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onefrombills
02-23-2009, 06:34 PM
Pro Bowling Glance



LUMBER LIQUIDATORS PBA TOUR

Event: Etonic Marathon Open

When: Tuesday-Sunday

Where: Woodland Bowl (80 lanes) in Indianapolis, Ind.

Purse: $181,000, winner’s share: $25,000

Television: ESPN (Live Sunday 12:30 p.m. ET)

Online: Xtra Frame on pba.com (Live Friday, Final Qualifying Round, 5 p.m. ET)

Last Season: Norm Duke defeated Ryan Shafer 202-165 to win the PBA World Championship at Woodland Bowl.

Last Week: Jeff Carter won his first Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour title at the GEICO Plastic Ball Championship at Wheat Ridge, Colo. winning $25,000 and a one-year exemption for the 2009-10 season.



NOTE: The Etonic Marathon Championship is an “open field” tournament – anyone can enter – it will also be the first tournament in PBA history to require players to bowl 54 games on six different lane conditions.



PBA WOMEN’S SERIES

Next Event: The six PBA Women’s Series Champions will meet in the PBA Women’s Series Showdown presented by the USBC on ESPN Sunday April 12 from 1-3 p.m. ET.





About the PBA

The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) features the best bowlers in the world competing in National, Regional and Senior Tour events and will award over $4.3 million in prize money during the 2008-09 Lumber Liquidators PBA National Tour. The organization has more than 4,000 members spanning 13 countries, and nearly one million viewers tune-in to watch the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour every Sunday on ESPN throughout the season. PBA sponsors include Bayer, Brunswick, CLR, Denny's, Etonic, Flomax, GEICO, Go RVing, H&R Block, Lumber Liquidators, Motel 6, Pepsi-Cola and the USBC, among others. For more information on the PBA, log on to www.pba.com. This season marks the 50th Anniversary of the PBA Tour.