Doubles Results
Our 2nd 2019 Over / Under 50 Doubles exceeded all expectations. We were filled to capacity with 120 teams registered with paid deposits. We also had to create and organize a waitlist for the overflow due to the demand from all our bowlers wanting to participate. We ended up with 117 teams and everyone that wanted to bowl did. Three teams had to withdraw the morning of the tournament due to a variety of circumstances. Needless to say it was a huge success. Non of this could have happened without the support of our bowlers, both above and below our 50 year old age group.
A very special thank you to our Executive Director, Lew Ansara for his vision and hard work along with the hard work and dedication of all the SSO Directors and volunteers who stepped up to make this happen. Finally with out our sponsors we would never be able to come so close to the $30,000.00 prize fund that we did. A BIG THANK YOU TO EVERYONE.
Congratulations to the team of Larry Walker and Ronnie Sparks Jr. on winning our Bonus, Special Event, by defeating the team of Mostafa Nejatbakhsh and Omar Cruz in the final match with a team score of 447 to 416. Congratulations also to Team Mostafa on their second place finish. The top prize was $6000.00 and our second place prize was $3000.00. Both Walker and Nejatbakhsh will receive points toward the 2019 Bowler of the Year race as will all our SSO members advancing to our Elimination Rounds.
There were some very close scores throughout the tournament. Team Walker qualified 16th. with a total doubles score of 2572 and a combined team average of 214. In our Elimination rounds they picked it up a notch for the win with a combined average of 234 however in round 2 they advanced by only 3 pins over the past Doubles Championship team of Team Jakubowski.
Team Nejatbakhsh qualified 13th averaging 217 with a combined doubles total of 2598. In Round 1 they advanced by just 2 pins over Team Goormastic.
During Qualifying, many positions were determined by just a pin or two. One team missed the cut line buy just 2 pins. There was a tie for 18th, 25th and 31st. 5 teams missed the cut by less than a mark and two other teams missed the Elimination Rounds by just one mark.
This month’s tournament was held at Westland Bowl where we requested a custom oil patter designed just for this tournament.. We would like to thank the management and staff for hosting our tournament this weekend.
High Qualifiers this month was the team of Derek Wright and Dale Branden with 2774 for 6 games, averaging better than a combined 231.
It took a total of 2500 and a combined average of 208 or better to make our regular cut line set by the team of Steve Mrakitsch and Dan Jordan.
At the end of Round 1 of Eliminations we had to break a tie of 414 with a 9th and 10th frame rolloff. Team Goike prevailed and advanced against Team Goormastic.
We had a record 117 teams filling the bowling center wall to wall. There were 29 Super Seniors, 2 Super Super Seniors, 2 women along with the rest of our seniors and 117 bowlers under 50 years of age.
We also had 36 teams in our Elimination Rounds with 9 Super Seniors making the cut. This provided a little better than 1 in 3 cashing ratio for the tournament.
There were 10 honor scores during qualifying!. There were six 300 games, two 299 games, one 290 game and one 800 series.
Aaron Lorincz shot 804 in games 4, 5 and 6 (290, 266, 248).
Dale Strike, Alex Ouellette, Trey Raynes, John Goormastic, Jason Dee, and Ben Yowell all shot Perfect Games.
Steve Jakubowski and Carelton Chambers had 299 games.
Aaron Lorincz had a 290 during his 804 series.
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The SSO would like to thank everyone for coming out to compete. The SSO would also like to thank our sponsors; Ebonite Bowling Products, Red Robin, Turbo 2 in 1 Grips and the Hamtramck Singles Classic for their support of our tournaments.
