Carver was on his game from the start in the event that utilized different scoring formats in each of the five games. With eight, nine or ten pins over on the first ball counting as a strike, Carver opened with 300, adding 268 in the next game where bowlers received automatic strikes in the third, Continue Reading…

BOWLING UPDATEFrom Tenpins & More * J D Nance of Rio Rancho captured his fifteenth win in the long-running Scratch Match-Play Series at Tenpins & More on Monday. Bowling on the same testing New Mexico Open lane pattern of two weeks ago, Nance carried on where he left off then, after averaging that tournament’s high Continue Reading…

Rio Rancho: Francois Lavoie of Wichita, Kansas, joined John Young of Albuquerque as only the second member of an exclusive club when he won Sunday’s final at the New Mexico Open bowling tournament at Tenpins & More in Rio Rancho. Both bowlers have now won the event twice and both in consecutive years. (Young won Continue Reading…

Rio Rancho: Ten states are represented in the 20th New Mexico Open bowling tournament being held this weekend, Friday August 16 through Sunday August 18 at Tenpins & More in Rio Rancho. Defending champion, Francois Lavoie, of Wichita, Kansas, who is also a two-time US Open champion, is hoping for a rare “three-peat” of titles Continue Reading…

BOWLING UPDATEFrom Tenpins & More * Entries are picking up, as they always do after the 4th July holiday, for the annual New Mexico Open, worth a record $ 76,000, that will be held for the 20th year at Tenpins & More in Rio Rancho from August 16-18. Defending champion, Francois Lavoie of Wichita, Kansas Continue Reading…

BOWLING UPDATEFrom Tenpins & More * United States Masters bowling champion, DeeRonn Booker of Albuquerque returned to local lanes at Tenpins & More in Rio Rancho last week to win his way into the New Mexico Open tournament there August 16-18. Trailing early leader Brian Skidmore by 41 pins with two games to go, Booker Continue Reading…

BOWLING UPDATEFrom Tenpins & More * Melissa Danks won her way in to the New Mexico Open this August 16-18, beating an otherwise all male field at Tenpins & More on Sunday. Danks had only one blemish in her six games then finished with a strike-filled 241 to hold off big closing games from Jason Continue Reading…

Rio Rancho: The New Mexico Open bowling tournament will offer record prize-money of more than $ 76,000 when it’s 20th edition hits the lanes at Tenpins & More in Rio Rancho, August 16-18. Defending champion and twice runner-up, Francois Lavoie of Wichita, Kansas will be trying to join Albuquerque’s John Young as the tournament’s only Continue Reading…

BOWLING UPDATEFrom Tenpins & More * Numerous local bowlers captured city titles on their “home lanes” at Tenpins & More in Rio Rancho in last week’s Senior City tournament there. Carl Chavez, Gary Hadley, Joe Merrick and Dana Miller-Mackie combined for a 2,845 pin-fall to win division 1 teams by 109 pins from a Bernalillo Continue Reading…

—-BOWLING UPDATE From Tenpins & More * Lot of bowling action in the past weeks at Tenpins & More in Rio Rancho, including a new “King of the Hill” crowned when Eric Vanderlip survived qualifying rounds then walked through four more rounds untouched. The left-hander made the cut from 35 to 18 players in 15th Continue Reading…