Annual Tournament Results

The annual meeting of the Portage County USBC was held at Sky Lanes where the prizes for the winners of the Portage County Annual Tournament were available to the winners. Other business was conducted including setting dues for the new season (still $6), election of officers (no changes), and election of new Board members ( Don Stage).

Shawna Potteiger also announced that the Champion of Champions tournament will be postponed until next year when champions from both this year and next year will be invited.

Tournament winners:

Team, Open 1.  $1000 Daniel's Fence... Don Stage, Ashlee Bowe, Leslie Worthy, Dexter Worthy, Mike Cottrell 2.  $525  Walker's Winners 3   $450  Hanna 5 4.  $350   Mitov Builders 5.   $300   Sheetshow Team, Scratch 1.   $350   Walker's Winners 2.   $150    Mitov Builders
Team,  Handicap Women Last Minute...Jessica French, Jennie Kiss, Heidie Duke, Penny Shook, and Jane Hatch. Jessica is pictured on the right.
Doubles, Handicap Open 1.  $400    John Zarucha and Mark Zarucha 2.  $210    Daniel Martin and Michael Lougen 3.  $180    Thomas Billiter and Jeffrey Konkle 4.  $140    William Brastajn and Jeff Wiles 5.  $120    Dylan Rinella and Brandon Fleming 6.  $110    John Burkey and Shawn Bolyard 7.  $90      Tony Pasadyn and Roderic Ryan 8.  $76      Colton Riddle and John Kertis 9.  $72      Dakota Berg and Darrin Macek 10.$62      Aaron King and Scott Lohr Doubles, Scratch Open 1.  $180   Colton Riddle and John Kertis 2.  $140    Dylan Rinella and Brandon Fleming 3.  $80      Jeremie Grund and Paul Thorne 4.  $40      Dave Joseph and Greg Martha
Doubles, Handicap Women  $60        Heide Duke and Jennifer Kiss
Singles, Handicap Open 1.  $160    Sully Shaheed 2.  $130    Daniel Martin 3.  $107    Scott Lohr 4.  $97      William Brastajn 5.  $92     John Burkey 6.  $87      Jeff Wiles 7.  $82      Eric Emerson 8.  $77      Michelle Seabolt 9.  $72      James Ewell 10 $67      Thomas Billiter 11 $62      Patrick Adolph 12 $57      Gregory Daugherty 13 $47      Corey Schurko 13 $47      Thomas Butcher 15 $37      Bryan Berry 15 $37      Michael Lougen 15 $37      Darrin Macek 18 $30      Stacey Fincham Singles, Scratch Open 1.  $120    Eric Emerson 2   $90      Patrick Adolph 3.  $65      Thomas Butcher 4.  $50      Chris Osborne 5.  $45      Corey Schurko 6.  $35      John Burkey 7.  $25      Bobby Moyers 7.  $25      Brian Walker 9.  $20      Howard Moore IV
Singles, Handicap Women $25  Heidi Duke
Handicapped All-Events Open 1.  $57      Jeff Wiles 2.  $28      Bryan Berry 3.  $17.50 Daniel Martin 3.  $17.50 Brandon Fleming 5.  $12      Corey Schurko 6.  $5         Michelle Seabolt 7.  $3         Jolson French
Scratch All-Events Open 1.  $57    Colton Riddle 2.  $28    Patrick Adolph 3.  $21    Brian Walker 4.  $14    Corey Schurko 5.  $12    Ryan Roderick 6.  $5      Brandon Fleming 7.  $3      David Randazzo

Don't Forget Annual Meeting

Shawna Potteiger reminds you that the Annual Meeting of the Portage County USBC is Saturday, May 22 at 1:00 at Sky Lanes.  Winners of the various events from the Annual Tournament should be present for presentation of awards and pictures.

Annual Meeting Announced

Shawna Potteiger has announced that the Annual Meeting of the Portage County USBC will be held at Sky Lanes on May 22 at 1:00.  There are three main purposes for the meeting:

1. Presentation of the awards and prize checks from the Association Tournament.
2. Election of Board members and officers for the Portage County USBC.
3. Consideration of changes for the Association.

Youth Tournament day 2

The second and final day of the Portage County USBC Youth Tournament featured seven teams.  We found the bowlers to be polite and good sportsmen, just the kind of people we will be proud to have lead the next generation of bowlers.

