DEER VALLEY LANES (1500th event!)

champs Derek Acuff & Alex Seng with Joshua Molloy, Kyle Reed, & Kevin Van Gordon; Stefanny Toala; 22 winner Seng

        In a celebration of 1500 tournaments of JBT excitement, Derek Acuff reminded today's bowlers why he is one of our best ever, while Alex Seng might start to beg us to put out 'Bourbon Street', highlighting a terrific day of action at AMF Deer Valley.

        Open to any bowler who ever competed in a JBT event, some of the best in the world came back to honor their roots, and one of the hottest on the planet, Jakob Butturff, began the scratch finals with a 245 game that edged Kyle Gilbert (237) and Harley Sweigart (226).  Kyle King, owner of second all-time 63 JBT titles, then blasted 265 to oust 32-time JBT champ Butturff (224) and 9-time winner (and now one-handed) James Hawkins (235).  Current JBT bowler Kyle Reed then won one for the kids, as his 224 beat King (186) and the most successful female JBT bowler ever, 10-time champ Bryanna Cote (203), to advance to the title match.

        Acuff led after game one, regained the lead in matchplay, and showed no mercy in the title match, puring shot after shot with the textbook form that made him another one of our best all-time.  The 235-183 win was good for his landmark 30th career JBT title, as he continues a great second JBT career since aging out!

        It was all current JBT bowlers in the handicap stepladder, beginning with Josh Williams defeating AJ Imperial 227-218 in a well bowled match.  Kevin VanGordon then poured on the strikes in a 238-179 win over Williams, followed by a 271-218 thrashing of Christian Caron, to advance to the title game.

        Top seed Alex Seng owns two previous JBT titles, at two other centers but both on the 'Bourbon Street' pattern.  He found it perfect for his game again, leading the event and cruising to a 259-208 win over Van Gordon and JBT title #3.  The win may not even have been his biggest highlight of the day, where, working on 21, he slow-rolled into the 10-pin for the '22' jackpot and $500 bonus windfall, for a $700+ scholarship payday.

        Big thanks to Deer Valley for a great job hosting us, as well as all the JBT alumni from 22 years of fun for coming back and bowling with today's stars all weekend.  Want in on all this fun for all ages and averages/  Check out our schedule and come on down to the next JBT event, that's all you have to do!

JBT's 1500th Tournament- final results and scholarship winners
12/10/2017    
     
  Scratch Division  
rank bowler prize
1 Derek Acuff $200*
2 Kyle Reed $325
3 Bryanna Cote $150*
4 Kyle King $100*
5 James Hawkins $75*
6 Jakob Butturff $60*
7 Kyle Gilbert $150
8 Harley Sweigart $100
9 Matt Herbert $50*
10 Cameron Smith  
11 Brian Coleman  
12 Matt Jones (CA)  
13 Russ Oviatt  
14 Chris Varholdt  
15 Brock Bivins $75
16 Zach Rapp $50
17 Keith Fung $45
18 Phillip Sauve  
19 Raymond Johnson  
20 Joey Burke  
21 Rachel Weyrauch  
22 John Newton  
23 Matt Zweig  
24 Ben Canfield  
25 Justin Vadnais  
26 Randy Cote  
27 Josh Mabry  
28 Kyle Duster  
29 Ronald Delatorre  
30 Cortez Schenck  
31 Joshua Molloy  
32 Zach Huglin  
33 Gabriel Huerta  
34 Eric Rubin  
35 Stefanny Toala $50
36 Chris Weyrauch  
37 Gary Lane  
38 Mattehw Adragna  
39 Paul Colyer  
40 Anthony Benicki  
41 Nick Devlin  
42 Correen Lieber  
43 Lucas Rabb  
44 Sergio Torres  
45 Mark Myers  
46 Matt Cormack  
47 Labriel Leach  
48 Anthony Tripi  
49 John Fletcher  
50 Zach Herbert  
51 Austin Muldoon  
52 James Wilson  
53 Cristian Roque   
54 Marc Villalobos  
55 Josh Fearing  
56 Alex Pellegrino  
     
  Handicap Division  
1 Alex Seng $725
2 Kevin VanGordon $125
3 Christian Caron $75
4 Joshua Williams $95
5 AJ Imperial $40
6 William Robbins III $30
7 Brian Erickson  
8 Justin Worthington $5
9 Abby Franklin $25
10 CJ Todeschi  
11 Eric Demo $100*
12 Kyle Perry  
13 Kru Santana  
14 Alejandro Aragon  
15 David Belli  
16 Dawson Reese  
17 William Robbins II   
18 Eliajh Melchor  
19 Kaitlyn Hammer  
20 Shannon Ryan  
21 Amelia Mosley  
22 Mark Sauve  
23 Jadeyn Mabry  
24 Kyle Lawrence $15
25 Gavin Holter  
26 Juan Llamas  
27 Janelle Skalicky $10
28 Ryan Zent $15
29 Clifford Robbins  
30 Kendall Bollea  
31 David Erickosn  
32 Hayden Hull  
33 Andrew Thomas  
34 Jason Gootzeit $15
35 Victoria Potter  
36 Avery Domaguin $15
37 Darren Fletcher  
38 Derrick Bollea  
39 Cesar Padilla Sr  
40 Cesar Padilla Jr  
41 Sebastian Huffman  
42 Alisabeth ich  
43 Bethany Baker  
     
  High Games  
  Scratch Handicap
1 Duster 299 Imperial 272
2 Gilbert 287 Van Gordon 271
3 Fung 269 Franklin 268
4 Reed 267 W Robbins 265
5 Rapp 262 Erickson 263
     
  Round Leaders  
  Scratch Handicap
1 Acuff Imperial
2 Gilbert Imperial
3 Gilbert Erickson
4 Acuff Imperial
5 C Varholdt Caron
6 Acuff Seng
7 Acuff Seng
8 Acuff Seng
     
TOTAL AWARDED THIS EVENT: $2,723