It took two days, 5 squads, 97 entries and match play competition to determine a winner for our 1st Quarter Championship.  We thank our 1QC sponsors Miller Lite and Brunswick, along with The Orleans Bowling Center.  We set a new entry record and paid out our biggest 1st Place Prize check this year.  Even the Low-to-Cash (20th place) paid out a high-to-date of $100.00.  To begin with, we qualified 14 bowlers from Saturday's 3 squads and added another 6 bowlers from two squads on Sunday, for a total of 20 finalists.  Prior to Sunday's Finals, Chris Basilio, the Saturday Top Qualifier, received his new Brunswick 'Melee' bowling ball for his 1039series... shortly after Scott McAllister had topped his score with a sweet1069, becoming the overall #1 Seed and earning the Tour Top Qualifier jacket.  3 bowlers (Sharon Balboa, Tess Zafra & Kenny Reynolds) also shared the 9-Tap Jackpot Consolation, for $40.00 each for their front 4-Taps.  The scoring was right on target, ranging from 1069, to the low qualifying score of 936, while the Cash List diversity again had a wide range of handicaps.

Two 'Hot' bowlers reached the Final match on Sunday, when Top Qualifier Scott McAllister went up against last week's Champion Guy Hirsimaki.  Guy, by his own admission. had been having somegreat luck all day, but in the final match his luck started to run out and Scott McAllister's hot hand remained HOT as he was able to defeat Guy 230-169.  Scott has been bowling for 13 years and was using his Storm Crux drilled up at Sam's Town.  As we often hear from our winners, there is often a back story to go with day's events.  In Scott's case, he was not planning to bowl due to a lack of finances.  $200 had been set aside for his wife, Liberdy, to travel to a bachelorette party, however, she decided to give her husband $100 to enter the tournament instead.  That investment certainly paid off big time, with the largest Winner's check of the year, at $1,585.00! The party is in Illinois so the winnings will certainly make the trip much easier!  Cheering Scott to his win, along with his wife were his two young children, Daniell and Hazel.  Scott thanked the Tour commenting it is a great organization and glad we have come to Vegas.  Thanks Scott and congratulations on your first Tour Title and kudos to Liberdy for believing in her husband!

Congratulations to Guy for his 2nd Place finish and second straight BIG payday, pocketing his own COOL $729.00 check.  A first and second place finish in the the last two weeks, not too shabby, Guy!  Dawn Niino and Jermal Williams finished tied for 3rd place, splitting the 3rd place Pro Pot money.  Dawn knocked out the only other lady (Ellena Dominguez) in the Elite 8, before running into the very HOT Scott McAllister.  While Jermal beat his friend (Daryl Jeffries), prior to his match with Guy in the Semi-Finals.  CONGRATS to all the Finalists!