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Mike Dias Wins His First PBA Title with the Senior Don Carter Open
By Jerry Schneider - PBA Media Relations In the Round of 8, Dias defeated PBA Hall of Famer and two-time
WINTER GARDEN, Fla. (April 21, 2011) – After four seasons com- Senior Tour winner Mark Williams 2-1 in a best-of-three-game
peting on the Professional Bowlers Association Senior Tour, Mike match, and then in a semifinal match defeated Williams Jr. who was
Dias of Lafayette, Colo., captured his first title by winning the PBA also last season’s Senior Rookie of the Year, 222-213, to advance to
Senior Don Carter Open at Carter Family Bowl. the championship match.
Dias defeated Tom Howison of Chillicothe, Ohio, 215-176, in the “I had a feeling the scores would be low in the final match,” said
championship match after winning five previous matches to get to the Dias who has one PBA regional tournament title to his credit. “It
final. Two of those matches were against PBA Hall of Famers Walter was going to be a matter of which one of us adjusted the quickest.
Ray Williams Jr. of Ocala, Fla., and Mark Williams of Beaumont, Texas. After the previous two matches I was actually pretty relaxed for the
“The toughest part of the whole day was definitely having to beat final so I just made the best shots I could and whatever happens,
two Hall of Famers in back-to-back matches,” said the 54-year-old happens.”
Dias who works as a software engineer for the Boeing Co. “You could PBA photo In the other semifinal match, Howison, a third-year Senior Tour
say it was a dream match against Walter Ray having to throw two New PBA Champion Mike Dias and Jim Player also looking for his first win, defeated 2009 Senior Player of
strikes to beat him.” Carter, proprietor of host center. the Year Ron Mohr of Eagle River, Alaska, 173-138.
2 SPORTS REPORTER May 4 - 10, 2011
Kevin Dorrman
Hit 300 at T-Bowl
WAYNE, NJ – Kevin Dorrman
blasted a 300 game in the Knights
of Pythias League at T-Bowl II.
Mark Duca shot 279-764, Ed
O’Neill 269-717, Sean Crapps
265, Steven Barkley and Jason
Lasser 258, and Marc Martorano
248.
Bonita Brantley
300 at Olympic
BELLEVILLE, NJ- Bonita
Brantley blasted perfect with a
300 game in the Belles/Beaux
League at Brunswick Zone
Belleville/OlympicLanes and
Alvin Spraggins posted a 254
game.
Nikki Arrigo,
13-Years-Old,
Bowler of the Week
By Vince Albrecht
NORTH ARLINGTON, NJ 01-
21-11 – There were some fine sin-
gles thrown by the younger
bowlers in Friday’s Adult-Junior
play at North Arlington. 13-year-
old Nikki Arrigo led the good
news with the evening’s high
game of 207, earning her Bowler
of the Week honors. Even though
her strong finish left Nikki with a
creditable 508 set, her team
dropped two close games to Those
Guys, which benefited from
young Danny Bivin’s 183 score.
11-year-old Taylor Horniacek
tied her season best of 190 against
the same opponent as second place
4 T’s Laneside I clipped the
Cardinals, 7-0. The Mega
Monkeys rode young Sam
Passaro’s huge over average 159
to climb back into third place by
winning three points from league-
leading 18 And A Half.
In other matches, the Bottlecaps
pulled off another upset victory,
snaring two of three from Team
Awesome II as 13-year-old Chris
McBride finished on a high note
with 191. 4 T’s Laneside II surged
to within one point of fifth place
by sweeping past G-Force, 7-0; 8-
year-old Tara Horniacek rolled
two above average games for the
victors.
The week’s junior leader-board
showed Taylor Horniacek and
Sam Passaro with +56 followed by
Chris McBride +51, Nikki Arrigo
+48 and Danny Bivin +38. Their
adult counterparts produced some
impressive numbers, not the least
of which was the pin-shattering
290-803 from southpaw Tommy
Horniacek. Joe Cauwels scored
237-692; Tim Bray 269-687, Tom
Bivin 245, Vin Albrecht 223 and
Theresa Horniacek 202.
May 4 - 10, 2011 SPORTS REPORTER 5
Dave Pfeiffer 300 at Lodi Alex Rodriguez 299 at Hi-Tor Chris Arbegast 796 at Montvale Lanes
LODI, NJ – Dave Pfeiffer murdered the maples HAVESTRAW, NY – Alex Rodriguez shot a near per-
By Larry Diebner
for a 300 game while competing in the Monday fect 299 game while rolling in the Boyz Nite Out
MONTVALE, NJ - Chris Arbegast blasted scores of 269-259-268 for a
Lodi Classic League at Lodi Lanes. league at Hi-Tor Lanes, Vicky Delle Femine rolled 244-
796 series to lead all scoring in the Thursday Nite Early Bird League at
Jennifer Deblasi hit 233-270. 292-776, Hazel Li 241-634, and Jennifer Fox posted a
Montvale Lanes.
285.
Dave Spano 246-694 and Ed Kilianski 265-680 combined to help
power Joe & Joe Restaurant to a
first place finish for the first half of
the split season. Other great shoot-
ing for the night included Tom
Fojtlin 248-729, Jim Rivers 268-
716, Jack Horan 256-703, Mike
Folchi 258-699, and Gerard
McNerney 234-690.