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Maybe It's Time To Revive City Match Play

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By BOB AUSTIN Tribune correspondent

The Tampa Tribune

Published: June 18, 2008

It's summertime - I know, officially it begins in three days - and your 36-week fall-winter-spring bowling league concluded a couple of weeks ago.

And since you're not enrolled in any 12-week or so summer kegling endeavor, it's going to be a long time until late August when it all cranks up again.

For the high-averaging local bowler, three months can be an eternity when it comes to maintaining that ego-sustaining 220-plus status.

Well, here's where someone or some company or some caring individual can make a difference.

Let's resurrect the city match plays.

The city match plays - men, women and mixed - were a Tampa institution for years and were a big focus of summertime bowling.

Do I hear any voices out there?

TAMPA'S HELTON LEADS: Tampa's Nadia Helton is in first place in two events after five weekends of the USBC Florida State Women's Bowling Tournament in Daytona Beach.

Helton, competing in Division 3 (158-175 average) leads in singles with 672 and in all-events with 1,939.

Tampa's Kathy Altenburg is second in Division 3 singles with 641, while Tampa's Jennifer Crosby is second in Division 3 all-events with 1,800.

Cathy Harn and Carol Becker of Tampa are currently third in Division 5 (279-under average) doubles with 975.

SWEEPER AT MIDTOWN: It's sweeper time at Pin Chasers Midtown with the inaugural Sardegna's Scratch Singles Sweeper on July 5.

Entry fee is $29 (cash only) and competitors will be shooting on the PBA oil patterns. The first sweeper, scheduled to begin at 2 p.m., will be conducted on the Cheetah pattern.

DISNEY GOES BOWLING: The USBC will hold 13 events - seven Open Championships and six Women's Championships - from 2011 through 2029 in a privately funded bowling center on land being made available at Disney's Wide World of Sports complex.

Each tournament will run for 20 weeks. Combined, the tournaments are expected to generate nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars in economic import for the community.

Osceola County beat out Wichita, Kan.; Tulsa, Okla.; Corpus Christi, Tex.; and Reno, Nev., for the 2011 USBC Open Championships.

AMF UNIVERSITY LANES: Roger Bailey Sr. led the men with 274-641, while Jodi Moores was tops for the ladies with 220-593 last week.

Other good scores for the men were Robert Albee 223-631, Willie Shoats 224-606, Nick Vollaro 222-606, Dave Bauer 211-594 and Andrew Cohen 208-575. Also for the women were Valarie O'Neill 202-580, Maura Clark 203-549 and Connie Light 225-548.

OAKFIELD LANES: Harry Pope's 251-731 paced the men, while Barbara Martin was the leader among the women with 247-668 last week.

Other men's scores were Michael Shoop 269-729, Robert Marsee 279-723, Michael Galligan 275-711, Paul Angel 267-676, Jerry Caldwell 245-652, Dwayne Jones 258, Tony Varno 256, Al Kennon 255, Troy Abe 255 and Jon Byrne 253.

Lyn Husen followed Martin for the women with 220-621, while Susan Lowrance had 235-619, Betty Recupero 226, Sharon Belinski 226, Charlotte Temlin 221, Penny Horak 220 and Andrea Neeper 220. Among the youth bowlers, Jackie Fells rolled 248-621 and Chris Rodgers 263-606.

Send local bowling news to bobaustin@verizon.net.

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