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64-Player Match Play Bracket Pairings Set

for Port Property Management PBA Xtra Frame Maine Shootout

Live Xtra Frame coverage begins at 10 a.m. ET Tuesday from Bayside Bowl in Portland

PORTLAND, Maine (April 16, 2018) – Matchups for the Professional Bowlers Association’s Port Property Management PBA Maine Shootout, a 64-player single-elimination match play tournament, were decided by random draw at Bayside Bowl Monday, heading into the two-day best-of-three-game competition Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Maine Shootout is the first of eight PBA Tour Xtra Frame events scheduled for 2018, and it will be the final qualifying event in decided the top eight players in combined earnings from 2016 through this event who will compete in the PBA Tour Finals in May at Thunderbowl Lanes in Allen Park, Mich.

The match play eliminations begin with Tuesday’s starting field of 64 players, with winners advancing to the Round of 32 later Tuesday. Those winners will battle Wednesday in elimination rounds to determine the winner of the $10,000 first prize and a PBA Tour title, if the winner is a PBA member. All of the competition will be covered live on PBA’s exclusive online bowling channel, Xtra Frame.

Some of Tuesday’s marque opening-round matches will include: PBA Tour titlists Sean Rash of Montgomery, Ill., vs. Dick Allen of Columbia, S.C., in Bracket A; 2018 Go Bowling! PBA 60th Anniversary Classic winner Jakob Butturff of Tempe, Ariz., vs. PBA Hall of Famer Norm Duke in Bracket B; Jason Belmonte vs. Sam Cooley in a Bracket C battle of Australians; and 2016 Xtra Frame Maine Shootout champion Ryan Ciminelli of Clarence, N.Y., vs. Jason Sterner of Rockledge, Fla., plus the PBA’s all-time leading title winner, 58-year-old Walter Ray Williams Jr. vs. Sweden’s 23-year-old two-handed star, Jesper Svensson, in Bracket D.

The Bracket A and B winners will advance to the Round of 32 Tuesday at 7 p.m. while the Bracket C & D winners will bowl their second round at 8:30 p.m.

Round of 16, Round of 8, semifinal and championship rounds will be contested Wednesday, with the best-of-three-game title match scheduled for 7:30 p.m. EDT. Every match will be covered live on Xtra Frame. For subscription information, visit xtraframe.tv.

PORT PROPERTY MANAGEMENT PBA XTRA FRAME

MAINE SHOOTOUT MATCH PLAY SCHEDULE

Bayside Bowl, Portland, Maine, (all matches are best of three games, winners advance to Round of 32; losers are eliminated; all times are Eastern)

TUESDAY, APRIL 17

10 a.m. – Round of 64, Bracket A
Martin Larsen, Sweden, vs. n-Alex Aguiar, Dartmouth, Mass.

Joey Burruel, Glendale, Ariz., vs. Wes Malott, Pflugerville, Texas

n-Jimmy Clark, Hermon, N.H., vs. Bill O’Neill, Langhorne, Pa.

n-Joseph Colcord, Portland, Maine, vs. DJ Archer, Friendswood, Texas

Brad Angelo, Lockport, N.Y., vs. Kamron Doyle, Brentwood, Tenn.

Steven Black, Maricopa, Ariz., vs. Andrew Anderson, Holly, Mich.

Kyle Troup, Taylorsville, N.C., vs. Brad Miller, Maryland Heights, Mo.

Sean Rash, Montgomery, Ill., vs. Dick Allen, Columbia, S.C.

11:30 a.m. – Round of 64, Bracket B
Greg Ostrander, Freehold, N.J., vs. Tom Smallwood, Saginaw, Mich.

Matt Sanders, Indianapolis, vs. Tommy Jones, Simpsonville, S.C.

Cody Shoemaker, Hanover, Pa., vs. Andrew Cain, Phoenix

Jakob Butturff, Tempe, Ariz., vs. Norm Duke, Clermont, Fla.

John Furey, Howell, N.J., vs. n-Zachary Louten, Portland, Maine

Shota Kawazoe, Japan, vs. Francois Lavoie, Canada

Patrick Girard, Canada, vs. n-Rauno Kuusk, Portland, Maine

n-Charlie Mitchell, Portland, Maine, vs. Joe Paluszek, Bensalem, Pa.,

2:30 p.m. – Round of 64, Bracket C
Nicholas Pate, Inver Grove Heights, Minn., vs. Anthony Pepe, Elmhurst, N.Y.

Stuart Williams, England, vs. Nate Garcia, Port St. Lucie, Fla.

Josh Blanchard, Mesa, Ariz., vs. Dom Barrett, England

Francois Louw, South Africa, vs. AJ Johnson, Oswego, Ill.

EJ Tackett, Huntington, Ind., vs. Tom Daugherty, Riverview, Fla.

Sam Cooley, Australia, vs. Jason Belmonte, Australia

Michael Klosin, Windham, N.H., vs. Anthony Simonsen, Austin, Texas

Yannaphon Larpapharat, Thailand, vs. Andres Gomez, Colombia

4 p.m. – Round of 64, Bracket D
Ryan Ciminelli, Clarence, N.Y. vs. Jason Sterner, Rockledge, Fla.

BJ Moore, Greensburg, Pa., vs. Matt O’Grady, Rahway, N.J.

Ronnie Russell, Marion, Ind., vs. Thomas Larsen, Denmark

Charlie Brown Jr, Grandville, Mich., vs. Michael Markis, Tafton, Pa.

Marshall Kent, Yakima, Wash., vs. Chris Barnes, Double Oak, Texas

Walter Ray Williams Jr., Oxford, Fla., vs. Jesper Svensson, Sweden

n-Joshua Porter, Arundel, Maine, vs. Osku Palermaa, Finland

Kyle Sherman, O’Fallon, Mo., vs. Chris Loschetter, Avon, Ohio

7 p.m. – Round of 32, Bracket A & B winners

8:30 p.m. – Round of 32, Bracket C & D winners

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18

11 a.m. – Round of 16 best-of-three-game single elimination matches

2 p.m. – Round of 8 best-of-three-game single elimination matches

6 p.m. – Semifinal round best-of-three-game single elimination matches

7:30 p.m. – Championship match, best of three games

n-denotes non-member

About the PBA

In 2018 the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) celebrates its 60th anniversary. The PBA is an organization of more than 3,000 of the best bowlers from 27 countries who compete in Go Bowling! PBA Tour, PBA International Tour, PBA Regional Tour, PBA Women’s Regional and PBA50 Tour events. The 2018 season also marks the 59th consecutive year of nationally-televised competition, reaching bowling fans around the world who follow PBA activities through the PBA Network which includes Xtra Frame, the PBA’s exclusive online bowling channel, ESPN and CBS Sports Network, and the PBA on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. PBA sponsors include Barbasol, Brunswick, Ebonite International, GEICO, GoBowling.com, HotelPlanner.com, MOTIV, 900 Global, PBA Bowling Challenge Mobile Game, Storm Products and the United States Bowling Congress, among others. For more information, log on to www.pba.com

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