Bulletin Board NEWS, NOTES AND HAPPENINGS FROM THE WORLD OF BOWLING /// APRIL 2011 “ The A” Team
TEAM USA’S BARNES AND O’NEILL ARE ROLLING INTO THE FALL PAN AM GAMES
fter helping themselves to a rather piggish nine medals at the 2010 Men’s World Tenpin Champi-
onships in Munich, Bill O’Neill and Chris Barnes will be on the hunt for more precious metal as Team USA’s represen- tatives to the 2011 Pan Ameri- can Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, Oct. 24-27. The Profes-
sional Bowl- ers Tour stars earned that op- portunity following Team USA’s Pan Am Games Trials at the International Training and Research Center in late March. Eleven Team USA members bowled 32 games in eight-game blocks, competing on three International Patterns and the 2010 USBC Masters pattern. Final positions at the Pan Am Trials accounted for 60 percent of the qualifying criteria, which also awarded points based on the bowlers’ finishes in the USBC Masters (20 percent) and U.S. Open (20 percent). O’Neill led the Trials with 7,386,
Bill O’Neill
giving him a total of 100 points. Barnes finished third (7,160) at the
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Trials, but totaled 94 points, edging out Tommy Jones (92 points) for the second Pan Am Games spot. “The Pan Am Games is the Ameri-
can Zone version of the Olympics,” said Barnes, who also represented Team USA at the 1995 Pan Am Games in Argentina. “Being around the other ath- letes is special. It’s great to be a part of some- thing that’s bigger than just bowling. “And I’m
Chris Barnes
looking forward to bowling with Bill again instead of head-to-head, like we do on Tour,” added Barnes, who won Masters gold at the World Champion- ships, while O’Neill took gold in All Events. Forty-two nations will be repre-
sented at the 16th edition of the Pan Am Games, with 19 nations sending bowlers to Bowlerama Tapatico for the singles and doubles competition. Bowling will be one of 40 sports repre- sented at the 2011 Pan Am Games. Team USA’s two women representa-
tives to the 2011 Pan Am Games will be determined in May.
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