Three New Mexico bowlers set a new city and state record team score on the final night of the $ 23,500 Bud Trios League at Tenpins & More in Rio Rancho last Wednesday

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BOWLING UPDATEFrom Tenpins & More * Three New Mexico bowlers set a new city and state record team score on the final night of the $ 23,500 Bud Trios League at Tenpins & More in Rio Rancho last Wednesday. Between them, the two right-handers and one southpaw bowled thirty-two strikes from thirty-six deliveries. Pete Sheridan led the way with 290, Victor Napolitano 279 and anchor-man Carl Chavez 266 combined for 835, a remarkable 278.3 average. Chavez later found that their 835 was the ninth highest three-person team game recorded so far this year across the US, which includes more than one million registered league bowlers. * Isaiah Salinas, 19 and Annie Alvarado, 11, won their way in to the New Mexico squad to bowl against twelve Australian bowlers from the city of Brisbane, who will be in Rio Rancho for both the International Challenge Cup and the Youth New Mexico Open in mid-September. Salinas, a powerful two-handed player, shot 225, 221, 188 and 210 for a handicap added 960 series, while Alvarado overcame a low second game to add 145, 168 and 148 for 952. The other nine bowlers each received points for placings, with 21-year-old Robin Prioleau closing with 256, alongside 225, 208 and 199 for 932 followed by former Rams high school bowler, Tyler Grier who also finished with 256 and 910. Next were brother-and-sister, Alberto and Mia Medina, along finishing well with 254 and 222 for 906 and 902 respectively. After the qualifying tournaments are over in July, the top two point-scorers will complete the local side. The next roll-off is this Sunday, May 19 at 1pm. * Up to twelve teams of four will take to the Tenpins & More lanes on Saturday (May 18) to bowl in an email challenge match against bowlers at Keon Park Center in Melbourne, Australia. It’s the third annual contest which has been won by Rio Rancho by 23 pins per game the first year and seven pins a game in 2023.

Entries increased by almost five percent over last year in last week’s 56th annual Native American Bowling tournament at Tenpins & More.

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BOWLING UPDATE From Tenpins & More * Entries increased by almost five percent over last year in last week’s 56th annual Native American Bowling tournament at Tenpins & More. The prestige Masters titles went to two-handed Jordyn Manning of Gallup 175-161 Claudette Casaus in the women’s division, local Rusty Coffey 226-132 over Laguna Pueblo’s Larry Silva in seniors play, Brian LaBelle 226 to Andres Racon 182 in Men’s B and Matthew Vargas in a tenth frame finish 191-188 from Farmington’s defending men’s champion, Scott Ashley. Coffey enjoyed his career best all-events win, with 636 in singles, 710 in doubles and 702 in teams for 2,048 scratch and 2,201 with handicap added. Included in the 704 entries were bowlers from Arizona, South Dakota, Oklahoma and Kansas, amongst others. * Seven winners were decided Sunday in the Spring 9-pin No-Tap finals at Tenpins & More. Regular No-Tap winners, Joe LaRosa (Open) and Becky Fisher (Women’s A) were joined by five newcomers. Andrew McKinsey took Men’s A after overcoming a slow start to finish with 300 and a pair of 278’s to beat Orlando Ulibarri III by eleven pins, followed by Socorro’s Joseph Paterson. Damien Coffey won Men’s B by thirteen from Dennis Scott with Cesar Ruiz-Jimenez third 15 pins behind. Mike Fisher surprised himself with a no-tap 300 and ran off with Men’s C by 84 pins from former Cibola High School bowler, Trevor Anderson and Sunday night leaguer, Brian Peterson third. Sue Buffington made a welcome return to the lanes in Women’s B by 70 pins over Teri Paterson and Evelyn Trujillo next. Diana Conzuelo also won by a wide margin of 89 pins in Women’s C from Teresa Rincon of Bernalillo followed by Laurie Shultz. LaRosa included three 300’s in his 1,701 total, leading runner-up Guillermo Espinosa by 125 pins, followed by Tyler Grier, while Becky Fisher’s 1,430 beat out Karen Coffey and Mia Medina. * Summer short-season league got started this week with two 4-person leagues on Tuesday and Thursday night. Seventeen other leagues will commence over the next few weeks. * Calendar: Sat May 11: Youth qualifier for Australian visit at 1pm Sun May 12: Mothers bowl free open play all day 9am-10.30pm (with paying customers) Sat May 18: Email Challenge Match against teams in Melbourne, Australia at 1.30pm

