New Mexico Games Bowling Champions Crowned at Tenpins & More State Finals

BOWLING UPDATEFrom Tenpins & More NM GAMES WRAPS UP BOWLING WINNERS AT STATE Reigning “King of the Hill” winner, Jacob Gill added the Men’s Open scratch division gold medal at the State Finals of the New Mexico Games held at Tenpins & More in Rio Rancho last weekend. Gill was solid throughout his six-game set Continue Reading…

Jacob Gill treated Sunday’s “King of the Hill” testing tournament lane condition with a powerful performance, averaging 217 over seven games to garner his first title in the series, held at Tenpins & More.

BOWLING UPDATE From Tenpins & More Gill’s qualifying set, made up of 257, 192, 237 and 194, totaling 880 was more than 100 pins ahead of second place. The top nine bowled another game and his 208 was sufficient to move on. Then followed 216 to gain him a place in the final against previous Continue Reading…

Seventy-nine people have advanced to the state finals later this month at the 25th New Mexico Games Bowling competition at Tenpins & More in Rio Rancho.

BOWLING UPDATE From Tenpins & More They emerged from Center finals held this week, contested by 124 bowlers spread across fifteen different divisions. In open men’s, former New York City policeman, Joe LaRosa opened with 289 – highest of any other game in the tournament – and consolidated his decisive win over Jacob Gill adding Continue Reading…

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, Continue Reading…

A couple who earlier this month celebrated their wedding anniversary received an unexpected surprise by also winning the annual Fall Doubles Marathon bowling tournament at Tenpins & More.

BOWLING UPDATE From Tenpins & More Jolene and Jonathan Sokohl, of Rio Rancho, went 7-1 in match-play to capture first prize without the need of an overtime play-off Jolene averaged 180.6 over her eight games that included three scores above 200, while Jonathan carded 140.0, and three games over 150 (some 15 pins in excess Continue Reading…

J D Nance of Rio Rancho captured his fifteenth win in the long-running Scratch Match-Play Series at Tenpins & More on Monday

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…

LAVOIE JOINS EXCLUSIVE CLUB AT NEW MEXICO OPEN

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…

TEN STATES HERE FOR NEW MEXICO OPEN BOWLING THIS WEEKEND

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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…

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.

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…

United States Masters bowling champion, DeeRonn Booker of Albuquerque returned to local lanes at Tenpins & More in Rio Rancho

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…