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Mike Jakubowski | PR/Media Relations

Professional Bowlers Association | 719 Second Avenue, Suite 701 | Seattle, WA 98104

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LUMBER LIQUIDATORS PBA TOUR

Event: GEICO Plastic Ball Championship

When: Wednesday-Sunday

Where: Brunswick Zone Wheat Ridge (40 lanes) in Wheat Ridge, Colo.

Purse: $180,000, winner’s share: $25,000

Television: ESPN (Live Sunday 1 p.m. ET)

Online: Xtra Frame on pba.com (Live Friday, Round of 8, 9 p.m. ET)

Last Week: John Nolen won his first Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour Title and Major is his first television appearance pocketing $60,000 in the USBC Masters at the Cashman Center in Las Vegas, Nev.



NOTE: In the GEICO Plastic Ball Championship, each of the 64 players in the main draw will be given two identical, unmarked plastic bowling balls with pancake weight blocks, branded only by the PBA 50th Anniversary logo.



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.