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LEVITTOWN, NY – Ken

Grzelaczyk blasted a 300 perfecto

then added a near perfect 299

game en route to an impressive

835 set while competing in the

Thursday Expressway Glass Trios

League at North Levittown Lanes.

Raj Kochar shot 289-814, Todd

Klarikaitis 289, Anthony Pepe

280, Alex Cavagnaro 279-279-

826, Brian Ziesig 279-279-812,

Doc Cummings and Ralph Alois

279, Gary Shultis 278, Lea

Maynor 268, Mindie Schwarz

267, Laura Cestra 256, Gian

Pillitteri 253-736, and Theresa

Castellano 721.

Ken Grzelaczyk Blasted 300

At North Levittown Lanes

NEPTUNE, NJ - Rakim Tillery Jr.

bowled his third 800 and his first

career 300 posting games of 279-

238-300 for an 817 series whilecontesting in the Tuesday Night

Ed Hennelly Memorial League.

Kyle Brown bowled a 300 on

Saturday night in the Saturday

night Mixed League.

NO. ARLINGTON, NJ – Randy

Battistus and Keith Dobres each

blasted a 300 game in the Sunday

Morning Trios League at North

Arlington Bowl-O-Drome.

Jim Giancarlo missed perfection

by one pin when he shot a 299 in a

750 set.

Joe Kowalski tossed 280-786,

Ken Carson 269-759, Giles Ward

268-758, Al-Torre Hooper 287-

758, John Adamd 257-756,

Anthony Imbriano 266-733, Jay

Judowski 290-731, Pete Silva

265-727, Keith Lawson 2576-726,

Frank Buonanno 276-726, Gary

Masino 279-714, Pete Honan 268-

709, and Anthony Buonanno 279-

706.

Rakim Tillery Jr 300-817,

Kyle Brown 300 at Shore Lanes

Steve Stein Shines at NJ State TorneyE. BRUNSWICK,

NJ - Steve Stein

bowled back-to-

back 800's in the

New Jersey State

Seniors Tournament

posting games of

289, 256 and 279

for the high series of 824 while rolling in

the Singles event,

and tossed games of

227 and 278 around

a 300 perfecto to

tally an 805 set in

the Doubles event.

At a special cer-

emony Joe

Fabian, President

of the New Jersey

State United

States Bowling

Congress BowlingAssociation pre-

sented Stein with

his USBC 800

series award.

Billy Hardwick had a view from the top of the worldthe day he received the call that tore him to the ground.

Competing at the 1969 Japan Cup, where a year ear-

lier he set a PBA record that stands to this day when he

averaged 271 for eight games, Hardwick already had

won a PBA Player of the Year award and beaten Dick

Weber to win the inaugural Firestone Tournament of

Champions in 1965.

He would notch another

record in 1969 by winning

six titles that season alone,

a feat topped only twice in

the 41 years since, both

times by Mark Roth (1978

& '79). One of the six hap-

pened to be a win at the

U.S. Open that earned him

the coveted triple crown of major tournament titles-

the Firestone, the U.S.

Open, and the PBA

National Championship.

All this despite an

inability to straighten his

arms due to rheumatoid

arthritis, a doctor's assur-

ance that he would be

"crippled by the age of

28," and a childhood

injury to the ring finger on

his bowling hand that left

it almost totally inflexible.

"I won my first Bowler

of the Year with my index and middle finger,"

Hardwick said of the grip for which he became knownas "the boy with the golden claw."

Yes, Hardwick had a view from high above all that in

1969, a view from which names that loomed large at the

time-Weber, Zahn, Carter-seemed to him no larger than

pedestrians observed from the top of a hundred-story

building.

"If Carter and I put our foot up on the approach at the

same time, hey, I got there first. Back up," Hardwick

said of his attitude in 1963, when he first etched his

name into the stone of bowling immortality. But the

person on the other end of the call that sent him scram-

bling for the next flight home from Japan that day in

1969 was not Weber or Carter calling to congratulate

him for any of these glories. It was not some reporter

looking for an interview. No; it was his wife, and the

news had nothing to do with bowling.

Billy Hardwick's first-born child, seven-month-oldBilly Jr., was dead.

The infant, by all accounts a perfectly healthy baby,

died suddenly in his crib in what was then termed "crib

death," more commonly known today as Sudden Infant

Death Syndrome (SIDS).

"Country music entertainer Merle Haggard hit the

charts a while back with a song called 'I'm Always on aMountain When I Fall,'" one Bowling Magazine writer

put it in 1985. "Billy Hardwick knows the feeling."

