Cougars, Spongers come out prep champs
By ERIC MUSKATEVC
Published November 19, 2006
Powered behind a 257 opening game from Matt Micenec, Countryside took 20 of 21 points Tuesday evening at AMF Clearwater to remain and finish as the Pinellas County High School League scratch champions with 217 points.
Boca Ciega and Palm Harbor University stayed in second and third, respectively, with 179 and 166 points. Good scores from the previous week belonged to Bogie's Jacob Agne (186 avg., 225/651), St. Petersburg's Evan Dickie (167 avg., 208/606), Northeast's Anthony Yingling (192 avg., 279/716), Largo's Paul Podlas (192 avg., 258/675) and Dixie Hollins' Bobby Harman (177 avg., 233/638) and Matt Martin (120 avg., 228/556).
Down six points to Northeast heading into Tuesday, Tarpon Springs' girls team won 19 points and a scratch championship.
Kristi Bowen (156 avg.) rolled a 541 series and Christie Smolen (156 avg.) a 511 alongside teammates Ashly Galante and Jamie Cowden, combining for 228 points to the Vikings' 217. Palm Harbor University finished third (203). Northeast's Sarah Shouppe (181 avg., 205/590), PHU's Heather Bugni (151 avg., 235/571) and Gibbs' Kalyn Murphy (149 avg., 180/517) and Kim Goldberg (176 avg., 221/568) bowled well the week before as well.
Seminole regained the junior varsity handicapped division with 161 points, followed by St. Petersburg and Clearwater No. 2.
WOMEN'S CLASSIC: After Week 2 of the Greater St Petersburg USBC Women's Classic Tournament, those Terrible Twedts still lead the team competition with 3,580 pins over second-place Creative Design Floors Inc. from Bradenton, who have 3,506. Tina Peavy of Lakeland highlighted the weekend at Twedt's bowing with Phillips Tree Farm, rolling a 300-190-199 for a 689 series while holding her 202 average. In doubles, Joyce Crosby and Mette Hahn of Brooksville lead with 1,515.
After a scoring a 187-255 and 300 for a 742 series in doubles at Seminole, Dwin Kwiatkowski of Longwood went on to roll an 801 series to move into third in the singles division. Still holding first is Monique Dever of Sebring, with an 839 series. Rounding out the top four are Kelly Farrow of Chuluota in second (822) and Gale Martin of Bradenton (798).
RPI SET: Pete Dohan and Tom Daugherty, both of Tampa, will represent the area next month. The two successful regional pros qualified in the South Region, as all seven regions have completed qualifying for the event Dec. 5-7 in Reno. Roger Kossert of Brandon and Ed Oakes of Winter Park also made the list from the state.
PBA: The Tour returns to Stardust Bowl I in Hammond, Ind., for the second straight season for the Lake County Indiana Classic. Pete Weber is the defending champion.
Showing at age 44 he hasn't lost a step, the Hall of Famer captured his 33rd career title last week, winning the Etonic Championship in Cheektowaga, N.Y. Weber met up with defending champion Doug Kent (Newark, N.Y.), the local favorite who was looking for his second title in three weeks after winning the USBC Masters. Weber struck in seven of the first eight frames to blow past Kent on his way to his first title of the season, 247-196.
The win made him the all-time leader in PBA titles, which includes PBA Tour, PBA Regional and PBA Senior Tour titles. Though Walter Ray Williams Jr. holds the record with 42 PBA titles, Weber has 36 regional titles compared to Williams' 26. The live ESPN Indiana Classic finals are today at 1 p.m.
UPCOMING: Ten Pin Lanes (1453 Pasadena Avenue S.) hosts the USBC Senior Tournament Dec. 2-3 and 9-10.
CHATTER: Celebrating 300s last week were Sunrise Strike'n Sparer Pablo Lakilak (758), Dunedin's Melanie O'Grady (back with a 796 to boot), Liberty's Bob Willard (705), Bobby Redmond (734), Derek Dzurba (748) and Marty Murphy (790), and Seminole's Caribbean Isles bowler Bill Leverton (730). Bob Smolka featured a 279 game at Liberty for a 794 series. Dunedin's Paul Pippenger scored the week's lone 800, a 290/814.