As Jeff Richgels posted on Facebook (look in first comment), Alex Aguiar of Dartmouth, MA has unofficially won Open Singles and Open Doubles (with Alex Cavangaro) at this year’s BTM (Bowling This Month) Tournament, which has been running concurrently with the USBC Open Championships at Coconut Bowl in Sparks, NV. Alex shot 739 in singles and combined with Cavagnaro for a 1,463 score in doubles. According to the posted program sheet (PDF), the lane condition was Sport-compliant (40′, 25.83mL, 1.92:1).

Update: Official final standings from this year’s BTM Tournament have been posted here.

The no-tap tournament last night had 19 entries, the most we’ve had for it recently. Ed Roberts ended up winning with an 877 (and had the no-tap 900 series alive until the 6th frame of Game 3), Sean Richard was 2nd with 857, and Stan Lewis 3rd with 832.

There will be another one soon, but not next week because of a few bowlers being in Indianapolis because their children are bowling Junior Gold.

The Senior E. Mass. Bowlers Association held its inaugural Century Doubles (sum of the ages of the bowlers on a team must be at least 100) tournament at Westgate Lanes today, with John Kirker & Todd Lathrop winning the final match, 446-335, over John Hayes Jr. & Brian Egan, as reported on the SEMBA website, which also has the other cashers (eight total).

There were 26 entries, which I believe was better than expected, and I might have been able to run some brackets if SEMBA management had known they were going to get that turnout.

The North Adams USBC Bowling Association has made results of the 2016 state tournament, recently concluded at Greylock Bowl & Golf, official, and the results can be found on their website (links to PDFs of event standings and prize list on linked page). As usual, I’ll recognize the state champions below (association represented in parentheses):

Handicap Team: Live Free or Die (Worcester County) 3,815
Scratch Team: The Bearded Beasts (North Adams) 3,583
Handicap Doubles: Jim Ferguson & Danny Khuu (Brockton) 1,639
Scratch Doubles: Buddy Wilt & Rob Young (Brockton) 1,499
Handicap Singles: Lou Rosa (Southeastern Mass.) 872
Scratch Singles: Danny Khuu (Brockton) 815
Handicap All-Events: Dan Morse (Brockton) 2,437
Scratch All-Events: Danny Khuu (Brockton) 2,347

Recognizing the team champions as individuals:

Live Free or Die: Dave Rice, Valerie Calberry, Eric Frost, John Bercier, Mike Klosin
The Bearded Beasts: Tom Mongeon, Josh Sweet, Rob Carter, Dave Rice, Scott Demarsico

As previously reported, Danny Khuu’s scratch all-events score is a new state tournament record.

If the Brockton bowlers who usually read this don’t know Dan Morse, he’s actually, as Mike Violette told me, a first-year North Bowl bowler who actually started in one of the leagues in Rhode Island and was convinced to join a league at North Bowl. Mike said Dan has really improved in his first year, already threatening honor score level at times.

Congrats to all! 🙂

With seven entries and again taking two to cash, Tina Gannon won with a 784, while Kevin Thibeault was second with a 752, edging Ralph Marple by a pin.

Senior E. Mass. Bowlers Association tournament director Eric Lam reported to me that Ed Roberts was the winner of their event today at Town Line Luxury Lanes in Malden, going undefeated (two wins and two ties) in match play for a 1,932 final pinfall. Darrell Guertin (1,896) was second, Steve Ferraro (1,843) third, and Jimmie Pritts Jr. (1,776) fourth. Cut scores were 886 (Senior) and 844 (Super Senior), with David Gordon (Senior) and Dennis Pienkowski (Super Senior) high out of the money. There were 14 entries.

The bowlers actually decided to run more than one no-tap tournament today. There were just six entries in the regularly-scheduled one, and the bowlers decided to still pay two places instead of making it winner-take-all. Ed Roberts won with an 815, while Hakim Emmanuel was second with a 775.

I couldn’t stay for the second go-around.

We knew Jim Ferguson & Danny Khuu’s 600 doubles game at the just-concluded state tournament was going to be the high doubles game in the nation, but, as the Bowl.com leaderboard currently shows, it is the only such game to have been reported so far in the nation. I did help with the reporting process, mostly making sure Jim & Danny got the appropriate USBC form.

