Professional Bowlers Association

Regional Tour Rundown
Five of the seven PBA Regions are in action this weekend, July 6-8. The East Region heads to Forest Hill, Md., for the Forest Hill Lanes Open while the Northwest Region will be in Seattle for the Skyway Park Heineken Open. The Southwest and Midwest Regions will be in Jonesboro, Ark., for the Jonesboro Open. The Central Region along with the Midwest Region seniors round out the group with the Dan Ottman Memorial Classic in Sterling Heights, Mich.

PBA Senior Tour Heads to Northern California
The PBA Senior Tour is in Brentwood, Calif., for its eighth event of the year, the PBA Senior Northern California Classic. Qualifying for the event takes place on Monday and Tuesday before five rounds of match play on Wednesday culminating with the winner taking home $8,000.

The PBA Senior Tour next heads to Reno, Nev., for the USBC Senior Masters at the National Bowling Stadium to wind up its current four-week West Coast swing.

Third GEICO PBA All-Star Shootout Hosted by Six Flags Show to Air This Weekend
Competition has wrapped up in the GEICO® PBA All-Star Shootout Hosted by Six Flags at Six Flags St. Louis in Eureka, Mo., the first outdoor PBA event since 2001.

The next group of matches in round robin group play will air Sunday, July 8 at 3 p.m. ET. Two matches from the Earl Anthony Group – Chris Barnes and Mika Koivuniemi vs. Norm Duke and Walter Ray Williams Jr. and Patrick Allen and Parker Bohn III vs. Tommy Jones and Wes Malott – will air followed by a pair of matches from the Dick Weber Group with Doug Kent and Danny Wiseman taking on Sean Rash and Pete Weber followed by Rash and Weber facing Tony Reyes and Robert Smith.

Matches will air over the next four weekends, culminating with the final round on Saturday, July 21 and re-airs on Sunday, July 22. Below is a complete list of air times.

Date		Network		Times (Shows)
Sun., July 8		ESPN		3 – 5 p.m. ET (4)
Sun., July 15		ESPN		3 – 5 p.m. ET (4 incl. one re-air)
Sat., July 21		ESPN		Noon – 2:30 p.m. ET (5 incl. one re-air)
Sun., July 22		ESPN2		3 – 5 p.m. ET (Re-air of four shows, incl. two semis and final)

PBA Women’s Tour Trials Details Announced
The PBA Women’s Tour Trials, which will award 16 exemptions for the 2007-08 PBA Women’s Series to be held in conjunction with the 2007-08 Denny’s PBA Tour season, will coincide with the U.S. Women’s Open presented by the United States Bowling Congress (USBC), August 13-18 at the National Bowling Stadium in Reno, Nev. To become eligible for one of the 16 exemptions, women will pay an additional $750 entry fee into the U.S. Women’s Open. Entry fees for the Women’s Tour Trials will be collected on-site.

The event features four days of qualifying, after which the field will be cut to the top 16 for match play, who will each be placed in one of four brackets. The four players in each bracket will appear on one of four ESPN-televised shows. The four winners of those shows will then advance to the ESPN-televised championship round.

The top 16 women who have paid the additional Women’s Tour Trials entry fee will earn exemptions for the 2007-08 PBA Women’s Series.

Those 16 women will then participate in four PBA Women’s Series events which will be held in conjunction with four Denny’s PBA Tour events throughout the 2007-08 season. The championship match of all four PBA Women’s Series events will be televised as part of the ESPN telecasts for the four Denny’s PBA Tour events in which women’s events will run concurrently.

All four events are scheduled to take place in the first half of the 2007-08 season, with air dates set as Nov. 4, Nov. 11, Nov. 18 and Dec. 2. Dates are subject to change. The winner of each event will earn $10,000 with all 16 participants earning a minimum of $1,800 each week.

Apply for the PBA Junior Membership Program Today
Applications for the PBA Junior Membership Program are currently available for junior bowlers. The program, designed to give junior bowlers ages 17 and under the opportunity to receive exclusive offers from the PBA, costs just $25 annually.

Bowlers who participate in the Junior Membership Program will receive equipment discounts from select PBA product registered companies, exclusive e-mail news bulletins from the PBA, a monthly tip from some of the top bowlers from the Denny’s PBA Tour, a free PBA Yearbook, a free month of PBA Strikepass and a PBA Junior Membership card which will enable them to gain access to the official PBA Junior Membership home page on www.pba.com that contains exclusive online contests and promotions.

The application for the PBA Junior Membership Program can be found here.

Motel 6 Roll to Riches to Re-Air
Fans who missed the first showing of Doug Kent’s win in the 2007 Motel 6 Roll to Riches will have one more opportunitie to watch the season-ending special event on ESPN2 July 10 at 11 p.m. ET.

The event will re-air as follows:

Day		Time (ET)		Network
Tuesday,		July 10 11 p.m.		ESPN2

*All times Eastern.

Birthdays

July 2
Charlie Tapp – Won the 2006 PBA Senior Decatur Open for his second career PBA Senior Tour title.

July 3
Andy Marzich – Owns six career Denny’s PBA Tour titles and was inducted into the PBA Hall of Fame in 1990.

July 6
Marv Sargent – A PBA member since 1978, still looking for first career Denny’s PBA Tour title.

July 8
Paul Colwell – A PBA Hall of Famer since 1991, owns eight career Denny’s PBA Tour titles.

This Date in Denny’s PBA Tour History

July 2

1986
Mats Karlsson of Sweden becomes the first foreign player to notch a PBA championship, defeating Dave Husted, 243-218, in the 1986 Southern California Open.

1973
Don McCune wins his second straight Tour title and fifth of the year, thumping Earl Anthony, 251-204, in the 1973 Redwood City Open.

July 4

1972
Paul Colwell claims his first Tour title by defeating Don Johnson, 234-222, in front of a hometown crowd at the 1972 Tucson Open.

July 5

1971
Don Johnson nails down his third Tour title of the 1971 season, knocking off Bobby Cooper in the 1971 Winston-Salem Open in Redwood City, Calif.

1970
Larry Laub celebrates his first PBA title with a margin of victory of 298 pins over second place Mike Durbin in the 1970 Tucson Centurion Open.

July 6

1988
After waiting 15 years for his first career Tour title, Pete McCordic wins his second in five weeks, defeating Walter Ray Williams Jr., 236-180, in the title match of the 1988 Miller Lite Challenge.

July 7

1981
Tom Baker ups his personal winning streak to three straight tournaments with a 191-178 championship win over Art Trask in the 1981 Denver Open. In the fifth round, Baker records a 300-300 tie against Peter Weber to enter the record book as a participant in the highest scoring PBA match.

1963
Wayne Zahn edges out Jim St. John by 11 pins and captures his first PBA win at the 1963 Chicago Coca-Cola PBA Open.

July 8

1987
Scott Devers hit four game-ending strikes to defeat an advancing Marc McDowell, 234-206, and win his first PBA title in the 1987 Miller Lite Challenge in Tucson, Ariz.