Wes Puishis's $1,000.00 Shot (click to view)

The 'Surprised' Champion this week, was the very HOT Chuck Gonsalez from Yakima, who also won last week's Satellite Tournament at Mt. Vernon.  The first 'surprise' was that he bowled at all... as of Friday night, he wasn't planning on making the trip over the mountains this week.  At the last minute, he changed his mind, feeling that he might as well try for a 'regular' Tour Title while he was on a Hot Streak.  The bigger 'surprise' was that Chuck thought he shot a 999series, which would have only been good enough for 3rd Place after the 2:00 squad (5th at the end).  But, an addition error was discovered on his recap, that after verification, resulted in the corrected score of 1019 and that REALLY surprised him!  His 1019 holding-up through the last two squads was his final unexpected but 'pleasant surprise' of the day.  His earnings this week amounted to a significant raise over his Satellite payday, taking home a nice $1,927.00 surprise for wife Dee, who didn't make the trip this week.  Chuck said that his son Josh, who was at Narrows to cheer him on, would get his piece of the Winnings, the rest would go for birthday trip to the Oregon Coast for Dee's ??th birthday.  Chuck's ancient ball (on loan from the Smithsonian), is the same 30+ year old Columbia 300 'ABC Masters Yellow Dot' that he won with last week, which was drilled at Yakima's Nob Hill Bowl, a few generations ago.  CONGRATS again Chuck on Win #2 (or is it #1 on the Tour?)!