Morton/Poland/Krison Team Captures Jewel Lake Miller Trios Title

Goodwin Rolls to Singles Championship

October 18, 2010

The trios team of Doug Morton, Robert Poland, and Joey Krison, all from Anchorage, captured the team title at the 2010 Jewel Lake Miller Classic Trios October 16-17 at Jewel Lake Bowl.  In the 24-game Swiss Trios format tournament in which each round is a position round and each team member competes for points against an opposing team member, the Morton/Poland/Krison trio grabbed 90 of a possible 120 points.  Their point total bested the second-place Fairbanks team of Barry Richardson, Tod Richardson, and Neal Johnson who finished with a team total of 77.5 points.  Finishing third, just 1/2 point from second, was the team of Bob Moore, Kristen Eggleton, and Mark Eggleton.  In total, 17 teams competed in the event.

Competing on Kegel's Route 66 Challenge lane pattern, only one team averaged within 20 pins of their "house" condition average.  The third place team of Moore, Eggleton, and Eggleton led the tournament in scratch total pins, averaging 603 per game.  For a complete team standings summary, click here.

In the optional Singles event in where scores bowled during the trios competition were used to determine individual standings and culminate in a stepladder final, Anchorage's Shaun Goodwin fired a 236 game against Doug Morton's 172 in the championship match to win the event.  Goodwin, the 2009-10 GAUSBCA All-Star Team points leader, averaged 210.88 to qualify first for the five-person stepladder roll-off, averaging less than 1/2 pin per game over the second place qualifier Mark Eggleton.. The remaining stepladder finalists (in order of qualifying were) Doug Morton, James Krafft, and Steve Brown.  Number six qualifier, GAUSBCA President Andy Morton, missed the cut to the stepladder by an agonizing 14 pins.  The stepladder finals played out as follows:

    Match 1: #5 Steve Brown (201) defeated #4 James Kraft (180)

    Match 2: #3 Doug Morton (257) defeated Brown (209)

    Match 3: Morton (178) defeated #2 Mark Eggleton (172)

    Championship: #1 Shaun Goodwin (236) defeated Morton (172)

For a complete summary of the 24-game Singles standings qualifying, click here.

 Three USBC award scores were bowled during the tournament.  Doug Morton missed a perfect game by one pin, firing a 299 in the 24th game to seal a position in the stepladder.  Tim Plum just missed perfection while tossing a 298 game.  And Shaun Goodwin earned an Eleven-in-a-Row award with his 290 game. 

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