20-21 Portage County Youth Team Tournament

Final Results

Youth Tournament

The kids are participating in the Portage County USBC Youth Team Tournament at Kent Lanes today and tomorrow.  They compete in four divisions by team average.  Seven teams competed today and at least seven will bowl on Sunday, April 11.  Highest team score in each division will earn scholarship money through the Smart Program. 

As you can see below each has his/her own style.

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County Tournament History

This web site has been published since 2004, and has printed names and pictures of the tournament winners since that time.  Here are the results of the annual County Tournament from the USBC BA (Men's association).  We will print results from the Women's association if we can obtain those pictures and results.

2005 Team 3257  Watts Construction Thom Butcher, Nick Butcher, Bill Bruce, Sean Berry, Paul Jarosz Doubles 1374  Al Norris, Bill Flachbart  Singles 777   Scott Lohr Scratch All Events 2062   Eugene Manhard Handicap All Events 2143  Eugene Manhard

Thom, Nick, Bill, Sean, Paul Bill Al Norris Scott Eugene

2004 Team 3384  Watts Construction Thom Butcher, Nick Butcher, Bill Bruce, Sean Berry, Paul Jarosz Doubles 1474   Nathan Shahan, Tom Sadler Singles 814  Joe Mazzola Scratch All Events 2173  Tim Popson Handicap All Events 2201 Tom Sadler

Thom, Nick, Bill, Sean, Paul Nathan, Tom Joe Tim Tom

The Portage County Tournament

Every year each of the USBC local associations in the country is charged with holding a championship tournament.  The tournament can be as simple as a singles  or team tournament, but the Portage County associations in the past have held a more robust tournament consisting of team, doubles, and singles events as well as all-events.  The tournament has always been run as a handicap tournament and the Association has tweaked the exact format by changing the handicap percentage and the average used to calculate the handicap.  In recent years the tournament committees have seen fit to provide some prizes for exceptional scratch scores and have provided a scratch all-events contest.

This year there are several new features.  First, there will be no additional fee for all-events...everybody who bowls in all three events will be eligible to win the all events championship in both the handicap and scratch division.  The champion will be the person with the highest total from team, doubles, and singles (if a person bowls more than once in any event, only the first score in that event will count in all-events). 

Second, there will be an additional Scratch division that teams, doubles, and singles can enter for an additional fee of $10 per person.  In order to enter the Scratch division you must already be entered in the handicap division.  If you enter more than one time in any event you can enter the Scratch division again by paying another fee.  You can win money in both the handicap and Scratch divisions in each event.

Third, women competitors can opt to be in either the open division or the women's division.  They can enter women's division in one event and open in another.  If they enter twice in the same event they can enter open in one squad and women in the other.  In order to win women's all-events they would have to enter Team, Doubles, and Singles in women's.  A woman could win both women's and open all-events if she bowls all three events in women's and all three in open.

Fourth,  there is a Senior division for an extra $10 fee per event.  It works just like the scratch division.  A senior (60 and up) can win money in both open and Senior division.

Jackets or other non-cash awards will not be awarded to winners in the Senior or Scratch divisions.

The tournament will be held from April 17 through April 24 at Sky Lanes in Garrettsville.  See the entry form for squad dates and times.

You can pick up entry forms at any Portage County bowling center or you can download a pdf file here.

Handicap Doubles results

It took about 5 1/2 hours but the Handicap Doubles Tournament finally crowned a pair of champions at Kent Lanes on Sunday, March 26.  The winners were Shaun Bennett and Brandon Giunto who bowl together in the Friday Night Match Play League at Spins Bowl in Kent. The duo finished in the top 7 teams from the four game qualifying round, then finished in the top spot in the four game semifinal round. Also finishing in the top three spots for the final were the team of Ron Elwood Jr and Laura Saller in the second slot and the team of Stacy Hoover with Ty Hoover in third.  In the first game of the bracket style finals, Hoover and Hoover advanced to the final match with Bennett and Guinto  where they fell by a score of 482 t0 451. Guinto and Bennett split $1000 for their good bowling. High game for the entire tournament was a 300 authored by Jeremy Grund.

Branden Giunto and Shaun Bennett look happy.

Junior-Senior Trio Tournament Results

Ed Barto, Bob Hartley, and Ron Elwood Jr. teamed up to outscore twenty-five other teams Sunday at Spins Bowl Kent in the Junior-Senior Trio Tournament.  They led after the regular three game portion of the contest, ahead of the team of Leslie Worthy, Don Stage, and Dexter Worthy Jr. by 40 pins.  Then they also beat all but one team (Doug French, Jolson French, and Jessica French) in the Baker portion to remain in first place to the end, 142 pins ahead of the second place team of Cory Flachbart, Jeremie Grund, and Bill Flachbart.

