Oregon’s Warren ties Pete Weber

Chris Warren from Grants Pass, Ore. is a little guy in stature. It didn’t stop him from a big win.

Warren is this year’s winner of the 12th Annual Vanessa Brown Homes PBA West Regional Open held at Yosemite Lanes last weekend. Warren took home a check for $2,000 to the Northwest. He defeated P.J. Haggerty of Roseville, 268-235.

The win gave him 47 titles to tie PBA Hall of Famer Pete Weber’s record for the standard PBA regional titles. This guy has been setting the lanes on fire recently. He just placed in the Suncoast PBA Senior U.S. Open in Las Vegas, he took first place with doubles partner, Darren Tang of San Francisco in the PBA50PBA Sands Regency Hotel Northwest Doubles in the middle of June in Reno.

Haggerty defeated Will Garber of Modesto, 234-185 to advance. This doubleheader tournament had Warren Nelson from Hemet winning the PBA50 Vanessa Brown Homes West Open for $1,500 for the win. Nelson defeated Skip Pavone of San Jose 255-232 for his first PBA50 regional title.

Shooting stars

Bill Barthel 255...Lance Ollenborger 254...Dennis Barcellos 685...Kenny Yates 168...Darren Alexander 572...Greg Bennett 248...Roy Browing 233...Misti Tolsma 202.

Central Valley BC at Yosemite

The Central Valley Senior Bowling Club will be holding their monthly senior event thisSaturday, July 15 at Yosemite Lanes in Modesto. It will be a singles championship. The tournament is open to men over 55 and women over 50. You will use your winter book or your current 21 game average.

The tourney starts at 1 p.m. You will be rolling four games across eight lanes. Entry fee is $40. The top three qualifiers will enter a step later roll-off (2 vs 3), with the winners rolling the number one seeds to determine the tournament champions. The payout is based on a 1 to 4 ratio for each tournament. If you need more information or what to save a spot, contact Dave Brown at (209) 549-2510.

No-Tap winners from Black Oak

Three local members won money during the monthly senior 9-pin no-tap at Black Oak Lanes held last Friday afternoon. In the second high game pot was Ed Huddleston taking a second place with a 335 with handicap. On the women’s side was Kim Heller with a 320 taking first.

In the third high game Janie Schropp rolled a 284 for third place. In the overall series, again Huddleston took fourth place with a 841, Schropp finished in sixth place with a 803, and Heller in seventh place with a 801. The next pre-paid senior no-tap tournament will be on Friday, Aug. 4 at 1:30 p.m. Contact Jeff Hurley, tournament director to register for the event at (209) 928-9437. You can mail him your check after you sign up. No walk-ins are accepted.

Hunter retires after 22 years

Some of our local bowlers might not know this, that Keith Hunter, our long time secretary/manager of the Merced Bowling Association and the Merced County USBC Association has retired. He turned his retirement papers affected as of July 30 he will no longer be our manager.

After having surgery on his shoulder at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, he suffered a stroke while in the hospital. He is doing well, and is going through rehab in Merced, Fresno, and Stanford. He submitted his retirement papers prior to his surgery. The way it looks, he should be ready to hit the lanes in about a year.

Taking Hunters spot as manager of the association is Kim Barcellos. She was voted in by the board after receiving her resume that she submitted. Barcellos officially takes the position on August 1. We wish her the best.

This story was originally published July 12, 2017 at 12:20 PM with the headline "Oregon’s Warren ties Pete Weber."