The California State Masters Scratch Tournament is open to all CALIFORNIA USBC members (male and female, youth and adult) certified through the California USBC. This is a premiere elite event, where the high average bowlers, both amateur and professional compete for a state title. The champion also receives a paid entry into the National USBC Masters event, one of the majors in the professional circuit plus berths into the following two years Masters Finals. Anyone interested in sponsoring this event? Please contact the tournament director for more information.

September 10-12, 2010

$30,000 Guaranteed from California USBC Association

Congratulations
Dave Wodka

Mike Lucas, Josh Blanchard, Dave Wodka and Larry Peppers

After clenching both the Singles Scratch and the All-Events Scratch first place honors in the 2010 California USBC Open Championships that was held in Bakersfield this past summer, it was no surprise that when Dave Wodka of Chatsworth, returned to bowl the State Masters at AMF Southwest Lanes, the weekend of September 11-12, that he was going to be the man to beat!

64 finalists, 32 qualified through the Open Championships at Regency Lanes using their Singles/Doubles scores, 29 coming from the Last Chance qualifier and three seeded positions for the past two years champions and the 2010 All-Events Scratch champion, started the double elimination (best 3 game series) finals Saturday morning at 9am. After eight grueling rounds of competition, the final top eight bowlers emerged with competition resuming Sunday morning at 9am. Marvin Hale, Roswell; Chris Murray, San Jose; Ron Case, Oakley; Wayne Garber, Modesto; Josh Blanchard; Rancho Cucamonga; Dave Wodka, Chatsworth; Rick Meneley, Santa Maria; and Jeff Frankos, Daly City were now looking forward to the $3,000 guaranteed first place prize. In the second round on Sunday, Dave Wodka bowled the highest series of the weekend (266-258-280 = 804), earning a bonus $100 award plus an additional $100 honor score award. Hale and Frankos finished 7-8th earning $750 each and Murray and Meneley finished out 5-6th earning $850 each.

And then there were four… Ron Case, Wayne Garber, Josh Blanchard and Dave Wodka. Case finished in fourth place earning $1,000 and Garber finished third earning $1,500. Dave Wodka remained undefeated and met Josh Blanchard in the championship match. Wodka and Blanchard both looked strong going into this final match and Wodka had the security of keeping one loss in his pocket to force another match. The first game Wodka was down -32 as Blanchard won 267-235. The second game started out with the two of them dead even until the fourth frame where Wodka started a string of eight strikes defeating Blanchard 269-239. This had Wodka starting the third game down just two pins. Blanchard stuck a 7-10 split in the fourth frame, while Wodka stayed steady and won 236-203. Wodka earned a check for $3,000 plus a free entry into the 2011 USBC Masters event ($450) and berths into the next two State Masters ($3,950 value). Josh Blanchard received a check for $2,000 for his second place finish.

The State Masters event had 96 total entries. Friday night’s Last Chance qualifier drew 35 of those entries. Will Wilson of Anaheim was the high qualifier from the Last Chance squad and Rodolfo Corona of Tijuana had the high game of 290, each earning a $100 bonus award. Rick Meneley of Santa Maria shot the only 300 of the tournament earning a $100 bonus award plus an additional $100 honor score award and Sam Carter of Ben Lomond shot a 299 – both shot during Saturday’s competition. Johnnie Englehart also received a $100 bonus award for being the high qualifier through the Open Championships qualifier.

The California USBC Association guaranteed a prize fund of $30,000 for this event paying 64 places. The board approved the payout last September in the last ditch efforts of preserving this long time historical event. The CUSBC tournament committee will be discussing the future of this event and will make announcements later this year. For more information, please email us at matt@calusbc.com or call 818-292-5001. Thank you to those that participated. We appreciate your support to the CUSBC events proving that the “Best Bowlers Come from California!”

 

 
For more information, contact:
Matt Cormack
matt@calusbc.com

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TOURNAMENT FORMAT:

Qualifying: Use your Open Championships scratch Doubles/Singles event scores or bowl in the Last Chance squad for seeded berths in the finals.

Finals: The competition in the finals will be match play double elimination format. Each match will be 3 game sets with total pins determining the winner.