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07-08-2009, 11:05 PM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Jerry Schneider | PR/Media Relations
Professional Bowlers Association | 719 Second Avenue, Suite 701 | Seattle, WA 98104
Tel: 800.903.0930 | Fax: 206.332.9722 | jerry.schneider@pba.com<mailto:jerry.schneider@pba.com> | Jerry Schneider cell: (262) 366-2157
GEICO PBA Team Shootout Showdown Set For Sunday
With Final Four ESPN Telecasts
JACKSON, N.J. (July 8, 2009) – The GEICO PBA Team Shootout Hosted by Six Flags heads down the homestretch this Sunday when the championship rounds of the made-for-TV event air beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN. The winning team will share in a $108,000 first prize.
After week 3, Team GEICO (Chris Barnes, reigning PBA Player of the Year Wes Malott, Patrick Allen, Mika Koivuniemi, Mike Wolfe and Brad Angelo) clinched a berth in the championship round with a 5-2 match play record.
Sunday’s opening telecast will be the final round-robin match that will determine whether Team Lumber Liquidators (Parker Bohn III, Walter Ray Williams Jr., Pete Weber, Norm Duke, Steve Jaros and Mike Scroggins) or Team Bayer (Tommy Jones, Rhino Page, Michael Fagan, Bill O’Neill, Sean Rash and Jason Belmonte) will advance to the championship round to battle Team GEICO in a series of singles, doubles and Baker-style team matches.
Team Lumber Liquidators goes into the final round robin match vs. Team GEICO with a 3-4 record while Team Bayer has concluded the round robin portion of the event with a 3-5 record. Team Lumber Liquidators would advance to the championship round with a win over Team GEICO. Should Team Lumber Liquidators lose that match, thus leaving them with an identical 3-5 match play record as Team Bayer, a total pinfall tie-breaker will be used. In that instance, the team with the highest actual team pinfall over the round robin portion of the event will advance to the championship round.
Throughout the tournament, all three teams bowled on a variety of PBA lane conditioning patterns with the top two teams based on match play record advancing to the championship rounds.
Conducted outdoors on specially-constructed lanes at New Jersey’s Six Flags Great Adventure theme park, three of the best teams ever assembled competed in a Baker Scoring System format which requires five members of the team to roll two frames in one game combining for one score.
GEICO PBA Team Shootout standings (as of July 5)
Team GEICO, 5-2
Team Lumber Liquidators, 3-4
Team Bayer, 3-5
ESPN GEICO PBA Team Shootout Schedule for July 12 (all times Eastern)
1-1:30 p.m. – Show 12 (Team GEICO vs. Team Lumber Liquidators) (Shark oil pattern)
1:30-2 p.m. – Show 13 (Championship round – singles) (Cheetah oil pattern)
2–2:30 p.m. – Show 14 (Championship round – doubles) (Cheetah oil pattern)
2:30-3 p.m. – Show 15 (Championship round – Baker team) (Cheetah oil pattern)
About the PBA
The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) features the best bowlers in the world competing in National, Regional and Senior Tour events and awarded $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, Pepsi-Cola and the USBC, among others. For more information on the PBA, log on to www.pba.com
Jerry Schneider | PR/Media Relations
Professional Bowlers Association | 719 Second Avenue, Suite 701 | Seattle, WA 98104
Tel: 800.903.0930 | Fax: 206.332.9722 | jerry.schneider@pba.com<mailto:jerry.schneider@pba.com> | Jerry Schneider cell: (262) 366-2157
GEICO PBA Team Shootout Showdown Set For Sunday
With Final Four ESPN Telecasts
JACKSON, N.J. (July 8, 2009) – The GEICO PBA Team Shootout Hosted by Six Flags heads down the homestretch this Sunday when the championship rounds of the made-for-TV event air beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN. The winning team will share in a $108,000 first prize.
After week 3, Team GEICO (Chris Barnes, reigning PBA Player of the Year Wes Malott, Patrick Allen, Mika Koivuniemi, Mike Wolfe and Brad Angelo) clinched a berth in the championship round with a 5-2 match play record.
Sunday’s opening telecast will be the final round-robin match that will determine whether Team Lumber Liquidators (Parker Bohn III, Walter Ray Williams Jr., Pete Weber, Norm Duke, Steve Jaros and Mike Scroggins) or Team Bayer (Tommy Jones, Rhino Page, Michael Fagan, Bill O’Neill, Sean Rash and Jason Belmonte) will advance to the championship round to battle Team GEICO in a series of singles, doubles and Baker-style team matches.
Team Lumber Liquidators goes into the final round robin match vs. Team GEICO with a 3-4 record while Team Bayer has concluded the round robin portion of the event with a 3-5 record. Team Lumber Liquidators would advance to the championship round with a win over Team GEICO. Should Team Lumber Liquidators lose that match, thus leaving them with an identical 3-5 match play record as Team Bayer, a total pinfall tie-breaker will be used. In that instance, the team with the highest actual team pinfall over the round robin portion of the event will advance to the championship round.
Throughout the tournament, all three teams bowled on a variety of PBA lane conditioning patterns with the top two teams based on match play record advancing to the championship rounds.
Conducted outdoors on specially-constructed lanes at New Jersey’s Six Flags Great Adventure theme park, three of the best teams ever assembled competed in a Baker Scoring System format which requires five members of the team to roll two frames in one game combining for one score.
GEICO PBA Team Shootout standings (as of July 5)
Team GEICO, 5-2
Team Lumber Liquidators, 3-4
Team Bayer, 3-5
ESPN GEICO PBA Team Shootout Schedule for July 12 (all times Eastern)
1-1:30 p.m. – Show 12 (Team GEICO vs. Team Lumber Liquidators) (Shark oil pattern)
1:30-2 p.m. – Show 13 (Championship round – singles) (Cheetah oil pattern)
2–2:30 p.m. – Show 14 (Championship round – doubles) (Cheetah oil pattern)
2:30-3 p.m. – Show 15 (Championship round – Baker team) (Cheetah oil pattern)
About the PBA
The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) features the best bowlers in the world competing in National, Regional and Senior Tour events and awarded $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, Pepsi-Cola and the USBC, among others. For more information on the PBA, log on to www.pba.com