Belmo lights up the lanes in the Chameleon championship

GeorgeF

Hypercell = Hyperhook!
300 to finish...... nice work mate and good luck for tonight




Twin-grip players made an impact after the first squad of the PBA Chameleon Open Sunday at the South Point Bowling Center with PBA Tour titlist and two-hander Jason Belmonte of Australia taking the early lead.

Belmonte fired a 1,963 eight game pinfall (245.3 average) with games of 279, 258, 211, 279, 241, 218, 177 and 300.

Belmonte, the winner of the 2009 Bowling Foundation Long Island Open, rebounded after a disappointing 75th-place finish in Saturday’s Bayer Viper Open.

“I was bowling scared yesterday like I was afraid to make errors which caused more errors,” said the 28-year-old Belmonte. “I was too cautious and I had to make sure to come out more aggressive today.

“It’s a new day and generally I had more confidence. Anytime I got into a lull or I was cruising I just kept reminding myself not to bowl scared—just grab the ball and get it.”

Belmonte’s 300 game to end the round vaulted him around Patrick Gerard of Canada who finished the squad in second with 1,938 and also bowled a 300 game.

Two-handers Brian Valenta of Lockport, Ill. with a 1,878 pinfall and Osku Palermaa of Finland with 1,872 held down the fifth and sixth places respectively. Palermaa is the only other player with a two-handed delivery to win a PBA title capturing last year’s GEICO Shark Championship at the World Series of Bowling.

In general, international players made an impact after the first squad with a total of seven countries represented in the top 16 which also included Thomas Larsen of Denmark in a tie for 10th with Stuart Williams of England; Dan MacLelland of Canada in 13th; Martin Larsen of Sweden in 14th and Andres Gomez of Colombia in 15th.
 
Wow Belmo got there with a 245 get out last game to snatch the lead and top seed going into the TV show. Results below

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1 Jason Belmonte Australia 14 1345 3308 +508 236.29
2 Osku Palermaa Finland 14 1420 3292 +492 235.14
3 Sean Rash Montgomery, Ill. 14 1312 3267 +467 233.36
4 Ildemaro Ruiz Venezuela 14 1311 3183 +383 227.36
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5 Brian Valenta Lockport, Ill. 14 1294 3172 +372 226.57
6 John Furey East Windsor, N.J. 14 1288 3164 +364 226.00
7 Kelly Kulick Union, N.J. 14 1323 3162 +362 225.86
8 Lee Vanderhoef Greenville, S.C. 14 1300 3160 +360 225.71
9 Antonio Medina Louisville, Ky. 14 1275 3122 +322 223.00
10 Tyler Jensen Ft. Worth, Texas 14 1204 3121 +321 222.93
11 Eugene McCune Munster, Ind. 14 1221 3113 +313 222.36
12 Nathan Bohr Wichita, Kan. 14 1217 3108 +308 222.00
13 Patrick Girard Canada 14 1160 3098 +298 221.29
14 Josh Blanchard Gilbert, Ariz. 14 1213 3065 +265 218.93
15 Danny Wiseman Baltimore 14 1183 3044 +244 217.43
16 Dennis Eklund Sweden 14 1135 2970 +170 212.14

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Belmo and Rash just bowled the whole 6 games in the Round of 16 together...

Didn't look like too many high, or even low, 5's were handed out :D
 
@ Androoo

I dont think they even looked at each other for the six games, plenty of walking across infront of each other however.

But whilst the dislike for each other is clearly visible, they both showed why they are professionals and both bowled excellent.

Let hope Belmo can bowl 3 great games to give him his 2nd PBA title!!



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