The loss proved to be too great for Hardwick's mar-

riage to overcome. He got married for a second time

several years later. He and his new wife had a son,

Christopher. Then they decided they wouldn't mind

having another.

And that's when it hap-

pened-again. "She got preg-

nant again, but she had a

terrible time. The baby was

about seven months along,

and the doctor said she was

over the rough part but

wouldn't be able to have

any more kids. Five days

later, the baby comes outarm first. The baby died

two days later," Hardwick

explained in an interview

with Bowlers Journal.

"At that point, who really

gives a damn about bowl-

ing? People say they under-

stand, but until you actually

lose two children-including

an infant-there is no way to

describe what it is like. At

the time, I was No. 1 in the

world, and I said 'So What?'

I just didn't care. You just

check my records after that,

because they're all zeroes."

After turning himself into the PBA's version of thehuman highlight reel in 1969, Hardwick would not win

another title on tour for the next seven years, fumbling

for some way to outlast his grief as he bowled merely

to please the sponsors that paid him to be there.

"Being the best bowler in the world was the least

important thing," Hardwick said in 2005, "because I

convinced myself that the better I bowled, the more dis-

aster I would have to face."

The ladder Hardwick climbed to reach that view from

the top may have taken just the length of one terrible

phone call to crumble, but it took years to ascend. The

climb began at Bel Mateo Bowl in San Mateo, Calif.,

where he wiped tables at age 16 for $1.65 an hour as he

brooded over dreams of joining the bowling gods he

worshipped on TV.

"We had a bed outside, under a little overhang on the

patio. I'd tell my parents I wanted to sleep out there.Then, when they'd go to bed, I'd sneak out and go to the

bowling center and stay until 5 o'clock in the morning,"

Hardwick revealed in a 1985 interview.

See Billy Hardwick Story Page 4

Randy Battistus, Keith Dobres

300 at North Arlington Bowl

PBA Photo

Billy Hardwick was the youngest bowler to win a

PBA title in 1963.

“I'm Always on a Mountain When I Fall”

The Billy Hardwick StoryBy Gianmarc Manzione

Re-printed from BOWL.com

Steve Stein

Rich Naclerio 300 at MontvaleBy Larry Diebner

MONTVALE, NJ - Rich Nacleriostarted off the night with a 300

game to lead all scoring in the

Thursday Nite Early Bird League

at Montvale Lanes.

Mike Folchi blasted scores of

266-223-264 for a 753 series,

Larry Diebner 269-739, TomFojtlin 255-730, Bill Allison 279-

728, Mike Almodovar 268-702,

Chris Arbegast 248-668, Danny

Jacaruso 220-662, Charles

Anderson 268-651, Andy Raab

234-650, and Steve Scorzetti



2 SPORTS REPORTER November 10 - 16, 2010

J o a n Ta y l o r ’ s

Te n P i n R a p . . . .

Christine Koumaras, Green Town, PA (bowls in Morris County), has

no expectations in bowling. She only started ten years ago. In one of her

leagues she filled in for a bowler with a broken wrist, and that was three

years ago. She simply enjoys her league bowling.

A couple weeks ago in her women’s league, she started the second

game with a strike, and then another and another. “It was all surreal,” she

said. “Chris (Hastings) was bowling next to me and I remember she got

strikes, too. Then she spared and I kept striking.” As often happens,

everybody stopped bowling for her last shot and the quiet was discon-

certing. “I was very nervous. I felt sick to my stomach. When the last

shot was a strike I remember jumping up and screaming.”

No surprise there on her 164 average. “I never dreamed I would roll a

300.”She will receive a ring from the US Bowling Congress.

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Taylor Horniacek is North Arlington

Junior Bowler of the Week By Vince Albrecht

NORTH ARLINGTON, NJ – Junior Bowler of the Week recognition

went to 10-year-old Taylor Horniacek who rolled 160-438, her best

series to date in North Arlington’s Adult-Junior Doubles. Taylor’s strong

finish enabled her 4 T’s Laneside I team to complete a sweep of G-Force

and close to within one point of first place.

The 18 And A Half couple knocked “Those Guys” from the top rung,

securing a 5-2 position encounter decision as junior Bobby Manella

closed with 171,194 scores; 14-year-old Danny Bivin led “Those Guys”

with 175-465.

