2011 - 2012 PBA World Championship (Mike Aulby Division) - Match 03

The fourth and final spot for the PBA World Championship finals will be determined this Sunday when the PBA World Championship Mike Aulby Division Final, airs at 1 p.m. ET Sunday on ESPN from the South Point Bowling Center in Las Vegas. The field of 16 finalists will be down to the final four for the Sunday, Jan. 15 battle for the $50,000 first prize, the Earl Anthony Trophy and the PBA Tour's first major title of the 2011-12 season.

Australia's two-handed star, Jason Belmonte, leads the field of four players in Sunday's Mike Aulby Division finals. He will be joined in the Aulby elimination round by Brian Kretzer of Dayton, Ohio; rookie Josh Blanchard of Gilbert, Ariz., and Mike Fagan of Dallas.

Belmonte hasn't won a title since his first PBA Tour victory in the 2009 Bowling Foundation Long Island Classic propelled him to 2009-09 PBA Rookie of the Year honors. Kretzer won his only PBA Tour title in the 2010 Go RVing Match Play Championship. Fagan is a two-time title winner. His most recent victory was in the 2010 One A Day Dick Weber Open. Blanchard, a former Wichita State University star, joined the PBA in October and won a PBA West Region Non-Champions tournament in Reno, Nev., in his first appearance as a member. Sunday's telecast will be his PBA Tour television debut.

The Aulby Division winner will join Finland's Osku Palermaa, Ryan Shafer of Horseheads, N.Y., and Sean Rash of Montgomery, Ill., in the World Championship finals on Sunday, Jan. 15, at 1 p.m. ET on ESPN.

In Sunday's division finals, all four players will bowl a one-game match. The player with the lowest score will be eliminated. The three survivors will bowl another game, with the low man knocked out. The two finalists will bowl a final game, with the survivor advancing to the World Championship finals.

The Mike Aulby finals is named after the PBA Hall of Famer, 29-time PBA Tour champion and winner of the 1979 and 1985 PBA National Championships.

Three easy steps to enhance your PBA World Championship telecast experience:

1. Free Xtra Frame Mike Aulby finals preview show (now available on pba.com's Xtra Frame) - Tune into pba.com's Xtra Frame for interviews with the finalists as they give their insight into strategy and equipment selection. All World Championship preview shows on Xtra Frame are available the Wednesday before each Sunday ESPN telecast for free.

2. Sunday, 1 p.m. ET -- ESPN telecast of the Mike Aulby Division final from South Point in Las Vegas.

3. Sunday 2:30 p.m. ET -- Xtra Frame post-tournament show interviews the winning player and provides in-depth ball rep analysis of the winner's equipment selection and ball preparation. (Xtra subscription information is available on the pba.com Xtra Frame page.)

Bowling fans can provide their feedback on World Championship telecasts through PBA's social networking platforms on Facebook and Twitter.

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[mrtvmankiller01]

pause at 7:08, while rob stone is going on about who will make the final you can clearly see that belmo is in the final 4!!!

[SundaysR4Bowling]

@mrtvmankiller01 Haaaaaa ... I didn't even catch that when I was watching this ... Too Funny....That's why they shouldn't tape and over dub these shows!! They totally tell you who won!!!

[iStyleProduction]

gash i wanna see Belmo vs Osku :)

[nts4906]

Spare shooting this year on the PBA telecasts has been pretty bad. Single pins missed left and right, and the 3-6-10 gets chopped almost every shot.

[urethaneguy]

@nts4906 That's life on the shark! Even Chris Barnes made the comment that 3-6-9-10 is like the big 4 out there!

[dorchesterbowler]

Will anyone be able to upload the Xtraframe tournaments?

[dodgersown1]

@wildcatproduction Maybe if you typed in "who WON the PBA world championship" instead of ONE, you just might find the result smh

[mrtvmankiller01]

LOL kretzer is right about something, he does have little balls

[SlioTidus]

@wildcatproduction PBA events haven't been live for a couple of years, sorry. You could google "pba world championship osku" and you'll eventually find you way to USBC's official website.

[sudangenbrog]

Belmo throws Critical? :)

[bladeknockingon700]

@wildcatproduction If you view the final scores, it shows that won't spoil it as many will read this comment I know who won and the hint is that it was a power player

[wildcatproduction]

@SlioTidus Im pretty sure these are live... or else When i typed on google "who one the PBA World Championship" it would have said