Last Sunday’s “Pentathabowl” singles tournament produced a winner in Andrew Carver at Tenpins & More.
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, sixth and ninth frames.
Game three, nines and all ten pins over scored strikes – Carver throwing another 300. In the “beat-your-average” game four, the strong right-hander fired 236, 41 pins over his entering 195.
He “eased up” in game five adding 235 for a winning total of 1,225, to finish 38 pins ahead of second placed Wendy Pase’s 1,187, followed by Orlando Ulibarri III on 1,122and Espanola’s Kenneth Friedrich next with 1,117.
Individual game winners included these same four bowlers as well as Haskell Lee who won the handicap added game with 297.
Center finals of the 25th New Mexico Games commence a five-day run at Tenpins & More on Thursday October 24.
More than one hundred and thirty finalists are vying for a top six placing in each of the fifteen different categories, in order to advance to the state finals also at Tenpins & More next month.
