The 32 pros that move on in the PBA50 National Championship at Spanish Springs Lanes were decided Friday.
The qualifiers were determined after 18 games of qualifying over the past three days.
For the most part, most of the bigger names made the cut, but there were a few that surprisingly missed the cut.
Clermont’s Norm Duke led the qualifiers with a score of +469 based on a par of 200.
Pete Weber, who led the pack after two days of qualifying, was just one pin back with a score of +468 and Michael Haugen, Jr. was third at +459.
The top four qualifiers were separated by just 11 pins.
Former Major League All-Star pitcher John Burkett checked in with a fourth-place finish at +458.
Local favorite George Gomez was fifth at +440. He was followed by PBA Hall of Famer Ron Mohr in sixth at +426.
Other big-names making the cut were Joe Scarborough, who rolled a 900 series in a PBA event in The Villages, Oxford’s Walter Ray Williams, Jr., two-time PBA champion in The Villages Lennie Boresch, Jr., Parker Bohn III, 71-year-old Johnny Petraglia and Clermont’s Doug Becker.
Don Breeden was the 32nd qualifier with a score of+216.
Brian LeClair was 33rd with a score of +213.
Among notables who missed the cut were Bob Learn, Jr., who missed by just five pins, Amleto Monacelli and Harry Sullins.
Saturday marks the final day of the event.
Action begins at 9 a.m. with eight games of modified match-play involving the top 32, followed at 2 p.m. by the top 16 rolling eight game of modified match-play.
The final five advance to a step-ladder-finals at 6:45 p.m.
FINAL 32
1 – Norm Duke +469
2 – Pete Weber +468
3 – Michael Haugen, Jr. +459
4 – John Burkett +458
5 – George Gomez +440
6 – Ron Mohr +426
7 – Gary Faulkner +394
8 – Henry Dawson +364
9 – Rolando Sebelen +353
10 – Mark Sullivan +349
11 – Mark Williams +345
12 – Joe Scarborough +336
13 – Bo Goergen +332
14 – John Conroy +328
15 – Lennie Boresch, Jr. +325
16 – Rich Garner +313
17 – Dennis Rakauskas +307
18 – Sam Maccorone +302
19 – Walter Ray Williams, Jr. +299
20 – Don Herrington +298
21 – Parker Bohn III +293
22 – Gary Alstott +286
23 – Christopher Keane +284
24 – Brian Kretzer +274
25 – Eddie Graham +270
26 – Ricky Schissler +246
27 – Doug Becker +243
28 – Bob Kelly +242
29 – Dave Sill +235
30 – John Petraglia +226
31 – Bryan Goebel +226
32 – Don Breeden +216
