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Bad luck streak ends, run of good luck starts

By PHIL GULICK

© St. Petersburg Times,
published August 9, 2001

Australia's Cara Honeychurch overcame a week of misfortune to claim her second title this year, winning the $50,000 Sport Bowling Challenge on July 12 at St. Clair Shores, Mich. She earned a 206-179 victory over Brenda Norman.

Honeychurch was nursing an infection and her medication was stolen after her rental car broke down. Then, the rental car company repossessed the car, leaving her and husband Jim stranded between Virginia and Michigan.

"We had to depend on the kindness of other bowlers to get from one place to another," she said.

Honeychurch came back a week later to win her second straight event and third this season at the Clabber Girl Greater Terre Haute (Ind.) Open on July 26. She beat top-seeded Carol Gianotti-Block 279-208.

In Michigan, it was Norman, not Honeychurch who thwarted Carolyn Dorin-Ballard's bid for history. Dorin-Ballard was seeking her fourth consecutive title, which would have been a record in women's professional bowling. Norman beat Dorin-Ballard in the semifinals 240-236.

Tish Johnson is the third female pro to earn $1-million in her career. She joins Aleta Sill and Wendy Macpherson.

The tour resumes Sept. 1 with the Foundation Games V at Sebring's Kegel Training Center.

GLASS UNBROKEN: Bob Glass won last year's PBA Senior player of the year honors after capturing his first two career titles and he's in the hunt for the honor again.

Glass won his second major, the ABC Senior Masters, then added titles in Syracuse, N.Y., and Reading, Pa., this year. He heads the earnings list with more than $62,000. He also tops match-play appearances with nine and championship-round appearances with seven. He has earned cash in all 10 events.

Otherplayer of the year candidates are Steve Neff of Homosassa Springs, Bob Chamberlain, Johnny Petraglia, Bradenton's Dave Soutar and Mark Roth. Roth is making his senior tour debut. Neff is in his second senior season.

Steve Hoskins, the 10-time regular-tour winner from Tarpon Springs, is the featured player this month at www.pba.com. NEWS AND NOTES: Winners' payoffs for the standard PBA tournaments this season are $40,000, while the major events will pay $120,000 to $140,000. ... AMF Bowling Worldwide filed for Chapter 11 reorganization two weeks ago, but it's business as usual for AMF's 518 bowling centers. ... The 2001-02 intercollegiate tournament schedule lists the Sunshine Classic Jan. 18-19 at Orlando and the Releaser's Invitational Jan. 24-26 at Tallahassee. The intercollegiate championships are April 17-21 at Buffalo, N.Y., with Western Illinois University's men and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's women as defending champions. ... Entries at $750 per person are open for the International Eliminator on Jan. 17-25 at Sam's Town in Las Vegas, where the winner takes home $100,000.

- Phil Gulick can be reached at xerxes8@msn.com.

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