In other position matches, the Cardinals took seven points from theBottlecaps to leapfrog into fourth place; 15-year-old Will Blanco posted

202, 183 for the Redbirds. Team Awesome II turned back 4 T’s Laneside

II, 5-2 while the Mega Monkeys escaped the cellar with a sweep of the

“A Girls.”

Over average scores from the junior set included Bobby Manella +40,

Taylor Horniacek +38, Danny Bivin +36, Sam Passaro +31 and Kyle

Sanzo +18. Their older counterparts contributed in grand fashion, led by

Tommy Horniacek 258,246; Tim Bray 232,214; Joe Cauwels 231; Vin

Albrecht 222,211 and Theresa Horniacek 197.

They said it well---with com-

ments.

"To err is human, to forgive

divine."---POPE (But that's an

excuse few team captains will

accept)

"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond;

cauliflower is nothing but cab-

bage with a college education. "--

-MARK TWAIN (Ask Billy

Hardwick, Don Johnson and Earl

Anthony, among others, who

were early flops who never gave

up, and went on to become all-

time greats)

"You can and you can't, you

will and you won't; you’ll be

damned if you do, you’ll be

damned if you don't."---LOREN-

ZO DOW (What a lane man goes

through all the time)

"Things are seldom what

they seem, Skim milk masquer-

ades as cream."---W. S.

GILBERT (A reminder to read all

the fine print on all tournament

entry blanks)

"Nothing great was ever

achieved without enthusiasm.”---

EMERSON (So why do they

keep picking on Pete Weber)

"Inconsistency is the only

thing in which men are consis-

tent.”---HORACE SMITH (Add

almost all bowlers to that list)

"If a man takes no thoughtabout what is distant, he will find

sorrow near at hand."---CONFU-

CIUS (And he won't be entered in

that tournament because he didn't

get the entry blank in by the

deadline date)

"Age cannot wither her, nor

custom stale. Her infinite variety.

"---SHAKESPEARE (Thoughts

after watching a women’s league

in action)

"A thing of beauty is a joy

forever."---KEATS (Like maybe

two strikes in a row)

"Blood is thicker than

water."---COMMODORE TAT-

TNALL (Except when it misses

easy spares)

"It is the beginning of the

end."---TALLEYRAND (When

you get near impossible splits in

the seventh, eighth and ninthframes)

"What can't be cured must

be endured."---ENGLISH

PROVERB (Like splits, chops,

misses, and some teammates)

"Out of the strain of the

doing. Into the peace of the

done."---JULIA WOODRUFF

(For all those who have just com-

pleted filling out sanction forms,

various applications, and entry

blanks)

"Our doubts are traitors and

make us lose the good we oft

might win by fearing to

attempt."---SHAKESPEARE

(Heed what Willie says, you can't

win a tournament unless you

enter)

"Curfew must not ring

tonight."---ROSA THORPE (It

can't, there's a birthday party,

moonlight bowling, and a

marathon all scheduled after mid-

night)

"No man ever yet became

great by imitation."---SAMUEL

JOHNSON (So be yourself1 on

and off the lanes)

"Debate is masculine; con-

versation is feminine."---

ALCOTT (I guess she never went

to a women's bowling league or

association meeting)

"A comfortable house is a

great source of happiness. It ranks

immediately after health and a

good conscience. "---SIDNEY

SMITH (And a good home bowl-

ing house does wonders for your

scores and confidence)

"I was born to other

things."---TENNYSON (The ulti-

mate excuse)

To the world you may just be one person, But to just one person you may be the world!

Larry DeAngelo 751 at ParkwayELMWOOD PARK, NJ – Larry DeAngelo led all pin attackers with scores

of 246-258-247 for a strong 751 series to lead an active night of high scorers

in the Wednesday, Teterboro Bowling League, at Parkway Lanes.

Michael Aiellos tossed a 257 in a 703 series followed by Mark Marton

rolling 267-694, Roy Castelein 279-686, Richard DeLorenzo Jr. 290-666, Scott Koenig 246-645, Joseph Avola 245-642 and Willie Seabrooks

235-642.

Tom Fojtlin 742At Montvale

By Larry Diebner

MONTVALE, NJ - Tom Fojtlin

blasted scores of 225-237-280 for

a 742 series to lead all scoring in

the Thursday Nite Early Bird

League at Montvale Lanes.

Carlos Perez bowled 266-722,

Joe Truchan 246- 702, Mark

Plowman 251-696, Mike

Almodovar 238-663, Dave Spano

289-659, Lou Domenici 255-654,

Eric Honor 225-653, Ed

McAuliffe 235-651, and Frank

Picciotto 232-646.

