Ron Mohr takes PBA Senior Northern California Classic first round lead
06/01/10
Reigning PBA Senior Tour Player of the Year Ron Mohr (pictured left) of Eagle River, Alaska, averaged 234 to take the first round lead in the PBA Senior Northern California Classic at Harvest Park Bowl Monday.
Mohr, who is trying for his fourth career title and first of 2010, rolled games of 215, 274, 233, 241, 249, 257, 216 and 190 for an eight-game total of 1,875 pins and a nine-pin lead over Harry Sullins (right) of Chesterfield Township, Mich.
Darryl Traber of Waterford, Wis., was third with 1,864 pins followed by Ken Croucher of Grants Pass, Ore., at 1,832; Ted Staikoff of Black Hawk, S.D., at 1,801, and Senior Tour rookie Walter Ray Williams Jr. of Ocala, Fla., at 1,776.
Defending champion Dale Traber of Cedarburg, Wis., was in 30th place after the first eight games.
"It seems like I have a lot of confidence here," Mohr said. "I made a good guess on a ball. I drilled one to get a little stronger reaction on the back end and it turned out to be perfect."
Mohr bowled well in qualifying during the first three Senior Tour events of the season, but he had had his problems in match play thus far.
"I can't make any excuses," he said. "I just haven't executed shots when I needed them, but last week I bowled in back-to-back regionals in Sun City and Flagstaff, Ariz., and I won both of them, so hopefully I'm past that match play hurdle."
Sullins, who is trying for his first Senior Tour title since winning the PBA Senior World Championship in Detroit last Labor Day weekend, said he made a key ball change after his third game, but his success was a matter of "keeping my tempo nice and easy, and letting the ball roll."
It hasn't been easy, he said, because just before the first tournament of the year in Dayton, Ohio, he tripped over a "Welcome" mat "and almost broke my right ankle. It's still bothering me, but you can't stop," he said. "You just wrap it up and bowl."
The entire field will bowl another eight-game qualifying round on Tuesday after which the field will be cut to the top 32 players who will advance to best-of-five match play beginning Wednesday at 8 a.m. Match play continues all day on Wednesday with the Round of 8 and championship rounds scheduled for 5 p.m. Pacific Time.
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Players with position, hometown and 8-game total
1, Ron Mohr, Eagle River, Alaska, 1,875
2, Harry Sullins, Chesterfield Township, Mich., 1,866
3, Darryl Traber, Waterford, Wis., 1,864
4, Kevin Croucher, Grants Pass, Ore., 1,832
5, Ted Staikoff, Black Hawk, S.D., 1,801
6, Walter Ray Williams Jr., Ocala, Fla., 1,776
7, Hugh Miller, Seattle, 1,765
8, Tom Baker, King, N.C., 1,764
9, Larry Galloway, Fresno, Calif., 1,753
10, Bob Brady, Santa Monica, Calif., 1,743
11, Don Sylvia, Reno, Nev., 1,735
12, Ron Garr, Ridgedale, Mo., 1,722
13, Don Blatchford, Santa Monica, Calif., 1,719
14, Kenny Parks, Hammond, Ind., 1,715
15, Dave Flemming, Fairborn, Ohio, 1,704
16, Dennis Jones, Fremont, Calif., 1,700
17, Gary Morgan, Marietta, Ga., 1,696
18, Barry Gurney, West Hills, Calif., 1,692
19, Ernie Schlegel, Vancouver, Wash., 1,689
20, (tie) Jim Knoblauch, Waukesha, Wis., and Bob Chamberlain, The Villages, Fla., 1,688
22, (tie) Michael Henry, Brunswick, Ohio, and Sammy Ventura, Syracuse, N.Y., 1,687
24, Jim Joy, San Pablo, Calif., 1,686
25, Koichiro Tamaki, Japan, 1,685
26, Mike Hastings, Millsboro, Del., 1,684
27, (tie) Henry Gonzalez, Colorado Springs, Colo., and Barry Richards, Lodi, Calif., 1,683
29, Terry Leong, Las Vegas, 1,681
30, Dale Traber, Cedarburg, Wis., 1,675
