2009-2010 City Tournament

Greg Williams

Jeff Richgels

Bob Krembs

Doug Babler

Chad Brantmeier

Tim Gille

The first three weekends of the City Tournament have passed. Current standings are posted. There are still plenty of openings for Team and Minor Events. Each event is only $20.00. You can find entry blanks at your center. Call the bowling office at 221.0300 or Association Manager Bill Dennis at 770.4328 for assistance and more information.

Greg Williams has posted the sole perfect game so far in his first game of the singles event. He ended up with a 718 set, currently tied for second with Gail Myers.

The singles scratch leader is MBA Hall of Fame member Jeff Richgels at 774 on games of 278, 241, and 255.

Bob Krembs leads singles Division 1 after posting a 680 scratch series, 77 pins over his 201 average.

Doug Babler of Belleville fired a 290 game in his 694 series to take the lead in Division 2 Singles. Babler was 106 pins over his 196 average.

Chad Brantmeier and Tim Gille just missed 300 games - each leaving a 10 pin for 299. MBA Director Matt Maly rolled 11 in a row in the Team event at Middleton Sport Bowl.

Street Rags DL team members Dan Lockman, Mark Oyan, Ken Smith, and Hall of Fame members Jesse Parizo and Dave Rasmussen are the new Scratch Team leaders with 3,548. Dave Rasmussen led the way with the tournament high series to date, a 776. Parizo addded 742, Smith 717, Oyan 666, and Lockman 647. The 200 pins over average effort is enough to take the lead in the League Challenge

Complete Standings

2009-2010 Masters

The 2009-10 MBA Masters tournament will be held on February 6 at Minor Events host Bowling Green Recreation Center in Middleton. The defending champion is Bob Richardson.

There is a sign up page on the Bowlweb.com discussion forum. Please sign up there or call the bowling office to hold a spot. Names will be added to the list as they come in.

The format and entry fee have been slightly adjusted for this year, follow the link below to the MBA Masters page for details and the entry form.

MBA Masters

Bowl For The Cure

The inaugural Susan G. Komen Bowl for the Cure® event, brought to you by the MBA, is coming up in less than a month. The donations have been streaming in and the MBA thanks our supporters. A web page has been created on the MBA website listing the generous people who have contributed.

The gift donations will be offered for raffle or silent auction.

Would you or your company like to help with a cash donation, gift donation, or team entry? Call the MBA at 221.0300.

The event will be on February 27, 2009. We will bowl three games - one regular, one nine-pin tap, and one eight-pin tap.

The registration deadline of January 31 will be extended for those still putting together a team for the event.

Participation packets have been distributed to MBA bowling centers and leagues. If you are interested in participating as a team or individual contact your league secretary, center manager, or the MBA for more information.

BFTC Page

Big Scores in Mixed Leagues

Two team honor scores have been reported from mixed leagues this season.

In the Friday Frenzy League at Ten Pin Alley, Becky James, Ron Blanchar, Brittany Pollentier, and Chris Pollentier teamed up for a 1019 game to start the night on December 11.

Ron Blanchar led the effort with a 279 game. Chris Pollentier contributed 256 from the anchor position.

James threw a 257 game. She recently led qualifying at the MAST doubles tournament at Middleton Sport Bowl with a 1047 four game block.

Brittany Pollentier had 227. Brittany currently has the third high series in the MBA City Tournament with 762 on the strength of a pair of 279 games.

In the Saturday Couples League at Bowl-A-Vard Lanes, MWBA Manager Marge Pursell's team threw a 1016 game. Marge bowled a 236 game. Her son, and MBA Director, Greg Pursell had 255. MBA Director John Bisco added 247. MWBA Hall of Fame member Lisa Kolosso led the way with a 278.

Great bowling by all and congratulations.

Bowler Certification and House League Management with BLS Software

By Mike Brown, League Secretary

Does the league (or leagues) that you are the secretary of, use the house computer system, whereby they do the work?

Does the house use the CDE Software BLS2010 program?

If you answered yes to both of the questions, are you verifying sanctioning information with the house? Even if the house is using the treasurer portion of the BLS2010 software, whereby the sanctioning certification should be set automatically when the bowler information is updated with sanction fee payment. You still need to audit the information in their system to make sure that it is correct. As you well know, Bill Dennis sends back to you a list of all the bowlers that are known to be sanctioned in the MBA database. What you don't know is if the house matches that list.

The first step in the verification process is to make sure that the house has BLS2010 set up correctly to keep track of sanctioned bowlers. If you never let the house know when you get a membership application, the house probably just sets the option to blanket sanction all of the league bowlers. Well, that causes a problem in that a non-sanctioned bowler might achieve an award score and the system will report that the bowler gets an award.

So, to repair this situation, you need to sit down with the person at the house that is doing the work and get your league's sanctioning information up-to-date. We will be assuming that the house is not using the treasurer portion of the BLS2010 software (does anyone?). Start the software and go into your league. Select menu option G-1 (Menu G, option 1). The top two switches must be set to NO. Now you will have control of indicating which bowlers have been sanctioned, or not.

The next step will be the most time consuming. This is where you set the switch for those bowlers who are sanctioned. Select menu G-2. You will see a list of all the teams. Selecting a team will display the team members.

If your league has subs, they will show up at the bottom in the Not on a Team tab. Go through the list that Dennis sent you and select each bowler.

Flip the sanction switch. The switch pertaining to sanctioning in your league or other, is not real important. But, you can set this switch if you know for sure (the info should be on the report from Bill).

Once you have set all of the switches for the sanctioned bowlers, print the report that lists all of the league sanctioned and non-sanctioned bowlers.

Do this by selecting menu G-6. Compare that list to the MBA sanctioned list to make sure that nothing was missed, or set incorrectly. From this list you can determine who has not submitted a membership application form.

Keep the house up-to-date every time you get a membership application.

Have the house print the certification list whenever you get an updated MBA sanction report from Bill.

Verify the lists.

If the house is using the treasurer portion of BLS2010, have them print the certification report (menu G-6). Compare their list to your MBA list.

As a side note, make sure that the names in the house system are the bowler's legal name. Not nicknames. A final average report can be generated by BLS at the end of the year that Bill can read in directly. But the names have to match. If the bowler wants a nickname to display on the overhead, put the nickname in the nickname field of the bowler's database record and set the export to the front desk to include nicknames.

A word of caution.

The bowler's last name will always be sent to the consoles. There is nothing that can be done about that. I've gone round and round with CDE Software regarding that issue. The owner of CDE Software thinks we are nuts if the last name is not included/displayed on the console. So, if a bowler with a nickname complains that his last name is also displayed, let them know that is the way the software was written and it won't get changed.

Next up, configuring BLS2010 to print a press report of high scores that Madison Newspapers wants. Not what BLS2010 thinks that a press report should look like. Once configured, this report is available to all leagues managed by the house.

If you have a BLS2010 question, let Bill Dennis know and he will get it to me. I'll do my best to answer it, or get an answer from the CDESoftware forum.