Surdich on Bowling: Modesto’s Yosemite Lanes to host PBA West Region and Pro-Am
Mark your calendar, as the 10th annual Vanessa Brown Homes 2015 PBA West Region is running June 19-21 at Modesto’s Yosemite Lanes.
No-tap pro-ams will be held June 19 at 3:30 p.m. and June 20 at 7:30 p.m. Entry fees are $25 for seniors, $40 for adults and $20 for juniors. This event fills fast. Bellevue Bowl has forms at the side desk.
The tourney has a special entry fee that will include a new Columbia or Ebonite ball with drilling. The senior division offers a choice of a Columbia ball at $185 or an Ebonite at $120, the adult division offers a Columbia at $200 or an Ebonite at $135, and the junior division offers a Columbia at $180 and Ebonite at $115. First place in the senior division will earn $250, adult division $350 and the junior division a $100 scholarship.
One of five entries will cash in each division. Call Yosemite Lanes to reserve your spot at (209) 525-9161 and ask for Jim or Wayne.
500 club tourney – June 14 is the Merced/Atwater Women’s 500 Club’s annual Three on a Team fun tournament for men, women and mixed squads with a 1 p.m. start time at Bellevue. Team entries have started to come in.
This handicap tournament is limited to the first 33 paid teams with a team maximum entering average of 540 (your 2014-15 book average will be used). You will bowl three regulation games on one pair of lanes.
One of five entries will cash. Entry fee is $22 per bowler, and forms are available at Bellevue.
Black Oak seniors – Black Oak Lanes in Tuolumne is holding its monthly senior nine-pin no-tap Friday at 1:30 p.m.
Entry fee is $15, and your high-game pot is paid out after every game for men and women. Total series are paid out at the end of the no-tap. Seniors will be provided with coffee, cookies and popcorn. Make sure you bring your strike ball; leave your spare ball at home.
To reserve a spot, contact league coordinator Sandy Taylor at (209) 928-9437.
Another two-hander – Kyle Troup of Taylorsville, N.C., who rolls with two hands, won the PBA Wolf Open at the Grand Casino Hotel & Resort in Shawnee, Okla. He beat PBA Rookie of the Year in 2014 Marshall Kent 229-179 for the championship.
You could not miss Troup, as he had multi-colored squares on his pants and shirt and sported a blonde Afro hairdo. He had a big orange M on the front of his shirt for his sponsor, Motiv.
Troup, who earned $10,000, is the son of eight-time Tour winner Guppy Troup. They became the fourth father-son tandem in PBA history to win a Tour title. Troup used an older urethane ball on the 32-foot Wolf lane condition, the PBA’s shortest animal pattern.
“Anytime I can play the gutter and use urethane, that’s a game I like to play,” Troup told PBA.com.
▪ Coming up on the CBS Sports Network are the PBA Badger Open on Tuesday, the Oklahoma Open on June 16, and the King of the Swing on June 23. All air at 6 p.m.
Sizzling Summer Days – Bellevue is back with its annual Sizzling Summer Days. Here is a chance for kids 17 and younger, seniors and Merced USBC league members to have fun bowling or just to practice.
Starting Monday, the bowl will offer games, shoes and, if you get hungry, there will be hot dogs, french fries, small sodas, cups of ice cream and a bowling pin Popsicles, each for only $1.50. The snack bar opens daily at noon. The special ends Aug. 14.
Sizzling Summer Days runs weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Get out your ball and take the kids to have a great time, and practice.
This story was originally published June 3, 2015 at 4:59 PM with the headline "Surdich on Bowling: Modesto’s Yosemite Lanes to host PBA West Region and Pro-Am."