31, Junichi Yajima, Japan, 1,673
32, Harley Trumbull, New Boston, Mich., 1,672
33, J.P. Muller, Gervais, Ore, 1,663
34, Paul Danforth, Laguna Hills, Calif., 1,655
35, Stan Winters, Simi Valley, Calif., 1,654
36, Ty Dawson, Sunnyvale, Calif., 1,653
37, Ross Packard, San Jose, Calif., 1,649
38, Bob Puttick, Canada, 1,647
39, (tie) Hirotsugu Kawanishi, Japan, and Noel Vazquez, Sacramento, Calif., 1,643
41, Fred Cole, Visalia, Calif., 1,636
42, (tie) Kerry Painter, Henderson, Nev.; Don Lane, San Francisco, and Bob Kelly, Dayton, Ohio, 1,634
45, Gregory Waldon, Manhattan, Mont., 1,632
46, Rodney Bridgeman, Vallejo, Calif., 1,630
47, Jim Hageman, San Jose, Calif, 1,628
48, Frank Gallo Jr., Newport News, Va., 1,626
49, Kevin Foley, Reno, Nev., 1,622
50, Masato Hanamoto, Japan, 1,617
51, (tie) Rodney Garrick, San Francisco, and Scott Hansel, Stockton, Calif., 1,616
53, Dan Roberts, Brentwood, Calif., 1,612
54, (tie) Edward Silva, Manteca, Calif., and Chet Steengrafe, San Martin, Calif., 1,610
56, Robert Harvey, Boise, Idaho, 1,603
57, Chuck Best, Buda, Texas, 1,602
58, (tie) Gerald Calvin, Thousand Oaks, Calif., and Shannon Starnes, Fort Worth, Texas, 1,597
60, Peter Knopp, Germany, 1,593
61, Ron Profitt, Brookville, Ohio, 1,587
62, Sam Carter, BenLomond, Calif., 1,586
63, Tom Carter, Rockford, Ill., 1,585
64, (tie) Dave Bernhardt, Shelby Twp., Mich., and Mike Dias, Lafayette, Colo., 1,571
66, (tie) Dave Soutar, Bradenton, Fla., and Paul Herrera, San Jose, Calif., 1,570
68, Dale Eagle, Tavares, Fla., 1,561
69, Russ Freeman, Antioch, Ill., 1,559
70, Dave Sill, Cary, Ill., 1,555
71, Bob Neuerburg, Ceres, Calif., 1,553
72, Daniel Miner, East Moline, Ill., 1,550
73, Rohn Morton, Vancouver, Wash., 1,546
74, Mark McCreary, Livermore, Calif., 1,533
75, Roger Koplin Jr., Citrus Heights., Calif., 1,532
76, Robert Maki, Ishpeming, Mich., 1,525
77, William Shanks, Waipahu, Hawaii, 1,517
78, (tie) Bill Nichols, Roseville, Calif., and Tom Howison, Chillicothe, Ohio, 1,510
80, Leo Plaia, New Orleans, 1,508
81, Kevin Gannon, Lakewood, Calif., 1,502
82, Thomas Goodchild, Fairfield, Calif., 1,496
83, Rodney Tramp, Porterville, Calif, 1,490
84, (tie) Steve Corsaro, Tracy, Calif., and Max Shellabarger, Roy, Utah, 1,485
86, David Wilson, Reno, Nev, 1,479
87, (tie) Jim Gordin, Modesto, Calif., and Russ Lusch, Morgan Hills, Calif., 1,475
89, William Keenan Jr., Orlando, Fla., 1,473
90, John Eberhard, Reno, Nev, 1,468
91, Dave Schultz, Jackson, Wis., 1,466
92, Jerry Stern, Concord, Calif., 1,439
93, Ross Larsen, Riverside, Calif., 1,436
94, Sam Loftus, Stockton, Calif, 1,435
95, Wayne Richards, Fernley, Nev., 1,434
96, Gary Brazell, Atascapero, Calif., 1,421
97, Phil Regan, Alameda, Calif., 1,417
98, Glenn Masukawa, Henderson, Nev., 1,406
99, Pete Milkovich, Hercules, Calif., 1,400
100, Van Fenner, Reno, Nev., 1,396
101, Keith Jones, Brentwood, Calif., 1,352
102, Lauri Karppala Jr., Folsom, Ca, 1,343
103, Andy Anderson, Falls Church, Va., 1,337
104, Paul Plummer, Boise, Idaho, 1,334
105, Razor Chisolm, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1,294
2010 PBA Senior Tour #4
Harvest Park Bowl in Brentwood, Calif., United States (May 30 - June 2, 2010)
Reigning PBA Senior Tour Player of the Year Ron Mohr (pictured left) of Eagle River, Alaska, averaged 234 to take the first round lead in the PBA Senior Northern California Classic at Harvest Park Bowl Monday.Mohr, who is trying for his fourth career title and first of 2010, rolled games of 215, 274, 233, 241, 249, 257, 216 and 190 for an eight-game total of 1,875 pins and a nine-pin lead over Harry Sullins (right) of Chesterfield Township, Mich.