20TH NEW MEXICO OPEN WILL SET NEW RECORDS

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Rio Rancho: The New Mexico Open bowling tournament will offer record prize-money of more than $ 76,000 when it’s 20th edition hits the lanes at Tenpins & More in Rio Rancho, August 16-18. Defending champion and twice runner-up, Francois Lavoie of Wichita, Kansas will be trying to join Albuquerque’s John Young as the tournament’s only two-time winner. (Young won the first two events in 2004 and 2005). First prize is also a record $ 13,500, based on 192 entries, with prize-money paid one in every four entries. Last year the field size was 211 in the 24-lane Center. In last year’s championship match, local bowler, J D Nance, who had finished runner-up to PBA Rookie-of-the-Year, Cortez Schenck the prior year, had a chance to send top-seeded Lavoie to overtime, but lost after the French-Canadian threw a clutch tenth frame double for the nod 202-194. Former PBA national tour champion, Mike Miller is preparing another testing lane pattern, evidenced in the past nineteen years with winning averages typically in the 205-215 range. Lavoie carded 210.4 in 2023. Hope for a New Mexico victory received a boost after DeeRonn Booker, the pro-shop operator at Starlight Bowling, Bar & Grill. won the USBC Masters in Las Vegas earlier this year. And of course, Nance will be back to go “one better” than the past two years. Last year’s third and fourth place finishers, Steven Novak of Louisville, Kentucky and Fero Williams from Oklahoma are also.amongst early sign-ups. High game prizes on each pair in every squad give an indication of expected output. Squad one the average winning score was 241.8, squad two 247.4, three 257.9, four 243.3 and five 254.3. Following eight-game qualifying rounds the top 32 will return Sunday for double-elimination bracket play, until only four remain – the unbeaten leader and three from the loser’s bracket – to contest the championship round. Emil Williams BowlStreamTV.com will cover three pairs of lanes from start to finish, along with score updates and predictions, while area radio station, KDSK 92.9 will provide a two-hour live remote on opening day. Tournament entry forms are available on-line at www.new-tenpinsmore.vaultsites.com under the “league” tab. e n d Please contact Steve Mackie by email at tenpins@q.com or call 505-891-4462 after 4pm MT for more details.

Numerous local bowlers captured city titles on their “home lanes” at Tenpins & More in Rio Rancho in last week’s Senior City tournament there.

