi Viper Championship.

“I am very, very happy,” Kim said through his interpreter. “I hoped to bowl well, but I never dreamed I would qualify first. The players here were much better than I thought they would be. It was fun, but very difficult. It’s a good omen to be the No. 1 person.”

Kim has been a member of South Korean’s Inchun Transportation Team, but he has never experienced a professional event in Asia or the United States before because it would jeopardize his amateur status. He entered the PBA World Series of Bowling because it was open to international amateurs.

South Korean bowlers have appeared in the finals of the Japan Cup – an invitational event including PBA stars - in the past, but this will be the first time Korean bowlers have bowled for a Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour title in the United States.

The Scorpion Championship stepladder finals will be conducted at 11 a.m. Pacific on Saturday at South Point Bowling Center for delayed airing on ESPN on Sunday, Dec. 19, at 1 p.m. Eastern. Match play qualifying in the final pattern championship being contested in the PBA World Series – the GEICO Shark Championship – will be held at 9 a.m. Pacific on Wednesday.

Bowling fans around the world are following the action on Xtra Frame, the PBA’s exclusive video-streaming service. Full-year, World Series only and one-day trial memberships are available by visiting www.xtraframe.tv.

2010 PBA WORLD SERIES OF BOWLING
South Point Bowling Center, Las Vegas, Nev., Tuesday

SCORPION CHAMPIONSHIP
(After 21 games, including match play bonus pins; top five advance to stepladder 
finals at 11 a.m. Pacific Saturday; finals will air on ESPN at 1 p.m. Eastern on 
Sunday, Dec. 19)
1, Jun-Yung Kim, Korea, 7-2, 4,901.
2, Jason Belmonte, Australia, 4-5, 4,898.
3, Bill O'Neill, Southampton, Pa., 6-2-1, 4,894.
4, Yong-Jin Gu, Korea, 5-2-2, 4,883.
5, Dan MacLelland, Canada, 4-4-1, 4,879.

Other Cashers:
6, Martin Larsen, Sweden, 6-3, 4,844, $2,500.
7, Eugene McCune, Munster, Ind., 5-3-1, 4,827, $2,300.
8, Chad Kloss, West Allis, Wis., 4-5, 4,801, $2,200.
9, Amleto Monacelli, Venezuela, 5-4, 4,800, $2,150.
10, Paul Moor, England, 3-6, 4,791, $2,100.
11, Mike DeVaney, Murrieta, Calif., 3-6, 4,781, $2,025.
11, Jason Sterner, McDonough, Ga., 4-5, 4,781, $2,025.
13, Jack Jurek, Lackawanna, N.Y., 3-6, 4,761, $1,950.
14, Chris Barnes, Double Oak, Texas, 3-5-1, 4,666, $1,900.
15, Mike Fagan, Patchogue, N.Y., 3-6, 4,665, $1,850.
16, Eddie VanDaniker Jr., Essex, Md., 4-5, 4,609, $1,800.

Columbia's Gomez Tops Pepsi Viper Qualifying at WSOB

Colombia’s Andres Gomez, a veteran international competitor, will try for his first Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour title as top qualifier when the Pepsi Viper Championship stepladder finals are held Friday at South Point Bowling Center.

Gomez, who entered Monday’s nine-game match play round as the No. 4 qualifier, lost his first match, but won six of the next eight including a 224-194 victory over Tommy Jones of Simpsonville, SC, in the position round, to finish with a 21-game total of 4,964 pins, two better than Jones. Also advancing to Friday’s stepladder finals were Mike DeVaney of Murrieta, CA; Bill O’Neill of Southampton, PA, and 19-time PBA Tour champion Amleto
Monacelli of Venezuela.

Among the five finalists, Gomez is the only non-titlist and the other player never to appear on a PBA Tour telecast.

“I’ve been on EuroSport television during the AMF World Cup a few years ago, and I’ve been close a few times in PBA Tour events, a few heart-breakers,” Gomez said. “It hasn’t settled in yet. I’m amazed. I knew I had a good chance to make the TV show, but being No. 1 is amazing. I’ve been smiling for an hour and a half.

“I’m going to have to take it one frame at a time on TV,” he said. “It’s easier said than done, but I was able to manage it today.”

Gomez, 37, has lived in the United States off and on for the past 15 years, after attending the University of Central Florida in Orlando. He has bowled around the world, and worked for a time in a bowling pro shop, but ultimately decided he needed to test his skills on the American professional tour.

“You’ve got to bowl with the best and the best are on the PBA Tour,” he said. “I knew if I wanted to get better, it would be here.”

But the PBA’s Viper lane condition was the last place he expected to find success.

“Since the PBA named the patterns, the Viper has always been my worst,” he said. “But I knew when I saw it in practice earlier in the tournament it was different than the versions I’ve seen before. I made some adjustments and they worked like a charm. It suited my game really good.”

Jones, a 13-time PBA Tour winner, advanced from 14th place at the start of match play to take the lead going into his position round match with Gomez. The final match also was pivotal for O’Neill and Monacelli, who were both out of the stepladder finals with a game to go. O’Neill defeated Greg Thompson Jr. of Dublin, CA, 257-201, to advance from sixth to fourth and Monacelli, a PBA
Hall of Famer, raced past Sean Rash of Wichita, KS, 257-180, to claim the fifth spot.

The Pepsi Viper Championship was the second of five PBA “lane condition” championships which will be contested as the PBA World Series of Bowling continues this week.

The Pepsi Viper Championship stepladder finals will be conducted Friday at 1 p.m. Pacific at South Point Bowling Center for delayed airing on ESPN on Sunday, Dec. 5, at 1 p.m. Eastern.

Bowling fans around the world are following the action on Xtra Frame, the PBA’s exclusive video-streaming service. Full-year, World Series only and one-day trial memberships are available by visiting  www.xtraframe.tv.  

2010 PBA WORLD SERIES OF BOWLING South Point Bowling Center, Las Vegas, Nev., Monday  

PEPSI VIPER CHAMPIONSHIP (After 21 games, including match play bonus pins; top five advance to stepladder finals at 1 p.m. Pacific Friday; finals will air on ESPN at 1 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, Dec. 5)

1, Andres Gomez, Colombia, 6-3, 4,964.  
2, Tommy Jones, Simpsonville, S.C., 7-2, 4,962.  
3, Mike DeVaney, Murrieta, Calif., 7-2, 4,908. 
4, Bill O'Neill, Southampton, Pa., 5-4, 4,905.  
5, Amleto Monacelli, Venezuela, 7-2, 4,893.  

Other Cashers  
6, (tie) Gregory Thompson Jr., Dublin, CA, 3-5-1, Kip Roberts, Glenallen, Va., 5-3-1, 4,820, $2,500.
8, Mika Koivuniemi, Hartland, Mich., 4-5, 4,815, $2,200.  
9, Kimmo Lehtonen, Finland, 3-6, 4,808, $2,150.  
10, Sean Rash, Wichita, Kan., 4-5, 4,764, $2,100.  
11, Chris Loschetter, Avon, Ohio, 5-4, 4,748, $2,050.  
12, Ritchie Allen, Columbia, S.C., 4-5, 4,712, $2,000.  
13, Norm Duke, Clermont, Fla., 4-5, 4,701, $1,950.  
14, Tyler Jensen, Fort Worth, Texas, 4-5, 4,564, $1,900.  
15, Brian Lake, Warren, Mich., 3-6, 4,494, $1,850.  
16, Michael Haugen Jr., Carefree, Ariz., 0-9, 4,414, $1,800.