2010 - 2011 PBA Scorpion Championship (Week 04) - Part 01

SUNDAY, DEC. 19, 1 P.M. EASTERN
The PBA Scorpion Championship is the fourth telecast of the 2010-11 Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour season and will air Sunday, Dec. 19 at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN from South Point Bowling Center in Las Vegas.

The historic stepladder final will be the first ever with four countries represented; Canada, South Korea, Australia and U.S.

The Scorpion Championship is one of the five animal pattern events conducted as part of the PBA World Series of Bowling and will be followed by the final animal pattern tournament -- the GEICO Shark Championship (Dec. 26). The "USA vs. "The World" team event on Jan. 9 will conclude the WSOB telecasts at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN.




Eugene McCune won the season-opening Brunswick Pro Bowling Cheetah Championship, followed by Bill O'Neill winning the Pepsi Viper Championship and Scott Norton winning the Chameleon Championship.

PBA Scorpion Championship stepladder finals qualifiers:

Match 1:
No. 5 Dan MacLelland, Canada vs. No. 4 Yung-Jin Gu, South Korea
Match 2:
Winner Match 1 vs. No. 3 Bill O'Neill, Southampton, Pa.
Match 3:
Winner Match 2 vs. No. 2 Jason Belmonte, Australia
Championship Match
Winner of Match 3 vs. No. 1 Jun-Yung Kim, South Korea

● PBA Tour rookie MacLelland, a three-time collegiate All-American at Saginaw State University, will be trying for his first Tour title.
● Gu will be trying for his first career Tour title.
• Fresh off a recent win in the PBA Viper Championship, O'Neill will be trying for his fourth career Tour title.
● Two-handed specialist and 2008-09 Rookie of the Year Belmonte will be trying for his second Tour title with his first coming in the 2009 Bowling Foundation Long Island Classic.
● Kim, also of South Korea is the first from that country to be top-qualifier for a PBA Tour event.




Tournament Recap: Two 6-game qualifying rounds with top 16 advancing to 9-game match play round.

First round leader (after 6 games qualifying): Mike DeVaney, Murietta, Calif. 1,487.
Second round leader (after 12 games qualifying): Belmonte, 2,851.
Third round leader (after 21 games qualifying and match play): Kim, 4,901.

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[619trang85]

Wheres Wes Malott :S

[misteraznpimp]

@spazmatron1 it still takes skill to be able to repeat the exact same shot and hit your mark.

[GStricke]

If you don't think that Yong-Jin Gu has skills, watch this video where he takes off his wrist device and swings it from inside.

watch?v=WEi5LTCcfm0

[willscoaster]

i love how they played kashmir when gu gets a strike. <3 Led Zeppelin <3

[2t9j0bowler300]

@prowii52 he needs to move his feet fast because he is much shorter compared to the others on the show. to generate equivalent ball speed, he needs to get his feet moving quickly.

[moeds88]

@tisho91 You misunderstood it. Have you ever heard how the world is "getting smaller" because of how interconnected we all are via the internet and other communication methods...he was making that work for bowling as with the way travel is, more international players can bowl tournaments here and US bowlers can travel the world

[prowii52]

is it just me or does the korean have not much rotation?

[prowii52]

the korean bowler looks almost as if hes running into the lane on his approach. mika's approach looks cooler.

[gamemeister27]

@spazmatron1 The only thing it really takes out of the game is maintaining your wrist position during the shot. That is just muscle memory for most of these guys, the ones who have trouble with it for whatever reason use a brace.

[randomchap100]

6:15 Gu's rockin an air boner

[Wiscompton608]

Gu's pants are the freshest

[DrEaMxBoI]

@619trang85 i think he has some issues with timing