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BOWLING UPDATEFrom Tenpins & More * Numerous local bowlers captured city titles on their “home lanes” at Tenpins & More in Rio Rancho in last week’s Senior City tournament there. Carl Chavez, Gary Hadley, Joe Merrick and Dana Miller-Mackie combined for a 2,845 pin-fall to win division 1 teams by 109 pins from a Bernalillo quartet. Division 2 teams went to Maria Lujan, Chuck Jones, Sandra and Ken Huff with 2,709, 39 pins higher than an Albuquerque foursome. Kimble Platz and Pat Tuitele won division 2 doubles with 1,399, 25 pins in front of second, while Greg Allen, who bowls three times a week, won singles class A in the 70-74 age category with 732, by a 40-pin margin. Other Rio Rancho bowlers to win their respective age singles included Linda Herrera 733, Carl Chavez 728, Becky Fisher 734 and Eddie Dowd 724. Platz, Fisher and Dowd also won in all-events standings, amongst 554 entries in the tournament. * Bowlers ranging in age from twelve to 25 years of age are busy fund-raising over $ 80,000 in the Australian city of Brisbane to visit New Mexico this September. While here, they’ll be sight-seeing around the state and metro area before taking to the lanes at Tenpins & More for an international “friendly” against local teams, many of whom will try to win representation through a series of tournaments starting next month through August. The first two qualifiers are scheduled Saturday May 11 then Sunday May 19, with both commencing at 1pm. Age-eligible visitors will also bowl in the Youth New Mexico Open at Tenpins & More on September 21-22. The concept for another “down-under” visit came from Joshua Kemp who was a member of the Australian squad that bowled here in 2012. * Nine of the nineteen leagues on this summer’s roster at Tenpins & More are for four and three-person teams. Every day of the week has at least one offering, set to suit every bowler’s work and life commitments. As well, summer teams can be all-female, all-male or any mix. Doubles are always popular too with a youth/adult league Thursdays at 6.30pm starting May 16. Pre-league sign-ups are encouraged as often unknown walk-in teams find the available lanes are already full. * Calendar:April 26-28: Native American TournamentMay 2-5: Spring 9-pin No-Tap finalsMay 11: Australian challenge qualifier at 1pmMay 12: Moms bowl free ALL DAY! Happy Mother’s Day!

a new “King of the Hill” crowned when Eric Vanderlip survived qualifying rounds then walked through four more rounds untouched

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—-BOWLING UPDATE From Tenpins & More * Lot of bowling action in the past weeks at Tenpins & More in Rio Rancho, including a new “King of the Hill” crowned when Eric Vanderlip survived qualifying rounds then walked through four more rounds untouched. The left-hander made the cut from 35 to 18 players in 15th place with 817/4 on the 50 foot long sport lane pattern, then added 279, 258, 223 and a closing 202-193 win over Sam Pinge to notch his first win in the series from six attempts. * This weekend, April 13 & 14, is the second and final chance for men and women senior bowlers to try and win a city title in the tournament being held at Tenpins & More. More than three hundred bowlers are signed for the conclusion in teams of four, doubles and singles events. * DeeRonn Booker, who won the United States Masters major championship last week in Las Vegas, is in Detroit, Michigan for the “World Series of Bowling” the next two weeks. Booker, who manages the Pro-Shop inside Starlight Bowling, Bar & Grill, averaged a consistent 223.4 over 19 games, the highlight being his 279/300 back-to-back to beat reigning PBA Player-of-the-Year, E.J. Tackett in an earlier round. * Carson Opela came within pins of breaking the eight-game house record in last Sunday’s Doubles Marathon at Tenpins & More. The former Rio Rancho Rams anchor-man put together a rare series with 300, 220, 243, 300, 290, 244, 223 and 243 for 2,063 total pinfall, at an average of 257.8 pins per game. His output enabled him and partner, Jon Arevalo to win with an 8-0 match-play result, assisted by Arevalo’s stout 213 average. Tom Thornhill and Peter Silva won a roll-off 382-357 over Socorro’s Will Hall and Joseph Paterson for second and third place ahead of five other duos who cashed in the full-house tournament. Thhornhill’s 228.1 average was a personal best, while Robin Prioleau 227.8, Charles Vigil 220.1 and Billy Grant 219.7 weren’t far off Opela’s blistering pace.

Jeanne and Andrew Carver won the recent Valentine’s Doubles bowling tournament with an inspired performance on the lanes at Tenpins & More in Rio Rancho.

