Jim LeHew wins 2012 Men's Match Games

January 29, 2012


Jim LeHew wins the 2012 Men's Match game by defeating Jimmy Parkhurst twice in the Championship Round.

LeHew starts off on Sunday morning by winning matches against Dan Brathovd, Todd Brown, and Mitch Vernon. His first loss is to Tom Payne, moving him to the losers bracket.

LeHew then has wins against Creed Clement and Jerry Wilson.

After Payne falls to the losers bracket with a loss to Jimmy Parkhurst, LeHew wins the rematch with Payne to enter the Championship round against Parkhurst.

Parkhurst, who has not lost throughout Sunday's match play, only needs 1 win against LeHew to win the Tournament for his 4th time. LeHew wins the next two games against Parkhurst to take the title.

The entire Bracket can be found here: coming soon...

A full story written by Gail Wood on ThurstonTalk.com can be found here

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Qualifying Results for the Men's Match Games

January 28, 2012

After 9 games of qualifying, Todd Brown is the #1 seed in Sunday's bracket. Brown averaged an amazing 249, including games of 279 and 300. John Makay takes the 24th seed at 1863, allowing him the last entry into the Bracket on Sunday morning.

The 24 qualifying bowlers are:

1. Todd Brown
2. Frank DeRemer
3. Jimmy Parkhurst
4. Creed Clement
5. Tom Payne
6. Corey Hensley
7. Caleb Hathaway (Youth)
8. Collin Dickerman
9. Mitch Vernon
10. Mike Edwards
11. Dwayne Webb
12. Dan Howard
13. Justin Clement
14. James Turner
15. Michael Lewis
16. Jim LeHew
17. Dan Brathovd
18. Jerry Wilson
19. Steve Boesel
20. Rich Cook
21. Denny Dawson
22. Mike O'Malley
23. Vance Lombardi
24. John Makay

The entire qualifying round scores can be found at Qualify Results (Adobe Reader Required)


High games during qualifying:

• Todd Brown - 300
• Dan Brathhovd - 300
• Jimmy Parkhurst - 299
• Tom Payne - 289
• Dwayne Webb - 287
• Jimmy Parkhurst - 279
• Mike Edwards - 278
• Doug Olson - 278
• Caleb Hathaway (Youth) - 276 ( twice)

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Thurston County All Stars

The 2012 all star points are being accumulated and the teams are starting to form up. The Thurston County Boys and Girls team are needing some coaching for this year's all star tournament.

Coaching applications will be sent out to the houses for anyone who is interested. The completed applications of the interested canidate can be returned to our association manager April Brathovd at Aztec Lanes.

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TCUSBC Local Scholarship Information

Attention all Thurston County Youth Bowler graduating seniors for the 2012 school year! TCUSBC has scholarships available to you.

Each of your youth coordinators have been given scholarship packets for you to fill our and send back to Regon Clement our scholarship chairman for consideration.

Two scholarships are included in the packet the TCUSBC Scholarship and the Amberli Jewell Memorial Scholarship. This year we are offering three TCUSBC Scholarship amounts they are $1000.00, $750.00 and $500.00. The Amberli Jewell Memorial Scholarship amount is $1000.00. All members can apply for both scholarships and can be awarded both scholarships.

All Scholarships must be returned to:

Regon Clement
PO Box 14221
Tumwater, WA 98512

March 15, 2012 is the deadline for committee consideration.

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2012 Inner Association All-Star Tournament

TCUSBC is tackling yet another activity, the upcoming inner association all star tournament.

This tournament features four teams, men, women, youth girls and youth boys, from eight associations that compete in a two day scratch tournament. The format is simple head to head matches and baker matches for points highest points won at the end of the weekend is the winner.

This year the tournament is June 2&3, 2012 at Westside Lanes. Come check out your local all stars or visit with some of the all stars from other associations or just enjoy some friendly competitive competition.

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BINGO is back!

B-I-N-G-O!

Oh yeah it's that time of year again. February 25th, 2012 is the date, 2:00pm is the time and Colombia Banquet Hall is the place.

This action packed night hosted by our own Andrea Curtis and Eric Rose is special and entertaining anything can happen with these two on the mic. Proceeds uses to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation and our local veterans hospitals.

Thank you to all that participated in the 2011 bingo, you help to raise $6400.00 to benefit our charities. This year promises to be as successful and fun as last year.

Here are some photos from 2011:

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