August 27, 2010
By: Mark Martin
GAVIE
TOURNAMENT RESULTS
The
bowling season is off and running with the 74th Annual Gavie
Tournament contested at Thunderbowl Lanes in
There were 116 teams which participated in three divisions; Open, Women’s and Senior making this the largest one-day one-squad team tournament around.
Pacing
the Open Division was the Drunk Horns with a score of 3,670. Members of the team
were Floyd Drinkhorn of Center Line, Bill Stephenson of
Placing
second was the Storm / Roto #2 team with Nevelle Kirby of
Finishing
third was the Red Robin / Sunnybrook Lanes team with 3,431. Chris Lannoo of
In
the Women’s Division the Boy Bye team; consisting of Sonja Butler of
The Elite Five team shot 3,386 and finished second. Contributing were Kimberly Darden of Eastpointe, Daborita Darden of Eastpointe, Jada Ester of Detroit, Pat Darden of Eastpointe and Clystine Henderson of Detroit.
Finishing third was the K.A.A.P.S. team with 3,282 with team members Katherine Groves of Sterling Heights, Amanda Frey of New Baltimore, Annette Maiorana of Shelby Township, Pamela Murdock of Sterling Heights and Stephanie Murdock of Sterling Heights.
Winning
the Senior Division was the Not Much team with 3,408. The team members were Sam
Girgenti of
The
Oak Lanes team consisting of Rick Capaldi of
The
Five Old Dudes team, with an average age of 69, finished third with 3,351. The
members were James Autrey, Donald Williams, Kit Floyd, Terrace Goldsmith and
Fred Dunbar of
With another sold out event, this bodes well for the upcoming bowling season.
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NATIONAL
SENIOR BOWLING ASSOCIATION
Mike
Lee of
Lee
qualified fourth and beat Dave Forfitt of
Magyar
qualified third and settled for the second place prize check of $500. In match
play he defeated Bill Haynes of Rochester Hills 204-175, Joe Krajenke of
Ken
Kossick of
The
next NSBA tournament will be Sept. 11 at Bowl One Lanes in
For
more information on the NSBA contact Phil Horowitz at (248) 489-1333, e-mail prh300@aol.com
or visit www.nationalseniorbowling.com.
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HONOR SCORES
300
Games
Date,
Name, Hometown, Center, League
Aug.
5, Stacey Mercer,
Aug.
11, Josh Coklow,
Aug.
11, Reginald Ivory,
800
Series
Mark Martin writes a weekly bowling column for The Oakland Press and is the association manager of the Metro Detroit USBC Association. He can be reached at (248) 443-2695, faxed at (248) 443-2690 or e-mailed at mark.martin@mdusbc.com.