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BOWLING UPDATEFrom Tenpins & More * Jeanne and Andrew Carver won the recent Valentine’s Doubles bowling tournament with an inspired performance on the lanes at Tenpins & More in Rio Rancho. Wife, Jeanne had above-average games of 179, 180, 170 while husband, Andrew continued his current good form that has seen him with both 300 and 299 scores in leagues this month. He shot 233, 249, 245 and 200 (927) to overtake early leaders, Andy Weston and Charles Tully by 23 pins in final standings. Weston had a 265 and Tully, a left-hander, fired 224, 219, 232 and 213 for 888. Third went to Jason Schindwolf and Andy Byer nineteen pins behind, with Schindwolf’s 244, 204, 278, 225 (951), the best series of 62 bowlers. Other prize-winners included the duos of Anne Vallejos/Becky Luco, Teri and Joseph Paterson, Josie Herson/Kyle Belnap and Alyssa and Tyler Grier. * Tenpins & More pro-shop operator, Paul Yoder won Sunday’s King of the Hill tournament in a high-scoring finish over Espanola’s Kenneth Friedrich 244-212. This contest is bowled on a testing “sport” lane condition – this one 38′ long and almost flat oil, from gutter-to-gutter. Yoder chose to line up far right of center and send the ball down the first arrow (five board). He chose wisely, as it turned out, averaging 219 over eight games, and missing a strike or spare in only five frames. Friedrich, who bowls two-handed, found his way to the final match around the third arrow with a tense tenth frame two strikes in a row to deny Eric Carriage of a championship spot, 226-223. It took 733/4, a meagre 183 average to survive the first cur from thirty to fifteen, then, in succeeding games, 197 to the top eight and 200 to the top four. Next King & Queen of the Hill is set for Sunday March 24 at 9.30am.

Arevalo set the stage with an opening seven strikes in a row for 253, while Opela closed with six strikes for 248.

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BOWLING UPDATE From Tenpins & More * Highest average teams don’t always win handicap-added bowling tournaments but one did Sunday at Tenpins & More, when Carson Opela and Jon Arevalo saved their best team game to break a three-way tie in the annual Superbowl Doubles Marathon. Arevalo set the stage with an opening seven strikes in a row for 253, while Opela closed with six strikes for 248. Even giving up 64 pins, the duo had 437 to leave Jacob Neal and Teresa Hope in second with 367, just ahead of Chris Kenworthy and Sandra Fride who had 363, after all three teams had finished with 6-2 records in earlier match-play rounds. Five teams followed, on 5-3, necessitating a tie-breaker for placings four through eight. Peter Silva and Tom Thornhill had 388, followed by Anthony Garcia and Joe Chacon 375. Then came Khesean Manning/Robin Prioleau 331, Mike and Donielle Waite 314 and Soccoro’s Will Hall and Joseph Paterson 312. The next Doubles Marathon is Scheduled for Easter Sunday evening, March 31, starting at 5.30pm. * There’s plenty of tournament action coming up, with final squads this weekend for the Valentine’s Doubles as well as Color Pin Cash on Sunday morning at 9.30am. Then another round of the King or Queen of the Hill is set for Sunday February 25, also at 9.30am.

RIO RANCHO WINS 8TH STATE HIGH SCHOOL BOWLING TITLE

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Rio Rancho Rams high school bowling squad won their eighth NMAA High School state 5-A bowling championship Saturday in the event contested by twelve schools at Tenpins & More. They beat La Cueva Bears in the three-game finale 585-514 with game scores of 213-154, 183-170 and 189-190. After the local team took a comfortable 59-pin lead in game one, the northeast heights school quickly reduced that to 18 pins with a game two opening four strikes in a row. However two open frames and a timely double by the Rams recovered the handy lead, never to be threatened again. Rio Rancho’s eight wins puts them two ahead of rivals, Cleveland who have won the “big schools” crown six times. Others to win once each include Piedra Vista, Manzano, Sandia and La Cueva who won at the Albuquerque Convention Center in 2008. Winning team members included seniors, Alex Thompson, Alberto Medina, Carson and Kylie Belnap, along with Joshua Zeigler, Mia Medina, Isaiah Lopez and Brody Humphries, who along with coaches, Dana Miller-Mackie and Don Thompson and school sponsor Malissa Thompson celebrated by signing the NMAA banner that will find pride of place at Tenpins & More this week. Artesia Bulldogs won their ninth state title beating Espanola Valley in 4-A action while East Mountain beat Sandia Prep in 1-A to 3-A at Silva Lanes on Friday. FATHER BEATS SON FOR KING CROWN Gary Gill beat his son Jacob in a tense final at Sunday’s King of the Hill tournament at Tenpins & More. Dad, Gill threw only two strikes on the touchy sport lane condition but converted seven spares from eight attempts, while his son chopped three spares (2-5, 3-6-10 and 6-10 leaves) along with six strikes to lose 171-180. In earlier “survivor series” action, it took 752 over four games to make the first cut from 25 to twelve. In the cut to six, 191 was the number then 203 by qualifying leader, Leroy Espinoza to determine the finalists as Jacob 222 and Gary 215 entered the final match. Calendar: Sat Feb 10 – Valentine’s Doubles at 9am Sun Feb 11 – Superbowl Sunday Doubles Marathon at 8am

