BOWLING UPDATE

From Tenpins & More

• Rio Rancho’s Aileen Linares and Robin Prioleau won the 86th City Championship Doubles titles at the tournament held last month at Starlight Bowling, Bar & Grill in Bernalillo.

Linares contributed 202, 268, 267 (737) while Prioleau added 248, 203, 227 (678) for a handicap-added total of 1,463, to beat Eric Carriaga and Tajameia York by five pins with Pete Sheridan and Carl Chavez third with 1,423.

The two women topped a field of one hundred and forty six other duos in the well-attended tournament held over three weekends.

• The Junior Bowlers Tour double-header weekend was a record-breaker in three ways. Firstly, a record one hundred teams contested the Saturday doubles segment, then a record 87 bowled the singles event Sunday.

As well, for the first time in over 25 years, two bowlers, Braden Wearly and Kaden Fleming each won

$ 1,000 scholarships for knocking down 32 pins in the Powerbowl, when each bowled strike, seven pins then five pins to the thrill of a large crowd.

In the doubles, Garrett Fetty and Diego Lujan of Colorado beat top seeds, Nicco Baccocini and Jacob Gill 214-201 in the scratch final while Lauren Jaramillo and Xavier Provencher shot 256-195 over runners-up, Gianna Panetta and Naomi Kannady.

Jaxon Witt of Lubbock, who won the Youth New Mexico Open at Tenpins & More last September put together 267 and 245 to blitz his opponents Camden Coleman 194 then Rowdy Twarogowski 185 for the scratch win.

Layne Warner from Northern New Mexico overwhelmed Justin Wolf with a 253 game to capture his first JBT title.

• A rare dual 300 game sighting occurred in Friday’s session of the “Rancho Runners” League when both Joe LaRosa and Anthony Subia fired perfect games of 300, consisting of twelve consecutive strikes

Center manager, Steve Mackie said there had only been two other times in his 26 years at the Center when there were two 300’s bowled on the same night in the same bowling league.

• Calendar:

Thursday 5-Sunday 9: Winter 9-pin No-Tap finals at various times

Saturday 15-Sunday 16: City Youth Championship Tournament at 9am & 12.30pm