RIVERSIDE LANES

champ Josh Mullen

        Josh Mullen out-battled a tough field to win the JBT's "Battle Bag" special event at Riverside Lanes in Mt Vernon.

        After five qualifying games on two of the toughest and most opposite patterns- 34 foot Wolf on one lane, 50 foot T of C on the other, the top eight moved on to 'battle bag', a best of 5 match, where the winner of each game removed one of their opponent's three allotted bowling balls from play.  This left Andy Herrmann, for example, down to only a white dot in the fifth and deciding game against Josh's brother Jake Mullen, but Andy pulled out a 198-160 win to advance.  Minnesota bowler Brennan Haugh also survived a game 5 over Ryan Nikolas, while Josh swept Hannah Saunders and Brian Monnette swept Aidghan Ziegler. 

        In the semifinal matches, with two balls to start and best of three games, Mullen swept Haugh, and Herrmann survived in game three against Monnette, to set up the one-game, one-ball title match.

        Scores were understandably low with one ball on two patterns and the after 1 AM match time, but in the end Mullen ground out  a174-148 win for the title, the fifth of his JBT career.

        Huge thanks to Riverside for hosting us on a busy Friday night, as well as to everyone who accepted the challenge and came out for a fun evening of competition.  Want in on this?  Check out our schedule and come on down, that's all you have to do!

Riverside Lanes- final results and scholarship winners
2/12/2016    
     
  Scratch Division  
rank bowler prize
1 Josh Mullen $250
2 Andy Herrmann $100
3 Brian Monnette $85
4 Brennan Haugh $40
5 Ryan Nikolas $45
6 Aidghan Ziegler  
7 Jake Mullen  
8 Hannah Saunders $5
9 AJ Brockett  
10 Armando Moser-Hernandez  
11 Jerry Jennings  
12 Johnny Leggett  
13 Briley Haugh  
14 Collin Young  
15 Ryan DeFazio  
16 Daniel Johnson  
17 Alana Brown  
18 William Day  
19 Alejandro Moser-Hernandez
20 Hayden Childs  
21 Tyler Hogstrom  
22 Olivia Kolppa  
23 Payton Edwards  
24 Liam Hardman  
     
  High Games  
  Scratch  
1 Josh Mullen 246  
2 Ziegler 233  
3 Nikolas 225  
4 Brockett 224  
5 NIkolas 220   
     
  Round Leaders  
  Scratch  
1 Jake Mullen  
2 Nikolas  
3 Herrmann  
4 Nikolas  
5 Josh Mullen  
     
TOTAL AWARDED THIS EVENT: $525