Update Juniors Gold!
Marshall Kent, Brittni Hamilton Claim Titles
ONCE AGAIN USBC’s Junior Gold Championships offered a sneak peek into the future of bowling’s stars. The elite national tournament was con- tested last July in Indianapolis and featured more than 1,500 USBC Youth bowlers compet- ing for $140,000 in scholarship money. Marshall Kent, 17, of
Yakima, Wash., defeated Matthew Gasn of Laurel, Md., 269-265, during the July16 competition in Indianapolis in the final game of boys’ match play. Kent finished with 10,018 for 46 games, including a 10-6 record with 20 bonus pins for wins, while Gasn finished second with 9,996 and a 9-7 record. On the girls’ side, Brittni Hamilton, 19, Webster, N.Y.,
ran away with the title, win- ning by nearly 250 pins with a total of 9,800 and a match- play record of 11-5. Addileen Pointer of Highland, Mich., finished second with 9,553 and a 9-7 record. The top four boys and top
four girls in the final stand- ings earned automatic spots on Junior Team USA 2011. Joining Kent and Gasn on the boys side was third-place finisher Chris Via of Springfield, Ohio, and fourth-place finisher Jacob Kent of Newark, N.Y. On the girls side, join-
ing Hamilton and Pointer on Junior Team USA was third- place finisher Kristie Petravich of West Palm Beach, Fla., and fourth-place finisher Kaitlin Quinn of Livonia, N.Y. The National Selection
FLAG WAVERS: Junior Team USA was represented at the World Youth Championships by (from left): Andrew Koff, Jenn Boisselle, Craig Hanson, Christine Bator, Jake Peters, Brittni Hamilton, Devin Bidwell and Kristie Petravich.
Committee selected Andrew Koff, Kyle King, Danielle McEwan and Liz Seibel to join Junior Team USA. The final roster for Junior Team USA 2011 will be determined at the 2011 USBC Team USA Trials in January.
WORLD CHAMPS Junior Team USA hit the ground running during the
World Youth Championships (WYC) in Finland in early August, nabbing five medals (two gold and three silver), second most among all teams to Korea’s 13 medals (six gold, two silver and five bronze). The 2010 World Tenpin
Bowling Association (WTBA) World Youth Championships featured more than 250 play- ers from 47 WTBA-member countries and features medal opportunities in five categories for both boys and girls — singles, doubles, team, masters and all-events. The biggest success for
the junior Americans at the premier international youth competition came in the boys’ doubles matches where partners Craig Hanson and Andrew Koff won the gold medal by defeating teammates Devin Bidwell and Jake Peters, 428-426, in the championship match nailbiter at Tali Bowl in Helsinki, Finland. The Americans’ only other
SEEING DOUBLE: Click on the play button (above left) to watch special video coverage of Craig Hanson and Andrew Koff’s gold medal Doubles victory over teammates Devin Bidwell and Jake Peters.
gold medal was won by Koff, who became the first U.S. bowler to win the all-events title in the history of the World Youth Championships. He fin- ished with an 18-game total of 4,036, an average of 224.2.
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YOUTH JUNIOR GOLD AND JUNIOR TEAM USA
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