In another session it was TomFojtlin again taking the lead with

224-257-259 for a 740 followed

by John Rankin tossing 266-702,

Mark Plowman 246-701, Chris

Morciglio 268-701, Mike Pasch

251-695, Dave Spano 245-690,

Charles Anderson 242-684,Mike

Folchi 276-683, Jim Rivers 258-

672, Chris Arbegast 234-663, and

Eric Honor 257-662.

Tim McKenna 731

At Plaza LanesMADISON, NJ –Tim McKenna

paced the Friday Classic League at

Plaza Lanesfiring a 279 game for a

high series of 731.

Mike Yoboud shot 279, Dorey

Badolato 268, Russ Kyzima 728,

Paul Shiel 724, Stephanie Rahn

243, Ellen Moore 238, and Donna

Badolato 203.

Wayne Wallace

Hit 277 in OLVBy Al Smetana

WAYNE, NJ - Wayne Wallace had

the high game in the OLV

Bowling League at T-Bowl II with

a 277-685. Ben Fierro took the

high series honors rolling a 715highlighted by a 255 game closely

followed by Harry Fivehouse 247-

688, Ben Bucaro 255-685, and

Dave Munsey 226-662.

Tom Kaynak and Julius Fulop had

identical 235 games and 656

series.

Bruce Fields 537

At T-Bowl IIBy Al Smetana

WAYNE, NJ - Bruce Fields was

the high scorer in the T-Bowl

Senior League with his 209-537,

followed by Al Ruffini 201-516,

and Rudy Parente 202-495.For the girls it was Gloria

Siciliano leading the way with

167-489, trailed by JoAnn Boroski

189-482, Lynn Leflelar 180-453

and Terri Rossi 189-440.



November 10 - 16, 2010 SPORTS REPORTER 3




The Billy Hardwick StoryContinued from page 1

"And on weekends, it was Friday midnight straight through

6 p.m. on Sunday. You'd bowl all night, load up on No-Doz

and coffee, then catch a few minutes rest with your hand

bleeding, your back sore, and then get back up and grind away

again."

And if Hardwick's victims ever saw through his act - the

smell of a calculated sip of beer on his breath or the speech he

slurred while taking on all comers to

put on the airs of easy prey-Hardwick

always knew who to call.

"Make sure big Lenny was there so

when you go to the parking lot, you

could get to your car. It was great,"Hardwick said of his former high

school classmate-Phantom Radio's

Len Nicholson. "He's 6-foot-3 and

250 lbs., so I was safe with him

because nobody would mess with

him."

It might be true that nobody messed

with "Big Lenny" in a bowling alley

parking lot, but the guy that nobody

messed with on the lanes was Billy

Hardwick. By 1969, Hardwick would

rake in a single-season's earnings of

$64,160 ($381,659.34 in 2010 dol-

lars). Like any young dreamer, though, Hardwick had lessons

to learn and lumps to take before he found the big time.

"The first year I lost my paycheck every week bowling for

money," Hardwick recalled in 1985. "A friend used to lend me

50 cents a day to get a pack of cigarettes and a cup of coffee."

But it wasn't always just his money Hardwick had to protect

back then-sometimes, it was his life.

Out of money and desperate after blowing his dough on a

carnival game at the San Mateo County Fair, Billy struck up

some talk about bowling with the fair worker that had just

cleaned him out, telling him that he averaged a meager 145.

Hardwick's days of averaging 145 were as far behind him as

his days of getting by on $1.65 an hour by that time. But that

was for Billy to know and for the other guy to find out.

That's how it was supposed to go, at least.

"We agreed to meet at Bel Mateo for some money matches

when the fair closed at 2 a.m.," Hardwick explained years

later. "He walked in the center at exactly 2 a.m., came over to

where I was putting my shoes on and took a .45 from his jack-

et and laid it on the table. He told me, 'I just want to make sure

your average is 145.' I didn't even finish putting my shoes on.

I just got out of there as fast as I could and promised God I

would never hustle again."

Hardwick might have been a hotshot hustler by then, but in

his first year on tour he would learn that the way most hotshot

kids end up on the PBA tour is borrowing money for a trip

back home with egos held together by Band-aids. Billy

Hardwick would need a lot of Band-aids after his first foray

on tour: He went 0-17 and didn't have so much as a dime to

show for his efforts.

Don Carter told him to go home, and go home he did-but

just long enough to raise the money to go back out there and

do it all over again, that is.

