FIESTA LANES
champs Kyle King and Jordan Spam
Kyle King won his 4th consecutive NM-TX event, while Jordan Spam broke through for his first win, in exciting JBT action at El Paso's Fiesta Lanes.
How versatile and confident is this guy? King opened his day with an ugly 170-140, then switched to a urethane ball to tackle a condition he found tricky, and then proceeded to climb all the way to the #5 seed for the finals. He opened the stepladder with a 229-213 win over Carlos Mendez in round one. He then tore through two talented Colorado bowlers, Nathan Shock in round two and Jess Gagliardi in the semifinals, to reach yet another title match.
Top seed Stephen Gaucin is one of the toughest bowlers on our Tour, and gave King all he could handle in the title match. However, when he didn't come up with a strike in the tenth, that gave Kyle the margin he needed for a 224-216 victory, and his 11th career JBT title. Although it isn't his 4th consecutive win personally (he's traveled to 4 of our 5 conferences en route to a large all-conference points lead), he becomes only the second bowler in JBT history to win four events in one conference in a row, joining Andrew Cain in that category.
Sam Zermeno has had a great start to the season, and continued that with a 234-196 round one win over Mike Romero in the handicap division stepladder. In a high scoring round two, Zermeno escaped with a 243-230 win over Eric Sanford when Eric suffered two late opens. Jordan Spam then stopped Zermeno 288-223 to reach his first title match.
Top seed Andrew Esparza was enjoying his best JBT event ever, but so was Spam, so it looked to be an exciting title match. In the final, Esparza bowled an excellent clean game but couldn't catch a double, and Spam did enough for a 246-228 victory. The title was not only his first, but the Spam family's first, as younger brother Jaden and older brother Jamison will be jealous of the middle kid this time!
Thanks to everyone at Fiesta for hosting our Tour again. Over $1,300 in scholarships was awarded- want in on the fun? COme on down to the next JBT event, it's as simple as that!
| Fiesta Lanes- final results and optional scholarship winners | |||
| 11/17/2007 | |||
| NM-TX Conference | |||
| Scratch Division | |||
| rank | name | city, state | prize |
| 1 | Kyle King | Phoenix, AZ | $300 |
| 2 | Stephen Gaucin | El Paso, TX | $169 |
| 3 | Jess Gagliardi | Alamoso, CO | $79 |
| 4 | Nathan Shock | Thornton, CO | $30 |
| 5 | Carlos Mendez | El Paso, TX | $20 |
| 6 | Paul Carper | Rio Rancho, NM | $55 |
| 7 | Andy Byer | Albuquerque, NM | |
| 8 | Bill Grant | Rio Rancho, NM | $30 |
| 9 | Chris Johnson | El Paso, TX | |
| 10 | Diego Lucero | Santa Fe, NM | |
| 11 | Dan Romero | Santa Fe, NM | |
| 12 | BJ Eichensehr | El Paso, TX | |
| 13 | Josh Arceo | Albuquerque, NM | |
| 14 | Mike Cross | Tucson, AZ | |
| 15 | Cory Shepan | Las Cruces, NM | |
| Handicap Division | |||
| rank | name | city, state | prize |
| 1 | Jordan Spam | Rio Rancho, NM | $300 |
| 2 | Andrew Esparza | El Paso, TX | $130 |
| 3 | Sam Zermeno | El Paso, TX | $50 |
| 4 | Eric Sanford | Santa Fe, NM | $60 |
| 5 | Mike Romero | Santa Fe, NM | $60 |
| 6 | Ahkeen Williams | Las Cruces, NM | $26 |
| 7 | Janeyl Carper | Rio Rancho, NM | |
| 8 | Savanah Carr | Phoenix, AZ | $10 |
| 9 | Brandy Main | El Paso, TX | |
| 10 | Kyla Casaus | Roswell, NM | |
| 11 | Stephanie Barela | Santa Fe, NM | |
| 12 | Wendy Shelton | Albuquerque, NM | |
| 13 | Aurora Popple | El Paso, TX | $35 |
| 14 | Tricia Barress | Albuquerque, NM | |
| 15 | Leo Guzman | El Paso, TX | |
| 16 | Amanda Johnson | Rio Rancho, NM | $5 |
| 17 | Joshua Barress | Albuquerque, NM | |
| 18 | Andrew Jaramillo | Santa Fe, NM | $15 |
| 19 | Jaden Spam | Rio Rancho, NM | |
| 20 | Jonah Seawright | Albuquerque, NM | |
| 21 | Bailey McFarland | El Paso, TX | |
| 22 | Samantha McFraland | El Paso, TX | |
| 23 | Kara Casaus | Roswell, NM | |
| 24 | Heaven Pajala | Albuquerque, NM | |
| 25 | Reanne Quesada | El Paso, TX | |
| 26 | Dillon Bridge | El Paso, TX | |
| 27 | Taylor Quintana | El Paso, TX | |
| 28 | Krista Casaus | Roswell, NM | |
| 29 | Peter Cane | Albuquerque, NM | $15 |
| 30 | Eliazabeth Romero | Santa Fe, NM | |
| 31 | Tevynn Laws | Albuquerque, NM | |
| 32 | Seth Jaramillo | Rio Rancho, NM | |
| 33 | Cyera Quintana | El Paso, TX | |
| Ball winner: Savannah Carr | |||
| Scratch High Games: Gagliardi 279, Gaucin 279, Carper 259 | |||
| Handicap High Games: Popple 256, Romero 252, Spam 247 | |||
| TOTAL AWARDED THIS EVENT: $1,389 | |||