Bogey Lanes in East Brookfield, MA hosted the WNECA tour on Sunday, January 6.  A total of 15 bowlers took the field this time around, and by golly, there wasn’t a single withdrawal!

Here’s a look at the top 5 qualifiers:

1. Brian Mayer – 658
2. Rich Bober – 648
3. Rich Myrick – 642
4. Korey Packard – 640
5. Scott Caddell – 618

–Notable Scores–
Jason Gauthier – 612
Steve Renaud, Sr. – 609
Dave Dupuis – 606
Steve Vadney – 602

–Whoa–
Steven Renaud, Jr. – 532

The first knockout match between Scott Caddell and Korey Packard was close the entire string.  Caddell made the 3-5-6 late in the match for a spare while Packard left himself the 5-6-10 with little to no help.  Packard was unable to convert the shot, allowing Caddell to seal up the match, 114-112.

After a ton of warm-up boxes, I took on Scott Caddell.  There was absolutely nothing to see here for 6 boxes, as we were even at 63 apiece going into the 7th. Caddell threw back to back spread eagles in the 7th and 8th, and I put a few spares together to win 141-114.

The term ‘flat as a pancake’ gets thrown around less and less these days, and that’s probably a good thing, but I was pancake-flat against Bober.  His hot start of 9-drop, spare, strike had me on the ropes from the first ball forward.  Bober cruised to an easy 129-100 win and advanced to the finals against top seed Brian Mayer.

The term ‘flat as a pancake’ gets thrown around more and more these days, and while my breakfast came with syrup, Mayer’s came with a punch in the face.  Bober put 4 marks together in the first half and Brian had so many splits I thought the automated scoreboard was going to run out of red marks.  Bober going away, 144-103.

That’s 2 out of 3 for Rich Bober, defeating Mayer both times in the finals.  He is an early favorite for bowler of the year, but there are still 3 more events.  The next WNECA pro tour event is at Canal Lanes, Sunday February 3, at 12 pm. Walk-ins are welcome for $75, we hope to see you there!