We had another great event at Lakeview Lanes this weekend with 78 entries, 22 cashers and a 1 in 3.4 cash ratio. We didn’t have any mid-week qualifying for this tournament, so the total entries were lower than usual. However, we actually had more people on the weekend than usual for this event which was incredible because of how far the center was for most of the participants. This was our first event at Lakeview Lanes and all of the bowlers really enjoyed the center and their staff. The bowlers bowled on a very tricky 37ft Kegel Broadway oil pattern that had very low scores all weekend. Most of the players that scored well played the further outside portions of the lane. The straighter players definitely tended to fair better than the players that tried to hook the lane.
As always we want to take the time to welcome some of our newest members that joined us at this event. Kevin Mullins, William Milho, Den Fernandez, Michael Maruca, and Ed Jensen welcome to the SFT AHT family! I hope all of you had a good time in your first event with us, and we look forward to seeing you at your next event. We also want to congratulate Hokey Begay who was the only bowler this weekend to show the power parlay! He turned his $25 investment into a semi-finals check and a B division semi-finals finish! Congrats Hokey!
The A division semi-finals were between #1 seed Dylan Taylor, #2 seed Ron Gonzales and #3 seed Ben Spencer. The match wasn’t very close with Dylan taking a very early lead and holding on to it. The B division was very similar with the #3 seed Paul Wilkerson defeating Hokey Begay and Billy Pretlove. Paul and Dylan would move on to the final match.
The final match wouldn’t prove to be too exciting either with Dylan bowling his worse game of the tournament and Paul taking home his first SFT AHT title and $1,000.00. Dylan however was able to extend his lead in the season point’s race. Thanks to everyone that came out and we look forward to seeing you all at Brunswick Gilbert XL on August 4th for our first ever scotch doubles tournament.
