GEICO PBA Team Shootout showdown set for Sunday with Final Four ESPN telecasts
07/09/09
The GEICO PBA Team Shootout Hosted by Six Flags heads down the homestretch this Sunday when the championship rounds of the made-for-TV event air beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN. The winning team will share in a $108,000 first prize.
After week 3, Team GEICO (pictured left, Chris Barnes, reigning PBA Player of the Year Wes Malott, Patrick Allen, Mika Koivuniemi, Mike Wolfe and Brad Angelo) clinched a berth in the championship round with a 5-2 match play record.
Sunday’s opening telecast will be the final round-robin match that will determine whether Team Lumber Liquidators (Parker Bohn III, Walter Ray Williams Jr., Pete Weber, Norm Duke, Steve Jaros and Mike Scroggins) or Team Bayer (Tommy Jones, Rhino Page, Michael Fagan, Bill O’Neill, Sean Rash and Jason Belmonte) will advance to the championship round to battle Team GEICO in a series of singles, doubles and Baker-style team matches.
Team Lumber Liquidators goes into the final round robin match vs. Team GEICO with a 3-4 record while Team Bayer has concluded the round robin portion of the event with a 3-5 record. Team Lumber Liquidators would advance to the championship round with a win over Team GEICO.
Should Team Lumber Liquidators lose that match, thus leaving them with an identical 3-5 match play record as Team Bayer (pictured right), a total pinfall tie-breaker will be used. In that instance, the team with the highest actual team pinfall over the round robin portion of the event will advance to the championship round.
Throughout the tournament, all three teams bowled on a variety of PBA lane conditioning patterns with the top two teams based on match play record advancing to the championship rounds.
Conducted outdoors on specially-constructed lanes at New Jersey’s Six Flags Great Adventure theme park, three of the best teams ever assembled competed in a Baker Scoring System format which requires five members of the team to roll two frames in one game combining for one score.
Team GEICO, 5-2
Team Lumber Liquidators, 3-4
Team Bayer, 3-5
Show 12: 1 - 1:30 p.m. Team GEICO vs. Team Lumber Liquidators (Shark oil pattern)
Show 13: 1:30 - 2 p.m. Championship Round – Singles (Cheetah oil pattern)
Show 14: 2 - 2:30 p.m. Championship Round – Doubles (Cheetah oil pattern)
Show 15: 2:30 - 3 p.m. Championship Round – Baker Team (Cheetah oil pattern)
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PBA Special Event
The GEICO PBA Team Shootout Hosted by Six Flags heads down the homestretch this Sunday when the championship rounds of the made-for-TV event air beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern on ESPN. The winning team will share in a $108,000 first prize. After week 3, Team GEICO (pictured left, Chris Barnes, reigning PBA Player of the Year Wes Malott, Patrick Allen, Mika Koivuniemi, Mike Wolfe and Brad Angelo) clinched a berth in the championship round with a 5-2 match play record.
Sunday’s opening telecast will be the final round-robin match that will determine whether Team Lumber Liquidators (Parker Bohn III, Walter Ray Williams Jr., Pete Weber, Norm Duke, Steve Jaros and Mike Scroggins) or Team Bayer (Tommy Jones, Rhino Page, Michael Fagan, Bill O’Neill, Sean Rash and Jason Belmonte) will advance to the championship round to battle Team GEICO in a series of singles, doubles and Baker-style team matches.
Team Lumber Liquidators goes into the final round robin match vs. Team GEICO with a 3-4 record while Team Bayer has concluded the round robin portion of the event with a 3-5 record. Team Lumber Liquidators would advance to the championship round with a win over Team GEICO.
Should Team Lumber Liquidators lose that match, thus leaving them with an identical 3-5 match play record as Team Bayer (pictured right), a total pinfall tie-breaker will be used. In that instance, the team with the highest actual team pinfall over the round robin portion of the event will advance to the championship round. Throughout the tournament, all three teams bowled on a variety of PBA lane conditioning patterns with the top two teams based on match play record advancing to the championship rounds.
Conducted outdoors on specially-constructed lanes at New Jersey’s Six Flags Great Adventure theme park, three of the best teams ever assembled competed in a Baker Scoring System format which requires five members of the team to roll two frames in one game combining for one score.
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GEICO PBA Team Shootout standings (as of July 5)
Team GEICO, 5-2
Team Lumber Liquidators, 3-4
Team Bayer, 3-5
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ESPN GEICO PBA Team Shootout Schedule for July 12 (all times Eastern)
Show 12: 1 - 1:30 p.m. Team GEICO vs. Team Lumber Liquidators (Shark oil pattern)
Show 13: 1:30 - 2 p.m. Championship Round – Singles (Cheetah oil pattern)
Show 14: 2 - 2:30 p.m. Championship Round – Doubles (Cheetah oil pattern)
Show 15: 2:30 - 3 p.m. Championship Round – Baker Team (Cheetah oil pattern)
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