Kevin Stoffer, James Knapp, and Steve Knapp finished third, just two pins behind Flachbart-Grund-Flachbart, and eight pins ahead of Robert Stachowiak, Patrick Stachowiak, and Mike Verona.

Good Scores:

Don Stage shot 300 in the first game and finished with 738; Jeremie Grund shot 290-794;  Steve Waters went 268-279-258-795, Dexter Worthy Jr had 269-719; Carl Logsdon tossed 288-717, Jolson French hit 275-727; Alan Hoover had a 279; Bob Echenrode , 259; Harry Ilner tossed 266; and Josh Wilson started with 269.

The best Baker score was 287 by Rob Eckenrode, Rob Sample, and Steve Waters, followed 268 by Flachbart-Grund-Flachbart, 267 by French-French-French, and 260 by Heather Wolfe, Dave Reeves II, and Chuck Lewis.

Prize list:

Handicap Doubles Tournament

The Portage County USBC Handicap Doubles Tournament has been scheduled for March 28 at 2:00 at Kent Lanes.  Cost of the tournament is $90 per team when paid by 9:00 pm on Friday, March 26 or $110 if paid later.  Handicaps will be calculated on the basis of 230 scratch.  You can get entry forms at any Portage County bowling center or you can download and print one by clicking here.

2/27/21

First tournament entry form

The first tournament of the season from the Portage County USBC will be the Junior-Senior Trio Tournament to be held at Spins Bowl Kent on Sunday, March 14 at 11:00 a.m.  The cost of the tournament for early entries is $120 per team but will be $150 for entries received after 9:00 p.m. on March 12.  You can get an entry form with rules at any Portage County bowling center or you can download and print your own entry form by clicking here and download the rules here.

The Handicap Doubles Tournament will be held at Kent Lanes on Sunday, March 28 at 2:00 PM.  entry forms will be available in a few days.

The Portage County Tournament (team, doubles, and singles events) will be held on April 17 & 18 and April 24 & 24 at Sky Lanes.  Entry forms will be available later.

Youth tournament announced

Jeremie Grund, Vice President of Youth for the Portage County USBC, announced that the Youth Team Tournament will be contested on April 10-ll at Kent Lanes on South Water Street.  The tournament is open all USBC sanctioned YOUTH for the 2020-21 season.  Teams will be any four YOUTH bowlers who will bowl three games on one pair of lanes.  Entry fee will be $60 per team and winning teams will be awarded SMART Scholarships.

Grund expects teams from nearby county associations.  Spectators will be limited to one per bowler.

You can get entry forms at any Portage County bowling center or you can download and print the entry form and the rules by clicking here.  The entry form specifies how to calculate handicaps and explains the divisions to be used.

Meeting Note

At the January 17 meeting the Board discussed the advisability of holding tournaments this year.  The consensus is that since other associations are holding tournaments that we should also.  Shawna Potteiger will meet with Matt Tennant to determine dates for tournaments.  Matt has agreed to run the tournaments this year and train a replacement for his job as tournament director as he is planning to move to Florida this year.  We will announce dates in this web site as well as on our facebook page.

Amanda Kiss has taken over duties of Association Manager and is making progress learning the software that she must use to communicate with the USBC national office.  She is asking us to be patient.  Those of us who have worked with the software can attest to the fact that it is very complex and takes a while to learn.

1/20/21

Hall of Fame

1/20/21

New Association Manager

edited 1/20/21

Tournaments cancelled

On October 26 Shawna Potteiger, president of the Portage County Bowling Association announced the cancellation of all tournaments until next year citing issues dealing with the Corona Virus:

"Over the weekend, the Portage County USBC Board held an emergency meeting to discuss upcoming tournaments. Due to unexpected developments along with current Covid 19 issues in Portage County and the state of Ohio, the board voted to postpone the upcoming scheduled tournaments. The postponed tournaments consist of the Portage County Youth Tournament (November 7 & 8), the Portage County Handicap Doubles Tournament (November 21) and the Portage County Handicap Singles Tournament (November 29). The postponed tournaments along with the rest of the Portage County tournaments will be looked at again at the board’s January 17^th meeting to schedule new dates for all of them. Anyone that has paid for an entry into one of these tournaments will be contacted to receive their refund."

