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Team USA Golden in Singles and Trios Tom Riccobono Hammered 300
At 2019 World Bowling Women’s Championships At Maple Lanes RVC
By Matt Cannizzaro - USBC On Thursday, McEwan opened the ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NY - 7e31.
LAS VEGAS – Danielle McEwan singles championship match with Tom Riccobono earned top honors John Balbi rolled 267-247, Dave
topped Shannon O’Keefe in an all- five consecutive strikes and cruised in the Monday King Trios League Goldman 266, Dan DiGirolamo
Team USA title match to capture the to a 259-193 victory to win her first at Maple Lanes RVC firing games 252, Angie DiPrima 248, and
singles gold medal, and they then gold medal in the singles event. of 300-228 for a high series of Robert Aiello 247.
cheered teammates Missy Parkin, “This is an absolutely amazing
Jordan Richard and Liz Kuhlkin to feeling,” said McEwan, an eight- Rob Auriemma 300 at Lodi Lanes
victory in trios at the 2019 World time Team USA member. “Coming LODI, NJ - Rob Auriemma blast- Lodi Lanes.
Bowling World Championships. into today, our initial goal was for ed a 300 game in the Coors Jeff DiDomenico rolled 289,
Team USA returns to the South both of us to win our first matches, Tuesday Night 4 Man League at and Robert Mockenhaupt 280.
Point Bowling Plaza on Friday to so we would see each other in the
compete in the medal round for the final, guarantee one of us would be
USBC photo
five-player team event and will meet
Colombia in the semifinals, which
Danielle McEwan
at the top of the podium and guaran-
tee that we’d hear our national
Eric Velazquez 300 at Majestic Lanes
will be televised live on CBS Sports anthem. After we both won in the HOPELAWN, NJ - Eric Chuck Mantione rolled 247-238-
Network. semifinals, we looked at each other and said, ‘we did Velazquez earned top honors in 239-724, John Brooks 258-246-
McEwan also will bowl in the Masters medal round it.’ It was win-win after that.” the Guys and Dolls League firing 671, Lauro Perez 243-234-658,
and will enter the day seeking her sixth gold medal in games of 300-200-238 for a high and Gary Berish 211-214-213-
adult World Championships competition. See TEAM USA page 2 series of 738. 638.
TEAM USA
Continued from Page 1
In two matches on the 39-foot time Team USA member and ing in their first World Bowling loose. I think that really, really second shot.
World Bowling Seoul oil pattern seven-time gold medalist at the Women’s Championships, are tak- helps.” “This is huge, both for us as
being used this week, McEwan World Championships. “After we ing home gold medals, and long- Kuhlkin said Parkin was the individuals but also for Sweden to
struck 18 times. She started her did that, it was a win-win for us.” time Team USA member Missy right teammate for her and get a gold medal,” said
semifinal match against top-seed- If McEwan, who will celebrate Parkin finally added a gold medal Richard. Hermansson, who had 15 strikes
ed Lee Nayoung with seven con- her 28th birthday Sunday, also can to her collection. “Missy just fit perfectly to bring in two matches on Thursday. “It’s
secutive strikes on her way to a claim the Masters title Friday Against the Colombian team of us together and keep us in the been quite some time since the
256-173 victory. afternoon, she’ll have won a gold Juliana Franco, Clara Guerrero moment,” Kuhlkin said. “I know last gold, so it’s an honor to bring
In the first singles semifinal medal in each discipline during and Maria José Rodriguez in the for me, definitely, I get jumpy, I it back home.”
Thursday, a pair of splits in the her short time on the team. title match, Team USA struggled get all over the place. Missy says Sweden’s last gold medal at a
second and eighth frames proved She now has titles in singles, early but found a second gear late ‘bring it in, stay in the moment, be World Bowling Women’s
to be the undoing for Sweden’s doubles (2015), trios (2017), team in the match. tall.’ It worked out perfectly. Now, Championships came in trios in
Sandra Andersson, who won her (2015) and all-events (2017). The three struck on 12 of their we’re standing here wearing 2007 in Monterrey, Mexico.