Darryl Traber of Waterford, Wis., was third with 1,864 pins followed by Ken Croucher of Grants Pass, Ore., at 1,832; Ted Staikoff of Black Hawk, S.D., at 1,801, and Senior Tour rookie Walter Ray Williams Jr. of Ocala, Fla., at 1,776.
Defending champion Dale Traber of Cedarburg, Wis., was in 30th place after the first eight games.
"It seems like I have a lot of confidence here," Mohr said. "I made a good guess on a ball. I drilled one to get a little stronger reaction on the back end and it turned out to be perfect."
Mohr bowled well in qualifying during the first three Senior Tour events of the season, but he had had his problems in match play thus far.
"I can't make any excuses," he said. "I just haven't executed shots when I needed them, but last week I bowled in back-to-back regionals in Sun City and Flagstaff, Ariz., and I won both of them, so hopefully I'm past that match play hurdle."
Sullins, who is trying for his first Senior Tour title since winning the PBA Senior World Championship in Detroit last Labor Day weekend, said he made a key ball change after his third game, but his success was a matter of "keeping my tempo nice and easy, and letting the ball roll."
It hasn't been easy, he said, because just before the first tournament of the year in Dayton, Ohio, he tripped over a "Welcome" mat "and almost broke my right ankle. It's still bothering me, but you can't stop," he said. "You just wrap it up and bowl."
The entire field will bowl another eight-game qualifying round on Tuesday after which the field will be cut to the top 32 players who will advance to best-of-five match play beginning Wednesday at 8 a.m. Match play continues all day on Wednesday with the Round of 8 and championship rounds scheduled for 5 p.m. Pacific Time.
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PBA Senior Northern California Classic- First Round Results
Players with position, hometown and 8-game total
1, Ron Mohr, Eagle River, Alaska, 1,875
2, Harry Sullins, Chesterfield Township, Mich., 1,866
3, Darryl Traber, Waterford, Wis., 1,864
4, Kevin Croucher, Grants Pass, Ore., 1,832
5, Ted Staikoff, Black Hawk, S.D., 1,801
6, Walter Ray Williams Jr., Ocala, Fla., 1,776
7, Hugh Miller, Seattle, 1,765
8, Tom Baker, King, N.C., 1,764
9, Larry Galloway, Fresno, Calif., 1,753
10, Bob Brady, Santa Monica, Calif., 1,743
11, Don Sylvia, Reno, Nev., 1,735
12, Ron Garr, Ridgedale, Mo., 1,722
13, Don Blatchford, Santa Monica, Calif., 1,719
14, Kenny Parks, Hammond, Ind., 1,715
15, Dave Flemming, Fairborn, Ohio, 1,704
16, Dennis Jones, Fremont, Calif., 1,700
17, Gary Morgan, Marietta, Ga., 1,696
18, Barry Gurney, West Hills, Calif., 1,692
19, Ernie Schlegel, Vancouver, Wash., 1,689
20, (tie) Jim Knoblauch, Waukesha, Wis., and Bob Chamberlain, The Villages, Fla., 1,688
22, (tie) Michael Henry, Brunswick, Ohio, and Sammy Ventura, Syracuse, N.Y., 1,687
24, Jim Joy, San Pablo, Calif., 1,686
25, Koichiro Tamaki, Japan, 1,685
26, Mike Hastings, Millsboro, Del., 1,684
27, (tie) Henry Gonzalez, Colorado Springs, Colo., and Barry Richards, Lodi, Calif., 1,683
29, Terry Leong, Las Vegas, 1,681
30, Dale Traber, Cedarburg, Wis., 1,675
