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Pro Bowling Glance

LUMBER LIQUIDATORS PBA TOUR
Event: Go RVing Match Play Championship
When: Wednesday-Sunday
Where: Norwich Bowling and Entertainment Center (32 lanes) in Norwich, Conn.
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, 7 p.m. ET, Live Saturday Semifinals 6 p.m. ET)
Last Season: 2007-08 PBA Rookie of the Year Rhino Page beat Jack Jurek 244-220 to capture his first Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour title at the Go Rving Classic at Norwich Bowling and Entertainment Center.
Last Event: Chris Barnes won $25,000, his first title of the 2008-09 season and his 11th career Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour title at the Don Johnson Buckeye State Eliminator at Sequoia Pro Bowl in Columbus, Ohio on March 8.

NOTE: The Go RVing Match Play Championship features “best of seven” elimination matches in bracketed Rounds of 64, 32, 16 and 8. In all rounds the lanes will be dressed with the Chameleon pattern on the left lane and the Cheetah pattern on the right lane. The format for the semifinals on Saturday and the Sunday ESPN televised finals will be three-game total pins matches.

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.