first Professional Women’s gold.” In reaching the title match,
Bowling Association Tour title The trio opened the medal Hermansson (228) and Wegner
this season. O’Keefe rolled a round with a 669-628 victory (206) struck on six of their first
clean game, with two doubles over Mexico’s Adriana Perez, eight shots and had only one open
along the way, in a 213-183 win. Paola Limon and Sandra frame in a 434-386 semifinal win
Lee and Andersson each earned Gongora, with Kuhlkin shooting against top-seed Maria José
bronze medals. a 235 game, Parkin contributing Rodriguez (172) and Rocio
While it’s never fun having to 234 and Richard adding a 200 Restrepo (214) of Colombia.
bowl against your own team- game. Son and Lee reached the title
mate, O’Keefe reiterated The Colombian team reached match with a 434-363 victory
McEwan’s sentiment that the the final by defeating Kim against Colombia’s Juliana
minute they put on their Team Moonjeong, Baek Seungja, and Franco (180) and Clara Guerrero
USA jerseys, it’s no longer about Jung Dawun of Korea, 694-620, (183). The Koreans started with
individuals or personal success. in the other semifinal. Guerrero six consecutive strikes, while
“An all-USA final is what we paced the Colombian team in the Franco and Guerrero had one
envisioned, and we came in and In the trios event Thursday, last 15 opportunities to outlast a match with a 247 game. strike and an open frame and
took care of business in our open- Jordan Richard and Liz Kuhlkin, talented Colombian team, 655- In the doubles medal round, could not bounce back. Son, a
ing matches,” said O’Keefe, a 15- two Team USA members compet- 632, and successfully defend the Sweden’s Josefin Hermansson left-hander, closed with five
trios title the United States won at and Jenny Wegner captured the strikes for a 225, while Lee shot
the 2017 World Championships, country’s first women’s gold 209.
also held at South Point. medal in 12 years with a 436-431 The 2019 World Women’s
“I think we worked really well victory over Korea’s Son Hyerin Championships started with 176
together, our communication was and Lee Yeonji. competitors from 34 countries,
amazing,” said Parkin, who cap- With Korea holding a precarious who competed for medals in sin-
tured her first World Bowling lead, both Hermansson (236) and gles, doubles, trios, team, all-
Women’s Championships gold Wegner (200) doubled in the final events and Masters competition.
medal after taking home silver frame, leaving Lee (236) also For more information on the 2019
medals in doubles and team from needing a double for Korea to World Women's Championships,
the 2013 event. “We were having take the title. Lee got the first visit WorldBowling.org.
fun and kept each other kind of strike, but only nine pins on her
PBA photo
Rick and Patty Hartings, Carol and Linus Hartings,
Champion Tommy Jones, Lori and Doug Davidson for Bowler store.
“I believe I’m the first one to win a title with two gutter balls because
I don’t think anyone else was dumb enough to do it a second time,”
Jones said. “There’s nothing you can do about it; you just move on to
your next shot.”
After his first error, Jones converted his spare. On the second, he got
nine pins, but the two errant shots cost him enough pins that Rash still
had an outside chance to win – despite leaving a 7-10 split on a light
pocket hit on his side of the match.
“Tommy bowled a good game. I bowled a good game, but I left a 7-
10,” Rash said, adding, “Thanks Coldwater” in a good-natured jab at the
host center’s reputation for being a demanding scoring environment.
“Any time you have a chance to win, it’s special,” Rash said, “but at
the end of the day there’s only one winner. I put myself in a position to
win. That’s all you can ask for. Hats off to Tommy.”
In appraising his overall performance in winning his 19th career PBA
Tour title, Jones said, “I like to throw it hard and I got to throw it hard
this week. We all know Coldwater is a tough place to score, so I think
my mindset was right to come in here and throw quality shots.”
Jones, a 40-year-old 20-year PBA Tour veteran, has now made it into
the championship round at least once in 17 of the past 18 years.
In the first match of the four-man stepladder finals, defending
Coldwater champion Jakob Butturff of Tempe, Arizona, and Dick Allen
of Lancaster, South Carolina, both had their share of struggles to find the
strike pocket, but Butturff found it in time, striking on his last four shots
to pull out a 205-200 victory.
In the semifinal match, Butturff quickly lost his strike touch, failing to
throw consecutive strikes the entire game while Jones threw a double in
the fifth and sixth frames, and locked up a 231-184 victory with a string
of four strikes starting in the eighth frame.
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13 PBA Tour titles, also is on the
wait list for participation eligibili-
ty. He’ll be on the HOF ballot a
Where you bowl............ year ahead of Simonsen, in 2032.
............ask them to get it!
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