Jim also reminded me that he and Danny won doubles in the city tournament, and he believes it’s the first time in Brockton Bowling Association history that the same pair won doubles in both the city and state tournaments in the same year, as unofficial final results are now up on the North Adams Bowling Association website (under “Handouts”).

Champlain Lanes has posted unofficial final results from the Champlain International tournament in the tournaments section of their website, and Bennett’s #1, of which Coke league bowler Brian Gaskill was a member, along with team captain Tony Bennett, Miles Coplan, Nicole Lee, and Justin Urbano, is the apparent winner in the handicap team event. Congrats Brian et al! 🙂

The Bay State Open reported on their Facebook page that Sean Richard has won their 2015-16 Bowler of the Year title, thanks to his early-season wins at Walnut Hill Bowl and Town Line Luxury Lanes, as well as finishing second in the recent regular season finale at East Providence Lanes. I should note that lefties have won both Bay State Open Bowler of the Year titles, as Bill Sheehey won the inaugural title last year.

Congrats Seany! 🙂

Neward Yee, organizer of the Children’s Miracle Network Tournament of Champions, for which in-league qualifying was going on for the last month, relayed to me that Westgate Mixed teammates Joe Chamrin and Dan Esdale won the 8th annual event yesterday, which was the first held at Westgate Lanes after being located at Boston Bowl in previous years. Chamrin and Esdale defeated Yee and Joe Chan, 429-390 (with handicap) in the final round. Twelve teams qualified, but three were no-shows.

Mr. Yee would like to thank everyone who participated, and hopes the event grows next year.

With 10 entries today, “TomTom” Hedding was the winner with an 840 series, while Kevin Thibeault was second with a 755. None of the jackpots were hit.

The Northeast Amateur Tournament, in its updated newsletter, reported Bill Briggs as the winner of the One-Ball event last Sunday at Westgate Lanes after defeating George Boudreau, 239-237 (with handicap), in the final match. The rules of the event required that the same ball be used for first ball and all spares, with re-entries allowed to change balls (but still the same ball in the re-entry squad). Bill Briggs used a Brunswick LT-48 (the re-issue) in his winning effort. Bill was just over a month removed from a Bay State Open doubles win with Tina Gannon at Westgate Lanes.

EDIT: Forgot to add the other Westgate cashers, as I usually do with tournaments at Westgate: Jim Ferguson, Mark Zimmerman, Chris Mark, Mike Litchfield (who was the defending one-ball champ), Eric Lam, Al Donato, and Danny Khuu.

The Brockton Bowling Association has posted the full results from the inaugural BBA Madness tournament on its website, including qualifying results and the full match play bracket.

As for how you can run a tournament with this format, I’m not sure how a tournament bracket can be done in Excel, but qualifying certainly can, with the wins against the field calculated with the formula COUNTIF(A1:A20,”<“&A10), with the range A1:A20 representing the field’s scores in one game and A10 representing one bowler’s score in that game. Ties against the field are similarly calculated (using = instead of <), but be sure to subtract 1 from the function’s result, as the function result will include the cell containing the bowler’s score.

The Northeast Amateur Tournament reports in its current newsletter that Coke league bowler Shawn Hagan, with his partner Jeff Fields, won the doubles event held on Mar. 20 at Town Line Luxury Lanes in Malden after defeating Tyler Scott & Matt Fredette, 1041-979 (with handicap), in the two-game final match. Good work, Shawn! 🙂

The Northeastern Open Bowling Championships, recently concluded at Yankee Lanes in Keene, NH, has posted their unofficial prize list (Word format), and Brian Egan is a presumptive scratch doubles champion with his partner, Chris Sole, and has also placed second in scratch all-events. Some other Westgate bowlers did well, notably Team Khuu (members other than Danny Khuu unknown at this time), which placed second in the scratch team event.

Congrats guys! 🙂

UPDATE: Danny Khuu told me the other members of his team were Sean Richard, Brian Egan, Jim Ferguson, and Dave Chalifoux.