DEER VALLEY LANES

champs Keith Fung & Dante Rohe

        Keith Fung and Dante Rohe each claimed their first titles in their divisions, in exciting JBT Arizona Conference action at AMF Deer Valley Lanes in Phoenix.

        After five games, bowlers competed in 'pick your poison' matchplay, where higher seeds chose who they wanted to bowl in their matches.  Cortez Schenck lapped the field in qualifying, going exactly +300 for his five games.  He got past his first round, but chose unwisely in the semifinals, as Keith Fung blasted 298 in the first game against Schenck en route to a 500-347 two game win.  In the other semifinal, Ben Canfield got past Dallas Leong to set up the one-game finale.

        Fung has struggled for most of the season, but it all clicked back into place here.  He started the title match strong to give the veteran Canfield no chance.  Keith's 256-194 eventual win gave him a long-awaited first scratch title to go along with an earlier handicap win.

        Sixteen handicap division matchplay bowlers were carved down to four, and in exciting one-game semifinal matches, Dante Rohe stopped top-seed Jacob Soulierre, who made an impressive JBT debut, 204-192.   The other semi came down to a single pin, as Elijah Melchor defeated Allyssa Caron 229-228, to move on to his second career title match.

        Rohe has done consistently well in his JBT career, but had been unable to get into the winner's circle.  That changed this time, as Rohe stayed in control for a 227-203 win, and the long awaited first career JBT title.

        Adel Wahner continued her solid bowling of late with a 204-166 win against Amanda Atkin to capture the day's Women's Series title.

        Thanks as always to the team at Deer Valley for hosting our Tour.  Want in on the fun?  Just check out our schedule and come on down!

       

Deer Valley- final results and scholarship winners
3/21/2015    
     
  Scratch Division  
rank bowler prize
1 Keith Fung $212
2 Ben Canfield $100
3 Cortez Schenck $96
4 Dallas Leong $40
5 Russ Oviatt $30
6 KJ Martinez $12
7 Nick Pollak  
8 Jake Hilton  
9 Anthony Inzetta  
10 Ryan Gose  
11 Adel Wahner  
12 Steven Acuff  
13 Gillian Coyle  
14 Max Polhill  
15 Mark Vigil  
16 Josh Demick  
17 Conner Scott  
     
  Handicap Division  
1 Dante Rohe $200
2 Elijah Melchor $100
3 Jacob Souliere $89
4 Allyssa Caron $50
5 Jake Tucker $40
6 Zach Lewandowski $45
7 Michael McQuisten $20
8 Cristian Roque $137
9 Kendra Edgett $74
10 Rashaad Jordan  
11 Justin Lawrence  
12 Amanda Atkin $5
13 Christian Caron  
14 Bex Boyko $30
15 Candace Gardner  
16 Phillip Sauve  
17 Connor Pape  
18 Tyler Hedges $8
19 Mathew Adragna $15
20 Clifford Robbins $5
21 William Robbins  
22 Sarah Halligan  
23 Destiny Johnson  
24 Rachael Berg  
25 Zack Long  
26 Sebastian Polhill  
27 Tony Edgett $15
28 Brooke Collins  
29 Kyle Welty  
30 Abby Franklin  
31 Vanessa Romero  
32 Aaron Coleman  
33 Kyle Ponzo  
34 Marc Villalobos  
35 Sean Scheirmann  
36 Kyle Lawrence  
37 Brad Zagerman  
38 Chad Alexander  
39 Jarred Starr-Moncyo  
40 Wyatt Dessenberger $5
41 Jacob Ellis  
42 Paul Colyer  
43 Kyle Gilbert  
44 Shawn Clemmer  
     
  High Games  
  Scratch Handicap
1 Fung 298 Soulierre 286
2 Schenck 280 Soulierre 284
3 Schenck 279 Soulierre 281
4 Oviatt 277 Lewandowski 277
5 Leong 268 K Edgett 274
     
  High Female  
1 Wahner -42*  
2 Atkin -51  
3 K Edgett -53  
4 Coyle -77  
5 A Caron -77  
     
  Round Leaders  
  Scratch Handicap
1 Schenck Tucker
2 Canfield Soulliere
3 Schenck K Edgett
4 Schenck Tucker
5 Schenck Soulliere
     
  Total Awarded This Event: $1,328