Handicap Singles

Matt Tennant has announced that the Handicap Singles Tournament will be held at Spins Bowl Kent on November 28 at 1:00 pm.  The entry fee is $40 ($50 if paid the day of the tournament).  You can get an entry form at any Portage County bowling center or you can download one by clicking here and download the rules here.  You will need a pdf reader to open these files...get one free here.

Handicap Doubles

The Handicap Doubles tournament is scheduled for Kent Lanes on November 21.  Entry fee is $90 per team if submitted by November 20 or $110 if submitted the day of the tournament.  You can get an entry form at any Portage County bowling center or you can download the form by clicking here and download the rules by clicking here.  You will need a pdf reader to open these files...newer versions of Firefox browser will open pdf files or you can use Adobe Reader (free).

Tournament News

1.    Youth Team Tournament is scheduled for November 7 and 8 at Kent Lanes.  Smart Scholarships will be awarded.  Entry fee is $60.  Teams will be made up of four bowlers who will bowl three games.  Get entry forms at any Portage County bowling center or download one by clicking here.  You must have a pdf reader to download this form.

2.    The Handicap Singles tournament will be held at Spins Bowl Kent on November 15.  Details and entry forms will be available later.          OOPS, The Handicap Singles date is being changed to a different date.  More to come later.

3.     The Junior-Senior Trio tournament will be held in December.  Details later.

Averages book now on line

You can now download all Portage County averages from last year by clicking the link at the left.  The traditional printed average book is only available to the bowling centers and officials to save money, but the content of the average book is available on line, including tournament history, county bowling record scores, 300 and 800 bowlers, and much more.  The uploading of all of this content is still underway, but you can download the averages right now.  Of course you can always find averages at bowl.com as before.

Information for Secretaries and others

Special Achievement

Linda Shahan reports:

Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the Portage County USBC will be held at Spins Bowl Kent on August 22 at 1:30.  The meeting was originally planned for May, but due to the Corona Virus issues, had to be postponed.  The objective of the annual meeting is to elect Board members, vote on any new issues, and present awards for the champions of the Annual Tournament.

Because of restrictions from state government we will not be serving food or drinks at this meeting.

Welcome back

Portage County bowling centers are all back in business.  They all have to abide by the new rules established by the Governor and by the county government, so we will all have to make an effort to social distance and follow the rules set in place by each bowling center, but it is really nice to get back to bowling.

Rules

USBC will not print rules booklets for bowlers this year, but you can download and read or print them out by clicking here or on the Rules link in the menu at the left.

Letter to league officers

April 3, 2020

Dear League Presidents and Secretaries,

None of us are sure just how long COVID-19 is going to put our lives on hold. With the uncertainty that is in front of us in the bowling community, we at Portage County USBC want to give you some options and procedures to follow regarding your league play.

OPTIONS:

1. Wait it out, continue your league play where it ended once the centers reopen.

    a) With this option you can either finish all the weeks that were left or finish

        using your last competitions standings have position rounds and or roll-offs based on where the league was required to stop when the centers closed.

2. End your league play at the point where it had to stop when the centers closed.

     a) With this option you would use the last weeks competition's standings to determine league winners and all other prize categories.

WITH BOTH OPTIONS league official should first contact your center to find out what your league’s obligation is in your league's contract, if you have one.  Discuss what adjustments can be made to satisfy the contract.  

Once you have checked with your center you should take a vote from your league captains or league membership. Give them their options and you must give them the opportunity to have a voice.  As league officials this is not your decision to make. According to USBC Rules a vote must be taken.  This vote can be taken via phone call or email. Email preferred so you have physical record of the vote.

You should inform your center once the decision has been made.  A request to stop the league can be initiated by any league member by contacting you.  As the league official you are then required to initiate the vote.

KEEP IN MIND the center's management is also uncertain how long the shutdown will last.  They may even make request or require your league to make adjustments to your schedule in order to accommodate summer activities.  

SHOULD YOUR LEAGUE ELECT TO STOP AT IT'S LAST COMPETITION:

You should stay in compliance with COVID-19 stay at home no contact rules. Make pay outs by check and mail either to league captains to disburse to their team members or write each league member individual checks.  A final league standing sheet and final prize list should accompany these payouts.

MAKE SURE YOU:

SEND OR EMAIL YOUR LEAGUE FINAL AVERAGES TO THE ASSOCIATION MANAGER WITHIN THE 30-days of the league’s termination. If you are not using secretary software, attached is a final average sheet with instructions included for you to fill in by hand.

