K&K CHALLENGE @ CERBAT LANES
champs Kris George & Josh Chefalo
Kris George became the fifth bowler in JBT history to reach the 20 title level, while Josh Chefalo tasted victory for the first time, in thrilling JBT action at the K&K Challenge, hosted by Kingman's Cerbat Lanes.
The 2009 USBC Nationals lane pattern was used, and a terrific sponsorship from K&K Pro Shops (www.bowlinglasvegas.com) boosted the prize fund considerably. A $500 bonus was offered for any 300 games on the challenging pattern, which Kris made the only realistic run at, with a fine 279.
Colorado's Nathan Shock opened the scratch division stepladder finals with a 172-159 win over DJ Sloan. Defending TPC champ Zach Hattori then beat Shock 214-284. In an extremely well-bowled semifinal match, James Hawkins edged Hattori 249-238 to advance to the title match.
Hawkins has been red-hot on Tour lately, but George completely owned this event, leading after qualifying (thanks to the aforementioned 279), and firing 670 in the semis to earn the top seed by almost 200 pins. Kris continued to put on a clinic in the title match, defeating James 238-184, for the landmark title. He joins only Steven Black, BJ Baker, Kyle King, and Andrew Cain as 20+ titlists in our 13-year history!
Tyler Ottenschot opened his first career handicap stepladder finals in fine fashion, beating Dylan Lucas, who seems to be making almost every final lately, 257-162. Tyler then snuck by fellow first-timer Joe Cencelewski 198-192, before Travis Johnson stopped Ottenschot 195-181 to reach the title match.
Top seed Josh Chefalo and Johnson had been trading the tournament lead throughout the event, but Travis struggled in the title match, and Josh earned the 223-188 win for his first title. By throwing Ebonite equipment and thanks again to K&K, Josh cashed for a $415 scholarship windfall for the title, while Travis still got a 'pocket full of scholarships' for second as well.
Thanks as always to the whole crew at Cerbat for their usual top-notch
hosting job. Over $2,000 in scholarships were awarded to junior of all
ages and averages- want your piece of the fun? Come on down to the next JBT
event- it's as simple as that!
| K&K Challenge- final results and optional scholarship winners | ||
| 3/6/2009 | ||
| Mojave Conference | ||
| Scratch Division | ||
| rank | name | prize |
| 1 | Kris George | $360 |
| 2 | James Hawkins | $180 |
| 3 | Zach Hattori | $75 |
| 4 | Nathan Shock | $95 |
| 5 | DJ Sloan | $50 |
| 6 | Miguel Lopez | |
| 7 | Dallas Leong | $30 |
| 8 | Tim Ursillo | |
| 9 | Cameron Smith | |
| 10 | rebeca Reguero | |
| 11 | Justin Lou | |
| 12 | Matt Herbert | $60 |
| 13 | Kaitlin Mayall | $15 |
| 14 | Cory Keraly | |
| 15 | Riley Dempsey | |
| 16 | Kyle King | $75 |
| 17 | Jordan Ferrer | $30 |
| 18 | Brenden Lou | |
| 19 | Ryan Howard | |
| 20 | Alyssa Madrid | |
| 21 | Rachelle Davis | $20 |
| 22 | Shane Peck | |
| 23 | Matt McHann | |
| 24 | Shawn Peters | |
| 25 | Tyson Lewis | |
| 26 | David Johnston | |
| 27 | Jeff Williams | |
| 28 | Chris Kutcher | |
| 29 | Eric Hatchett | |
| 30 | April Urban | |
| Handicap Division | ||
| rank | name | prize |
| 1 | Josh Chefalo | $415 |
| 2 | Travis Johnson | $180 |
| 3 | Tyler Ottenschot | $90 |
| 4 | Joe Cencelewski | $60 |
| 5 | Dylan Lucas | $40 |
| 6 | Alexis Atkin | $50 |
| 7 | Randi Speiler | |
| 8 | Aaron Watkins | |
| 9 | Samantha Meyers | $75 |
| 10 | Cassy Canoy | |
| 11 | Brandon Surko | |
| 12 | Patrick Rucker | |
| 13 | Justin Givler | $60 |
| 14 | Josh Shoup | $30 |
| 15 | Jon Gutierrez | |
| 16 | Tyler Nall | |
| 17 | Marina Stever | |
| 18 | Austin Albertson | |
| 19 | Marcus Tate | |
| 20 | Gary Rowbottom | |
| 21 | Darcie Staggs | |
| 22 | Drew Hanna | |
| 23 | Nick McCoy | |
| 24 | Alicia Sullivan | $30 |
| 25 | Taylor King | |
| 26 | Drew Stern | |
| 27 | Joey Mogavero | $15 |
| 28 | Aubrey Calabrese | $15 |
| 29 | Kevin DeMaio | |
| 30 | Shawn Rowbottom | |
| 31 | Lindsey Ailport | |
| 32 | James Gabour | |
| Scratch High Games: | ||
| George 279 | ||
| Leong 247 | ||
| Peck 247 | ||
| Madrid 244 | ||
| Ursillo 243 | ||
| leong 243 | ||
| Handicap High Games: | ||
| Chefalo 270 | ||
| Sullivan 258 | ||
| Surko 255 | ||
| Chefalo 246 | ||
| Rucker 241 | ||
| Round Leaders (5 pts. Each) | ||
| Scratch | Handicap | |
| 1 | Lopez / Hatchett | Johnson |
| 2 | Smith | Johnson |
| 3 | Hawkins | Johnson |
| 4 | Hawkins | Johnson |
| 5 | George | Chefalo |
| 6 | George | Johnson |
| 7 | George | Chefalo |
| 8 | George | Chefalo |
| High Female: | ||
| Reguero 962 | ||
| Mayall 920 | ||
| Madrid 913 | ||
| Davis 910 | ||
| Sullivan 869 | ||
| TOTAL AWARDED THIS EVENT: $2,060 | ||