31, Junichi Yajima, Japan, 1,673
32, Harley Trumbull, New Boston, Mich., 1,672
33, J.P. Muller, Gervais, Ore, 1,663
34, Paul Danforth, Laguna Hills, Calif., 1,655
35, Stan Winters, Simi Valley, Calif., 1,654
36, Ty Dawson, Sunnyvale, Calif., 1,653
37, Ross Packard, San Jose, Calif., 1,649
38, Bob Puttick, Canada, 1,647
39, (tie) Hirotsugu Kawanishi, Japan, and Noel Vazquez, Sacramento, Calif., 1,643
41, Fred Cole, Visalia, Calif., 1,636
42, (tie) Kerry Painter, Henderson, Nev.; Don Lane, San Francisco, and Bob Kelly, Dayton, Ohio, 1,634
45, Gregory Waldon, Manhattan, Mont., 1,632
46, Rodney Bridgeman, Vallejo, Calif., 1,630
47, Jim Hageman, San Jose, Calif, 1,628
48, Frank Gallo Jr., Newport News, Va., 1,626
49, Kevin Foley, Reno, Nev., 1,622
50, Masato Hanamoto, Japan, 1,617
51, (tie) Rodney Garrick, San Francisco, and Scott Hansel, Stockton, Calif., 1,616
53, Dan Roberts, Brentwood, Calif., 1,612
54, (tie) Edward Silva, Manteca, Calif., and Chet Steengrafe, San Martin, Calif., 1,610
56, Robert Harvey, Boise, Idaho, 1,603
57, Chuck Best, Buda, Texas, 1,602
58, (tie) Gerald Calvin, Thousand Oaks, Calif., and Shannon Starnes, Fort Worth, Texas, 1,597
60, Peter Knopp, Germany, 1,593
61, Ron Profitt, Brookville, Ohio, 1,587
62, Sam Carter, BenLomond, Calif., 1,586
63, Tom Carter, Rockford, Ill., 1,585
64, (tie) Dave Bernhardt, Shelby Twp., Mich., and Mike Dias, Lafayette, Colo., 1,571
66, (tie) Dave Soutar, Bradenton, Fla., and Paul Herrera, San Jose, Calif., 1,570
68, Dale Eagle, Tavares, Fla., 1,561
69, Russ Freeman, Antioch, Ill., 1,559
70, Dave Sill, Cary, Ill., 1,555
71, Bob Neuerburg, Ceres, Calif., 1,553
72, Daniel Miner, East Moline, Ill., 1,550
73, Rohn Morton, Vancouver, Wash., 1,546
74, Mark McCreary, Livermore, Calif., 1,533
75, Roger Koplin Jr., Citrus Heights., Calif., 1,532
76, Robert Maki, Ishpeming, Mich., 1,525
77, William Shanks, Waipahu, Hawaii, 1,517
78, (tie) Bill Nichols, Roseville, Calif., and Tom Howison, Chillicothe, Ohio, 1,510
80, Leo Plaia, New Orleans, 1,508
81, Kevin Gannon, Lakewood, Calif., 1,502
82, Thomas Goodchild, Fairfield, Calif., 1,496
83, Rodney Tramp, Porterville, Calif, 1,490
84, (tie) Steve Corsaro, Tracy, Calif., and Max Shellabarger, Roy, Utah, 1,485
86, David Wilson, Reno, Nev, 1,479
87, (tie) Jim Gordin, Modesto, Calif., and Russ Lusch, Morgan Hills, Calif., 1,475
89, William Keenan Jr., Orlando, Fla., 1,473
90, John Eberhard, Reno, Nev, 1,468
91, Dave Schultz, Jackson, Wis., 1,466
92, Jerry Stern, Concord, Calif., 1,439
93, Ross Larsen, Riverside, Calif., 1,436
94, Sam Loftus, Stockton, Calif, 1,435
95, Wayne Richards, Fernley, Nev., 1,434
96, Gary Brazell, Atascapero, Calif., 1,421
97, Phil Regan, Alameda, Calif., 1,417
98, Glenn Masukawa, Henderson, Nev., 1,406
99, Pete Milkovich, Hercules, Calif., 1,400
100, Van Fenner, Reno, Nev., 1,396
101, Keith Jones, Brentwood, Calif., 1,352
102, Lauri Karppala Jr., Folsom, Ca, 1,343
103, Andy Anderson, Falls Church, Va., 1,337
104, Paul Plummer, Boise, Idaho, 1,334
105, Razor Chisolm, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1,294
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