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09-09-2009, 12:11 AM
8/24/2009
ARLINGTON, Texas - Sectional and national finals sites have been determined for the 2010 United States Bowling Congress Intercollegiate Team Championships.
This year's sectional competitions will be held March 13-14 in the following locations: South Point Hotel, Casino and Spa, Las Vegas; Holiday Bowl Brainerd, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Landmark Lanes, Peoria, Ill., and AMF Parkway Lanes, Allentown, Pa.
The top four men's and top four women's teams from each sectional site will advance to the 2010 Intercollegiate Team Championships national finals, which will be held on specially-constructed lanes at the El Paso Convention and Performing Arts Center in El Paso, Texas, April 14-17.
The El Paso Convention and Performing Arts Center also will serve as the host site for the 2010 USBC Women's Championships, USBC Queens and Bowling's Clash of Champions.
This year will mark the first time the national finals have been held in an arena setting from start to finish. In 1998, Bowl-A-Vard Lanes hosted qualifying and match play before the tournament transitioned to the University of Wisconsin Field House in Madison, Wis., for the championship matches.
"It's very exciting that we'll be able to give all of these teams the opportunity to bowl in a world-class, arena setting like the El Paso Convention and Performing Arts Center," USBC Collegiate Manager Gary Brown said. "It will be a terrific venue for this year's tournament, one that competitors and fans are sure to enjoy."
Intercollegiate Team Championships competition is conducted using the Baker format, which features five bowlers combining their efforts to bowl one team game. The lead-off bowler on each team bowls frames one and six. The second bowler bowls frames two and seven, and so on down the line.
Tournament competition will start with 32 games to establish seeds. Once the seeding process is completed, teams will begin five rounds of double-elimination, best-of-seven match play.
Four teams will remain after the completion of round five. Those four teams will advance to the semifinals.
The semifinal winners will advance to the championship round, which will be a best-of-three match that is taped for television and will air nationally on ESPN2 May 5.
"The Intercollegiate Team Championships is an outstanding national championship event, and this year's competition will be made even more exciting because of the outstanding venue it will be contested in," Brown said. "We hope to see a lot of local support from the bowling fans in El Paso because watching this great competition will be something they won't soon forget."
Visit the collegiate section of bowl.com for tournament results, team rankings and all other collegiate news leading up to the 2010 Intercollegiate Team Championships.
United States Bowling Congress
The United States Bowling Congress, as the national governing body, ensures the integrity and protects the future of the sport, provides programs and services to more than two million adult and youth members and enhances the bowling experience.
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ARLINGTON, Texas - Sectional and national finals sites have been determined for the 2010 United States Bowling Congress Intercollegiate Team Championships.
This year's sectional competitions will be held March 13-14 in the following locations: South Point Hotel, Casino and Spa, Las Vegas; Holiday Bowl Brainerd, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Landmark Lanes, Peoria, Ill., and AMF Parkway Lanes, Allentown, Pa.
The top four men's and top four women's teams from each sectional site will advance to the 2010 Intercollegiate Team Championships national finals, which will be held on specially-constructed lanes at the El Paso Convention and Performing Arts Center in El Paso, Texas, April 14-17.
The El Paso Convention and Performing Arts Center also will serve as the host site for the 2010 USBC Women's Championships, USBC Queens and Bowling's Clash of Champions.
This year will mark the first time the national finals have been held in an arena setting from start to finish. In 1998, Bowl-A-Vard Lanes hosted qualifying and match play before the tournament transitioned to the University of Wisconsin Field House in Madison, Wis., for the championship matches.
"It's very exciting that we'll be able to give all of these teams the opportunity to bowl in a world-class, arena setting like the El Paso Convention and Performing Arts Center," USBC Collegiate Manager Gary Brown said. "It will be a terrific venue for this year's tournament, one that competitors and fans are sure to enjoy."
Intercollegiate Team Championships competition is conducted using the Baker format, which features five bowlers combining their efforts to bowl one team game. The lead-off bowler on each team bowls frames one and six. The second bowler bowls frames two and seven, and so on down the line.
Tournament competition will start with 32 games to establish seeds. Once the seeding process is completed, teams will begin five rounds of double-elimination, best-of-seven match play.
Four teams will remain after the completion of round five. Those four teams will advance to the semifinals.
The semifinal winners will advance to the championship round, which will be a best-of-three match that is taped for television and will air nationally on ESPN2 May 5.
"The Intercollegiate Team Championships is an outstanding national championship event, and this year's competition will be made even more exciting because of the outstanding venue it will be contested in," Brown said. "We hope to see a lot of local support from the bowling fans in El Paso because watching this great competition will be something they won't soon forget."
Visit the collegiate section of bowl.com for tournament results, team rankings and all other collegiate news leading up to the 2010 Intercollegiate Team Championships.
United States Bowling Congress
The United States Bowling Congress, as the national governing body, ensures the integrity and protects the future of the sport, provides programs and services to more than two million adult and youth members and enhances the bowling experience.
Bowl with US