THREE CHAMPIONS RESOLVED; YOUTH TO GO THIS SUNDAY

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(updated 1/22/24) Three winners have been named so far in the 23rd Champion of Champions bowling tournament with the youth winner to be decided this Sunday at Tenpins & More in Rio Rancho. Antonio Lopez set a new scoring pace record in winning the men’s title, averaging 245.5 over 14 games, while going 12-2 in match-play to win by more than 300 pins. Lopez, formerly of El Paso, moved to Rio Rancho a couple years ago. “He likes to practice”, said Center manager, Steve Mackie, “and it shows”, he concluded. Lopez was carding 251.3, including games of 248, 279, 247, 193, 262, 278, 285, 247, 237, 258, 289, 210 and 235 before his last game of 169, bowled with a torn thumb and ripped fingers. Soccoro’s Joseph Paterson, whose family comes up twice every week for leagues and tournaments, finished second after finishing strong with 257, 225, 239 and 233, running down Isaiah Salinas with his last two games. Salinas hung on to claim third, three pins ahead of Gil Chavez who closed with 256 for fourth then Seth Muller rounded out the prize-winners, one pin ahead of Steve Shultz. Native American League bowler, Karen Coffey threw five games, of seven, above 200 and went 6-1 to win the women’s crown over Robin Prioleau by 49 pins. Prioleau struck out with a seven-bagger to keep Marlene Analla in third place. Coffey averaged 195.2, compared to Prioleau’s 222.5 in the handicap-added final. Kenneth Friedrich performed a rare “three-peat” win in the Senior final, having won previously in both the last two events. The Espanola resident, who also comes down here twice a week, was at his best with an 8-1 record and a 236.8 average to win by 220 pins. Friedrich started quietly with 197 before adding 247, 269, 211, 257, 259, 214, 254 and 224 with his unusual (for a senior bowler) two-handed release. Chavez, the only male to make two finals finished second ahead of Larry Silva by 19 pins with fast-finishing Blaine Sparks fourth another 21 pins behind, after a 215, 235, 218 closing burst. * Apart from this Sunday’s youth final, young bowlers have plenty to look forward to over the next nine months. Upcoming is the New Mexico High Schools State Championships with 5-A schools rolling off Saturday February 3 then a new Spring Doubles League starting Wednesday February 7, both at Tenpins & More. The Junior Bowlers Tour returns here for their annual “double-header” weekend March 9 & 10, with doubles on Saturday then a singles tournament on Sunday. Qualifying rounds start in May to decide the local teams who will take on a 12-member squad from Brisbane, Australia in September. The visiting team has bowlers ranging in age from 12-25. Calendar:Sun Jan 21: Youth Champion of Champions final at 9am followed by NMAA Foundation Bowlathon at 1pm

Sunday’s Champion of Champions Final

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Sunday’s Champion of Champions Final From left, men’s winner, Antonio Lopez averaged a new tournament record 245.5 over 14 games to beat runner-up, Joseph Paterson of Soccoro by 314 in Sunday’s Champion of Champions final at Tenpins & More. He received $ 1,060 while Paterson was consoled with a check for $ 705.