AMLETO MONACELLI TO MAKE PBA SENIOR TOUR DEBUT IN THE VILLAGES

The 2012 PBA Senior Tour season gets underway Saturday when a capacity field of 160 50-and-older players assemble at Spanish Springs Lanes in The Villages, Fla., for the PBA Senior Sun Bowl in The Villages presented by Storm. Among the competitors will be PBA Hall of Famer Amleto Monacelli of Venezuela, who will be making his PBA Senior Tour debut.

Monacelli, a 19-time PBA Tour titlist, hit the magical age of 50 in late August of 2011, right after the 2011 Senior Tour season ended. He will have plenty of PBA Hall of Fame company in The Villages. Tom Baker, Dale Eagle, Larry Lichstein, Johnny Petraglia, Ernie Schlegel, Dave Soutar, Mark Williams and Walter Ray Williams Jr. also are in the field.

A couple of other familiar names will make their Senior Tour debuts in The Villages: four-time PBA Tour champion Bob Learn Jr. and newly-elected USBC Hall of Famer Lennie Boresch Jr.

PBA Hall of Famer and 36-time PBA Tour champion Pete Weber will become eligible on Aug. 21, exactly one week after the final event of the 2012 season.

Following The Villages, the Senior Tour heads to Winter Garden, Fla., for another sold-out event, the Don Carter Memorial Open presented by Ebonite, April 28-May 2. The tournament will be hosted by Carter Family Bowl, which is operated by Don Carter’s son Jim and his family.