"When he got back home, we asked him what he was going

to do," says Nicholson, "and he said 'I'm going to go back out

there next year and beat them all.' We all told him he was

nuts."

And maybe he was. After all, this was the Billy Hardwick

who, as one Bowlers Journal story put it, "throws the ball likehe's falling out of a tree."

Hardwick slid and hopped his way to the foul line like a

doomed plane coming in for an emergency landing, hunching

over at the line to deliver a full roller that spliced his target

like a thread through a needle.

"When they watched me bowl for the first time they wanted

to bowl me for a living," Hardwick recalled of his first days

on tour in 1961. "I was the worst they had ever seen."

"He had more ways of getting to the foul line than U.S. Air,"

Nicholson recalls, "but he was accurate as hell."

Today, those who doubted Hardwick in 1962 know that they

were the nuts and he was the star. But in the 1970s,

Hardwick's star had vanished

into the night sky of his despair,

and the spectacle was as painful

to watch as it was to read about.

"Even the veterans, who saw

him when he was at the top of his form, thought he was just

marking time, hanging on to

past glories and hoping for just

one more moment in the spot-

light," Jim Dressell wrote in a

1976 story for Bowlers Journal.

But somebody else remem-

bered Billy Hardwick "at the top

of his form," too-someone by

the name of Billy Hardwick.

Seven years of losing was

enough to remind Hardwick

what it felt like to strike out in

33 of his first 36 at bats on the Hillside High baseball team in

San Mateo-and to become the team's most valuable player the

following year.

"I was so obsessed with beating my high school friends that

nothing else mattered," Hardwick recalled years later. "I just

couldn't stand having them beat me."

It was enough to remind him of his ride back home after that

17th week on tour in 1962,

broke and beaten down-only

to come back the following

season as the PBA Player of

the Year.

Now he had one more

memory to make, one more

dark hole to climb out of just

when everybody else

thought he had fallen for

good.

"Then in 1976, it finally

hit me that I had been on the

verge of being the best

bowler of all time, or at least

considered for it, and here I

was blowing it," Hardwick

said in 1979

Winning always was easy

for Billy Hardwick. All he

ever had to do was decide to do it. Sure, there was work and

hassle in the meantime, guns to duck at Bel Mateo, that bed to

leave behind on the family porch for all those endless nights

of hustling, the thousands of games of practice after that rook-

ie season from hell and the doctors who told him not to bother.

But no amount of practice could do more to put him over the

top than his own raw will to "beat them all."

"He had unbelievable desire and determination," Nicholson

recalls. "It was at a level that the average guy knows nothing

about."

Hardwick found losing as unbearable in 1976 as he did all

those days he went down swinging at Hillside High; he justhadn't yet decided to win again. Then he left to catch a plane

to Toledo to bowl the 1976 PBA Monro-Matic Open at

Imperial Lanes. For the first time in seven years, he allowed

himself to feel what it was like to head for the next tour stop

without the slightest doubt that his name would be on the tro-

phy by the end of the week. He vowed to win in Toledo.

"I had never said anything like that before," Hardwick said

years later. "But I had never wanted to do anything so badly

before, either. I knew it was my tournament, and that nobody

was going to take it away from me."

He was right. Hardwick made the show in Toledo as the No.

1 seed and blasted a 236 to take his first title since those long-

gone days when he enjoyed that view from the top of the

world.

But Hardwick mentioned something else on his way to

Toledo, too.

"I'm going to make the show at the Firestone," he told his

wife before boarding the plane. "I don't care if they put sandon the lanes."

They didn't put any sand on the lanes when the Firestone

returned to Akron days after his triumph in Toledo. But what-

ever they did to the lanes that week, it didn't stop Hardwick

from doing exactly what he said he would do.

Hardwick once again was the top qualifier and opened his

title match against 21-year-old Marshall Holman by burying

three perfect strikes in a row.

"Three in a row for Billy Hardwick in this final match!"

exclaimed Chris Schenkel, the man after whom Hardwick

named his son, Chris Hardwick.

"It's almost unbelievable, the control and accuracy of

Hardwick," Bo Burton added. "The three strikes he's gotten so

far are perfect, packed strikes."

As Hardwick sat and blew on his sore thumb while Holman

bowled, he leered at the pins from under his brow like an

angry gunslinger staring down his enemy in some spaghetti

western, unsmiling and determined.

"His focus and concentration were unreal," Nicholson says.

"When he got into that zone, the other guys would recognize

it and say, 'Well, I guess we are playing

for second place again this week.'"

