CACTUS BOWL

champs Jakob Butturff & Kevin Badke

        Jakob Butturff continued his season-long dominance, while Kevin Badke tasted victory for the first time, in exciting JBT Arizona Conference action at Cactus Bowl in Tucson.

        Curtis Lindeman came out striking to begin the scratch division stepladder finals, defeating Tim Jacob 268-222.  Mark Myers, who rolled the only mulligan-assisted 300 game of the event, then defeated Lindeman 225-192.  Butturff then stopped Myers 219-177 to advance to the title game.

        Top seed Cortez Schenck defeated Jakob in the infamous day-delayed title game at Santa Fe just last week, so the disappointment from that match was still fresh on Butturff's mind.  He responded as he almost always does- with a lot of strikes, which was plenty to defeat a surprisingly struggling Schenck 234-212 to capture the 11th title of his JBT career.

        Mike Grisham, making his first finals, opened up the handicap division stepladder finals with a 216-204 win over veteran Alex Pellegrino.  Kevin Badke then defeated Pellegrino 208-172, and followed with a 224-168 win over another first time finals, Samantha Sellers, to reach the first title match of his JBT career.

        Ten year-old top seed TJ Rock put on the performance of his young JBT career, leading all eight preliminary rounds in a dominant display of talent.  However, he struggled in the title match, and Badke seemed to be gaining momentum with every game.  The result was a 227-188 win for Kevin, good for the first title of his JBT career.

        Marina Stever continued some dominance of her own, defeating Shelby Dempaey 233-201 for her fourth Impact Bowling Women's Series title of the season already.       

        Thanks as always to Dale and the terrific crew at Cactus for being one of our best hosts throughout the years.  Want in on all this fun?  Just check out our schedule and come on down!

Cactus Bowl- final results and scholarship winners
11/3/2012    
     
  Scratch Division  
rank bowler prize
1 Jakob Butturff $215
2 Cortez Schenck $145
3 Mark Myers $60
4 Curtis Lindeman $30
5 Tim Jacob $20
6 Lanndyn Carnate  
7 Austin Thompson  
8 Anthony Tripi  
9 Kyle Karpovich  
10 Joe Lewandowski' $15
11 Jarrod Davenport $15
12 Danny Varholdt  
13 Marina Stever $15
14 Brad Van Sickle   
15 Aaron Munyon  
16 Cam Lamson  
17 Matthew Redmon  
18 Riley Dempsey  
19 Justin Newkirk  
20 Sven Majeska   
21 Carter O'Neal  
22 Steven Acuff  
23 Bryan Van Sickle  
24 Ben Subeck  
25 Marcus Stanley  
26 Tim Crosswhite  
27 Josh Walsh  
28 Deven Johnston  
29 Ken Chruscinski  
     
  Handicap Division  
1 Kevin Badke $200
2 TJ Rock $240
3 Samantha Sellers $60
4 Mike Grisham $55
5 Alex Pellegrino $45
6 Keith Fung $20
7 Kristen O'Neal  
8 Trevor Thompson $30
9 Shelby Dempsey  
10 Kristen Lee  
11 Alexis Atkin  
12 Stan Bunce   
13 KJ Martinez  
14 Michelle Jenkins  
15 Lance Ingerson  
16 Kiana Garcia $15
17 Cassie Collins  
18 Jerod Walker $15
19 Zach Lewandowski  
20 Kyle Ponzo $15
21 Josh Franz  
22 Rashaad Jordan  
23 Jake Hilton  
24 Anthony Dang  
25 Gretchen Smith  
26 Megan LaPrell  
27 Adam Lebbs  
28 Hunter Passey  
29 Jared Boscarino  
30 Dominic Luna  
31 Gillian Coyle  
32 Kyle Lawrence  
33 Taylor Ramos $10
34 Jordan Hindhaugh  
35 Justin Lawrence  
36 Stacey Lamb  
37 Ashley Lamb  
     
  High Games  
  Scratch Handicap
1 Myers 300* Sellers 292
2 Lindeman 290 Dempsey 283
3 Carnate 269 Rock 274
4 Butturff 268 Rock 272
5 Thompson 265 Rock 261
     
  High Female  
1 Stever +24*  
2 Dempsey -66  
3 Lee -71  
4 Atkin -110  
5 Sellers -140  
     
  Round Leaders  
  Scratch Handicap
1 Stever Rock
2 Myers Rock
3 Tripi Rock
4 Carnate Rock
5 Carnate Rock
6 Lindeman Rock
7 Schenck Rock
8 Schenck Rock
     
  Total Awarded This Event: $1,225