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Up Front By Bob Johnson FROM I


FRUSTRATION TO HOPE


PBA Summer Series Had It All


t was called the Oklahoma’s Grand Casino Resort PBA Summer Swing, and it had a little bit of everything. Perfection. Redemption. Exhilaration. Frustration. Hope.


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Okla. — with preliminary rounds at FireLake Bowling Center and the CBS Sports Network-televised finals at the Grand Casino Event Center — the Summer Series mirrored the PBA World Series of Bowling, which seems to have found a permanent home at the South Point Casino complex in Las Vegas, in many ways.


What Shawnee may lack in glitz and glamour (it being the birthplace of actor/hunk Brad Pitt aside), it more than makes up in history and culture. The area was settled by a number of tribes (Sac, Fox, Kickapoo, Shaw- nee and Potawatomi) that had been displaced following the Civil War, and today the Citizen Potawatomi Nation operates a


EVERYTHING BOWLING, ALL THE TIME


Rash’s Bash: Sean Rash compensated for $900 in balk fines with a $10,000 bonus for bowling the 23rd televised 300 game in PBA Tour history and banked another $10,000 for winning the Wolf Open title.


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