But the man who became the youngest

bowler to win a PBA title in 1963 would

fall that day to the man who would

become the youngest bowler to win the

Firestone in 1976, as Holman edged

Hardwick by a margin of just five pins,

203-198.

And that, as it turned out, was about

the last the PBA would see of the boy

with the golden claw.

"After the Firestone, it wasn't impor-

tant to me anymore," Hardwick said

three years later. "Maybe that's why I've

always felt that the Firestone was the

last tournament I really bowled in. Sure,

I bowled on the '77 winter tour, but it

was more promotional than anything

else."

In the town of Bradenton, Fla., that Hardwick calls home

today, a lot of things no longer seem important. Hardwick has-

n't thrown a bowling ball in nearly 30 years; that urge he had

to be the best in the world is eclipsed these days by an urge to

enjoy life, and he has found in his third wife, Rebecca, a

woman whom he describes as his "best friend."

A 2007 Bowlers Journal story found a barefoot Hardwick

sipping wine at the beach, sporting a suit and bowtie with a

medal dangling from his hand that read "Here's To Me, From

Me."

"Peaks and valleys, that is what life is all about," Hardwick

said at the time. "I went through a three-and-a-half year periodwhen my oldest son and youngest son both died, and I can't

tell you one thing in between the day I turned 30 and the day

I turned 40. Self-pity was my best friend. Now, I wake up with

a smile on my face."




AT STELTON Mike Bizarro 736 PISCATAWAY, NJ – Mike Bizarro

rolled 204-235-297-736 in the

South Planfield Mix League.

In the Mixed Triples League Jeff

Montgomery hit 240.

Keith Urquhart 722PISCATAWAY, NJ – Keith

Urquhart paced the scoring in the

Wednesday AT&T League firing

games of 195-279-248 for a high

series of 722.

Abdul Jami hit 268 followed by

Daniel Nagy rolling 265, and

Mark Grossman 258.

Mark Davis 693PISCATAWAY, NJ – Mark Davis

rolled 242-224-227-693 in the

He’s and She’s League.




Nine-year-old Kyle Sanzo Paced

North Arlington BantamsBy Vince Albrecht

North Arlington, NJ 10/01/10 – The three youngest of the Bantam twelve

and under group took center stage this week in North Arlington’s Adult-

Junior doubles action, leading their respective teams to victory. Nine-year-

old Kyle Sanzo’s 160 was the evening’s highest over average score as G-

Force took three games from Awesome II.

The league’s youngest bowler, eight-year-old Tara Horniacek, came

through with an eye-opening 151 to lead 4 T’s Laneside #2 to a sweep of

the “A Girls” while her ten-year-old sister Taylor sparkled with three over

average games, topping out at 163 as her 4 T’s Laneside #1 duo scooted

past the Bottlecaps, 5-2.

Among the older juniors, sixteen-year-old Bobby Manella finished

strong with 164-196 as 18 And A Half held onto first place, turning back

the Mega Monkeys, 5-2 despite three better than average games from thir-

teen-year-old Sam Passaro. “Those Guys” jumped into a share of the top

by snatching all seven points from the G & G entry as fourteen-year-old

Danny Bivin rolled 175-456. The Cardinals were benefited by fifteen-

year-old Will Blanco’s 217-581 in taking four points from the Unknowns.

Youth above average marks included: were: Kyle Sanzo +63, Tara

Horniacek +54, Bobby Manella +50, Taylor Horniacek +42, Danny Bivin

+38, Sam Passaro +25, Chris McBride +11 and Will Blanco +10.

HOWELL, NJ - Rich Conti and

Michael Conti took home the win-

ner’s purse of $650.00 in the

eleventh annual Monmouth County

Bowling Association (MCBA)

Over/Under Handicap Doubles

Tournament held at Howell Lanes

on October 17th.

They are the first repeat winners

in the history of this tournament,

having won the title in 2008 when it

was contested at Knob Hill Country

Lanes.

Jeff Berkowitz and Joe Horvath

garnered $ 350 for their second

place finish.

The third place team was Rocco

Mayo and William Clark winning a

prize of $200 followed by fourth

place Vince Cariello and Jordan

Marangelli a purse worth $100 and

Herb Kaufman and Michele

Burstein took fifth place also win-

ning a prize of $100 for their

efforts.

The tournament floored 24 teams

with five teams advancing to the

finals. The top qualifier was Team

Conti with a total gross of 2477 for

the five games, enabling them to

receive two byes and be seeded into

the final match. Berkowitz/Horvath

qualified second and won two semi-

final matches to advance.

