The 2009-10 Mojave Conference season opened with the girls reminding the boys just who's boss around JBT-land, as Rebeca Reguero and Samantha Meyers captured titles at the fantastic Red Rock Lanes.

    The highest scoring day of the still-young JBT season produced 19 games of 260 or higher, showing that our bowlers can strike on a house shot just as well as they can grind it out on the hard patterns.  Steven Manier opened up the scratch division stepladder finals with a 256-224 win over April Urban.  Rebeca Reguero, who along with April made it a rare occasion with two females in the top 5, then beat Manier 234-200.  Next up was Brad Hansen, who in game 1 rolled the high game of his career, a 299.  That personal record only lasted six games though, as in game 7 he blasted a perfect 300, which despite the high scores turned out to be the only 300 of the day.  However, Rebeca had been stringing them too (she had a 298 during qualifying), and came up with another monster number, defeating Hansen 266-202 to reach the title match.

    Reguero, a former handicap division all-conference Bowler of the Year, came oh so close to a scratch win last season, but instead watched as many of our other talented females broke through for scratch wins.  To erase that anomaly though, she'd have to get by top seed Devin Bidwell, who had a shot at our all-time 8-game scoring record en route to his third JBT title match in seven days!  In the finale though, Devin suddenly lost the look he had all day, while Rebeca just kept on going, and her 235-164 win was good for that long awaited 1st scratch title, and the 5th title of her terrific JBT career.  So, I guess R.R. likes R(ed)R(ock).... hmm!

    Dylan Lucas began the handicap division finals with a 240-215 win over Kenny Herbster.  Meyers then took over, defeating Lucas 239-217, and following with a 241-231 thriller over Justin Villa to reach the title match. 

    Top seed James Gabour was enjoying his best JBT event ever, as he led after every single game, en route to the top seed.  However, his last two games of the semifinals were his lowest (and only ones under 200) of the day, and unfortunately for James, the trend continued for him in the finals, as he struggled to get lined up until the match was already out of hand.  If it's any consolation for Gabour, even a good game from him wasn't going to be enough, as Samantha came up with a 258 scratch effort for a 283-212 win, and a very long awaited first career JBT title.   The dual-female win is indeed rare, but not as rare as you might think- it happened three times last season, including once here in the Mojave Conference (April Urban & Katelyn Scott). 

    Thanks to everyone at Red Rock for a great job hosting us- what an amazing facility this place is!  Over $1,700 in scholarships were awarded to all ages and averages- want in on the fun?  Come on out to the next JBT event, it's as simple as that!

Red Rock Lanes- final results and optional scholarship winners
9/19/2009
Mojave Conference
	Scratch Division
rank	name	prize
1	Rebeca Reguero	$215
2	Devin Bidwell	$190
3	Brad Hansen	$120
4	Steven Manier	$70
5	April Urban	$30
6	Dan Hansen	$20
7	Cameron Smith	$15
8	Brandon Kraye	$30
9	Jon Dukes	$15
10	Charlie Goulet	$15
11	Zack Hattori
12	Zachary Ford
13	Alyssa Madrid
14	DJ Sloan
15	Kyle King	$110
16	Allie Ijams	$15
17	Riley Dempsey
18	Brandon Watts
19	Brandon Owen
20	Ryan Howard
21	Matthew Robbins
22	Teo Cipriaso
23	Jeff Williams
24	Kaitlin Mayall
25	Tony Rose
26	Jared Billman
27	Cory Keraly
28	Tim Ursillo
29	Jordan Ferrer
30	Erik Matthewson
31	Kris George
	Handicap Division
rank	name	prize
1	Samantha Meyers	$455
2	James Gabour	$130
3	Justin Villa	$75
4	Dylan Lucas	$40
5	Kenny Herbster	$45
6	Kennison Andrews	$80
7	Tyler Ottenschot	$5
8	Dakota Nitz
9	Alicia Sullivan	$15
10	Teddy Lucente
11	Shane Courtney
12	Brett Hirsch
13	Trevor Roberts
14	Aaron Watkins
15	Donovan Koff
16	Jon Gutierrez	$30
17	Jordan Cook
18	Ian Hanuscin
19	Isaiah Chavez
20	Randi Speiler
21	Vincent Nolan
22	Alyssa Arvizu
23	Jacob Potts
24	Gavin Hirsch
25	Drew Stern
26	Kyle Andrews
27	Nick Wade
28	Emily Arvizu
29	Taylor Ray
30	Kimberly Dukes
Scratch High Games:
	B Hansen 300
	B Hansen 299
	Reguero 298
	Reguero 279
	Manier 279
Handicap High Games:
	Meyers 283
	Ken. Andrews 282
	B Hirsch 282
	Gabour 265
	Meyers 264
High Females:
	Reguero +154
	Urban +116
	Ijams +97
	Madrid +58
	Sullivan +42
Round Leaders (5 pts. Each)
	Scratch	Handicap
1	B Hansen	Gabour
2	B Hansen	Gabour
3	Bidwell	Gabour
4	Bidwell	Gabour
5	Bidwell	Gabour
6	Bidwell	Gabour
7	Bidwell	Gabour
8	Bidwell	Gabour
	TOTAL AWARDED THIS EVENT: $2,355