ANY PORTAGE COUNTY ASSOCIATION AWARDS EARNED will be fulfilled and distributed to your league at the beginning of the 2020-21 season. (USBC and ASSOCIATION awards sheets also attached.)  USBC 300 and 800 awards will be mailed to the individual.

We all need to work together during these uncertain times.  Hopefully these guidelines help.

If you have any questions please contact, 

PCUSBC President, Shawna Potteiger, 330.978.9661 

email: shawnapotteiger@gmail.com   or

PCUSBC Association Manager, Linda Shahan, 330.678.8663

Email: shahanlinda@gmail.com

Stay safe, stay healthy.

Sincerely,

Portage County USBC 

Senior Memorial Tournament cancelled

Tournament cancelled

The final weekend of the Portage County Tournament has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.  Championships and prize money have been determined by the squads already finished.  The prize lists are printed below.  A press release from Portage County USBC president Shawna Potteiger says:

"The Portage County USBC has made the difficult decision to cancel the last weekend of the Annual Portage County Tournament.  This is due to the mandates put forth by Governor Mike Dewine due to the Coronavirus and for the safety of our association's bowlers.  The last weekend of the tournament was initially postponed and rescheduled for April 4th & 5th.  Bowlers who were scheduled to bowl the last weekend will receive refunds for those events that they did not complete.  Refunds will also be paid for all events entries that did not get completed due to one of the bowlers events being on the cancelled dates.  The prize fund for the tournament is determined  based on the number of bowlers that have already participated in the tournament.  You will be able to view the prize list on the website, BowlPortage.com.  Checks will be mailed out for for the refunds and the tournament prizes.  First place winners in both the Open and Women's Division of the Handicap Team, Handicap Doubles, Handicap Singles, All Events Scratch and All Events Handicap will be contacted to find out if they would like a Jacket or Plaque for their 1st place finish.  The jackets and plaques will be awarded to the bowlers at our Annual Meeting.  The new Annual Meeting date will be announced once it is decided subject to future Coronavirus updates.  Portage County bowlers who have shot honor scores of 300 and 800, as well as, Portage County Tournament Champions in each event in each division will receive an invitation to the Tri-County Bowling Hall of Fame Banquet to receive acknowledgement of your accomplishments. More information will follow regarding this.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at (330) 978-9661 / shawnapotteiger@gmail.com or Linda Shahan at (330) 678-8663 / shahanlinda@gmail.com.
                                                                      Thank you,
                                                                      Shawna Potteiger, President              Portage County USBC"

Prize List:

Tournament update (3/14/2020)

Shawna Potteiger, President of Portage County USBC, sent out an update about the Portage County Tournament:

            " The postponed dates for the tournament of March 14th & 15th

Attention tournament bowlers:  Tournament postponed

Portage County USBC has postponed the squads for this weekend to a date to be named later.  In an email sent to the Board of Directors Shawna Potteiger announced:

"After careful consideration of what has been going on today with Governor Dewine's announcement along with National USBC and Ohio USBC, I have made the hard decision to postpone this weekend's shifts of the county tournament and to reschedule them for a later date to be announced. We will be asking for an extension from USBC but considering the circumstances, I do not see a problem with that. I will have to find out if only those signed up for the current shifts would be able to bowl the new dates or if we could still accept walk-ins for the new dates.

Posted 3/8/2020  Latest update for the Portage County USBC Tournament

The tournament had four squads on Friday through Sunday this week.

Fred Endres bowled a perfect game while bowling in the Doubles event in our only weekday squad on Friday, March 6.  Fred finished with 705 for the day.  He and his partner Carol Pennock are currently in fifteenth place. Team Bryan Berry II remains in first place in the Team division, followed by #ThrowBackThursdays and Walkers Boys. In Doubles Ronnie Lewis with Kevin Kommel are currently in first followed by Eric Lewis with Craig Lewis, and Thomas Billiter with Jeffrey Konkle In Singles Wesley Smith, Howard Moore IV, and Brian Doshak are first, second, and third. Troy Damicone is in the lead in both Handicap and Scratch All-Events. In the Women's division Plaso Construction is still the only team, Laura Saller with Stephanie Carden lead Double, Teri Plaso leads in Singles and Scratch All-Events, and Kim Pischera leads Scratch All-Events.

Standings after week 2