Dave Rodriguez 844At Hi-Tor Lanes

WAYNE, NJ- Dave Rodriguez had

high series rolling an impressive

844 set while contesting in the

Boyz Nite Out Leauge at Hi-Tor

Lanes.

Alex Rodriguez hit 269-720,

Stephen Lee 771, TImotny

McAleese 763, Paul Lupica 286,

and Andrew Peterson 290.

Brian Lash Topped

Ocean Juniors

LAKEWOOD, NJ – Brian Lashrolled 172, Kamerin Peters 157,

Misty Downs 245, Paige Peters

and Jilian Stuart 142, Heather

Lago 137, Birano Corrie 136,

Patirkc Brown 126, and Katie

Seyr 123 in the Saturday Pin

Hitters League at Ocean Lanes.

In another session Brian Lash

shot 167, Jillian Stuart 150,

Michael Guzman 147, Sean

Sampson 146, Kamerin Peters

136, Katie Seyr 130, Mikayla lane

129, and Patrick Brown and

Heather Lago 123.

Rich Conti, Michael ContiWin Monmouth County BA Event

Runner-up team Joe Horvath-Jeff Berkowitz, left, Monmouth

County President Bob Hodges, with the winning team Rich and

Michael Conti, and tournament manager Lou Colucci.

Frank Leo 756 at Carolier NO. BRUNSWICK, NJ- Frank Leo led the scoring in the Middlesex

County Major League at Zone Carolier Lanes firing games of 258-231-

267 for a high series of 756.

Bill Paley hit 279-264-206-749, Rudy Johnson 247-258-238-743, Bill

Bleacher 255-286-730, and Keith Beeh 248-255-202-705.




Brian Ziesig, Ken Savarese Win LIGBT TitlesEAST MEADOW, NY: Winning

his second scratch LIGBT title and

the $1,000 top prize was Brian

Ziesig of Levittown, NY. Earning

his first handicap trophy, and its

$500 top prize, was Ken Savarese

of W. Hempstead, NY. Amazingly,

both champions barely made the

finals as they were the cut score.

The scratch event was a four

game qualifier bowled on the PBA

Chameleon Pattern and Joe

Costanzo, Bethpage, NY dominat-

ed the field in qualifying by aver-

aging 252. But to make the finals

it only took a 220 average. Andy

Ippolito of Forest Hills, NY wasthe senior leader with an 811

series.

The finals saw Amanda Beck,

Patchogue, NY, a top women

bowler, Anthony Pepe, Queens,

NY, one of the best lefties on the

east coast, Brian Ziesig a PBA

Champion, and Joe Costanzo a

highly rated Long Island bowler.

In the final shootout Brian Ziesig

had an early 20 pin lead and never

relinquished it. When the dust set-

tled Ziesig won his second LIGBT

title with a 242 game and second

place went to Pepe who earned

$500 for his 214 game. Costanzo

took home third with a 211 andearned $300 while Amanda Beck

earned $200 for her fourth place

finish posting a 169 game.

The handicap event had a unique

finish to its qualifying with a hus-

band and wife finishing first and

second; Pat and Christine Loliscio

of Stony Brook, NY took the top 2

qualifying positions with a 720

and 713 respectively. To make the

handicap finals it took a 683 series

and that spot was amazingly taken

by the eventual champion Ken

Savarese.

Savarese a LIGBT regular shot

a 182 scratch, 236 with handicap,

to secure the $500 top prize and

his first title. Finishing second was

Damon Gizzi of St. James, NY

with a 207 worth $300 and third

place went to Pat Loliscio who

rolled a 200 and took home $200.




Sean Williams 766 HOPELAWN, NJ - Sean Williams

topped the Sunday Nite Mixed

League tossing 267-222-277 for a

high 766 set.

Elio Carrasco hit 231-211-215-

657, John Delgado 257-624, and

Carole Lopez 208.

Wayne Bebert 733HOPELAWN, NJ – Wayne Bebert

led the scoring in the Avenel Youth

League firing games of 223-231-


Jason Ciszewski hit 223-211-211-

645, and Channel Newton 218.In the Friends & Family League

Mike Conte hit 266-232-226-724.

Krista Cutler 731HOPELAWN, NJ - Krista Cutler

topped the scoring in the Atlantic

City Trios League firing games of

244-255 for a high series of 731.

John Leo shot 221-235-210-666,

Ralph Doerfler 204-205-228-637,

and Mike Vicidomini 236-213-

626.

