Entries increased by almost five percent over last year in last week’s 56th annual Native American Bowling tournament at Tenpins & More.

BOWLING UPDATE
From Tenpins & More

* Entries increased by almost five percent over last year in last week’s 56th annual Native American Bowling tournament at Tenpins & More.

The prestige Masters titles went to two-handed Jordyn Manning of Gallup 175-161 Claudette Casaus in the women’s division, local Rusty Coffey 226-132 over Laguna Pueblo’s Larry Silva in seniors play, Brian LaBelle 226 to Andres Racon 182 in Men’s B and Matthew Vargas in a tenth frame finish 191-188 from Farmington’s defending men’s champion, Scott Ashley.

Coffey enjoyed his career best all-events win, with 636 in singles, 710 in doubles and 702 in teams for 2,048 scratch and 2,201 with handicap added.

Included in the 704 entries were bowlers from Arizona, South Dakota, Oklahoma and Kansas, amongst others.

* Seven winners were decided Sunday in the Spring 9-pin No-Tap finals at Tenpins & More. Regular No-Tap winners, Joe LaRosa (Open) and Becky Fisher (Women’s A) were joined by five newcomers.

Andrew McKinsey took Men’s A after overcoming a slow start to finish with 300 and a pair of 278’s to beat Orlando Ulibarri III by eleven pins, followed by Socorro’s Joseph Paterson.

Damien Coffey won Men’s B by thirteen from Dennis Scott with Cesar Ruiz-Jimenez third 15 pins behind.

Mike Fisher surprised himself with a no-tap 300 and ran off with Men’s C by 84 pins from former Cibola High School bowler, Trevor Anderson and Sunday night leaguer, Brian Peterson third.

Sue Buffington made a welcome return to the lanes in Women’s B by 70 pins over Teri Paterson and Evelyn Trujillo next.

Diana Conzuelo also won by a wide margin of 89 pins in Women’s C from Teresa Rincon of Bernalillo followed by Laurie Shultz. LaRosa included three 300’s in his 1,701 total, leading runner-up Guillermo Espinosa by 125 pins, followed by Tyler Grier, while Becky Fisher’s 1,430 beat out Karen Coffey and Mia Medina.

* Summer short-season league got started this week with two 4-person leagues on Tuesday and Thursday night. Seventeen other leagues will commence over the next few weeks.

* Calendar:

Sat May 11: Youth qualifier for Australian visit at 1pm
Sun May 12: Mothers bowl free open play all day 9am-10.30pm (with paying customers)
Sat May 18: Email Challenge Match against teams in Melbourne, Australia at 1.30pm