Youths dominate before start of school

Spring Hill Lanes boasts the top female and male scratch series scores for last week, by April Tresize and Brandon Curley, respectively.

By DEREK J. LARIVIERE, Times Correspondent
Published August 22, 2007

As the summer wrapped up this past week, Hernando County youth celebrated their final week of freedom from the classroom by dominating the lanes. With April Tresize and Brandon Curley leading the charge, the Spring Hill Youth/Adult League at Spring Hill Lanes boasted the top female and male scratch series scores for the week.

Curley's 750 series was one of only five reported 700 series for the week, and his 269 high game was third overall. He added games of 244 and 237 to cement the top series spot. The three-game set highlighted a brilliant 2006-07 season for Curley, his last in the U.S. Bowling Congress Youth classification. Next season he moves onto the larger sanctioned leagues at Spring Hill with a sanctioned perfect game already on his resume.

Trezise, a member of the Nature Coast bowling team during the school year, is widely regarded as the best youth female bowler in the county, and she added to that reputation this summer. She led the county in the high female series three separate times over the past 12 weeks, including her 660 series this past week. That series was the highest such pin total for the summer, only 40 pins shy of a 700. Only three different females threw 700s this season in the area.

The tall Nature Coast standout outdistanced her nearest competitor for high series by more than 80 pins and her nearest competitor for high game by 37 with her 255. Samantha Shuster, another youth bowler, came in second with a 575 series. The scores could represent a bright future for female bowling in the county.

TINKER SHOCKS CENTER: Mike Tinker was a 180 bowler going into Aug. 13 at Spring Hill Lanes. A participant in the USBC-sanctioned Monday Night Men's Trio League, Tinker shocked all around him by tossing a perfect game while most around him struggled. Bowlers that consistently average in the 200s had trouble hitting that mark, but Tinker could do no wrong.

He finished the evening with a 723 series, good for third overall for the week, but his string of 12 strikes in a row is what had people talking. The summer had been notoriously rough on bowlers in the Monday Night Men's Trio League all season.

Fellow bowlers Jim Jobin and Larry Malone had limited success, but most members of the league bowled far below their regular-season averages. These facts make Tinker's accomplishment all the more notable.

Results

HIGH MALE SCRATCH SERIES

Brandon Curley, 750, Youth/Adult, Spring Hill Lanes

Jay Lynch, 744, Road Runners, Spring Hill Lanes

Mike Tinker, 723, Monday Men's Trio, Spring Hill Lanes

Mike Morrison, 707, Kings & Queens, Spring Hill Lanes

Jim Jobin, 703, Monday Men's Trio, Spring Hill Lanes

HIGH FEMALE SCRATCH SERIES

April Trezise, 660, Youth/Adult, Spring Hill Lanes

Samantha Shuster, 575, Youth/Adult, Spring Hill Lanes

Carolyn Beachy, 543, Kings & Queens, Spring Hill Lanes

Denise Bowers, 527, Kings & Queens, Spring Hill Lanes

Michelle Spencer, 513, Road Runners, Spring Hill Lanes

HIGH MALE SCRATCH GAME

Mike Tinker, 300, Monday Men's Trio, Spring Hill Lanes

Pete Osorio, 279, Road Runners, Spring Hill Lanes

Brandon Curley, 269, Youth/Adult, Spring Hill Lanes

Gene Rastaberger, 269, Wednesday Scratch Trio, Spring Hill Lanes

Gene Rastaberger, 268, Wednesday Scratch Trio, Spring Hill Lanes

HIGH FEMALE SCRATCH GAME

April Tresize, 255, Youth/Adult, Spring Hill Lanes

Michelle Spencer, 218, Road Runners, Spring Hill Lanes

Dyleeng Beach, 212, Wednesday Scratch Trio, Spring Hill Lanes

Carolyn Beachy, 211, Kings & Queens, Spring Hill Lanes

Samantha Shuster, 211, Youth/Adult, Spring Hill Lanes

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