John Syslo 677 HOPELAWN, NJ – In the

Thursday Mixed Nuts League

John Syslo shot 225-263-677,

Mike Kennelly 226, Steve Baum223, and Barbara Aker 183.

Dorien Soto 718HOPELAWN, NJ- Dorien Soto

topped the scoring in the Thursday

Nite Mixed League pitching 213-

278-227 for a 718 top seeries.

Andrew Smith shot 234-246-227-

707, Scott Akalewicz 202-215-

233-650.

John Baginsky 695HOPELAWN, NJ- John Baginsky

led the scoring in the Gemini

Towing League firing games of

267-257-171 for a high series of

695.

Bob Stevens hit 234-255-219-678, Joe Herber 222-227-214-663,

Vinny Medvetz 206-234-635, and

Jennifer Caval 236.

In the Monday Madness League

Nick Viverito shot 236-213-647,

Dan DeBenedetto 201-212-234-

647, and Ray Mangels 203-204-

205-612.

Richard Rowley 693HOPELAWN, NJ- Richard

Rowley led the Garden State

Mixed League tossing 253-237-


Michael Ramer rolled 203-219-

263-685, Elio Carrasco 248-227-

667, Kenny Joback 253-236-666,and Larry Clement 257-215-646.

Linda Shafer 684HOPELAWN, NJ – Linda Shafer

topped the scoring in the His &

Hers League firing 247-238 for a

high series of 684.

Shelly Jacques shot 246-229-

667, Bonnie DeSimone 215-201-

235-651, and Michael Holoka

263-631.

John Baginsky 681HOPELAWN, NJ- John Baginsky

led the scoring in the Knights of

Columbus League firing games of

233-233-215 for a high series of

681.Mark Makwinski shot 205-236-

212-653, Jeff Nemeth 216-219-

213-648, and Joe Geis 245-210-

633.

Nick Guarneri 674HOPELAWN, NJ – Nick Guarneri

led the scoring in the Friday Nite

Mixed League firing games of


Gary McGinness shot 239-243-

664, Eric Haltli 243-228-664,

Richard Funk III 248-214-651,

and Glenn Aiello 241-201-639.

In the Merck League Gregg Farley

hit 200-216-246-662, Jake Stocki

220, and Jeff Roberts 216.

THE MAGIC AT MAJESTIC Jim Testa 727 ROCKAWAY, NJ – Jim Testa led

the scoring in the Mixed League

firing games of 279-212-236 for a

high series of 727.

Doug Cattan hit 247-227-246-

720, Don Zeiler 231-202-223-656,

and Keri May 268-227-200-695.

Ken Yokobosky 716 ROCKAWAY, NJ – Ken

Yokobosky led the scoring in the

Dave Valerius Trios League firing


series of 716.

Tyrone Waal shot 255-228-660,

and Scott Van Syckle 233-233-660.

Heriberto Matias shot 226, and

Lupe Zaragoza 222 in the Spanish

American League.

Mike Dean shot 216 in the Holy

Rollers League.

Bill Ratliff 679ROCKAWAY, NJ – Bill Ratliff led

the County Tuesday Night Mixed

League firing games of 235-232-


Charles Wilfong shot 256-205-

218-679, Danny Nykyforuk 227-

211-226-664, and Keith Garrison

256.

Ed Pico shot 244, Frank Asbaty

242, Bill Booth 236, Mike Patruno233, and Joe Kentos 231 in the

Tuesday Night Mixed League.

Jeffrey Thomas 679ROCKAWAY, NJ – Jeffrey

Thomas led the scoring in the

Foursome League firing games of


George Dakak, Jr. shot 237-212-

210-659, Travis Komar 265, Ryan

O’Neil 241, and Tina Richardson

207.

Ken Yokobosky 669ROCKAWAY, NJ – Ken

Yokobosky led the scoring in the

PBA Experience League firing


series of 669, and Noel Vega shot

212-607.

In the NorBu Lodge League John

Hearn shot 236, Charles Wright

234, and Larry Banghart 232.

In the Fri. Tri Mixed League Keri

May shot 227, and Geno McCroy

210.

John Finno 668ROCKAWAY, NJ – John Finno

paced the scoring in the Lake

Hiawatha A.C. League firing

games of 277-221 for a high series

of 668.

Sam Sapio shot 255-200-207-

662, Walt Lampmann 244-227-

661.

In the Thursday Nite MixedLeague Andrew Monka shot 244-

215-653.

ROCKAWAY ROLLERS

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